Feb 12, 2010 at 9:00 PM EST Jemina Pearl (Ex. Be Your Own Pet) with Successful Failures / The Edison Proposal at The M Room - Philadelphia, PA $10.00

Ecstatic Peace Records-- Jemina Pearl is the former frontgal for Nashville garage popsters Be Your Own Pet. THIS SHOW IS 21+

Feb 13, 2010 at 9:00 PM EST BioDiesel with Sonic Spank / Trancendentistry / DJ Labl'd at The M Room - Philadelphia, PA $13.00

Feb 15, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST Barton Carroll with Taylor Hollingsworth at The M Room - Philadelphia, PA $8.00

Mem. of Crooked Fingers, Azure Ray and Dolorean--"Even if the name isn't instantly recognizable, fans of Eric Bachmann have probably witnessed Barton Carroll's contributions to Bachmann's Crooked Fingers on stand-up bass, lap-steel guitar, and periodic backing vocals. The two forged a friendship over a mutual love of Bruce Springsteen while Carroll was working as Archers of Loaf's merchandise manager and have been collaborating whenever possible ever since then. Carroll is long overdue for recognition of his own talents as a singer and a songwriter. He's hyperintelligent and hyperliterate, but his hushed and naked delivery of dour, country-tinged yarns is infinitely accessible and down to earth. Fans of Cormac McCarthy, take note." THIS SHOW IS 21+

Feb 18, 2010 at 9:00 PM EST Lookbook with Hair Rocket / Nude Beach at The M Room - Philadelphia, PA $8.00

"...Their sound was a moody reverberation that conjured from the evening?s ashes a sentiment of intensely fond and forward-looking nostalgia. Vocalist Maggie Morrison is pure magnetivity, Grant Cutler the iron ore, and their songs are a compass locked on North. One hears Lookbook and imagines themselves striding in slow-motion to that shy guy or girl at the bar, backlit and valiantly tormented and bound for a heartbreak that will look magnificent on celluloid. It?s music that arouses a most precious and sincere sentimentality for things bittersweet and fleeting. After a middle act that so unfortunately manhandled its own talents, an emotional climax this nuanced was a welcome way to say goodnight."

Feb 19, 2010 at 9:00 PM EST Kasim Sulton (of Utopia and Todd Rundgren) with The Smooth Maria at The M Room - Philadelphia, PA $10.00

Mem. of Utopia/Todd Rundgren--"A highly coveted sideman, singer/songwriter Kasim Sulton is recognized and respected the world over for his work with other artists, including Todd Rundgren and Utopia, Meat Loaf, Joan Jett, Hall and Oates, Patti Smith, Patty Smyth, Mick Jagger, and Celine Dion to name just a few. His level of involvement has ranged from playing bass, keyboards, and/or guitar, to adding vocal harmonies, singing lead, and contributing as a songwriter, to producing entire albums, as he did with the Meat Loaf VH-1 Storytellers CD, released in 1999. There isn't much he hasn't done in his 31 years in the music industry. In 2007, Kasim found himself touring with Meat Loaf to promote Bat out of Hell III, The New Cars, Todd Rundgren and still finding time to promote his own solo career." THIS SHOW IS 21+

Feb 20, 2010 at 9:00 PM EST Leslie and the LYs with Christopher The Conquered at The M Room - Philadelphia, PA $10.00

She's Back! --"Iowa's buxom beatbox seductress tears hip-hop a new one with songs like "Ring A Ding Ding" and "Sweater Girl" "Line the pan with crisco before you dance this disco!"

Feb 23, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST Fredrik at The M Room - Philadelphia, PA $8.00

Feb 27, 2010 at 9:00 PM EST The Goddamn Gallows with Soul Reapin 3 / Midnight Creeps at The M Room - Philadelphia, PA $10.00

"The Goddamn Gallows began on a cold, dark and violent night in Lansing, Michigan, when 3 kids met in a face-scarring fight with Benton Harbor gangbangers at a notorious East Lansing flophouse. They then migrated across the country, residing in LA squats and smoke stained apartments. They are currently ravaging the states with their unique sound of furious, twanged-out, punk rock gutterbilly. Watch for them on corners, clubs and city jails in your town."-THIS SHOW IS 21+

Mar 4, 2010 at 9:00 PM EST Parachute Musical with Mem at The M Room - Philadelphia, PA $8.00

"Some of the most entertaining, high energy piano based pop in the country. Pop craftsmanship at it's finest!"

Mar 6, 2010 at 9:00 PM EST Split Lip Rayfield at The M Room - Philadelphia, PA $10.00

"Bluegrass worthy of being blasted out of the windows of a Plymouth Barracuda with 451 Hemi engine. Metal and jazz like freakouts done acoustically. Arising out of the ashes of Scroat Belly, the Lip's live shows are the stuff of legend. Split Lip's playing is fast, manic, insanely complex and utterly unique. They happily and improbably took the spirit and musical inventiveness of the Stanley Brothers, John Zorn, hell, even Rush, and came up with something definitively SPLIT LIP RAYFIELD. There will never be another band or sound like them. There couldn't be." THIS SHOW IS 21+

Mar 14, 2010 at 8:00 PM EDT The Fuzz Orchestra at The M Room - Philadelphia, PA $8.00

Mar 18, 2010 at 9:00 PM EDT The Bellmer Dolls with Monozid / Bootblacks at The M Room - Philadelphia, PA $8.00

Mar 28, 2010 at 8:00 PM EDT Killola with Sick of Sarah at The M Room - Philadelphia, PA $8.00

?Teaching quirky ?80s new wave pop hooks how to stomp glitter-rock-style, I Am The Messer just might pack as many eccentric but indelible melodic and rhythmic twists into its 10 songs as any rock record this year? ? Chuck Eddy, Village Voice THIS SHOW IS 21+

Apr 19, 2010 at 8:00 PM EDT Lair of The Minotaur at The M Room - Philadelphia, PA $8.00

"Five winters have passed in the Lair of the Minotaur. Mountainous riffs, pounding. Emerging from the caustic burrows of vast caves by the great lake in the mid-western plains. Choosing a path of crushing annihilation, under the sign of the Southern Lord. Ancient war cries spit forth with a sharp tongue. Heralding CARNAGE, and then triumphantly THE ULTIMATE DESTROYER. Now murder reigns..."