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Thanksgiving Eve is widely considered the biggest bar night of the year—which means Old City is going to be a supreme clusterfuck tonight. But, if you're willing to brave that section of town and its throngs of Philadelphia's version of the bridge and tunnel crowd, you can find a safe haven at The Khyber, where Audrye Sessions will be part of a lineup that should draw a decidedly more subdued (if not be sober) crowd.

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Artists have used the expression "This one's for the fans" to excuse any number of musical atrocities, from crappy concert set lists to shitty albums that only a fanboy or girl could love. In the case of NIN's The Slip, the phrase was an excuse to give away the band's eighth major album. In May, lead singer Trent Reznor made available the entire album for download, as a gift to fans for years of support. Doing Radiohead one better, instead of a pay what you wish model, fans were not prompted to pay anything at all. Many critics have hailed the album as a return to form, something akin to The Downward Spiral. Although we enjoyed the ambient sounds of Ghosts I-IV, we are definitely part of the chorus that is happy again to hear Reznor's voice.

Summer festivals are upon us. Many festivals. Kind of watered down, no? So it’s time to take a look at the beasts of the east: All Points West, and Download Festival. OK, no, The Download Festival is nowhere near the project All Points West is. I mean, Radiohead, Underworld, The Roots, Girl Talk, and Animal Collective could all take the cake as a headliner, and you would have a great time.

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What kind of octogenarian would you like to be? Us, we’ll be Merce Cunningham please. At 89 the famous choreographer is not only still creating works, but continues in his tradition of pushing the technological envelope by combining dance with accompanying music in unique and often fantastical ways (dude’s had Radiohead compose for him. That we’d love to see). Merilyn Jackson has a wonderful article tracing some of his collaborations and technological innovations in the Inquirer, which has served as a yummy appetizer. You see, we are lucky enough to be going to see the Merce Cunningham Dance Company when they perform at the Annenberg Center tomorrow and Friday nights. And our iPods are already in a flurry of excitement.

The Northern Liberties Winter Music Festival at The Fire is finishing up this weekend with two big shows tonight, another tomorrow night, and the climactic Radiohead Tribute Sunday night. It all sounds awesome to us, but we wanted to give a particular heads up to you guys about one of the many bands playing Saturday night: Peasant. Peasant is actually less a band and more a guy: Damien DeRose of Doylestown. We've been listening to his latest release, On the Ground, and we're pretty impressed. He's got the whole folksy, singer-songwriter, indie pop thing going on, but not in an annoying way. His work is compared to that of Elliott Smith, and while we understand and agree with that comparison, we actually enjoy this album more than most of the stuff we've heard by Smith. Every one of the thirteen tracks is lovely, melodic, catchy, and deeply felt. Peasant isn't really going to help you get your rock on, but he might warm you up on a cold winter's night.

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Every weekday of December (except for December 25, that is), Phillyist will be counting down to 2008 with our highlights from the past year and our predictions for the next. If you have a list you'd like to submit, let us know! 10. Cross – Justice While this debut album by French duo Gaspard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay leans heavily on the discography of fellow Parisians, Daft Punk, it breaks out on its own...

Radiohead, as everyone knows, is The Best Band in the World. But once, long ago, in the far off '90s, they just played really, really good pop music. Then came their career-changing album OK Computer. With this album, they created their own new genre - a heady, intellectual, electronica/indie pop that blew everyone's minds. It wasn't only a success and a huge turning point for Radiohead, it's a true masterpiece, and a watershed release in the history of music. So we think it's pretty cool that Philadelphia-based Radiohead tribute band Meeting in the Aisle is celebrating the album's tebth anniversary by playing the entire thing from beginning to end tonight at Grape Street.

Sorry, folks. No diary today. Simply put, now is not the time for witty jokes and non sequiturs about my English Bulldog or P.J. Harvey’s latest work. I am not even going to ramble on about how brilliant Radiohead’s latest album is, and how they make overrated, whiny droners like The National look like rank amateurs. Sometimes one must discard structure, and get their rant on…and this is one of those times.

As it gets closer to Halloween for LAist, a contributer recollects her tale of staring down the serial killer, Richard Ramirez, otherwise known as the Night Stalker. Must think happy thoughts -- okay, free organic chocolate chip cookies for Los Angeles -- now that's a happy thought. Other happy Los Angeles thoughts include an interview with Jack Kehler of The Big Lebowski (he was the Dude's landlord), a beautiful and magical photographic moment in Venice and the press making the speaker of the California State Assembly, Fabian Nunez, run away when being asked hard questions about sketchy luxurious and worldly expenses.

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Benzos Ticket Giveaway
8/16/07-8/20/07

Sunday night, Counting Crows performed as if they were putting on a show for thousands of their closest friends. Maybe it was because there was family in the audience, or maybe it was because Wilmington was the first stop on their summer tour, but the band looked rested and sounded tight. A fitter, happier Adam Duritz (oh snap, accidental Radiohead reference) sang his way from one end of the stage to the other, connecting with fellow band members and the screaming audience. Not content to hold court front and center, he sang lyrics from atop speakers and seemed to be having a damned good time doing so.

A Fine Frenzy Giveaway
6/15/07-6/18/07

Bands I Caught: Public Record, Feather Mills, Phil Moore Browne, Hail Social

Venue: Starlight Ballroom

DJ Shadow - who's playing the TLA tonight - is not a band: he's a man. His name is no cutesy moniker, either; he's really a DJ. Thus his latest album, The Outsider (released last month), is not really an album: it's just a set of tracks he's helped compile and spin for us. From track to track, it's often hard to believe you're listening to the same CD; it sounds more like a very odd playlist or mixed tape. There's the fantasy movie epic spoken-word intro track, then the Frank Sinatra-style "This Time (I'm gonna try it my way)." Then all of the sudden we get some straight-up rap tracks featuring appearances by a number of San Francisco Bay Area hip hop musicians. The topics are typical: cruising for women, living the gangsta life. But then there's the catalog of political commentary/conspiracies that is "Seein Thangs," which seems to be leading into more of the same in "Broken Levee Blues," until that becomes more of a traditional blues/rock guitar instrumental, leading into a high-speed, beat-heavy dance rock instrumental ("Artifact"), leading into the incredible fusion of genres that is "Backstage Girl," an amusing story-song about some groupie nookie which drifts from blues to jazz to rock to hip hop to rap. Before you've recovered from that, it's time for a lovely string instrumental ("Triplicate / Something Happened That Day"), and then a handful of quite excellent contemporary pop rock tracks in the style of Radiohead and Coldplay ("The Tiger," "Erase You," "You Made It") with a weird but pleasant fantasy-spoken-word-folk-Enya-Legend-soundtrack kind of thing thrown in for good measure ("What Have I Done"), before finishing up with more rap and hip hop (including the inevitable remix of a previous track).

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Where is probably the only place in Philly that you can find a poor college student, a doctor, a biker, a businessman, a sorority girl, and a bleached socialite mingling with one another? Drinker's Tavern. Long before termed Mel’s “serenity hang-out” (a reference to MTV’s Real World: Philadelphia), this dark hole-in-the-wall bar has been getting Philly patrons drunk for nearly three years. Ridiculously drunk. For ridiculously cheap. Seriously, in a city where martinis are skyrocketing towards the ten dollar mark and burgers for fifteen, this place is a gem for shallow pockets. Where else can you throw back $2 Jaegermeister shots and a 40 ounce bottle ALL THE TIME? 30 bucks buys the whole bar a shot. Not only was its jukebox, which spits out a myriad of tunes from Radiohead to Metallica, voted best jukebox in Philadelphia by City Paper, the bar also gains bragging rights for having the best happy hour in the city. From 7:30 to 9:30, $5 pitchers flow continuously, even on a Saturday night.