Carolina Chocolate Drops

Tonight’s Concert Picks: Purling Hiss with Spacin’ at Johnny Brenda’s, Glitter at World Cafe Live, Restorations at the First Unitarian Church, They Might Be Giants at The TLA, Meek Mill at The Tower Theater and more

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Local rockers Purling Hiss celebrate the release of Water On Mars at Johnny Brenda’s tonight. The new LP is the trio’s major label debut (through Drag City) and presents the bristly lo-fi guitar rock of previous releases in a more polished, hi-fi resolution while retaining the amped up excess of feedback and noise. The Key explored Water On Mars for a March edition of Unlocked, which you can check out here. Mike Polizze’s band will be joined by his Birds of Maya bandmate Jason Killinger’s newish basement fuzz rock project Spacin’, as well as AXIS:SOVA. Tickets and information the 21+ release show can be found here. Below, watch Purling Hiss’ video for “Mercury Retrograde.”

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FILED UNDER: Artists, Concert Previews, Events, Scene, Ace Hold, AXIS:SOVA, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Exploded Drawings, First Unitarian Church, Glitter, Joan Osborne, Johnny Brenda's, Joseph Mulhollen, Katie Becker & The Bricklayers, Meek Mill, Moon Hooch, Psychic Teens, Purling Hiss, Restorations, Self Defense Family, Spacin', The Grand Opera House, The Levoy Theater, The TLA, The Tower Theater, They Might Be Giants, World Cafe Live

December 13, 2012 | 9:54 AM | By Skye Leppo

XPN WELCOMES

Tonight’s Concert Picks: The Gathering feat. Rhiannon Giddens at Sellersville Theatre, Young Statues with Heartwell at the Barbary, Slingshot Dakota at The Fire, John Fullbright at the Tin Angel, Antibalas at Union Transfer

XPN Welcomes a Holiday Concert with The Gathering featuring Rhiannon Giddens at Sellersville tonight. The string band’s enchanting harmonies weave a different set of carols to celebrate the yuletide. The Gathering, which is Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Laurelyn Dossett, Mike Compton, Joe Newberry, and Jason Sypher, started playing together in 2011 as a seasonal project of the North Carolina Symphony. Their reputation escalated and they were soon being commissioned for more performances, finding their own among the embrace of holiday tours. Tickets for tonight’s all-ages performances can be found here; below, watch the band perform “Breaking Up Christmas.”

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FILED UNDER: Concert Previews, Events, Antibalas, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Heartwell, John Fullbright, Rhiannon Giddens, Sellersville Theatre, Slingshot Dakota, The Barbary, The Fire, The Gathering, Tin Angel, Union Transfer, Young Statues

February 11, 2012 | 6:02 PM | By Bruce Warren

Dawes, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rodney Crowell playing Appel Farm Arts & Music festival in June

WXPN Welcomes the Appel Farm Arts & Music Festival on Saturday, June 2nd. The initial lineup includes Dawes, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rodney Crowell, Cheryl Wheeler, Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek, Mason Porter, Quincy Mumford & The Reason Why and more to be announced. Tickets are available here.

FILED UNDER: Artists, Events, News, Appel Farm Arts & Music Festival, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Dawes, Mason Porter, Sara Watkins

March 3, 2011 | 1:56 PM | By The Key

TONIGHT'S CONCERT PICKS

Tonight’s Concert Picks: Purling Hiss at Kung Fu Necktie + Marnie Stern, Free Energy, Carolina Chocolate Drops

We’ve shown Purling Hiss quite a bit of love this week, so why stop now? Especially given that the Philly-based rock trio is performing with a pair of other local acts: Watery Love and the garage-goth quartet Far-Out Fangtooth. If you haven’t given Purling Hiss’ Key Studio Session a listen yet, you can do so here. Purling Hiss performs with Watery Love and Far-Out Fangtooth at 8 p.m. at Kung Fu Necktie; tickets to the 21+ show are $8.

Also playing: Marnie Stern + Tera Melos, Many Arms at First Unitarian Church (8 p.m., all ages, $12); Carolina Chocolate Drops + Birdie Busch, The Great Unknown at TLA (8 p.m., $19); Free Energy + The Spinning Leaves, Hezekiah Jones, Toy Soldiers, Kuf Knotz at Drexel University’s Mandell Theater (7 p.m., $10)