Music

*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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

“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...

This past fall, ultra-heavy psych-rockers Royal Thunder found themselves playing mega-venues supporting grunge legends Alice In Chains.  They were some of the first shows the Atlanta trio played after an extended hiatus, following some January headlining dates and a summer tour supporting Royal Bliss.  The last time we saw...

It’s been a while since we’ve seen uber-rowdy Los Angeles skate/garage punks FIDLAR in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection, the last time being a 2018 headlining stop at Union Transfer, prior to the release of their third LP, Almost Free.  However, during a recent phone chat,...

“Me and Mark Gardener looked alike, we released records at the exact same time, and we were in the studio with Flood and Alan Moulder, who were best friends,” jokes Tim Burgess, frontman for The Charlatans, about his legendary Madchester band’s longtime relationship with shoegaze (although I hear they...