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Earlier this month, emo legends Dashboard Confessional announced a fall tour, which includes a September 15th stop at The Met. However, the artist on the bill that we’re most excited about is Nashville-based (She’s originally from Wellsboro.) pop-punk powerhouse Taylor Acorn, who will be opening the entire tour. We...
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This Friday, 4/19, South Street – Philadelphia’s historic hot spot for goths, punks, rockers, weirdos and alternative kids of every variety – will fittingly be hosting the Gothic Summer Tour at Theatre of Living Arts. Headlining the evening is Australian progressive pop sister duo The Veronicas, whose ...
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“Union Transfer is amazing and one of my favorite venues, like Top 3. That’s the place I would want to go to see a show,” says Josh Hodges, founder and mainman of Portland, OR indie rock outfit STRFKR. The band has played the Eraserhood ballroom numerous times over the...
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This Thursday, April 18th, Vermont alt-rock group Sir Chloe will be headlining The Foundry at The Fillmore. However, we’re just as excited to see Daffo, who is opening Sir Chloe’s current tour and for whom Thursday will be a homecoming show. Daffo is the project of singer/songwriter Gabi Gamberg,...
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“Every show’s just been amazing… It’s really fun to connect in a physical manner for the first time after not being able to do that for so long. We’re never gonna take that for granted again,” says Alex Bleeker, bassist and co-founder of New Jersey indie rockers Real Estate,...
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Friday night The Foundry at The Fillmore was filled with a number of people who were likely getting ready to partake in the Wrestlemania festivities of the weekend, in addition to a plethora of other girls and gays decked out in vinyl, fishnets, and harnesses, who probably weren’t...
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New York avant-rock legends Swans – who first emerged from the ashes of no wave in the early ‘80s — have made four appearances at Union Transfer since reuniting in 2010 (Their very first gig back after over a decade was at our very own Trocadero Theatre.) However, the...
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We last caught up with Land of Talk – Montreal-based indie rock outfit of Lizzie Powell, who have been signed to Saddle Creek since 2008 – in April of 2022, when they were touring behind their four-song Calming Night Partner EP, released in 2021, between 2020 LP Indistinct Conversations...
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The last time San Fermin were in town was November of 2021, when they played City Winery Philadelphia, the city’s newest listening room. However, tomorrow night (4/3) they’ll be headlining Underground Arts, our favorite basement in the heart of David Lynch’s Eraserhood, which regularly plays host to our favorite...
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Last week we met Chicago teenage alt-rock quartet Neptune’s Core, who made their Philadelphia debut with a top-shelf rock show at Kung Fu Necktie. However, it turns out that we have a mutual friend in Chicago indie rock duo Friko, comprised of vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Niko Kapetan and drummer Bailey Minzenberger....
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Since the return of live music, we’ve gotten to know La Force – the solo project of Montreal-based singer/songwriter Ariel Engle, best known as a vocalist for Broken Social Scene (Her husband, Andrew Whiteman, has been with the Canadian indie rock collective since 2001.) – quite well. La Force’s...
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Last week Canadian indie folk rockers released “Hold Me (Diamond Remix),” a remix of the lead single of their fifth studio album, Part Time Believer, which dropped this February on Underneath a Mountain Records/The Orchard/Glassnote Records. The rootsy anthem was remixed in collaboration with Canadian Billboard top 10 artist...
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Southern California indie rock band Benches played an amazing show in support of iDKHOW on Tuesday. Though the band was nearly an hour late due to bowling related circumstances – they were seen bowling while waiting for the venue to fill up – their performance was definitely worth...
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“The most rewarding and cathartic part of the process for me, in addition to writing and recording, has been connecting with fans after the shows and hearing people who have told me that it helped them process and move through their own grieving stories… which makes me feel so...
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Earlier this month Coco released their second full-length, and next month they kick off their first-ever headlining tour. The band is a supergroup of friends, comprised of Dirty Projectors’ Maia Friedman, Pavo Pavo’s Oliver Hill, and Lucius’ Dan Molad. Their aptly named sophomore LP, 2, dropped courtesy of First...
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Chicago’s music scene has been making a major splash in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection recently, with acts like Friko, Ratboys, Squirrel Flower, Elizabeth Moen, Dehd, Neal Francis, Macie Stewart (one-half of Finom), and Half Gringa playing some of our favorite shows of recent years. And...
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This Thursday Los Angeles duo crushed – comprised of Bre Morell and Shaun Durkan – kick off a four-date North American tour, which will find them headlining our very own Ortlieb’s Lounge this Saturday, March 30th (March 28th will have them at TV Eye in Brooklyn and the final...
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Today sees the release of Plunge, the fourth studio album from Sam Evian, known for his work producing, engineering, and mixing PHILTHY phavorites (and we like to think phriends) like Cassandra Jenkins, Kate Bollinger, Palehound, and Big Thief. The album has already produced three singles, which have received high...
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The last time we saw Arlo Parks in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was last May, when the West London-raised, Los Angeles-based soulful indie pop singer/songwriter played an exceptionally intimate performance for WXPN members that provided one of the highlights of last year’s NON-COMM at World...
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“We’re punch-drunk and happy to fucking be here,” proclaims Carrie Brownstein Monday night mid-set from the stage of The TLA, the most intimate room Sleater-Kinney have played in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection since their stop at The Starlight Ballroom in the summer of 2006, on...
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“I think we’re a bar band and we always kinda will be. We’re bringing bar band energy wherever we’re playing,” says Paul Banwatt, drummer for Canadian indie rock outfit The Rural Alberta Advantage in a recent phone chat (During an interview last year, vocalist/guitarist Nils Edenloff echoed an alarmingly...
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The last time we saw London-based singer/songwriter Laetitia Sadier in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was October of 2022, when she appeared with avant-pop legends Stereolab — the band that she co-founded and put her on the map in the ‘90s, who reformed in 2019 —...
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Similar to her show at The Met last July, beloved singer-songwriter Jenny Lewis put on a spectacular performance in St. Paul last Friday. Instead of the rotating few Rilo Kiley songs she had been playing on previous legs of the Joy’All Ball Tour, Jenny pleasantly surprised us by including...
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Alternative pop-rock trio Beach Weather are just about two years into the band’s second go-round, after a five-year hiatus. This time around lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Nick Santino and bassist Reeve Powers (who originally started the band in 2015) are joined by lead guitarist and producer Sean Silverman. ...
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Last weekend electro-industrial trio HEALTH kicked off their RAT-BASED WARFARE TOUR in support of studio LP RAT WARS, which dropped digitally last December, amidst their European tour supporting Sleep Token (earning spots on “Best Albums of 2023” in the likes of Revolver, Alternative Press, and New York Magazine/Vulture, with...
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Last month 19-year-old pop star on the rise Natalie Jane released “Tattoos” – her latest single, whose teasers racked up over 25 million views on social media and even got a repost from Billie Eilish – and kicked off her first-ever North American headlining tour, which sold out well...
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In support of their critically acclaimed 2024 album, The Past is Still Alive, Hurray for the Riff Raff played an incredible sold out show in Philly last Friday. They put on a spectacular performance, every song sounding nearly identical to the record. It’s a testament to the talent of...
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Last Thursday Madi Diaz played an incredible show at Philly’s World Cafe Live in support of her newest album, Weird Faith, which dropped last month on ANTI-. It was the Nashville-based, Lancaster County-raised artist’s biggest headlining show in the 215 to date, previously having played the likes of Tin...
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I recently documented 20 of the hardest-to-believe-they-ever-happened Philadelphia shows of the past 20 years, which included Caroline Polachek fronting Chairlift for a crowd of about 30 at KFN in 2009, Charli XCX playing to under 20 at North Star Bar in 2012, and Billie Eilish’s first-ever Philthy appearance, which...
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Industrial pioneers KMFDM have played Philadelphia countless times over the years. Sascha K and his cohorts (which have included now-wife Lucia Cifarelli on keyboards/vocals and Andy Selway on drums since 2002, along with Andee Blacksugar on guitar since 2017) have headlined The Trocadero and TLA a plethora of times...
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The last time we chatted with Daisy the Great – a NYC indie pop outfit led by Kelley Nicole Dugan and Mina Walker – was in early 2023, prior to their first-ever non-DIY headlining jaunt. The group had previously toured as support for mega acts AJR, half•alive, and The...
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Last July we officially announced the release of Holey Water, the most recent LP from “all-female, queer Southern Rock DIY band” Thelma and the Sleaze, after a chat with TATS frontwoman and only constant member Lauren “LG” Gilbert on her 38th birthday. The chat was in advance of the...
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This Friday, February 23rd, singer/songwriter and guitar legend Mary Timony – famed member of Autoclave, Helium, Wild Flag, and Ex Hex, in addition to Lindsey Jordan/Snail Mail’s former guitar teacher, who Wild Flag bandmate and Sleater-Kinney co-founder Carrier Brownstein once called, “Mary Shelley with a guitar” – will release...
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Philadelphia are no strangers to Twin Temple, “Los Angeles’ one and only purveyors of Satanic Doo-Wop.” We saw them in their earliest years alongside Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats and Graveyard at Union Transfer in 2019. In 2022 we saw them on the mega-stage of Camden’s ever-name-changing pavilion, opening...
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This coming Saturday, February 24th, Union Transfer will be hosting two amazing acts that we haven’t seen in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection for quite some time. Headlining the evening is garage rock legends The Kills, who were last in town when they played the Eraserhood...
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Indie folk outfit This Is The Kit – the elegant moniker of Paris-based, UK-born singer/songwriter Kate Stables – is no stranger to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. We first met This Is The Kit in October of 2017, but they were just in town last October,...
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Last month, Yep Roc Records announced the April 12th release of When We Were Looking, the debut LP from Maine-based indie folk singer/songwriter Louisa Stancioff, who is about to kick off a short run of dates with equally impressive singer/songwriters Molly Parden and Eliza Edens, which will find the...
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“I was one of the first artists to get popular on social media before social media even had that name,” says singer/songwriter Ron Pope. Tonight, Pope kicks off the A Drop in the Ocean Tour, which will have the Nashville/Brooklyn Americana artist performing his 2008 debut solo LP, Daylight,...
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Mitski is truly a once in a lifetime performer, and full of surprises, as shown by every one of her tours being completely different. Her first-ever show at the opera house — night one of two local stops on The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We Tour — looked...
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Tonight, LA blues punk duo Deap Vally – who we first met in 2013, just after the release of their debut EP, Get Deap! – kick off the second leg of their Live for the Last Time FAREWELL TOUR, which will have them playing their debut full-length, 2013’s Sistrionix,...
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Still looking for Valentine’s Day plans? Well, whether you’re all baed up or navigating the chilliest time of year solo, there’s sure to be plenty of love and affection going on at The Fillmore on February 14th courtesy of Sammy Rae & The Friends (The last time they played...
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NYC indie-pop sibling trio BAILEN have deservedly been darlings of WXPN for a number of years now… Just last year they played NON-COMM for the second time, their second Free At Noon, and a set at XPoNential Music Festival that proved to be a highlight of the exceptionally rainy...
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“These days I’m pretty stoked on wellness stuff. I try to do an infrared sauna in almost every town, I do yoga backstage, a lot of meditation, and I got into tapping, this new thing,” says Jaime Wyatt, which has me a little taken aback, considering that Wyatt first...
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Los Angeles garage rockers FIDLAR — whose drummer, Max Kuehn, recently spoke with Izzy Cihak — returned to Philadelphia for the first time since 2018 to play a spectacular show in support of Oliver Tree at The Met. With a headliner-quality stage show, and setlist of both “classics” and...
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*While Sarah Jarosz’s show Friday night, February 2nd, at World Cafe Live may be sold out, she will be playing WXPN’s Free At Noon at World Cafe Live on the afternoon of February 2nd, which you can attend for free, if you just register here. Polaroid Lovers, the seventh...
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Today Brighton post-punk outfit Squid released standalone single “Fugue (Bin Song),” the follow-up to their second full-length, O Monolith, which dropped last June on Warp and which prompted Stereogum to say, “Squid turn dance-rock inside out until you can’t really dance to it anymore. The arty, explosive O Monolith will still...
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“The whole last year has been amazing! It changed my life, really,” Phoebe Go tells me during a recent phone interview, going on to admit, “It’s been so important for my growth as a person and understanding myself.” Last October, the Melbourne-based alt-pop singer/songwriter released single “Something You Were...
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This Friday, January 26th, TORRES – who we’ve seen over the past ten years headlining Boot & Saddle and Johnny Brenda’s, in addition to providing support for artists like Strand of Oaks, Tegan and Sara, Frightened Rabbit, and Superchunk at Union Transfer and The Fillmore – will release her...
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Grace Potter (with and without the Nocturnals) has played the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection countless times over the years. However, it’s been a while now, and we’ve definitely been missing the ineffably soulful retro rocker and all of the nights of rapturous rock n’ roll abandon...
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“We are four women, but celebrating our masculine energy and leaning on that… We celebrate both genders! And we ask our fans to do the same!” says platinum recording artist Bonnie Sims, mandolin player for Big Richard, a Colorado-based Americana supergroup, where Bonnie (Bonnie & Taylor Sims, Everybody Loves...