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:

Congrats to Jon and Patrick of Sun Airway for landing a deal with the awesome label Dead Oceans (Bishop Allen, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band)! Their debut album, Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier, is a must-hear mix of ambient electronics and spacey psychedelia. Get a copy on 10/26 in the US and 1/11 in the UK.

Get a taste of the album with “Oh, Naoko” {MP3} and grab their recent remix of Here We Go Magic’s “Casual” {MP3} via PFork.

Yours truly aka DJ Vuvuzela aka DJ Double-Rainbow-All-The-Way will be joining the Hello From The Children of Planet Earth DJs Jeff Zeigler and Joe Patitucci this Sunday at KFN in Philly. Come by, it’s FREE! Here’s a taste:

Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier, the debut album from one of Philly’s most promising new bands, Sun Airway, will hopefully see the light of day within the year. For now you can (and should) catch the live premiere of their blissful and layered electronic pop at Johnny Brendas in Philly this Thursday, or at Mercury Lounge in NYC on June 28th. Dig some mp3s from the album below:

{MP3} Sun Airway – “Waiting On You”
{MP3} Sun Airway – “Put the Days Away”

Check out all of the Sun Airway coverage on The Walrus after the jump:

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Check out this rendition of NWA’s classic “Straight Outta Compton” during a commercial break on The Jimmy Fallon Show recently. Sounds great!

(via YANP)