Bonde do Rolê at Johnny Brenda's

Nothing could have been more fun, raw and ribald than this funky four-pack that sold out Johnny Brenda's Thursday.

Every time Brazil's baile funk band Bonde do Rolê hit Philly, they make a mess.

Notorious for teeth-chattering beats, rude sex lyricism, and cheesy rock samples, previous Bonde do Rolê visits to Upstairs @ Sal's and the Mummers Museum turned into beer-spitting, clothes-peeling melees.

This show was sedate save for Portuguese-language MC Marina Ribatski's pelvic movements.

Her piercing rants, face-scrunching shouts and high hoots (with MC Pedro D'Eyrot) through tracks like "Office Boy" were as pointy as her shoes as she kicked through the explosion of DJ/MC Rodrigo Gorky's thick grooves and snagged Tone-Loc, AC/DC and Daft Punk songs.

Ribatski's trio wasn't the only lewd lot. Plastic Little - spazzy, hollering MCs Jayson Musson, Jon Folmar and Kurt Hunte - like to smartly talk up body parts and the manner in which they're used. But through their aggressive attack, the trio's absurd rhymes and persnickety bridges were as loose-limbed as their dance moves, awesome through rough, rubbery beats, and beyond any usual Beasties comparisons.

GANG wasn't crude. Through twittering robot pop, synth-slap punk, and thundering live rhythms came the shrill girl-group vocals and choreographed dance moves of Amanda Damron and Jaclyn McGraw. Their tales of astronauts and bridges that went "Blah-blah-blah" all sounded heavenly.

The show also marked the live debut of Philly's premier production/DJ team Pink Skulls. Together with instrumentalists from An Albatross, Vexers and Excelsior, the quintet pulsed quietly through bubbling house sounds and Eno-atmospheric swells with a rhythmic primal groove that proved this first gig shouldn't be their last.