Awesome August

Saturday 8/1
Totally Raging in the Round Pool Show: Dan Deacon, No Age, Deerhunter, White Rainbow, Ed Schrader, Infinite Body @ Flying W Airport & Resort (Medford, NJ) $12 (drive yourself)/$17 (w/ shuttle from Philly)
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Tinted Windows (Buzz Band) @ TLA $19
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An Early Ending (CD release, free CD w/ ticket), Texas In July, Horde of the Eclipse, Hope Runs Deep, My Heart to Fear, I Caught the Alchemist, 20 Shades of Black @ Champion Ship (Lemoyne, PA) $12
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Fear Before, Oceana, Memphis May Fire, Of Machines, This Time Next Year, At Daybreak @ Hangar 84 $14
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Giants Among Men (Homeboy Music/review here) (EP release show w/ 6 others) @ Silo Nightclub (Reading, PA) $10
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All Points West Day 2 (schedule here)

Sunday 8/2
Scream the Prayer 2: The Chariot, Sleeping Giant, Project 86, Oh Sleeper, Gwen Stacy, For Today, A Plea For Purging, Agraceful, Corpus Christi @ Sonar $23
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All Points West Day 3

Monday 8/3
Silversun Pickups, Manchester Orchestra, Cage the Elephant @ Ram's Head $30

Tuesday 8/4
(21+) Gang Gang Dance, Hex Message, Mincemeat or Tenspeed @ Kungfu Necktie $12
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(21+) Talain Rayne (Homeboy Music) (w/ 3 others) @ North Star Bar $5

Wednesday 8/5
(21+) Now Now Every Children (WVMM Playlist), Bad Veins, Sounds From Atlantis, Makeout Party @ North Star Bar $10

Thurdsay 8/6
Asher Roth (review here), Kid Cudi, B.O.B., 88 Keys @ Electric Factory $27 (or 8/4 @ Ram's Head $30)
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Anarbor, Sparks the Rescue, The Dialogue, Rosiere @ Talking Head Club $10

Friday 8/7
Rockstar Mayhem Festival: Marilyn Manson, Slayer, Killswitch Engage, Bullet For My Valentine, Trivium, All That Remains, God Forbid, Cannibal Corpse, Job For A Cowboy, Behemoth, The Black Dahlia Murder, White Chapel @ Susquehanna Bank Center $58
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August Burns Red (review here), Bless the Fall, All Shall Perish, Iwrestledabearonce @ Chameleon $17 (or 8/8)
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Deadmau5 @ Ram's Head $25

Saturday 8/8
The Clipse, J. Cole @ Starlight Ballroom $18

Sunday 8/9
Jonah Matranga (ex-Far, New End Original, Onelinedrawing, Gratitude) @ 1st Unitarian Chapel (50 seats) $10
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Thrash and Burn Tour: Devil Driver, Emmure, Despised Icon, Mychildren Mybride, Veil of Maya, For The Fallen Dreams @ Sonar $20

Tuesday 8/11
Shai Hulud, Reign Supreme, The Carrier, Prophet Said I, Life in Ruin, Action Plan Process @ Hangar 84 $14

Wednesday 8/12
The Scenic, Socratic, Action Item, The Skylife, Robots & Racecars @ The Barbary $10
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De La Soul @ Ram's Head $25

Thursday 8/13
The Pretenders, Cat Power, Juliette Lewis @ Electric Factory $52

Friday 8/14-Sunday 8/16
This Is Hardcore Festival @ Starlight Ballroom $55 or $20 a day (bands, etc. @ R5)
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Philadelphia Folk Festival: Iron & Wine, The Decemberists, Deer Tick, The Low Anthem, West Philadelphia Orchestra, Enter the Haggis, many more
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Purple Door (8/14-15) schedule here

Friday 8/14
I Sea Monsters (Homeboy Music), Aneirin, more TBA @ Champion Ship $8
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Liam and Me, The Downtown Fiction, Amely @ Hangar 84 $14

Thursday 8/20
The Scene Aesthetic, The Color Fred (review here), The Ready Set, Stephen Jerzak, Tyler Williams @ The Barbary $12 (or 8/22 @ Sonar)
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Colin Hay (of Men at Work), Jer Coons @ Recher Theatre (Towson, MD) $25 (or 8/21 @ World Cafe Live $30)

Saturday 8/22
Bouncing Souls, 7 Seconds, None More Black @ The Troc $21

Sunday 8/23
Bouncing Souls, Lifetime, Tim Barry @ The Troc $21
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Blue October, Switchfoot, Ours @ Ram's Head $35

Tuesday 8/25
Emery, Maylene & the Sons of Disaster, Closure in Moscow, Ivoryline, Kiros @ Recher Theatre $15

Wednesday 8/26
The Vivian Girls, The Beets, TBA @ The Barbary $10

Thursday 8/27
Blink-182, Weezer, Taking Back Sunday (review here), Chester French (WVMM playlist) @ Susquehanna Bank Center $65
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Red, Our After, Squash, Shelflyfe @ Chameleon $14
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KC & the Sunshine Band @ Ram's Head $45