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It’s hard to imagine a sold-out Union Transfer ever feeling quite as cozy as it did for Lucy Dacus’ Home Video Tour, which made the cavernous Eraserhood venue its home Wednesday, October 20th and Thursday, October 21st. Literal home videos shot by Dacus’ own dad played on a theatre-size...
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Although child star-turned pop icon JoJo normally enjoys the glam life, donning a full-length vinyl trench coat from the stage of the catacomb-like Underground Arts, she more closely resembled an anti-heroine straight out of the pages of a Marvel publication. Last Tuesday, October 5th, the songstress brought her Trying...
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The last time I caught up with Brooklyn-based indie folk rockers Big Thief was in 2016, when they were opening for Nada Surf at World Café Live, so their headlining show last Saturday, October 2nd, the second of two sold-out nights at the 1,300-capacity Union Transfer, was something quite...
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It’s well established that an indie act has officially “made it” when no one in attendance to one of their sold-out shows seems to have ever attended a concert before… This was certainly the case for Soccer Mommy’s September 18th stop at Union Transfer, which had what appeared to...
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Sometimes it just takes a pandemic… For me, it took a pandemic to give a fair shake to what I’ve been calling Sleater-Kinney 2.0. Sure, Dig Me Out and One Beat soundtracked much of my coolest years, and I’d seen the riot grrrl, power trio numerous times at the...
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The 215’s official/unofficial return to live music was marked with the reopening of Union Transfer, our favorite Eraserhood haunt, mega-venue, and former family restaurant… The grand reopening kicked off with a record five sold out nights of hometown indie pop icons, Japanese Breakfast, who drew a pandemic-capacity crowd...
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Last Sunday a super-sold out Johnny Brenda’s was feeling extra nostalgic (for a time prior to the births of the vast majority of the capacity audience). Headlining the evening was Austin quartet White Denim, who kicked out a two-hour, 23-song set of their extra-jammy, prog-infused, Southern Rock (the majority...
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Although XPN essentially panned As The Crow Flies’ Philadelphia debut last Wednesday at the Electric Factory as Chris Robinson’s Black Crowes cover band, lacking the chemistry and musicianship that he long had with brother Rich and drummer Steve Gorman, and having the audacity to play a set chock-full-o-hits (something...
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Last October electropop chanteuse Billie Eilish played an alarmingly packed show upstairs at World Café Live, selling out the 200-capacity months in advance. For the next leg of her Don’t Smile at Me Tour she was booked at the 600-capacity Coda… Well, her booking agent is obviously still a little...
It’s hard to imagine a sold-out Union Transfer ever feeling quite as cozy as it did for Lucy Dacus’ Home Video Tour, which made the cavernous Eraserhood venue its home Wednesday, October 20th and Thursday, October 21st. Literal home videos shot by Dacus’ own dad played on a theatre-size...
