Nasty November

Apologies for the lateness of this post, and the fact that I still owe you two show reviews from last month (from Chris's Jazz Cafe and Let Your Body Take Control). I'm currently home sick with the swine flu, and have been miserable and fevered since the Phillies began losing on Thursday. Be that as it may, the following is a list of cool tings going down in and around what I consider the Philadelphia area this month (no that does not, has never, and will not include New York).

Tuesday 11/3,
(21+) The Very Best (Radioclit & African-English singer Esau Mwamwaya), Javelina @ Johnny Brenda's $10
OR
SOLD OUT The Alternative Press Tour: The Academy Is, Mayday Parade, Set Your Goals, The Secret Handshake, You Me At Six @ TLA (or 11/10 @ Croc Rock $17

Wednesday 11/4
Holler Wild Rose @ B-sides FREE

Thursday 11/5
Thao Nguyen & The Get Down, Portland Cello Project, David Schultz @ 1st Unitarian $12
OR
The Get Up Kids, Kevin Devine, The Life & Times @ The Troc $23 (or the next day @ TLA SOLD OUT)(or 11/3 @ 9:30 Club $21)
OR
Quietdrive, The Higher @ Croc Rock $12 (or 11/7 @ Hangar 84 $15)

Friday, 11/6
The Apple Tree Experience (Homeboy Music), The SketchBook Diarys, I Sea Monsters (Homeboy Music), Judges (Homeboy Music), Its in the Blood, Left Astray, Ken Deavers @ The Fiala Building (Camp Hill, PA) $5
OR
Dinner and a Suit, Troubador (Homeboy Music)(show reviews here and here), Color House @ Easton Bible Church $5 (Hainesport, NJ)
OR
Alex Brubaker (Homeboy Music)(show review here) @ C&C Coffee Co. FREE (Chambersburg, PA)
OR
Bro. Calvin (Homeboy Music) presents Praise Unscripted: Ronald Nicholson, Namaste Jones, Project Praise, DJ Fella and Anointed Voices, Kairos Worship Team, Voices of Inspiration Choir, V.O.Y.C.E., Wilbur Nichols, Purpose, Keith McBrown @ Hostetter Chapel (Messiah College) FREE
OR
Talain Rayne (Homeboy Music) @ Starlight Ballroom $?
OR
Falcon Jones, The Mint, Negative Space, Arise This Day @ Chameleon $8
OR
Sean Kingston, New Boyz @ Croc Rock $22

Saturday 11/7
Next Big Thing (upcoming band showcase) @ The Troc $15
OR
Trivium, Chimaira, White Chapel, Dirge Within @ TLA $23
OR
House Exit (Homeboy Music) @ Dillsburg Firehouse FREE (Dillsburg, PA)
OR
About Me About You, Count Me Out, Bells, Promise Me Destruction (Homeboy Music) @ Chameleon $10

Sunday 11/8
Zee Avi, The Mural & the Mint @ 1st Unitarian Chapel $10
OR
Next Big Thing (upcoming band showcase) @ The Troc Balcony $15
OR
Peter Bjorn and John, El Perro del Mar @ TLA $25 (or previous night @ 9:30 Club)

Monday 11/9
Monsters of Folk (Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes & the Mystic Valley Band, M. Ward of She & Him, Mike Mogis) @ Academy of Music $40.50-50.50 ($1 from each ticket supports Art-Reach)
OR
Bob Dylan @ Liacouras Center (Temple) $50 (30 student I think?)
OR
Gwen Stacy, Lovehatehero, Stray From The Path, Ice Nine Kills, Honor Today $12 (or 11/4 w/ A Century Collapsed (Homeboy Music), Visions of Another, Action Plan Process instead of Honor Today @ Hangar 84 $15)(or 11/3 @ Ottobar w/ From This Point On, Life Worth While instead of Honor Today $12)

Tuesday 11/10
Raekwon (of Wu-Tang Clan) @ 1st Unitarian $15
OR
Mercy Mercedes, The Dangerous Summer, Between the Trees, Single File @ The Troc Balcony $12 (or next night @ Croc Rock $10)

Wednesday 11/11
Papa Roach (what?), Jet, Kill Hannah, Morningwood @ Electric Factory $37 (or $34 @ Ram's Head Live 11/9)
OR
Hoots & Hellmouth @ B-sides FREE
OR
Lamb of God, Darkest Hour, Periphery, This or the Apocalypse @ 9:30 Club $35

Thursday 11/12
A.F.I., Gallows @ Electric Factory $29.50
OR
All That Remains, Lacuna Coil, Maylene & the Sons of Disaster @ Chameleon $20 (or @ Ram's Head Live previous night)
OR
We Came As Romans, Broadway, This Romantic Tragedy @ Hangar 84 $15 (or w/ Tides of Man, I Sea Monsters (Homeboy Music), The Air I Breathe, Left Astray @ Champion Ship [Lemoyne, PA] 11/13 $12)

Friday 11/13
Broken Lizard Live (standup & sketch comedy, short films, and preview of next full-length from the creators of Super Troopers, Beerfest, and Club Dread) @ The Troc $29
OR
Peaches, Amanda Blank @ TLA $23
OR
Initials (ex-Taking Back Sunday/The Color Fred [show review here], ex-Versa Emerge, ex-Hot Rod Circuit), The Scenic, Desoto Jones, Impulsive Decision, Bizarre Silence, Super Consumers @ SevenAtSeven (Cherry Hill, NJ) $14
AND/OR
(18+) RED HOT!: Red Cross Benefit Rave featuring DNB, jungle, and dubstep DJs 10pm-5am @ Club Samba $15 advance

Saturday 11/14
Hit the Lights, There for Tomorrow, Vinnie Caruana (ex-Movielife, of I Am The Avalanche), Sparks the Rescue, iRival @ 1st Unitarian $12 (or previous night @ Ottobar)
OR
(21+) Max Tundra (Buzz Band), Deastro @ Kungfu Necktie $10 (or previous night w/ The Water, Comeback Ranch @ The Metro Gallery $10, still 21+)
OR
Forever the Sickest Kids, The Rocket Summer, Sing It Loud, My Favorite Highway, Down With Webster, Kelsey and the Chaos @ the Troc $17 (or w/out Kelsey @ Croc Rock previous night or @ Sonar 11/7 $18)
OR
SOLD OUT Brand New, Thrice, Crime in Stereo @ Electric Factory (or 11/11 @ Sonar also SOLD OUT)
OR
Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia featuring The O'Jays, The New Stylistics, The Delfonics, The Intruders, Jerry Butler, Harold Melvin's Bluenotes, Eddie Holman, and The Jones Girls @ Liacouras Center (Temple) $55-75
OR
Hawthorne Heights, Just Surrender, Punchline, Monty Are I @ Croc Rock $15 (or following night @ Ottobar)
OR
Sean Paul @ Croc Rock $27
AND/OR
MCPC's Spirit of Philadelphia cruise [details] (again shameless self-promotion) $15

Sunday 11/15
SOLD OUT Brand New, Glassjaw, Crime in Stereo @ Electric Factory
OR
Less Than Jake, The Casualties, The Swellers @ TLA $23 (or previous night w/ The Dangerous Summer and Warped Tour doc screening @ Ram's Head Live)

Monday 11/16
Breathe Carolina, Cash Cash, Stephen Jerzak, Kill Paradise, Fight Fair @ 1st Unitarian $12

Tuesday 11/17
J. Tillman (of Fleet Foxes), Pearly Gates Music @ 1st Unitarian $12 (or 11/18 @ 9:30 Club $15)
OR
Bayside, American Sixgun, Eat People, Spark to Inferno @ Ottobar $15

Wednesday 11/18
(21+) Bishop Allen (show review here), Throw Me the Statue, Darwin Deez @ Johnny Brenda's $12
OR
Amanda Palmer (of Dresden Dolls), Nervous Cabaret @ TLA $23
OR
Theory Hazit @ B-sides FREE
OR
Dan Deacon, Nuclear Power Pants, Sick Weapons, The Creepers @ Ottobar $7
OR
Sugarhill Gang 30th Anniversary Party @ Ram's Head Live $20

Friday 11/20
Joshua Radin, The Watson Twins, The Kin @ The Troc $17
OR
Ani DiFranco, Gabby Moreno @ Electric Factory $34
OR
(21+) Hoots & Hellmouth, William Elliot Whitmore @ Johnny Brenda's $15
OR
The Right Coast, The Fold, The Status @ Hangar 84 $15
OR
Dance Rawr Dance III: Family Force 5, Valencia, Young and Divine @ 9:30 Club $15
OR
Alex Brubaker (Homeboy Music)(show review here) @ MCPC FREE (yeah, I'm promoting)

Saturday 11/21
SOLD OUT Boys Like Girls, Cobra Starship, The Maine, A Rocket to the Moon, Versa Emerge @ Electric Factory (or 11/19 @ Croc Rock $25)
OR
Flyleaf, Paper Tongues @ TLA $21 (or previous night @ Sonar $27)
OR
Matisyahu, Trevor Hall @ Sonar $28
OR
Push Play, Emily Osment, Phil Benson, Victory By Revenge (show review here) @ Sonar $14

Sunday 11/22
The Maine, Valencia, A Rocket to the Moon, Versa Emerge, Great Big Planes @ Electric Factory $19
OR
Deadmau5, Burns @ TLA $27.50 (or following night $25 w/ Kim Fai @ 9:30 Club)
OR
Bowling for Soup @ Chameleon $12

Tuesday 11/24
Devendra Banhart, Luke Rathborne @ Electric Factory (seated show) $25 (or following night @ 9:30 Club $30)
OR
Phish @ Wachovia Center $50
OR
In This Moment, In Fear and Faith, Motionless in White @ Croc Rock $14

Wednesday 11/25
Metric, Band of Skulls @ Electric Factory $22 (or 11/23 @ Ram's Head Live $20 minus Band of Skulls)
OR
Phish @ Wachovia Center $50

Friday 11/27
Julian Pelnti (Paul Banks of Interpol), I'm In You @ 1st Unitarian $12

Saturday 11/28
Saving Abel, Red, Pop Evil, Taddy Porter @ Croc Rock $18 (or $25 @ Ram's Head Live 11/24)
OR
Texas In July, With Life In Mind, more TBA @ Champion Ship $10
Maryland Metal & Hardcore Festival III: Throwdown, Bury Your Dead, For Today, Abacabb, In Alcatraz 1962, more TBA @ Sonar $16 ($30 for 2-day pass)

Sunday 11/29
Maryland Metal & Hardcore Festival III: The Faceless, Dying Fetus, Beneath The Massacre, Vital Remains, Annotations of an Autopsy, more TBA @ Sonar $16 ($30 for 2-day pass)

Monday 11/30
Do Make Say Think (members of Broken Social Scene), The Happiness Project (WVMM playlist, member of Broken Social Scene/Do Make Say Think), Years (member of Broken Social Scene/Do Make Say Think, Feist) @ 1st Unitarian Sanctuary $15