The fireworks are finished and everyone’s dogs have come out of hiding, which means we now enter the dog days of summer. It seems like any place in town with enough space and electrical outlets for a band to set up and plug in is working a regular rotation of live music. You can’t throw a bone in Philly without hitting a talented performer. Here are some highlights from the coming week.

We double dog dare you to click here for a full list of all of this week’s shows.

Tuesday

The Lone Pine Cones, Red Wanting Blue, East Of Anything, Dayseam @ The Khyber – 8 pm, $8
*The people at the Khyber must be insane…only charging 8 bucks for four kickass bands. You’ll have enough money left over for Tequila shots.

Amnesia Star Hotel, Dani Mari, Store Cats, Edward Tufte @ North Star Bar – 8 pm, $7
*The freshest of Philly. No, seriously, show up and see if you don’t get your left cheek grabbed.

Wednesday

Diomira Keane & Point A to B @ Steel City Coffee House – 8 pm, $5
*Diomira Keane’s MySpace page describes the style of music as “Americana/Tropical/Ghettotech.” Please go and find out what that means. Report back.

Modern Apollo w/ One After Another & Paper Warehouse @ Milkboy Coffee – 8 pm, $5
*They’ll all be staying out past curfew to play for you, so show some love. Besides, who doesn’t enjoy an evening at Milkboy?

The Farewell Drifters @ Sellersville Theater – 8 pm, $22
*If you get to any show this week, we beg you to get to this one. We’re the smile police and we expect you to be sporting one by the last song.

Blanko Dave w/ Dave Karaban, Craving Strange & Street Greek @ Chaplin’s The Music Café – 8 pm $10
*There’s a lot of Dave for your money at this show. Go get your Dave on.

Friday

Jenny & Tyler, Rod Kim @ Kennett Flash – 8 pm $15
*We lied before…this is the show to get to this week. Honest. This time we’re totally for real.

Saturday

Funkslaw @ World Café Live – 7 pm, $18
*They’re called Funkslaw. We want to know how you could possibly not go.

Sheli Aarden @ Milkboy Acoustic – 7:30 pm
*Pretty Sheli, with her pretty voice and her pretty songs. This acoustic show will blow your amps.

Sunday

Gloominous Doom @ The Troc (Balcony) – 7 pm, $7
*Jammy and funky and all kinds of metal-ly, but really, we picked this one because of the name.

The Coal Men @ The Note – 8 pm, $10
*This is the perfect summer Sunday evening show. You may want to work on your fake cough for the Monday morning sick call.

Monday

Jaguar Wright @ Johnny Brenda’s – 9 pm, $15
*Hey, there’s one show on Monday…go to it. Decision made.

All Ages this week:

7/8 Tigers Jaw, The Sidekicks, Bearings @ The Fire – 6 pm, $6

7/8 Us, From Outside w/ Commends, At Daybreak, Fire In The Eyes Of The City, with Our Teeth @ The Trock (Balcony) – 7:30 pm, $10

7/9 Mike Pinto and Ballyhoo! @ World Café Life – 8 pm, $11

7/9 Red Letter Life w/ Zach Caruso Band, Zipperbeam, M8o8, Mapril & Near @ The Troc – 7 pm, $15