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Is Love Pop or Not?
by K. Ross Hoffman
I started working on writing songs last summer, here in New York, in the middle of the hottest month. I was in a pretty bad state emotionally, right in the middle of a breakup. The initial idea around the album came about in New York, but the good parts, the inspirational parts, happened later, when I was living in Paris — both cities were really important to the album.

Music Picks:
Moscow Quartet
Sun., Nov. 8, 3 p.m., $23, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-569-8080, pcmsconcerts.org.
by Peter Burwasser
That beautiful school is exemplified by the Moscow Quartet, who will present a wonderful program of Haydn, Beethoven and (late) compatriot Shostakovich in one of their regular visits to our fair city.

Raekwon
Tue., Nov. 10, 8 p.m., $15 ($20 with CD), all ages, with Sean Price, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.
by Tisha Kline
Raekwon's gritty, obscene rhyming style tips its hat to modern New York street rap while still appealing to the old heads.

Steven Bernstein's Mto
Fri., Nov. 6, 8 p.m., $12, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, arsnovaworkshop.com.
by Shaun Brady
The leader of the wise-ass avant-pop-jazz quartet Sex Mob, Bernstein has a deep knowledge and sly versatility that manifest in his own band playing swing with a punk sneer, or covering the Beatles a la Nawlins or deconstructing gypsy jazz, all in the course of a single set.

Celebration
Thu., Nov. 5, 8 p.m., $10, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 866-468-7619, kungfunecktie.com.
by Michael Pelusi
Experienced live, their mix of spooky Goth organs, hippie drum circles and Katrina Ford's eerily compelling vocals is both hypnotic and blissful.

Lenka
Wed., Nov. 11, 8 p.m., $12, with Colin Smith, M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., 215-739-5577, themanhattanroom.com.
by K. Ross Hoffman
A self-described "smile delivery service," in the past year she's won over toddlers, teenagers and thirtysomethings, adoring Asians, enthusiastic Germans, rowdy Utahns and impassive New Yorkers.

Kadri Gopalnath
Sat., Nov. 7, 7 p.m., $22, Mitchell Auditorium, Drexel University, 3128 Market St., 215-310-1783, sruti.org.
by Shaun Brady
The image is somewhat incongruous: a saxophonist, sitting cross-legged in colorful robes, accompanied by a violinist and mridangam player.

The Philadelphia Orchestra
Fri., Nov. 6, 2 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 7, 8 p.m.; and Sun., Nov. 8, 2 p.m.; $10-$113, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-8931999, philorch.org.
by Peter Burwasser
It is a bit curious that an instrument as expressive as the cello has not been accorded more concerto treatment, recent times have been more favorable for the cello, and in any case, there is one indisputable masterpiece in the format.

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Thu., Nov. 5, 8 p.m., $10, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 866-468-7619, kungfunecktie.com.
by Michael Pelusi
Experienced live, their mix of spooky Goth organs, hippie drum circles and Katrina Ford's eerily compelling vocals is both hypnotic and blissful.
Sat., Nov. 7, 7 p.m., $22, Mitchell Auditorium, Drexel University, 3128 Market St., 215-310-1783, sruti.org.
by Shaun Brady
The image is somewhat incongruous: a saxophonist, sitting cross-legged in colorful robes, accompanied by a violinist and mridangam player.
Wed., Nov. 11, 8 p.m., $12, with Colin Smith, M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., 215-739-5577, themanhattanroom.com.
by K. Ross Hoffman
A self-described "smile delivery service," in the past year she's won over toddlers, teenagers and thirtysomethings, adoring Asians, enthusiastic Germans, rowdy Utahns and impassive New Yorkers.
Sun., Nov. 8, 3 p.m., $23, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-569-8080, pcmsconcerts.org.
by Peter Burwasser
That beautiful school is exemplified by the Moscow Quartet, who will present a wonderful program of Haydn, Beethoven and (late) compatriot Shostakovich in one of their regular visits to our fair city.
Tue., Nov. 10, 8 p.m., $15 ($20 with CD), all ages, with Sean Price, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.
by Tisha Kline
Raekwon's gritty, obscene rhyming style tips its hat to modern New York street rap while still appealing to the old heads.
Fri., Nov. 6, 8 p.m., $12, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, arsnovaworkshop.com.
by Shaun Brady
The leader of the wise-ass avant-pop-jazz quartet Sex Mob, Bernstein has a deep knowledge and sly versatility that manifest in his own band playing swing with a punk sneer, or covering the Beatles a la Nawlins or deconstructing gypsy jazz, all in the course of a single set.
Fri., Nov. 6, 2 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 7, 8 p.m.; and Sun., Nov. 8, 2 p.m.; $10-$113, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-8931999, philorch.org.
by Peter Burwasser
It is a bit curious that an instrument as expressive as the cello has not been accorded more concerto treatment, recent times have been more favorable for the cello, and in any case, there is one indisputable masterpiece in the format.

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