Dave's music is a braid of different American music's blues, country, rock'n'roll, pop, folk and R&B and in each strand, he favors the California accent. His favorite blues, for example, is the West Coast scene that coalesced around Big Joe Turner and T-Bone Walker after World War II. Dave's favorite country music is the Bakersfield Sound of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. His favorite R&B is the South Central L.A. scene of Jesse Belvin, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Richard Berry and the Calvanes. His favorite folk songwriters are the California heirs of Woody Guthrie's years there's Kate Wolf, Jim Ringer, Mary McCaslin, Rosalie Sorrels and Tom Russell. His favorite pop-rock songwriters are the chroniclers of California's collision of sun-tanned hopes and film-noir disappointments' Randy Newman, Tom Waits, Brian Wilson and Stan Ridgway.

Artist's website / Video


Also Performing: Eilen Jewell

"I'm already bracing myself," Eilen Jewell reasons, matter-of-factly, "for a little controversy."

Boise-born and Boston-based, Jewell has quickly distinguished herself as one of the rising stars of a new generation of roots musicians. Her first two albums, Boundary County (self-released, 2006) and Letters from Sinners and Strangers (Signature Sounds, 2007) were astonishingly assured efforts, which matched Jewell's understated yet insightful songs with a rugged blend of Americana styles. They were met with a great deal of acclaim, with No Depression raving that "Jewell is showing she can wander with the best of them, and write riveting songstories about her adventures along the way."

Artist's website


Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 | Doors 6pm | Show 7:30pm | Downstairs Live

Advance Tickets:
Reserved Seating on Floor: $25 ($20 ticket + $5 processing fee)
Standing Room on Floor/Loge: $25 ($20 ticket + $5 processing fee)
Reserved Seating on Mezzanine: $35 ($20 + $15 premium service*/processing fee)

Day of Show Tickets:
Reserved Seating on Floor: $30 ($25 ticket + $5 processing fee)
Standing Room on Floor/Loge: $30 ($25 ticket + $5 processing fee)
Reserved Seating on Mezzanine: $40 ($25 + $15 premium service*/processing fee)
*priority seating and VIP amenities/service



Please note:
In addition to the ticket price, there is a $10 per person food and beverage minimum for all reserved seating at this show. There is no minimum for Standing Room tickets. Full dinner service is available. For further information, please visit our FAQ page.

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Pop is cooler than it has ever been. No revelations there. Somewhat ironic perhaps though that the jewel in this new crown of credibility gut-laughs in the face of any notion of 'cool'. Marina (and The Diamonds) Diamandis is living, breathing, belting, vogue-ing proof of the unfathomable possibilities contained within organic pop in 2010. "I really couldn't give a damn whether pop's in fashion this week or not, I'd be writing the same music, regardless" she scoffs.

She's the complete songwriter/performer: 50% Greek, 50% Welsh and 100% frolicking fairytale creature. A girl with virtually no musical schooling, for whom heart scorching choruses miraculously seem to appear at the tips of her fingers with each preposterous limb fling. A voice that both lures sailors to shores and wards ships from rocks.


Artist's website | Artist Videos




Also Performing:




Friday, September 3, 2010 | Doors 7pm | Show 8pm | Downstairs Live

Advance Tickets:
Floor (Standing Room): $18 ($14 ticket + $4 processing fee)
Loge (Reserved Seating): $18 ($14 ticket + $4 processing fee)
Mezzanine (Reserved Seating): $23 ($14 + $9 premium service*/processing fee)

Day of Show Tickets:
Floor (Standing Room): $21 ($17 ticket + $4 processing fee)
Loge (Reserved Seating):$21 ($17 ticket + $4 processing fee)
Mezzanine (Reserved Seating): $26 ($17 + $9 premium service*/processing fee)
*priority seating and VIP amenities/service


Please note:
In addition to the ticket price, there is a $10 per person food and beverage minimum for all reserved seating at this show. There is no minimum for Standing Room tickets. Dinner service is available for all seated ticketholders. For further information, please visit our FAQ page.

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Processing fee is only $2 per ticket when you purchase with CASH at our box office BEFORE day of show!
XPN Members: Use your member number to purchase up to two discounted tickets by phone or at our box office (not available online).

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Almost alone among bands of the last two decades, Tortoise is a group that resists easy metaphors and analogies, who can be described as sounding like only themselves and no one else. Twenty years after its founding, the band's signature and singularly inimitable sound—a fluid intersection of dub, dance, jazz, techno, rock, and classical minimalism, with no part overwhelming or dominating the whole—remains an American and international original. Even more unusually, they seem to have arrived at their sound with almost no apprenticeship to speak of; to judge from their early singles and albums alone, they seem to have come into being with their musical identity and DNA fully formed, like Athena from the forehead of Zeus. Further, while the group has spawned countless imitators, heirs, and followers—sincere, flattering, and otherwise—Tortoise remains unique in the world of contemporary music for their boundless intellectual curiosity, their unmistakable compositional voice, and their synthesis of seemingly contradictory sound worlds far from their doorstep.

Artist's website | Video sample

Also Performing:
Greg Davis
Ben Vida
Grimace Federation


Wednesday, September 8, 2010 | Doors 7pm | Show 8pm | Downstairs Live

Advance Tickets:
Floor/Loge (Standing Room): $22 ($18 ticket + $4 processing fee)
Mezzanine (Reserved Seating): $32 ($18 + $14 premium service*/processing fee)

Day of Show Tickets:
Floor/Loge (Standing Room): $25 ($21 ticket + $4 processing fee)
Mezzanine (Reserved Seating): $35 ($21 + $14 premium service*/processing fee)
*priority seating and VIP amenities/service


Please note: Except for those seated on the Mezzanine, dinner service will not be available Downstairs during this show, although our bar will be open. You are welcome to join us for dinner beforehand in the Upstairs cafe, or order from a limited concession menu at the Upstairs bar to bring Downstairs with you.


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Experience the joy and excitement of the PhillyBloco Dance Party!

PhillyBloco's 20+ members perform a raucous mash-up of Samba, Funk, Reggae and more, all set to the infectious drumming of Brazilian Carnaval.

Earth Shaking Rhythms. Boundless Energy. Serious Fun.

PhillyBloco...Get ready to Dance!


Artist's website | Video sample



Friday, January 21, 2011 | Doors 8pm | Show 9pm | Downstairs Live

Tickets:
Floor/Loge (Standing Room): $15 ($12 ticket + $3 processing fee)
Mezzanine (Reserved Seating): $20 ($12 + $8 premium service*/processing fee)*priority seating and VIP amenities/service



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