Remember when I told you to go see local starheads InnerPartySystem play at the Pottstown Firehouse a few months ago? Well, someone listened. Our little local fish (they're from Reading, dude) have been washed into the big major label pond.

Not only are they now signed to Island Records, but they're recording their debut with Alan Moulder. Let me type that out again. ALAN MOULDER. That's not just some schmuck in Iowa with GarageBand on his computer. That's a aurally awesome dude that helped make some amazing records for U2, Nine Inch Nails, The Killers, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, My Bloody Valentine, and even Gary Numan, among quite a few others. He's the perfect set of ears to guide a band with such simmering electricity flying around in their wild sound. He should be like a lightning rod to them.

Now I've interviewed a couple major bands (The Killers included), I've hung out backstage and even become pals with a few bands here and there. But this bit of news has starstriken my little mind more than any of that. I'm fried with anxiety and excitement over this. Why? I'm wierd, that's why.

But also, because some of the members of this band should have already been here years ago. If you remember Thirteen Over Eight, you know what I'm talking about. That band SHOULD have made it, more than InnerPartySystem. But they broke up when they were blowing up, and years later, some of those dudes started it back up, revamped and stylistcally reshaped to be more Killers and electro than Deftones and screamo. And now here we are, getting validation. That's why I'm excited. It's like something I used to carry around in my back pocket just got printed in TIME Magazine. It's like I've been waching a flower grow since the seed was first put into the dirty Berks County ground.

I can't wait to see what happens. The party is inside, folks.

Remember my post last week about local electro-rock upstarts, Inner Party System, playing in Pottstown at the firehouse? Well, less than a week later, they've been named Spin Magazine's Artist of the Day, which is a bit of a big deal for a little band coming right out of Berks County.

And here's a fun fact for ya! If you were hip enough to be one of the many local ravenous fans of Thirteen Over Eight years ago, before they disbanded, Inner Party System is singer Pat Nissley's next foray into the world of popular music. And while the groove-oriented electro rock spizazz is a bit stylistically different, the furiously fevering heart of the songs are the same.

Read what Spin had to say about our local heros! You can also get yourself a snazzy little mp3 from "The Download EP." They're currently working on their debut for Stolen Transmission, due next year.

With Thanksgiving over, people are doing one of two things today. Either battling through grueling Black Friday sales lines in stores, or laying around the house watching Christmas movies (I'm looking at you, sister).

But you don't have to fall into this trap. There are going to be plenty more sales, plenty more miserable grueling lines, and plenty more days in DECEMBER to watch Christmas movies. Put the coupons down, put the leftover potato filling back in the fridge, put the remote away, because Pottstown has a sweet little rock show at the Firehouse tonight. THIS is what you should be doing on Black Friday.

Reading's Inner Party System will be headlining a whopping feast of a bill at the North End Fire Hall. These guys recently signed to Stolen Transmission Records (which is one of those labels that will send them up to Island Records if they take off really well in the underground) and have been making quite a name for themselves in every corner of the country with their lightning-fueled dance rock.

But it's worth coming out even without the big local headliners. Jersey's magnificent The High Court will also be tearing up the fire hall walls with their amp-crushing blend of gritty rock. They spent the summer with a stint on The Warped Tour and also put out their latest full length, "Puppet Strings."

Also billed are Vanna, Therefore I Am, 74 Green Lights, and more TBA. See you there?