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Phillyist's quick-picks for your evening agenda.

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Friday night Phillyist witnessed a pretty entertaining quadrilogy of indie bands in the cramped, smokey, bottle-littered confines of the Khyber bar. First up was Remote Islands. Next to their name on the Khyber website, Phillyist had noticed the parenthetical phrase "the Last Show." Remote Islands turned out to be just one guy with an acoustic guitar (and occasionally a kazoo) who apologized for the lack of bandmates (word around the Khyber was that they'd had a fight), and at the end of the set told us he'd be performing with his new band, Food Lion, in a week or so. So I guess it really was the last show! And a pretty sad one at that; "Remote Islands" didn't know his own songs very well, and was having a hard time staying in key and keeping his guitar in tune. He was doing mellow indie pop with some creepy lyrics, and making it sound a bit like Red Krayola, except Red Krayola did that on purpose. Phillyist felt pretty bad for him, but did genuinely enjoy his folksy cover of Guns 'N Roses's "Welcome to the Jungle."

Dirty on Purpose already has a critically acclaimed EP out (with the inspirational and educational title Sleep Late for a Better Tomorrow), but now they're out touring behind their debut full-length release slated to come out in April of this year. You can download a track from the EP at their website (linked above), or listen to more tracks from the same EP at their myspace page, but to hear anything from their new album it looks like you'll just have to show up Friday night at the Khyber. From what we've listened to, their stuff seems to be quite nice mellow indie pop, so Phillyist will see you there.