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Just Added: Eytan and the Embassy

In the coming weeks, Eytan and the Embassy is sharing bills with Old 97s and OK Go. They were recently featured on the soundtrack of the MTV movie Turn the Beat Around.
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The Haddonfields w/ Jetty Boys, Be My Doppelganger & Squid Blade

JUST ADDED! Start the week off right with a little punk.
$5/21+. Doors at 8 p.m., show at 9 p.m.

http://www.myspace.com/jettyboys
http://www.myspace.com/thehaddonfields
http://www.myspace.com/bemydoppelganger

Sinem Saniye :: Early Show

About Sinem’s latest release:

The highly-anticipated DEBUT album, “WHEN I DON’T SLEEP..” by Sinem Saniye (“See-nem” “Sahh-nee-yeh”) may be more than what you can handle. Then again, it may just be what you’ve been looking for. It’s what can happen to one person when they are more than just tossing and turning in the night!

“When I Don’t Sleep” is a mixture of heartfelt songs as honest as a diary about a troubled youth, vulnerability, the search for identity, celebrating the mystery of the afterlife, finding love the most unlikely places, discovering a second sexual coming of age, restlessness and fear, and all the thoughts that may race through any person’s mind when they are up at night, unable to sleep, and searching for answers…

With this kind of captivating subject matter, it’s no surprise Sinem’s voice comes through with such raw honesty, smooth, strong, and soaring at times, shy, gritty, and vulnerable at others. The songs on the album are deliciously wrapped up in Pop Americana with Bossa Nova, Jazz, and Middle-Eastern flavors, combining Sinem’s love of Pop beats and song structure with World music influences.

“When I Don’t Sleep..” is an album that is sure to stay in your collection forever, never aging over time, but staying young in its childlike and innocent nature, always restless, never weary, and brewing with a secret sensuality that is begging to be released.

Doors 7pm
Show 8pm
21+ $8.00

London Calling

We are super excited to welcome My Gold Mask (LIVE) to London Calling…

Gold Mask, comprised of drummer/vocalist Gretta Rochelle and guitarist Jack Armondo, are going to be the hot new thing. They’ve got that BRKLYN hipster style, and two person bands are all the rage now (No Age, Japandroids, etc.). That said, if My Gold Mask blows up, it won’t be undeserved.

-”My Gold Mask gets mega sounds and emotion out of two instruments…” – THE FADER

- “My Gold Mask are going to be the hot new thing….infuses some heart into the mundane, and makes it beautiful. ” – PRETTY MUCH AMAZING

- “If I had to pick one act who’ll break big in 2010, My money is on My Gold Mask.” – VENUS ZINE

9pm-3am 21+ $4 before 10pm $8 After!

http://www.myspace.com/mygoldmask
http://www.londoncalling.us

Autiomadic

Once upon a time, music was played. And it was good.

And then came the machines. The wheels of steel brought destruction to ear drums the world over. Until one day, Jon Henry rose in opposition; man versus machine, locked in intractable struggle …. And bodies were rocked. And booties were shaken.

Sho’ nuff

Doors at 8 p.m., show at 9 p.m. FREE/21+/$10 A-B Buckets all night!

AutioMadic Fan Page

Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship (Free show!)

Free show!21+, $2 bartenders’ choice shots all night!

Todd of The Post-Rockist blog wrote had this to say:

“in a league all his own in St. Louis”

“completely idiotic or effin’ fantastic, or both”

“freakishly long limbs”

“I honestly think this city would do well to stomach more musicians as shamelessly bold, clever, and stupidly fun as the Yeah Yeah Rocketship”

Doors at 9:45 p.m. due to early private party. Show at 10:15.

www.myspace.com/superfunyeahyeahrocketship

Autiomadic

Once upon a time, music was played. And it was good.

And then came the machines. The wheels of steel brought destruction to ear drums the world over. Until one day, Jon Henry rose in opposition; man versus machine, locked in intractable struggle …. And bodies were rocked. And booties were shaken.

Sho’ nuff

Doors at 8 p.m., show at 9 p.m. FREE/21+/$10 A-B Buckets all night!

AutioMadic Fan Page

The New Collisions w/ Team Relevance

Fresh off a tour with the B-52s and Blondie (and discovered by Greg Hawkes of The Cars), The New Collisions infuse influences from the New Wave explosion of ’77-’83, plus the early 60s of Phil Spector and Brian Wilson, with their modern, dancey, intense sound. Team Relevance will open. Doors at 8 p.m., show at 9 p.m. 21+

$5, $1 off the draft tower all night.

I Was Totally Destroying It w/ The Story Changes, Wild Tiger and This City of Takers

Hailing from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, I Was Totally Destroying It (IWTDI) have been swinging sledgehammers at barriers since early 2007. Mixing indie rock veterans James Hepler (Sorry About Dresden, Erie Choir) and John Booker (Strunken White, io) with talented young upstarts Rachel Hirsh (A-OK), Curtis Armstead (Places to Live), and Joe Mazzitelli (Lemming Malloy) has so far been a recipe for awesome.
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Heypenny

A Gramophone staff favorite, Heypenny recently won top ranking and the right to perform at Bonnaroo in this year’s “Road to Bonnaroo” competition! According to BMI, the competition’s sponsor, “Heypenny offer quirky pop-rock, driven by sanguine harmonies and punchy melodies.” Here’s what the guys have to say about themselves:

“What started as last year’s grand prize winner in Arklahoma’s ‘Scene in a Shoe-Boxx’ competition, which then morphed into a well-articulated marketing class group project (B-), which then spawned new life and became (of all things) the setup strategical crew for J. Lonely Farris’ house project, which (who’d’a guessed) was a tremendous success, leading to… well, some ‘personnel changes’ or ‘redundancies,’ freeing them to focus their efforts on the ever-pressing duties of ‘Growing Up & Staying Young,’ the six part mini-series which is to air on HBO in late summer (hooray, it’s finally done!), through which they met Mary Marty who suggested to them that they start a band, to which they said, ‘Fine, be that way, maybe we will,’ which upon hearing Marty replied, ‘Fine, do it,’ to which they all quipped in unison, ‘Okay.’”

Doors at 8 p.m., show at 9 p.m. $5 cover/21+

www.myspace.com/heypenny