Philly's Mercury Girls made a year-end mix (listen), playing NYC shows this weekend w/ Expert Alterations, EZTV & more

photo: Mercury Girls @ Pianos, CMJ 2015 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

Philadelphia’s Mercury Girls won the battle over use of their name (Toronto’s Mercury Girls are now called Pavilion). With that settled, look for a 7″ out early next year on venerable indiepop label Slumberland. In the meantime Mercury Girls have some shows coming up, including two NYC shows this weekend with Expert Alterations: Friday (12/18) at Alphaville that’s also with Gingerlys, Big Quiet, and DJ Kip Berman (Pains of Being Pure at Heart); and Saturday (12/19) at Cake Shop that’s also with EZTV and DJ Drew Citron (Beverly). Advance tickets are available for the Cake Shop show. On Sunday (12/20), Mercury Girls and Expert Alterations will play live on WFMU starting at 7 PM. All dates are listed below.

Both Expert Alterations and EZTV are featured on a year-end mix put together by Mercury Girls’ guitarist Kevin Attics that has all his favorite songs of 2015. You may remember he did one last year too. Says Kevin:

The sun is setting on 2015 and, again, we’re left to pick up the pieces and make sense of the last twelve months. This year saw a break-out of bands inspired by jagged, dance-y post-punk (WALL, Shopping, SNEAKS), a wave of indiepop with something to say (Spook School, Makthaverskan, Flowers), burgeoning new talent building steam (Wildhoney, Expert Alterations, EZTV, Wallflower)… oh, also Hurry managed to put out a pretty good track.

Stream it and check out the tracklist below…

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Tracklist
The Spook School – “Burn Masculinity”
Wildhoney – “Hurts to Hear”
Real Numbers – “Frank Infatuation”
Dripping Wet – “Everything Dies”
Free Cake For Every Creature – “The Day to Day”
Expert Alterations – “Dear Thomas”
Eternal Summers – “Gold and Stone”
Hurry – “Shake It Off”
Pale Lights – “Another Broken Heart”
SNEAKS – “X.T.Y.”
WALL – “Cuban Cigars”
EZTV – “Bury Your Heart”
A Sunny Day in Glasgow – “Hey, You’re Mine”
Future Punx – “Post-Wave”
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – “Ballad of the Band”
The Hairs – “BEEF”
Cold Beat – “Broken Lines”
Makthaverskan – “Witness”
Martha – “Chekhov’s Hangnail”
Romantic States – “Museum”
Big Quiet – “Maura & Dana”
Post Pink – “Crampy”
Shopping – “Straight Lines”
Dear Tracks – “Connectivity (Demo)”
Knife Pleats – “Terrible”
The Pretty Greens “First Time”
Diet Cig – “Scene Sick”
The City & I – “Geordie”
Escape-ism – “If I Had a Hammer”
Home Blitz – “Seven Thirty”
PILL – “T.V. Wedding”
Myrrias – “All Alone”
Roman a Clef – “PSBTV”
Wallflower – “You’ll Be”
Polio Club – “Ubiquity”
Flowers – “Ego Loss”

Mercury Girls – 2015 Tour Dates
12/18 – NYC – Alphaville (w/Expert Alterations, Gingerlys, Big Quiet, DJ Kip Berman of Pains of Being Pure at Heart)
12/19 – NYC – Cake Shop (w/EZTV, Expert Alterations, DJ Drew Citron of Beverly)
12/20 – Live on WFMU (w/Expert Alterations)
12/31 – Philadelphia – Johnny Brenda’s (w/A Sunny Day in Glasgow, DJ Jeff Zeigler)