Live Events

Earlier this week, indie pop quartet The Aces kicked off the Gold Star Baby World Tour, beginning with a little more than a month of North American dates, including a November 14th stop at Theatre of Living Arts.  The tour — featuring support from Lydia Night of The Regrettes...

When I spoke to Gabi Gamberg, AKA Daffo, in May of this year, ahead of a June stop at Union Transfer on a run supporting Blondshell, the former Philly-area resident and currently LA-based artist spilled to me that they would be back at the Eraserhood ballroom in November, supporting...

Bella White’s debut at MilkBoy — Center City’s last remaining barroom rock club to attract touring artists – has been a long time coming.  The Calgary-raised/Nashville-based Americana singer/songwriter was set to play the venue in August of 2021, but was thwarted by a COVID scare the day of the...

LA’s marine-inspired electronic artist and producer, Oxis, performed at The Fillmore last Sunday night, supporting Magdalena Bay on the last stop of their Imaginal Mystery Tour. She played a variety of her songs released over the last two years, including her latest single, Piranha, a glitchy synth-layered track that...

Los Angeles-based/Bologna-bred synth pop trio Nuovo Testamento – comprised of Chelsey Crowley (vocals), Giacomo Zatti (drums), and Andrea Mantione (synth) – will be spending their Halloween at Baltimore Soundstage, sharing a bill with our old phriends Scowl and new phriends Whispers (along with co-headliners Sunami).  And while Scowl, Sunami,...

Los Angeles retro alt-rockers Rocket (whose sound Paste characterized as, “imagine Sonic Youth writing songs for the pop charts.”) have already played some pretty huge shows in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection.  Last year they opened two nights at The TLA for emo legends Sunny Day...

If you’re a fan of Audiotree, there’s a good chance you recently saw the debut session from self-described “Bangkok Evilcore” outfit Whispers, a Thailand-based band signed to Flatspot Records (home of our phriends Jivebomb), who released their Yom-Ma-Lok EP last December.  The group have spent much of the past...

“People don’t need therapy, they need to see David Byrne,” my phriend says to me three songs into David Byrne’s third and final night at The Met Philadelphia, amidst Talking Heads classic “And She Was,” already the second Talking Heads song of the evening.  October 16th, 17th, and 18th...

Our old phriends Magdalena Bay are gearing up for their third local headlining show this year, and their somehow “most intimate” yet, playing the 2,500-capacity Fillmore on Sunday, October 26th.  However, we’re just as excited to see LA-based, marine-inspired Oxis, whos’s been opening the Imaginal Mystery Tour for the...