JOONBUG PHILADELPHIA
Thursday, August 19th
The Bridge w/ Three Legged Fox, The Defibulators @ North Star Bar, 8pm
Cuddle Magic w/ Midtown Dickens @ Kung Fu Necktie, 8pm
Panic Years w/ Atomic Square, The Defog @ Johnny Brenda's, 9pm
Friday, August 20th
Creeping Weeds w/ Robert West @ The M Room, 7pm
David Gray w/ Ray LaMontagne @ Susquehanna Bank Center, 7:30pm
The Devil Wears Prada w/ Miss May I, Your Demise @ First Unitarian Church, 7:30pm
Bells Bells Bells w/ Lo Power Plane, Giant Mind, Acres Of Diamonds @ Johnny Brenda's, 9pm
Dean Wareham and Dean & Britta Band w/ Crystal Stilts @ The Trocadero, 9pm
The New Motels w/ Lightninging, Jody Porter & The Black Swans, Eux Autres @ North Star Bar, 9pm
Saturday, August 21st
The Devil Wears Prada w/ Miss May I, Your Demise @ First Unitarian Church, 2:30pm
Toby Keith w/ Trace Adkins, James Otto @ Susquehanna Bank Center, 7:30pm
Cryptkeeper 5 w/ Unlocked @ Kung Fu Necktie, 8pm
Conversations With Enemies (CD Release Party) w/ Jay Purdy, Toy Soldiers, Cheers Elephant @ Johnny Brenda's, 9pm
EPMD, Kwame, Nice and Smooth @ The Trocadero, 9pm
Alright Junior w/ Tweak Bird, Violent Soho @ North Star Bar, 9pm
Sunday, August 22nd
Ozzfest @ Susquehanna Bank Center, 12pm
The Bigger Lights w/ The Graduate, You Me And Everyone We Know, Weatherbox, Soletta @ The Barbary, 5pm
The Juliana Theory (Reunion & Farewell), 8pm
The Scenic w/ What Happened In Vegas, Makeout Party, Gennero @ North Star Bar, 8pm
Monday, August 23rd
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones w/ Teenage Bottlerocket, The Flatliners @ The Trocadero, 7:30pm
Nobody Yet w/ Goodman Brown, Negative Department, Lakota Sue @ North Star Bar, 8pm
Tuesday, August 24th
Eat Your Birthday Cake w/ Juston Stens & The Get Real Gang, TV Torso @ North Star Bar, 8pm
Dragonzord w/ Secret Mountains, Hop Along, Da Comrade! @ Kung Fu Necktie, 8pm
Wednesday, August 25th
Trey Songz w/ Monica @ Tower Theatre, 8pm
Chalk and the Beige Americans w/ Coolrunnings, Laarks @ North Star Bar, 8pm
Monolith (CD Release Party) w/ An Albatross, Gifts From Enola, Cleric @ Kung Fu Necktie, 8pm
Musikfest is a ten-day-long community music and arts festival on the Delaware River in Bethlehem, PA on the site where the Bethlehem steel plant used to function as one of the top producers in the nation before shutting down in the early nineties. In short, it’s a really interesting place.
Musikfest was started in 1984 as a way to use the arts to revitalize the town of Bethlehem after the steel plant shut down. When the factory- known as Steelstacks- was closed, steelworkers planted trees at the top of the blast furnaces as a symbol of the potential that the area still had. Now, all these years later, the trees still grow and Steelstacks is being renovated into the new ArtsQuest Center. ArtsQuest’s goal in Bethlehem is to “take a unique setting and turn it into something positive,” Curt Mosel said. Mosel is the director of marketing and PR for ArtsQuest. “It will be a huge win for tourism and more opportunities for the 25,000 college students that live in the Lehigh Valley area.”
Thursday, August 12th
Among Criminals w/ Future, Strange Engineers, On Display, Capital 7 @ The Trocadero (Balcony), 7:30pm
Adam Lambert @ The Tower Theater, 8pm
Grimace Federation w/ Imperial China, Split Red @ Kung Fu Necktie, 8pm
Ped Fest featuring Super Mash Bros w/ E-603, Milkman @ TLA, 8pm
TJ Kong & The Atomic Bomb w/ The Yes Way, Hollis Brown, Penrose @ North Star Bar, 8pm
The Poison Arrows w/ Odessa Stair, This Temper, Life in Antarctica @ The M Room, 9pm
DaM-FunK, Master Blazter w/ Spirit Animal, Robotique DJs @ Johnny Brenda's, 9pm
Friday, August 13th
Coffinworm w/ Wizard Eye, Astral Throne @ The M Room, 6pm
The Hounds Below @ Kung Fu Necktie, 7:30
Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants w/ The Great Unknown, Ari Shine @ North Star Bar, 9pm
Public Enemy ("Fear of a Black Planet" 20th Anniversary Tour) @ The Trocadero, 9pm
Mewithoutyou @ TLA, 9pm
The Armchairs (CD Release Party) w/ The Extraordinaires, Hop Along, Queen Ansleis, Agent Moosehead @ Johnny Brenda's, 9pm
Thursday, August 5th:
The Maine @ Theatre of Living Arts, 7pm
Kings of Leon w/ Built to Spill, The Stills @ Susquehanna Bank Center, 7:30pm
Fol Chen w/ Baths, Virtual Virgin @ Johnny Brenda's, 8pm
Three Bad Jacks w/ Soul Reapin 3 @ Kung Fu Necktie, 8pm
Devon Allman's Honeytribe w/ Kickin' Bear @ North Star Bar, 8pm
Local Natives w/ We Barbarians @ First Unitarian Sanctuary, 8pm
Last Chance To Reason w/ Monolith, Iron Thrones, Willing Swords @ The M Room, 9pm
On Friday July 16 I went to the XPonential Music Festival in Camden, presented by WXPN radio (a Philly station). While the long drive into Camden is never easy, my hard work was instantly rewarded by a stellar concert experience.
This wasn’t the “Camden, Murder City, USA” you’re probably thinking of. This was a massive waterfront music festival that was so well-organized and polished that I forgot I was even in Jersey. I walked the street vendor promenade to a clearing right on the water where the main Waterfront Stage was set up. Well over 2,000 spectators sat on the hill going down to the water as Alejandro Escovedo rolled through his set.
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