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Lauren Mayberry’s Vicious Creature Tour is highly competitive. It’s currently in competition for Most Wall-to-Wall Bangers in a Headlining Set, Most Tear-Inducing Cover (a timely take on The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony”), and Most Impressive Solo Performance From Someone in a Huge Band of 2025. Although the CHVRCHES frontwoman...
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“I’m not gonna play another show for 11 months, which is awesome for me… and my nervous system… but it’s bittersweet,” says Adrianne Lenker two songs into her second sold-out performance at Union Transfer in as many nights. The vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of indie folk icons Big...
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Johnny Brenda’s has hosted several exceptionally quick sell-outs of soon-to-be superstars this year, notably hyperpop chanteuse Hannah Diamond and queer country icon CMAT. However, none have seemed to be quite as destined for superstardom as Dublin-born, London-based singer/songwriter Orla Gartland, who played an immediately sold-out show on her immediately...
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This past Friday and Saturday Clairo put on her biggest shows ever in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection, with two sold-out nights that filled the cavernous (almost Factory-like…) Franklin Music Hall with fans whose adoration of the bedroom-pop-icon-turned-her-generation’s-foremost-purveyor-of-soft-rock bordered on Beatlemania. The performances had the 26-year-old...
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Last month, English post-punks The Sisters of Mercy played their second show in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection is as many years, after a 14-year gap. This time around they found themselves at The Met, which felt significantly more like a casual goth/industrial dance party than...
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It’s been more than six years since English singer/songwriter Kate Nash has been in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. But next Thursday, October 10th, the MySpace-era artist kicks off her North America Fall 2024 tour at the Music Hall at World Café Live, her first appearance...
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Last Sunday, country singer-songwriter and former Philthy resident Waxahatchee finished off her tour in support of her critically acclaimed 2024 album Tiger’s Blood with two nights at The Fillmore in Philadelphia....
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This Wednesday night, Grammy-Award winning husband/wife duo Tedeschi Trucks Band returned to Philadelphia’s TD Pavilion at The Mann for the first time since 2013. Touring behind 2022’s I Am The Moon, their 12-piece band put on an incredible performance for a packed house of adoring fans. Nashville singer/songwriter Margo...
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“I’m very sorry for the delay. Thank you for your patience,” says Jessica Pratt as she sits down in a chair center stage at the Music Hall at World Café Live this past Friday night. The show – the Los Angeles-based folk singer/songwriter’s first headlining performance in the City...
Lauren Mayberry’s Vicious Creature Tour is highly competitive. It’s currently in competition for Most Wall-to-Wall Bangers in a Headlining Set, Most Tear-Inducing Cover (a timely take on The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony”), and Most Impressive Solo Performance From Someone in a Huge Band of 2025. Although the CHVRCHES frontwoman...
