Tonight a deal you can't beat, 5 amazing Philadelphia and New York bands at the Tritone in Philly, a club the size of a shoe box, and all for 5 bucks. Any one of these bands could headline a much bigger venue and pack it. It's going to be a hot time in Philly tonight.

1: Papertrigger - We Are Nations Now !
Buy Riot Lovers EP [WEBSITE] [MYSPACE]
2: A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Best Summer Ever
Buy Tout New Age [WEBSITE] [MYSPACE]
3: Sam Champion Band - Like A Secret
Buy Slow Rewind [WEBSITE] [MYSPACE]
4:The Jealous Girlfriends - Something In The Water
Buy The Jealous Girlfriends [WEBSITE] [MYSPACE]
5: The Swimmers - Pocketful of Gold
Get Fighting Trees [WEBSITE] [MYSPACE]

[PHOTO CREDIT]

Sorry folks not the kind of leaks your thinking of, but the ones in my basement that require pieces of copper pipe and soldering. The ones that also ate up the portion of my day when I'd usually be preparing 5 on A Friday for you, so unfortunately it will be MIA today.

With the Fourth Of July, Independence Day Holiday upon us shortly, today for 5 on A Friday we put a Bag Of Songs spin on freedom and being free. Something we here in the USA often take for granted, but around the world people are still dying everyday in their struggle to achieve it.

1: Elliott Smith - A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free
Buy From A Basement On The Hill
2: Bright Eyes - Stray Dog Freedom
Buy Four Winds EP
3: Cream - I Feel Free
Buy Gold
4: Son Volt - Live Free
Buy Trace
5: Black Mountain - Stay Free
Buy Spiderman 3 Soundtrack

Today for 5 On A Friday In honor of the fact that I'm seeing him at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia this afternoon and since the Easy Tiger hasn't arrived yet, I thought I'd bring you some hard to find Ryan Adams B-sides to get your Ryan Adams fix for today.
1: Ah, Life
from So Alive single
2: One By One
from Wonderwall single
3: Don't Even Know Her Name
from So Alive single
4: Closer When She Goes
from This Is It single
5: I Wanna Go Home
from Wonderwall single

[RYAN ADAMS WEBSITE]

UPDATE : All Mp3 links now fixed. Setlist and Streaming audio of this afternoon's show added

Ryan Adams And The Cardinals
WXPN Free At Noon
World Cafe Live , Philadelphia, PA

Two
I Taught Myself How to Grow Old
My Winding Wheel
I See Monsters
Goodnight Hollywood Blvd.
Oh My God, Whatever, Etc.
Nightbirds
Let It Ride
Blue Hotel

Songs played off air
Carolina Rain
Dear John

Stream it on the NPR archive here

Photo Credit

Last night I went to see Philadelphia band The Peace Creeps and near the end of their set they played a blistering version of The Jackson 5 classic, I Want You Back. It inspired me to bring you batch of Motown's finest to get your weekend started in style. If these don't get you up and dancing nothing will. Go on, shake it like a Polaroid picture. Rock and roll.

1: Stevie Wonder - Fingertips Pt. 2

2: The Contours - Do You Love Me

3: The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back

4: The Temptations - Cloud Nine

5: Edwin Starr - Twenty Five Miles

Buy Hitsville USA : The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971

Memorial Day, it's the first big holiday weekend of the summer in the US. Perfect time for a party

1: Chris Isaak - Let's Have A Party
Buy Best Of
2: Sam Cooke - Having A Party
Buy Greatest Hits
3: Cody Chesnutt - The World Is Coming To My Party
Buy The Headphone Masterpiece
4: Pink - Get The Party Started
Buy Missundaztood
5: Kings Of Leon - My Party
Buy Because Of The Times

There are some things you can't cover up
With lipstick and powder
Thought I heard you mention my name
Can't you talk any louder

Don't come any closer, don't come any nearer
My vision of you can't
come any clearer
Oh, I just want to hear girls talk ...

Girls Talk- (e. costello)

1: Blue Mountain - Mountain Girl
Buy Dog Days
2: Olu Dara - Harlem Country Girl
Buy In The World From Natchez To New York
3: The Byrds - Truck Stop Girl
Buy Untitled
4: Cracker - Euro Trash Girl
Buy Kerosene Hat
5: Kings Of Leon - Taper Jean Girl
Buy Aha Shake Heartbreak

1: Sly And The Family Stone - Fun
Buy The Essential Sly And The Family Stone
2: Spare Tire Band - Just Have Fun
Buy Hell Drivers
3: The Beach Boys - Fun, Fun, Fun
Buy Sounds Of Summer - The Very Best Of The Beach Boys
4: Dead Kennedys - Funland At The Beach
Buy Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
5: The Stooges - Idea Of Fun
Buy The Weirdness

This week for 5 On A Friday, a a taste of what was "hot" this week.
(sorry no direct MP3 links today, all will direct you to another page where you can hear the song)

1:Sure, Amercian Idol wasted a lot of powerful technology to bring you Celene Dion singing with a virtual Elvis, but this was the one AI moment you truly needed to see.


2: Covering LCD Soundsystem's song All My Friends was one of the in things to do. Here are versions by by Franz Ferdinand and John Cale.

MP3: Franz Ferdinand - All My Friends (via Kwaya Na Kisser)
MP3: John Cale - All My Friends (via Let's Sexy Fighting)


3: Icky Thump. For me Jack White's been long past overkill, but he's still back with more. Here's the first single for the new White Stripes disc of the same name.

MP3: The White Stripes - Icky Thump (via Your Head's Not Right)

4: iTunes UK springs a leak allowing an early return of Bjork from the planet Iceland with more of her trademark soundscaping.

MP3 : Bjork - Earth Intruders (via Who Killed The Mixtape)

5: A baby spoonful of information about the new Spoon disc. The cover art for Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga.

Once again it's Friday the thirteenth. Thirteen historically being a number full of mystery and superstition, today for 5 on A Friday we'll take a look at some of the songs holding down the lucky?/unlucky? thirteenth spot on their respective albums. So cross your fingers, close your eyes, and turn it up.

13.1: Wilco - Too Far Apart
Buy AM
13.2: Modest Mouse - Dashboard
Buy We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
13.3: Southern Culture On The Skids - Fight Fire
Buy Countrypolitan Favorites
13.4: The White Stripes - Girl You Have No Faith In Medicine
Buy Elephant
13.5: Bright Eyes - Lime Tree
Buy Cassadaga

Spring has sprung, but here in the east wintertime is getting in one more slap as Easter weekend rolls in. Here's five today related to the mascot of the holiday for you to do the bunny hop to. Hoppity hop hop hop.

Today's 5 on a Friday is a handful of new releases with titles "loosely" based on the phone company/DSL connection issues I've been having this week. Man oh man, can anyone else remember what you did before the internet explosion. It was a long week to say the least.
1: Son Volt - Slow Hearse
Buy The Search
2: Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - The World Stops Turning
Buy Living With The Living
3: Sister Vanilla - Down
Buy Little Pop Rock
4: Limbeck - Big Drag
Buy Limbeck
5: Wilco - Impossible Germany
Buy Sky Blue Sky

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness. - Sidney Poitier

Sometimes you just have to throw it all to the wind and let the randomness of life take over.
Today's artwork is from http://www.random-art.org/
Today's five songs are randomly chosen from IODA Promonet's newest releases.

1:Download "Our Haunt" (mp3)
from "All Things, Forests"
by Palomar
Misra

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
• Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody

More On This Album

2:Download "Like I Give A Care" (mp3)
from "Lose All Time"
by You Say Party! We Say Die!
Paper Bag Records

More On This Album

3:Download "Not Stick Together" (mp3)
from "One Mississippi"
by One Mississippi
High Wire Music

• Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
• Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody

More On This Album

4:Download "Pink Muff Dance Party Vampire Resolve" (mp3)
from "Mr. Spookhouse's Pink House"
by The Dead Bodies
Quite Scientific Records

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
• Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody

More On This Album

5:Download "Overdrive" (mp3)
from "Live to Win"
by The Turbo A.C.'s
Acetate Records

More On This Album

Getting all green on you today in honor of the impending Saint Patrick's Day holiday tomorrow.
And remember as you celebrate tomorrow that real beer is definitely not green, go with the Guinness.

1: The Smithereens - Green Thoughts
from Green Thoughts
2: REM- Green Grow The Rushes
from Fables Of The Reconstruction
3: Elvis Costello - Green Shirt(acoustic)
from Armed Forces
4: The Kinks - Village Green
from The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
5: Hüsker Dü - Green Eyes
from Flip Your Wig

Ahh the approach of springtime, one of the best times of the year for beer. And like a great song, a great beer sings to your senses. Today's 5 on A Friday features five fine double bocks or dopplebocks as the Bavarians call it for your imbibing enjoyment.

A short history of Dopplebocks courtesy of John Haggerty Brewmaster at New Holland Brewing Co.:

Brewing for many centuries was the domain of monastic orders located throughout
the European continent. Much of this commercial endeavor was pursued in order to
help provide jobs and income to local citizens as well as a means to help raise
funds in order to help various charities that the church supported.

Since the monasteries' members were not only monks but also brewers they
produced beer that, on occasion, served their specific needs. This is the case
with Dopplebock. Dopplebock beer originated as a means for the monks to provide
themselves with nourishment during the Lenten season when their vows forbid them
from taking solid food. The high residual sugar content gave the beer a
nourishing aspect not found in many other types of beer. It is also responsible
for the sweeter flavor profile of this particular style of beer.

The
name Dopplebock is derived from German meaning "double goat." The word dopple
literally translates as double, while the word bock translates as goat.
Although, Dopplebocks are not actually twice as strong as regular bock beers the
word dopple is applied to signify the fact that they are stronger in alcohol
content. The use of the word bock is a bit more obscure. Some claim that it can
be traced back to a regional dialect when saying the name of the town of Einbeck
– beck sounded like bock and Einbeck was a center for the manufacture of
stronger beers at the time. Some people claim that it simply signifies that the
beer has an alcoholic kick similar to that of a billy goat. Regardless, in the
world of beer Dopplebock is one of the long standing styles that has found its
way from the old world to the new.

Dopplebocks are always a darker beer
generally a deep red or brown color. Typically they contain 7 – 7.5% alcohol by
volume but can be as strong as 12%. They are typified by a sweet, nutty flavor.
Bready aromas and flavors are not uncommon as well as those of some darker malts
such as chocolate or black malt. However, the most common malt flavors are
derived from various caramel and Munich malts.

1: Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock
[WEBSITE]

2: Samuel Adams Double Bock
[WEBSITE]

3:Paulaner Salvator Doppelbock
[WEBSITE]

4: New Holland Blue Goat Dopplebock
[WEBSITE] [MYSPACE]

5: Spaten Optimator Doppelbock
[WEBSITE]

For more information on Dopplebocks and other beers I highly recommend BeerAdvocate.com

Posting a little later than ususal today due to a hectic work week. Today's 5 On A Friday is from the 5 great bands I saw live this week. Four from the first night of The Swimmers month long Wednesday Night Residency at The Khyber in Philadelphia and one from the legendary Jonathan Richman who played Philly's best new club Johnny Brenda's last night. I highly recommend seeing any of these bands when they play near you. Check out the links to their websites/myspaces pages for tour dates and such.
My apologies to the Canon Logic, I didn't get to take any photos of them.

1: Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers - I'm Straight
[WEBSITE]
2: The Swimmers - St Cecelia
[WEBSITE] [MYSPACE]
3: Illumina - You Used To Have Mileage
[WEBSITE] [MYSPACE]
4: The Jealous Girlfriends - Something In The Water
[WEBSITE] [MYSPACE]
5: The Canon Logic - Delia
[WEBSITE] [MYSPACE]

Happy Groundhog Day ! Hey it's February 2nd that famous day of the year where depending on whether or not the groundhog sees his shadow we'll either have six more weeks of winter or spring will be here in about a month and a half.


1: Joni Mitchell - Shadows And Light
From : The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

2: Oasis - Cast No Shadow
From : (What's The Story) Morning Glory?

3: Rufus Wainwright - Shadows
From : Poses

4: Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli - Chasing Shadows
From : Django Reinhardt -The Gold Collection

5: The Four Tops - Standing In The Shadows Of Love
From : Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971

via National Geographic:
Flaring the gills that give the species its name, a frilled shark swims at Japan's Awashima Marine Park on Sunday, January 21, 2007. Sightings of living frilled sharks are rare, because the fish generally remain thousands of feet beneath the water's surface.

Spotted by a fisher on January 21, this 5.3-foot (160-centimeter) shark was transferred to the marine park, where it was placed in a seawater pool.

"We think it may have come to the surface because it was sick, or else it was weakened because it was in shallow waters," a park official told the Reuters news service. But the truth may never be known, since the "living fossil" died hours after it was caught.

—Ted Chamberlain


I guess you just never know what you'll find in the ocean.


1: The Velvet Underground- Ocean
2: The Format - Oceans
3: Pearl Jam - Oceans
4: Toad The Wet Sprocket - Walk on the Ocean
5: Arcade Fire - Ocean of Noise