Also this issue:

Nashville's Back Lot
The Folk Alliance Showcase reveals the gears of the music-licensing machine.
-Mary Armstrong

Keep Moving
The Secession Movement is a band with a plan.
-Paul Burress

Old Gods Alive Again
The Choral Arts Society exhumes our musical lineage.
-Peter Burwasser

Aereogramme
-John Vettese

The Aislers Set
-Sam Adams

Lo-Hi
-M.J. Fine

TV Smith
-Sam Adams

Mary Timony
-M.J. Fine

March 27-April 2, 2003

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Dysrhythmia

In the time between Olympic games, Philadelphia trio Dysrhythmia has shown more potential than most at beating the rap of being a "scene band." They're just a bunch of musical nomads, wandering from style to style not really aligned with any one camp. Still, like a good mixtape, they foster a looseness in their lack of allegiance that makes their genre transitions seem seamless, harmonious, surgically precise. Few bands think of making the jump from King Crimson to Henry Cow to Wire or Dillinger Escape Plan (even fewer are bold enough to try it). Their Steve Albini-recorded Pretest won't be out until May, but their website has some mp3s (and an amusing tour diary) to hold us over.

Sun., March 30, 7:30 p.m., $8, all ages, with Burnt By The Sun, Hot Cross and Lick Golden Sky, First Unitarian Church, 22nd and Chestnut sts., 215-563-3980.

—Paul Burress