1. The Hold Steady, Friday at the TLA with Sonic Youth. The Brooklyn bar band extraordinaire play from a New York rooftop in this Pitchfork TV clip.
2. Del McCoury Band, Friday at the Salem County Fairgrounds at the Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival. Read Steve Klinge's interview with McCoury here. And here's the high and lonesome singer and bandleaders's take on Richard Thompson's "1952 Vincent Black Lightning."
3. Brad Paisley, "Online." The country guitar slinger whose mostly instrumental album Play is due in November headlines at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden on Saturday, with star-dancing Julianne Hough and Jewel also on the bill.
4. Does It Offend You, Yeah?, "Let's Make Out." British electro foursome open up for Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails at the Wachovia Center on Saturday.
5. Black Landlord, "Do The Hack Tao Right Now." Soul-rap revue fronted by ringleader Maxx Stoyanoff-Williams, formerly of The Goats and Incognegro. At the Unofficial Fringe Cabaret party at the New Alhambra on Ritner Street in South Philadelphia on Saturday with the Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret and Peek-A-Boo Revue, and in Rittenhouse Square on Wednesday night. Both shows are free.
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