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While many bands these days seem to be touring in celebration of a past album, surfy indie rockers Best Coast and Wavves are currently celebrating the fifth anniversary of their Summer Is Forever double-headlining Tour, with the Summer Is Forever II tour. Each tour had the bands bringing their...
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Although I’m well aware that long-form musical releases are a bit out of vogue at the moment, in lieu of digital-only Eps and singles, and feature-length cinema is far less appealing to this generation than webisodes and YouTube clips, I maintain that both remain far superior to their contemporary...
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In the past two, short years Philly, and PHILTHY, has seen Austin, TX’s Wild Child rise up through the ranks of the hierarchy of the city’s venues. When we first met them, in October of 2013, they were preparing for a show at the long-antiquated and geographically detached (although...
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Aside from his brief cameo alongside Katy Perry at America’s Favorite Spectacle (in which both artists were undeniably outshined by a guy in a rubber animal suit) and a wardrobe malfunction this summer that stole headlines from even musical blogs for and by the hip, it has been quite...
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Although in the second half of my 30-year life my tastes have leaned heavily toward the likes of post-punk and indie pop, when it comes to concert movies and double live albums, the classic arena rockers whose sounds and images filled my childhood bedroom really do seem to have...
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This past Saturday Philly was engulfed in yet another Apocalyptic storm, of whose recent regularity can’t help but make one wonder if something is attempting to tell us something… Yet South Philly indie rock hot spot Boot & Saddle was nearly full for Torres’ most recent area appearance, which...
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It is literally impossible for a “rocker” to age gracefully… Like, it actually can’t happen… You either die (ideally, halfway through the recording of your sophomore effort) or you become a mega-corporate arena-filling dinosaur rock entity who is best known for gouging suburban moms and dads of the paychecks...
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The award for the weirdest thing I’ve seen on the internet this week is Amazon suggesting that those purchasing the 2-CD deluxe edition of Sticky Fingers by the Stones also consider bundling that purchase with Sub-Lingual Tablet, the 31st record by brilliant post-punk weirdos The Fall (both of which...
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Radio 104.5 continued their Summer Block Party series at Festival Pier – this time with A Silent Film, New Politics, Misterwives, and Big Data. The next Block Party hits Festival Pier July 12th, with Nate Ruess (from fun.), Philly’s own The War on Drugs, Civil Twilight, and MS MR....
While many bands these days seem to be touring in celebration of a past album, surfy indie rockers Best Coast and Wavves are currently celebrating the fifth anniversary of their Summer Is Forever double-headlining Tour, with the Summer Is Forever II tour. Each tour had the bands bringing their...
