To Tremble is a new band made up of veteran musicians. | with Kristin Kontrol | $40 | all ages To Tremble Space 1026 Newly independent, the band remains consistently and productively downtrodden in their songs, reveling in a mash-up style - grunge and electronica most forwardly - they helped push into the mainstream in the 1990s.ĭoors 8 p.m. I can’t hear it being played on the radio anytime soon.” The new album is Garbage’s second since they reunited in 2012, and it’s undoubtedly their best in more than a decade, carrying wonderfully written hooks that belie Manson’s claims that these songs wouldn’t fit on radio. “It’s an adult record,” Manson said of the group’s just-released sixth album, “Strange Little Birds.” “It’s not a pop, frilly, fun frivolous, frothy thing. | with Trill Sammy, Dice SoHo & Dollabillgates | $23 | all ages Saturday, July 30Ī few months ago, Shirley Manson, the lead singer for the alternative mainstay outfit Garbage, told Rolling Stone that the band had turned over a new leaf (again).

Of course, Riff Raff’s erratic behavior and kitschy style have obscured that talent, and he’s probably still most known for inspiring the larger-than-life character Alien, who James Franco portrayed in the 2012 movie “Spring Breakers.” (The emcee tried unsuccessfully to sue the movie’s creators for the uncredited inspiration.) Last month the 34-year-old attention hog released his sophomore album in the form of “Peach Panther.” Never mind keeping a straight face, a little Riff Raff is always fun.ĭoors 8 p.m. The flamboyant, neon-draped Houston enigma might seem like a perpetual circus sideshow performer, but the guy can actually rap. Riff Raff hasn’t made it easy to take him seriously. All of these skills make Haldar a natural DJ, a skillset he’ll put to use alongside some of Philly’s best for a quiet DNC send-off performance at Johnny Brenda’s tomorrow night. At an intersection in which many artists would seem contrived, Lushlife feels natural, co-existing in disparate spaces without ever seeming like a visitor.

The New Jersey native channels dense lyricists like Black Thought and AZ in his rhymes, but is apt to enlist experimental musicians like Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier for the musical backdrop. As the rapper and producer Lushlife, Haldar has struck a wonderfully intellectual balance as a genre-bender, consistently folding savvy indie rock tendencies into his boom-bap paradigm. Raj Haldar is a uniquely Philadelphian musician.

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