Monday, Feb 6th / 8pm @ Kung Fu Necktie

Adam Arcuragi and The Lupine Chorale Society

Adam Arcuragi is the sonic cousin to the melancholic folk of Nick Drake and current sepia-tinged fellow travelers like Mark Kozelek, Damien Jurado, acoustic Chris Mills, and Dolorean.

Golden Bloom

Golden Bloom is Shawn Fogel’s soaring vocals, shimmering guitar hooks; whizzing keyboards and twinkling sounds. In fact, Golden Bloom is all Shawn Fogel. Under the moniker Golden Bloom, Fogel constructs intelligent contemporary indie power pop that rivals like-minded peers such as Wilco, Matt Pond PA, and Ben Kweller.

Ports of Call

Kung Fu Necktie
1250 N. Front Street
Philadelphia
PA
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Thursday, Feb 9th / 9pm @ M Room

Mirador

Mirador is coming in like apparitions from a buried past, chiseling through the grime of everyday life as they build soundscapes with ebbing piano drops, echoing guitar lines and atmospheric samples. Dreamy and somewhat ominous - they still manage to find sci-fi type grooves.

Forest Fools

Forest Fools is an indie/shoegaze band based out of Philadelphia. Starting as a two man acoustic project in the late spring of 2011, the group has expanded its sound to include electric guitars and added a drummer, which has led to a major shift in sound. Currently the three piece group is working on recording their debut EP due out at the end of the month, which ranges from straight forward indie rock songs to ballads ending in noisy guitar freak-outs.

Synth Sircus

Featuring a rotating lineup of synth, keyboard players, instrumentologists, DJs, VJs & performance artists...the SYNTH SIRCUS is not unlike VOLTRON: each member comes from a different band /location, & when summoned, fuses together to create a type of 'super-hybrid Synth Collective!'

Gray Fox

Influenced by diverse tastes in music (everything from Nine Inch Nails to The Clash), Gray Fox combines metal-inflected blues with modern garage-rock and progressive yet catchy songwriting to create a distinctive, infecteous sound.



M Room
15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
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Sunday, Feb 26th / 8pm @ M Room

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.



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15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
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Thursday, Mar 15th / 9pm @ M Room

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.



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15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
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Friday, Mar 23rd / 9pm @ M Room

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.



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15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
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Friday, Mar 30th / 9pm @ M Room

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.






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15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
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Tuesday, Apr 3rd / 8pm @ M Room

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.



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15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
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Sunday, Apr 22nd / 8pm @ M Room

Needmore

Self Made. No gimmicks. Meet NEEDMORE. Being some of the nicest, down to earth, midwestern-rooted boys you've ever met, they are hands down one of the hardest working groups of today. Since their "story-worthy" inception in Los Angeles, California (2007), they have been writing, recording, and touring non-stop. Named the #1 Rock Band by MTV's OurStage, and dubbed an "Artist on the Verge" by New Music seminar, NEEDMORE is quickly becoming one of the biggest buzz bands today. They have reached #1 on several US internet music charts, and are an NME "Breakthrough" Artist in the UK. If that weren't enough, Microsoft chose the band for their "Windows Media" campaign, and Delta Airlines chose their single "Lost My Way" for in-flight programming on every Delta flight around the world. To say the least, the spotlight is on them.

Vanity Theft

Vanity Theft is an American all girl indie/alternative rock group from Springboro, Ohio that formed in 2005. The band has described itself as having a sound "somewhere between the work of Sleater-Kinney and the Ting Tings.



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15 W. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia
PA
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