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April 26, 2013 | 12:16 PM | By

Watch The Fleeting Ends’ video for “I’m Like That” (playing a free show at The Kimmel Center tonight, XPoNential Music Festival this summer)

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Local pop / rock outfit The Fleeting Ends have shared a video for “I’m Like That,” a track off of their new LP Our Eyes Are Peeled.  The video features the band playing the laid-back and lackadaisical (and incredibly catchy) song against a lava lamp backdrop interspersed with cuts to a colorful ballet dancer.  The Fleeting Ends will play a free show at The Kimmel Center tonight to help bring PIFA to an end (more information can be found here).  The Philly band will also perform at the XPoNential Music Festival this summer, happening July 26-28.  Tickets and more information for the festival can be found here.  Watch the new video below and check out footage from The Fleeting Ends’ acoustic appearance at The Porch here.

FILED UNDER: Artists, Events, News, Scene, PIFA, The Fleeting Ends, The Kimmel Center, XPoNential Music Festival
April 10, 2013 | 2:14 PM | By

Watch The Fleeting Ends perform for WXPN’s lunchtime buskers’ series at The Porch at 30th Street

Philly pop / rock three piece The Fleeting Ends played an acoustic set at 30th Street Station today for the second installment of the WXPN lunchtime buskers’ series. They mixed in songs from their new LP Our Eyes are Peeled with old cuts and a Beatles cover. Watch a video of them performing “Poor Gloria” below and get details of their upcoming shows – including a residency at The Living Room in New York – here.

The Fleeting Ends busking at 30th Street Station from WXPN FM on Vimeo.

FILED UNDER: Artists, Concert Photos + Videos, Events, The Fleeting Ends, The Porch at 30th Street Station
April 9, 2013 | 3:23 PM | By

Philly Local Busker Background: The Fleeting Ends

FleetingEndsThe WXPN Philly Local Busker’s series continues tomorrow at noon at The Porch at 30th Street Station, and this week brings the power-popping rock trio The Fleeting Ends to lunchtime crowd.

Founded a few years back by singer-guitarist Matt Vantine and drummer Matt Amadio, the group brought bassist Rusty Langly last year and released their debut LP Our Eyes Are Peeled in the winter. The album is an eclectic romp with notes of The Beatles, ELO and Spoon – not to mention sweet string arrangements care of Philly production legend Larry Gold – and the band has a handful of live dates on the calendar in support of it.

In addition to the free show at The Porch, the band will play the Kimmel Center for PIFA on April 26th, and will play The Barbary on April 29th. In addition, they have a month-long residency at The Living Room in New York. Below, watch The Fleeting Ends rocking out their song “Elaine” at The Fire on Valentine’s Day, and read our Unlocked interview with the band here.

FILED UNDER: Artist Profiles, Artists, Concert Previews, Events, The Fleeting Ends, The Porch at 30th Street Station
March 26, 2013 | 11:07 AM | By

Travel through time with the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (kicking off this Thursday, 3/28)

PIFAThe Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts gets underway this Thursday, March 28th and will run through April 27th.  With homebase returning to The Kimmel Center and a new theme of time travel this year, the month-long event will use performances, lectures and exihibitions to explore past moments in history including the discovery of America, the lunar landing and the fall of the Berlin Wall.  Below, check out a few musical highlights that you won’t want to miss, including a selection of free concerts happening in the Kimmel Center’s “Time Travel Plaza” (where you will also find a spiraling time machine).

Last Call at the Downbeat (4/5-4/13, Red Room at the Society Hill Playhouse):  Learn about Philadelphia’s jazz scene in the forties with this staged retrospective of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.  Watch a short video about the play from show producers Jazz Bridge below.

Prima! Rufus! Judy! (4/21, Verizon Hall): Rufus Wainwright reprises Judy Garland’s return to the stage with selections from her 1961 Carnegie Hall performance.  The evening will begin with excerpts from Wainwright’s own opera Prima Donna.  Watch Wainwright perform “Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart” below.

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FILED UNDER: Artists, Concert Previews, Events, Andrew Lipke, Brooke DiCarlo, Cold Fronts, Dan Deacon, Lucy Stone, Perelman Theater, Philadelphia International Festival Of The Arts, PIFA, Robert Drake, Robert Glasper, Rufus Wainwright, Sharon Katz and the Peace Train, Society Hill Playhouse, Talain Rayne, The Fleeting Ends, The Heat Run, The Hundred Acre Woods, The Kimmel Center, The Swinging Foxes, Travel Songs, Verizon Hall, WC Lindsay
March 20, 2013 | 1:50 PM | By

XPN presenting Philly Local Wednesdays at The Porch at 30th Street Station

ChristieTo better greet the warm weather this spring, XPN has organized a weekly buskers’ series for the month of April. Each Wednesday, a different musician will be busking from noon to 1pm on The Porch at 30th Street Station.

Performers for the month are Dante Bucci on Wednesday April 3; The Fleeting Ends on Wednesday April 10; Christie Lenee on Wednesday April 17th, and The Splashing Pearls on Wednesday April 24th. The performances are free, of course, and would surely be a great lunch soundtrack for anyone in the area who can make it out. The series will continue through the months of April and May, and the performers for May will be announced next month.

FILED UNDER: Artists, Concert Previews, Events, News, Christie Lenee, Dante Bucci, The Fleeting Ends, The Porch at 30th Street Station, The Splashing Pearls
March 15, 2013 | 3:19 PM | By

SXSW Dispatch: A Philly-centric showcase with DRGN King, Dangerous Ponies, Blayer Pointdujour and more

Take a short drive east of Austin’s bustling downtown and you’ll find Club 1808, a scruffy rock and roll venue and site of yesterday’s Philly-centric showcase thrown by MilkBoy and Bonfire Entertainment. The lineup was huge; we caught DRGN King, Dangerous Ponies, Norwegian Arms, The Fleeting Ends and Blayer Pointdujour and The Rockers Galore, but others who played included Katie Frank, Thee Idea Men, Kalob Griffin Band, Lushlife, Nothing and Lantern. Check out a photo recap in the gallery above.

FILED UNDER: Artists, Concert Photos + Videos, Events, Blayer PointduJour and the Rockers Galore, Dangerous Ponies, DRGN King, Milkboy, Norwegian Arms, sxsw 2013, The Fleeting Ends
March 8, 2013 | 12:30 PM | By

Introducing: The Hot Philly 15

Photo of Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee by Rachel Del Sordo

Photo of Kate Crutchfield of Waxahatchee by Rachel Del Sordo

The Hot Philly 15 is a completely subjective list of Philly-made and Philly Local music happenings we love this week. It’s somewhat informed by what we’re playing on the radio, what we’re blogging about and what you’re talking about.

1 – Waxahatchee: With an excellent new album, Cerulean Salt, a fantastic Key Studio Session, a high profile upcoming gig at SXSW with NPR Music, and Best New Music on Pitchfork, we’re in love. You should be too.

2 – The Delfonics – Who would have thought 45 years after the release of “La La Means I Love You,” William Hart would still be kickin’ it? Listen to Adrian Younge Presents The Delfonics here. Download the new song, “Enemies” here.

3 – Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel: Philly Bands heading to SXSW include: DRGN KNG, Blayer Pointdujour and The Rockers Galore, Creepoid, Lantern, Bleeding Rainbow, Norwegian Arms, A Life Once Lost, Dangerous Ponies, The Fleeting Ends, Lushlife, The Kalob Griffin Band, Katie Frank & The Pheromones, Nothing, Cold Fronts, Free Energy, Thee Idea Men. If we forgot you, sorry. We never got your press release.

4 – Chill Moody: We want him to be the mtvU Freshmen Video of the Week. Vote for him here.

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The Lawsuits | Photos by Matthew Smith | Montage by Bryan Schreck

5 – The Lawsuits Key Studio Session – listen to it here.

6 – Heavy Rotation: The Fleeting Ends release their poptastical new album, Our Eyes Are Peeled, on March 22nd. It’s getting lots of advance play in the office here.

7 – The Hotbox Studio (video) Sessions recently kicked back into action with Cheers Elephant and Grandchildren

8 – Tayyib Ali dropped his new mixtape, Keystone State Of Mind 2. Download it here.

9 – Tara Murtha’s Philly Weekly cover story on the closing of Fluid. Read it here.

10 – Stereogum premiered a new jam from our friends Free Energy. Download it here.

11 – Questlove and D’Angelo get down at the Brooklyn Bowl here. Okay, so the Brooklyn Bowl isn’t Philly. Neither is D’Angelo. But Quest is.

12 – Mike Slo-Mo Brenner gets all world music on our asses with a new collection of Indian slide guitar music he recorded in Calcutta.

WD13 – Duet of the moment: Juston Stens and Jessica Lea Mayfield, “Strange Love.” Download it here.

14 – Entertainment Weekly debuted the new Purling Hiss video for the song “Mercury Retrograde” here. It’s psychedelic, baby.

15 – Work Drugs: The Philly smooth-fi music machine drops yet another new single, “Sunset On High Street.” Download it here and don’t miss them tomorrow night with Night Panther at Kung Fu Necktie.

FILED UNDER: Artists, Scene, Adrian Younge, Chill Moody, Free Energy, Juston Stens, Mike Brenner, Purling Hiss, Questlove, Tayyib Ali, The Delfonics, The Fleeting Ends, The Hot Philly 15, The Lawsuits, waxahatchee, Work Drugs