The only cooking show you’ll ever need, kids. WTF indeed.

If you like solid rock and roll, catch Philly up-and-comers Moon Women this Friday at Black Cat and/or Saturday at the Troc with Black Lips and Vivian Girls. Both are sure to be great shows!

Download Moon Women’s Live XPN album for free here and watch out for their debut 7″ ‘Light Moves Slowly” coming soon.

So good.

Damn, this looks amazing. If only I was born 15 years earlier…

Mac Campbell of Dangerous Minds writes:

Killing Joke was not a band you watched, it was a band you became a part of. The zone between artist and audience was decimated in one pounding, unrelenting surge of energy and mantric mayhem. The apocalypse and resurrection in one blow to the head. Post-punk mindfuckers AND proto-industrial metal pioneers, Killing Joke approach music like alchemy: it isn’t worth a shit if it doesn’t change something. This video footage of Killing Joke performing at Philly’s legendary punk venue the East Side Club in 1981 is history, plain and simple. Not even the crude technology thru which these signals were recorded could constrain the majikal metal/flesh urgency of KJ.

Up-and-coming Philly band Arc in Round nailed this cover of the Can’s classic “Oh Yeah“. Check out more videos from the live session on Art in the Age’s blog.

The late Milton Babbitt was a serial composer born in Philadelphia, who went on to revolutionize American music education and later became interested in electronic music. He was hired by RCA in the 1950s as consultant composer to work with their RCA Mark II Synthesizer and produced the seminal, groundbreaking work Composition for Synthesizer. Lucky for us, NPR has just premiered a new documentary surveying his career:

The American composer and teacher Milton Babbitt died Saturday, Jan. 29 at age 94. For years, New York-based journalist and filmmaker Robert Hilferty had been constructing a documentary on Babbitt. It was a quirky, loving look at a man regarded by many as a composer of “difficult” music. Hilferty left the film unfinished when he died in 2009. Composer and former Babbitt student Laura Karpman has now completed Hilferty’s film. And she has graciously placed its premiere on NPR Music.

Watch the documentary for free HERE.

What do you get when Honus Honus of Man Man, Nick Thorburn of Islands and Joe Plummer of Modest Mouse decide to make music together? Well, you get this…and this is pretty damn good:

{MP3} Mister Heavenly – “Mister Heavenly”
{MP3} Mister Heavenly – “Pineapple Girl”

Watch out for Mister Heavenly’s debut album on Sub Pop later this year.

Here’s the newest one from Philly’s Kurt Vile. It’s a track from his upcoming Matador release, Smoke Ring For My Halo. Brilliant as usual…

{MP3} Kurt Vile – “Jesus Fever”

Amazing, via Yours Truly:

Originally recorded in Jon Barthmus’ basement, “Oh, Naoko,” the lead track from their Dead Oceans debut, Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier, is a dream-pop plea to the fragile beauty in Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood. The atmospheric, pillow-top electronics were a fitting bed for the theme to rest on, keeping the song very open, as there’s a little bit of uncertainty about love surrounding Naoko. But, when Sun Airway cruised into Different Fur Studios amidst their recent tour with Bear In Heaven, acoustic guitars, pinky slides and violins in hand, they came prepared to re-construct “Oh, Naoko” from an electro-pop wanderer to a folk-pop rambler, transforming every hopeful plea to Naoko into a valiant proclamation of love. And, all the while, redefining the idea of what makes a song great.

The debut video from Philly’s Nightlands (Dave Hartley of War on Drugs) combines his lush, electronic sounds with footage from the ’70s curated by yvynyl. Fits nicely.

Still a little room left in your stomach after that Thankzgiving feast? If so, head over to Johnny Brenda’s on Saturday and get a mouthful of new shoegaze, courtesy of rising local band Soars (awesome video above). Also on the bill are Headless Horseman and headliners Aunt Dracula. Plus, our friends Hello From the Children of Planet Earth will be spinning Krautrock, Library Music, IDM, Synth-Punk, Instrumental Hip-Hop and Dub all night.  Get tickets here.

Visit Sun Airway’s website.

Philly band Sun Airway will be coming in for a landing at Johnny Brenda’s tomorrow night and you don’t want to miss it. The last time I caught these rising stars, the sound and the visuals were spot on – and it was only their second show! They will be taking the stage at 9PM, opening for Twin Shadow and Bear and Heaven.

Grab tickets here and check out the two remaining dates below:

Nov 18 – Cambridge, MA
Middle East

Nov 19 – Brooklyn, NY
Music Hall of Williamsburg

This new track from Philly’s favorite indie son, Kurt Vile, gives us a taste of his forthcoming album due out next year. It’s cleaner and shinier than his debut, but no less enjoyable. Have a listen…

{MP3} Kurt Vile – “In My Time”

See dates for Kurt’s upcoming tour on Matador’s site.

Here is some more rad Philly music for ya. Sweet Lights conjure up an ethereal, epic mix of Pernice Brothers, old My Morning Jacket and that unexplainable thing that gives you goosebumps.

{MP3} Sweet Lights – “Are We Gonna Work It Out”

The self-titled album was co-produced and mixed by Jeff Zeigler, the man behind Kurt Vile’s highly praised Childish Prodigy and you can stream it and purchase it here for $7 or more.

Check out Soars, another PA band on the rise, getting some love for their awesome new video on Stereogum:

“Jamie Harley directed this eerie, moving video with clips from the 1960 Japanese horror film Jigoku. The title translates to “Hell” (watch the original trailer at YouTube). The depictions of hell — fire and brimstone, heads stuck in the dirt (no skull-gnawing, though) adds some hard edges to the Pennsylvania band’s foggy, drifting single.”

Get their debut album now on La Société Expéditionnaire.

Directed by Klip Collective, Philly’s rising stars Sun Airway release a subtle, but beautiful first video for the track “Put the Days Away”, pulled from their upcoming debut album Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier on Dead Oceans.

Check out a debut track from Philly’s Moon Women. It has a cool, old-school 4AD feel to it.

{MP3} Moon Women – “A Collection of Thought”

The track is featured on the band’s limited-edition, silk-screened cassette, which will be available for purchase at their Johnny Brenda’s show with Film School and The Depreciation Guild this Wednesday.

Golden Ages – “Everything Will Be Alright” from Bryan Schlam on Vimeo.

A new, cool looking video from Philly bliss-out band Golden Ages. It’s all fine and dandy until someone gets smothered at a dance-party or drowned in their own bathtub.

Grab the MP3 as well: Golden Ages – “Everything Will Be Alright”

Crash Course in Science was a Philly band formed in 1979 by art school classmates Dale Feliciello, Mallory Yago and Michael Zodorozny. After releasing a few experimental electronic 7″s through Rough Trade in the UK, the band shifted into full-on synth-pop mode in 1981 with the release of Signals From Pier Thirteen, which has been regarded as “influential to the techno industrial genres and an early inception of what is now known as the ‘electro’ sound. This record is still highly sought after by collectors and fans today.”

“Flying Turns”, which you can stream below, was recently included on the Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 1 compilation.

Crash Course in Science – “Flying Turns” (1981)

Also, check out this video they made in 1981 for the single “Cardboard Lamb”, which features the band hanging around Philly doing New Wave-y, artsy stuff: