The El Bar and venue is located under the Light Rail less than a mile from my house. It’s considered a local “Dive” spot. The El shows music almost overnight.

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On April 11th, they featured a Four Local Philadelphia bands, Harsh Vibes, Ttotals, Natural Velvet, and Dulls.

 

 

 

This is the first band that played, Harsh Vibes.

I was unable to talk to any of the members of Harsh Vibes, and I have been unable to find much information about the band. However, I enjoyed their music. They were a mix between Shoe Gaze, Psycadelic, and Indie Rock.

The second band, Ttotals, are a national contempory blues/rock band from Nashville, Tennessee.

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They are signed to Twin Lakes records. Here is what Twin Lakes records had to say about the Ttotals sound…

“Nashville’s outer blues duo Ttotals are back, creating dark, brooding twisters of sound, downing power lines with leagues-deep drums and haunting vocals, scorched-earth guitars, and flashes of sampled electronics…a careening vortex performing a muddy dance stomp along the Mississippi Delta as it flings the blues up to the heavens. ”

Here is an example of their music:

The third band called themselves, “Natural Velvet.” They are from Baltimore Maryland

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They sounded like a punk rock band that decided to play indie music instead. According to their Bandcamp site, they identify with a “Dazed Post Punk band.
During their perfomance, a lot of people left the stage area to use the restroom, buy a beer or smoke outside. Their crowd response wasn’t that great. Although they didn’t appeal to the Fishtown crowd, they played a song titled “Salome.” The following is a DIY video with the comment underneath,””Salome” video from the EP “Salome With The Head of John The Baptist” by Natural Velvet.” It became apparent that they were influenced by music of the second Vienese School. Here is the Video:

The last band to play were called “Dulls.” I have researched high and low for information about this band and I can’t find a single thing about them. They were a really intense punk rock band that received the biggest crowd response. Not a single person stood at the bar. Everyone was on the main floor moshing, jumping on and off the stage, and dancing. I wish that I could find something about the band because I enjoyed their performance.