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What you're currently reading is the first installment of Dispatches from the Real World, the official newsletter of Club Real World. If you've come to one of our events or have been following our moves on the world wide web, thanks and hi! If you're new, welcome to the Real World, real one.
The last few months have been wild, and we've had the pleasure of hosting some Very Good Bands and Artists, including Vorhex Angel, Shande, Deadbeat Beat, and Chime School among others, with so much more to come.
Soon in the Real World
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9/22/26 - The Sleeves, William H. Travis, Past Nurture
A special night of guitars, voices, coffee and pizza at Lit Coffee in Bethlehem.
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10/7/26 - Club Real World DJs at Bonn Place
CRW Crew plays the hits.
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10/17/26 - Christina's Trip, Blue Year, I didn't water my orchids last week
Glorious noise pop from the West Coast plus some local indie rock at National Sokols in Bethlehem.
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10/22/26 - Jason Calhoun, Pigeon School, Molasses Hill
Ambient excursions over dinner. Venue TBD, free but donations encouraged!
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CRW Crew Recommends
Cory
Charlie
- Scott Churchman- 2011 & Distraction: Don’t sleep on Scott Churchman. It’s not against the law to craft evocative, original music. Some top tracks I suppose are All the You See, Cares For You, & Fade Away. All the same, these albums deserve complete listens.
- Palberta- Palberta5000: It’s not against the law to figure out how to package interesting music inside pop conventions like some kind of Interesting Music Trojan Horse. Or maybe my metrics are off? But to my ear, Palberta’s pulling off some very original harmonic/rhythmic/structural “compositional stuff” with a whole lotta sweet, sweet ear sugar. To me, this is the dream and a rare thing.
- Little Angry & The Sweets- Screamin’ Inside your Heart: It’s not against the dang law to work on evocative and perfect pop songs that also feature VERY FUCKING STRONG AND SINGULAR VOCALS. I’m not saying that everything needs constant refinement or that things aren’t perfect upon birth… I mean, when is something ever actually birthed anyway? I don’t trust the US Supreme Court to weigh in on that.. But, and maybe it’s because it’s not how I’m programmed, I really admire the work and the resulting music LA&TS created here because it’s so clear that they all put the effort in and cared about the thing!
Rob
- Mopar Stars: Official Researchers of the NJ Devil I've had this one on blizzard repeat lately. Philly power pop that sounds like it was made for long nighttime drives.
- The Big Box Set A Portland-based music centric public access TV show with skits, animated shorts, and live performances.
- Chronophage: S/T I learned about this band from my CRW colleague Jason. Incredible song craft with influences that are hard to pin down. Their songs move from sad and beautiful to uplifting and life-affirming.
Jason
- Otto Benson: Peanut Otto has been around for a minute, making oddball electronic music interspersed with meditative guitar miniatures. Peanut is his first outing into pop songcraft and it is currently haunting my dreams.
- radio.garden Website and app that allows you to discover internet radio from around the world using a globe with stations plotted geographically. You can check out my list of favorite stations by visiting the website, going to settings > receive favorites and entering my code: WGN-JUH
- Critical Listening Podcast Great show hosted by Max Alper (AKA La Meme Young, Peretsky) and Liz Pelly (author of the excellent Spotify takedown Mood Machine) where they discuss their insightful takes on the modern music and culture industries. Bonus Trivia: CL's theme song comes from CRW alumni Eraser.
Open Call for Artists, Bands & Ideas
We want to know who you are and what you want to see. Are you an artist or in a band and want to play a gig? Is there a band you want to see come to the Lehigh Valley? An idea for an event or collaboration? Fill out this form to let us know.
Community Classifieds
Starting a band? Selling a drum kit? Want to promote your show? Get in touch and if your ad aligns with our mission/vibes, we'll post it here in the next dispatch.
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See you in the Real World.
CRW/C/C/R/J/H
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