M Room
2012-02-26 / 8pm
Pictures of Then
We're surrounded by tabloid sensationalism, style mistaken for substance, and the artificial deemed art. In an era where reality is scripted, fortitude and perseverance have gone missing. Yet in the midst of it all, something breaks through. Able to lend the aggravated ear a brief solace and reminding us that just maybe we haven’t become too jaded, at least not yet. Out of this notion formed PICTURES OF THEN from Minneapolis, MN. Seeking to defy these all-pervading patterns, the band has garnered national recognition with relentless touring, and heaps of press - including featured accolades from the likes of USA Today, Paste, MTV and Billboard Magazine. Onstage their energy is electric, catapulting from stingingly wistful tunes to full-throttle psychedelic abandon, earning them coveted slots at Summerfest, SXSW, CMJ, MPMF, UMS, and Billboard Music Conference. Amid routine appearances at colleges, festivals and venues nationwide, this band is hard at work gearing-up for their anticipated new release in 2012.
M Room
15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
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M Room
2012-03-15 / 9pm
Phone Home
The Vallarelli Brothers formed their band Phone Home in April of 2010. The native New York instrumental pop-duo creates rhythmically driving, atmospheric soundscapes with Michael on keys and John on drums. Inspired by all genres of music, Phone Home's lyric-less music echoes feelings that we are not alone in this universe, hence the loving nod to E.T. with the band's name. They released their debut, self-titled E.P in September 2010 on their Bandcamp site http://phonehome.bandcamp.com/ with a pay what you'd like option. Various blogs have made comparisons to krautrock, The Album Leaf and Brian Eno among others.
M Room
15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
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M Room
2012-03-23 / 9pm
Said The Whale
Said The Whale formed in 2007 as a collaboration between songwriters Ben Worcester and Tyler Bancroft. The pair's debut EP, Taking Abalonia, featured sunny west coast indie pop, with breezy harmonies, shimmering guitars, and lyrical tributes to their home city of Vancouver.
M Room
15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
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M Room
2012-03-30 / 9pm
Blayer Pointdujour and The Rockers Galore
Blayer Point-du-jour is a seasoned multi-instrumentalist based out of Philadelphia that creates Reggae/Hip Hop/Pop. Port-Au-Prince is his debut EP, was released by Philebrity Records.
She Came Crashing
Their sound is a mixture of all manner of synthesizers: hard buzzy leads, analogue classic keyboards, ambient pads, and earth shaking bass synths along with dance beats, meticulous harmonies, and vocal production borrowing from new wave, to pop, to experimental electronica.
The Hi Five
M Room
15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
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M Room
2012-04-03 / 8pm
The Color Bars
The Color Bars started out as three mildly autistic doorknobs with nothing but a swimming pool full of pureed television sets and a petri dish full of bone cells from the spine of Joseph Stalin. After 4 or 6 years, they had grown into a 35 year old skydiving instruction business with a robust hazelnut aroma and sympathetic after-taste. Like a lot of bands, they set their sights on the frigid dunes of Lower Manchuria and quickly fell in love with themselves. Their fans, a disloyal and untrustworthy flock of methodone-dependent sandhill cranes, became a threat to the band's virginity, and they had to resort to becoming mothers just to keep from rusting. Amazingly, despite all of their pups and hounds, they managed to carve out a distinctly obese sense of humidity in an increasingly dry and anorexic clam bar. Their story is that of the Hopi, the Souix, the Kennedys. It’s inspiring to think that even now, 12 decades after the dotcom bubble turned into a coming of age travel memoir, they’re still strangling themselves with licorice rope on pianos made of concrete and mormons. Something tells me these gals will be hiding out in Bea Arthur’s wardrobe for years to come!
St. Solitude
“It wasn’t meant to be the name a saint has, but a quality – like, ‘oh, that guy has saint solitude.’” Clearly, Dup Crosson needs some space. As the architect and sole songwriter of Saint Solitude, he will be the first to tell you that for every public musical endeavor there is an equal and opposite need to recharge and reflect. The multi-instrumentalist says he’s only musically introverted, but that character still inhabits his output. Saint Solitude has evolved from an early incarnation of sparse, wintry Thom Yorke-esque solo material to a high-volume loop act, and then to indie-pop power trio and beyond.
M Room
15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
$8 / 21+
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2012-02-26 / 8pm
Pictures of Then
We're surrounded by tabloid sensationalism, style mistaken for substance, and the artificial deemed art. In an era where reality is scripted, fortitude and perseverance have gone missing. Yet in the midst of it all, something breaks through. Able to lend the aggravated ear a brief solace and reminding us that just maybe we haven’t become too jaded, at least not yet. Out of this notion formed PICTURES OF THEN from Minneapolis, MN. Seeking to defy these all-pervading patterns, the band has garnered national recognition with relentless touring, and heaps of press - including featured accolades from the likes of USA Today, Paste, MTV and Billboard Magazine. Onstage their energy is electric, catapulting from stingingly wistful tunes to full-throttle psychedelic abandon, earning them coveted slots at Summerfest, SXSW, CMJ, MPMF, UMS, and Billboard Music Conference. Amid routine appearances at colleges, festivals and venues nationwide, this band is hard at work gearing-up for their anticipated new release in 2012.
M Room
15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
$8 / 21+
Purchase Advance Tickets!
M Room
2012-03-15 / 9pm
Phone Home
The Vallarelli Brothers formed their band Phone Home in April of 2010. The native New York instrumental pop-duo creates rhythmically driving, atmospheric soundscapes with Michael on keys and John on drums. Inspired by all genres of music, Phone Home's lyric-less music echoes feelings that we are not alone in this universe, hence the loving nod to E.T. with the band's name. They released their debut, self-titled E.P in September 2010 on their Bandcamp site http://phonehome.bandcamp.com/ with a pay what you'd like option. Various blogs have made comparisons to krautrock, The Album Leaf and Brian Eno among others.
M Room
15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
$8 / 21+
Purchase Advance Tickets!
M Room
2012-03-23 / 9pm
Said The Whale
Said The Whale formed in 2007 as a collaboration between songwriters Ben Worcester and Tyler Bancroft. The pair's debut EP, Taking Abalonia, featured sunny west coast indie pop, with breezy harmonies, shimmering guitars, and lyrical tributes to their home city of Vancouver.
M Room
15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
$8 / 21+
Purchase Advance Tickets!
M Room
2012-03-30 / 9pm
Blayer Pointdujour and The Rockers Galore
Blayer Point-du-jour is a seasoned multi-instrumentalist based out of Philadelphia that creates Reggae/Hip Hop/Pop. Port-Au-Prince is his debut EP, was released by Philebrity Records.
She Came Crashing
Their sound is a mixture of all manner of synthesizers: hard buzzy leads, analogue classic keyboards, ambient pads, and earth shaking bass synths along with dance beats, meticulous harmonies, and vocal production borrowing from new wave, to pop, to experimental electronica.
The Hi Five
M Room
15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
$8 / 21+
Purchase Advance Tickets!
M Room
2012-04-03 / 8pm
The Color Bars
The Color Bars started out as three mildly autistic doorknobs with nothing but a swimming pool full of pureed television sets and a petri dish full of bone cells from the spine of Joseph Stalin. After 4 or 6 years, they had grown into a 35 year old skydiving instruction business with a robust hazelnut aroma and sympathetic after-taste. Like a lot of bands, they set their sights on the frigid dunes of Lower Manchuria and quickly fell in love with themselves. Their fans, a disloyal and untrustworthy flock of methodone-dependent sandhill cranes, became a threat to the band's virginity, and they had to resort to becoming mothers just to keep from rusting. Amazingly, despite all of their pups and hounds, they managed to carve out a distinctly obese sense of humidity in an increasingly dry and anorexic clam bar. Their story is that of the Hopi, the Souix, the Kennedys. It’s inspiring to think that even now, 12 decades after the dotcom bubble turned into a coming of age travel memoir, they’re still strangling themselves with licorice rope on pianos made of concrete and mormons. Something tells me these gals will be hiding out in Bea Arthur’s wardrobe for years to come!
St. Solitude
“It wasn’t meant to be the name a saint has, but a quality – like, ‘oh, that guy has saint solitude.’” Clearly, Dup Crosson needs some space. As the architect and sole songwriter of Saint Solitude, he will be the first to tell you that for every public musical endeavor there is an equal and opposite need to recharge and reflect. The multi-instrumentalist says he’s only musically introverted, but that character still inhabits his output. Saint Solitude has evolved from an early incarnation of sparse, wintry Thom Yorke-esque solo material to a high-volume loop act, and then to indie-pop power trio and beyond.
M Room
15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
$8 / 21+
Purchase Advance Tickets!
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