A Very SPECial Event

SPEC Jazz and Grooves will take over the Rotunda on Thursday, October 1, for a night that will make any indie music fan's heart skip a beat. Brooklyn natives The Antlers,  who we got a chance to check out at the Pitchfork Festival this summer, will be joined by Holly Miranda, a vocalist loved by Kanye West and Vanity Fair alike. More information about the musical acts, courtesy of SPEC, along with the music video for The Antlers' "Two," after the jump.

Tickets are on sale on the walk, as well as through this website. Student tickets will be sold for $10 ahead of time and $15 at the door. Be sure to get yours before all the cool kids of Philadelphia get wind of the show. At that point, the average attendee hipness might rival that of the American Apparel ad that was Girl Talk 2009, and tickets will go like hot cakes. (Man, talk about a hip phrase.)

The Antlers: Relatively new to the major indie-music scene, The Antlers have risen quickly with what Pitchfork’s Brian Howe calls a “grandiose but intimate indie-rock.” Beginning as a solo project created by vocalist and guitarist Peter Silberman, the band added members Michael Lerner (drums, percussion) and Darby Cicci (keyboards, trumpet) shortly before releasing EPs Cold War and New York Hospitals in 2008. In 2009, the band signed to French Kiss Records and The Antlers released their critically-acclaimed record Hospice, praised by National Public Radio as the best album of the first half of 2009. Indie music tastemakers Pitchfork minted Hospice with their coveted Best New Music stamp in August and the blogosphere  echoed the major music outlets’ hype, with many prominent music blogs placing Hospice on their “Album of the Year” lists.

Holly Miranda, another Brooklynite, will be joining the Antlers. Miranda received exposure earlier this year when Kanye West featured a track from her album on his blog.  Vanity Fair backed Kanye, stating Miranda’s “Falsetto makes the walls collapse…she’s the real deal.”  David Saginur, Jazz and Grooves co-director, added “Holly Miranda is a hipster goddess.”