DJ Spooky

Anyone what reads Icepack knows I've loved the twangy funky country-fried Unlikely Cowboy and its belting angel-from-Montgomery Alison Wadsworth. You heard it there first. And you'll hear her and Cowboy leader Daniel Schwartz (Sept 1). Funny enough, I feel the same way about the unlikely ones as I did (and do) the post-Airto swirl of Bebek's goth-jazz-rock (Sept. 5). Moody modal singer Lynn Michalopoulos just gets more evocative with time. And soul rolling Carole Riddick is no slouch when it comes to knocking the wind out of you (Sept. 8). But what's with all the broads? Where's my dogs at?

There's humble little-ole-folky-flowery-songwriter's-pop-rocker Josh Olmstead's band (Sept. 12). There's a good dog. And OK. Look. Brooklyn's crooner/beatboxer Taylor McFerrin is already a star. And not because of his heritage. His dry, icy, ambi-hip-hop-jazz — the stuff that he laid down with Cell Theory at Aqua Lounge — ruled. So his solo thing will kill (Sept. 15). I expect the drama behind the haunting Pattern Is Movement and the debut of its Canonic CD will be wilier than Nate Wiley (Sept. 6). I suppose I can't say more about Nikki Jean and Dice Raw's Cure-meets-A Tribe Called Quest vibe for Nouveau Riche (Sept. 7) than to write a cover story on their holy pairing before they put a record out. But am I gonna have to do the same for hip-hop chanteuse Ethel Cee's Neptunes-y acid-folk house hop? (Sept. 7) Am I? And what about some old heads? The Middi-East metal of Animus and the horror-tech pairing of spinners DJ Spooky and King Britt (Sept. 16): They'd old. But it's nicely scary. So's skronkity honking axo-mo-phonist Elliot Levin's Ensemble UB313 that night. But while nothing's more elder (and frighteningly wonderful!) than catching a screening of End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones followed by Marley-inspired hardcore honey Malene Younglao and the Anticon-worthy surf hop of West Philly's K-Mass, there'll be zip that's as thrashing, throbbing and punk-rocking as the hard, fast, furious improvisation of Philly's finest actors/movement artists/whatnot Tony Lawton, Scott Greer and Lee Etzold taking on Don Montrey's Die Actor Die (Sept. 13). Speaking of which: Anyone too worried about driving, parking and dying in NoLibs? Philly CarShare offers rides 'tween Old City and the cabaret. Now, there's no excuse.