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Fruit Bats
Sun., March 21, 9 p.m., $12, with Blue Giant, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.
by Brian Howard
James Mercer may be off doing his electro-pop thing with Broken Bells, but that doesn't mean you need to go without oblique, brainy, navel-gazing guitar pop.

Suite Spot:
The House Rules
The Academy of Vocal Arts will congratulate itself with — what else? — a whole lot of singing.
by Peter Burwasser
The Academy of Vocal Arts' hall on Spruce Street, Helen Corning Warden Theater, is a most unlikely opera venue, but it is also a wonderful one. AVA will congratulate itself next Wednesday night with, what else, a whole lot of singing.

One Track Mind:
Joanna Newsom
"On a Good Day"
by K. Ross Hoffman
In four brief stanzas, sharing a single, unspeakably sweet melody, Newsom nimbly but lucidly sketches the emotional arc of her whole two-hour opus.

Music Picks:
Air
Thu., March 18, 8 p.m., $40, with AM and DJ Justin Paul, Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 610-784-5400, livenation.com.
by K. Ross Hoffman
Air first struck library-lounge gold more than a decade ago, and they're still digging that same vein they mined to uncanny perfection.

MUSIC . Blog Posts
by Tom Tiballi
2 days ago
“Can I lick it?” Outside of the Electric Factory, Philadelphia, 11:30 p.m. Air's Jean-Benoît Dunckel hands a borrowed pen back to my friend »»
by Molly Eichel
2 days ago
So, you're psyched about the new Runaways biopic, yeah? You listened to the teenage punkers play "Cherry Bomb," you're gearing up for their new biopic »»
by Patrick Rapa
2 days ago
Where Wednesday was a wandering zombie-crawl of unrelated acts, Thursday was a semi-methodical trudge up and down Sixth Street from one themed »»
by Molly Eichel
2 days ago
I feel bad for you if you didn’t go to see Janelle Monáe last night. Watching the pompadoured Goddess of Weird was a rare moment to see an »»
by Molly Eichel
2 days ago
Dakota Fanning is one of the most poised teenagers I've ever talked to -- either insanely mature for a 16-year-old or well-coached in the »»

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Thu., March 18, 8 p.m., $40, with AM and DJ Justin Paul, Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 610-784-5400, livenation.com.
by K. Ross Hoffman
Air first struck library-lounge gold more than a decade ago, and they're still digging that same vein they mined to uncanny perfection.
Sun., March 21, 9 p.m., $12, with Blue Giant, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.
by Brian Howard
James Mercer may be off doing his electro-pop thing with Broken Bells, but that doesn't mean you need to go without oblique, brainy, navel-gazing guitar pop.

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