Music

Last April we saw Ariel Engle, AKA La Force, opening things up for Canadian indie folk singer/songwriter Leif Vollebekk at The Music Hall at World Café Live.  Engle — perhaps best known for her time as a vocalist in Broken Social Scene over the course of the past decade...

“I love it when things go wrong sometimes, like everything breaks and I just have to do the entire set by myself on an acoustic guitar, but then that makes for a really special experience that only that crowd will get to see.  Last night, our show in Saskatoon...

Last Saturday, September 30th, the TD Pavilion at The Mann hosted the most important concert the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection will see all year, if not all decade.  It was the Philadelphia debut of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus supergroup boygenius, who I’ve spent...

Last month Los Angeles-based punky indie rockers Worriers — the project of songwriter Lauren Denitzio, who is currently joined by band members Atom Willard (Against Me!, Social Distortion), Franz Nicolay (The Hold Steady), Frank Piegaro, and Cayetana’s Allegra Anka — released Trust Your Gut, their second full-length of the...

Frankie Cosmos have had a number of memorable nights at The First Unitarian Church over the past decade or so…  However, it’s been quite a few years (five, if the internet is to be believed) since the NYC-based, Greta Kline-led Sub Pop indie outfit have played the city’s most...

This coming Sunday, October 8th, Los Angeles indie rock singer/songwriter Miya Folick will be returning to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection (where I recently found out she has some history) to headline The Foundry at The Fillmore.  She’s currently touring ROACH, her second LP, which dropped...

Black Country, New Road is a band I’ve been following since they released their first single, Sunglasses, back in 2019. They drew me in with the noisy post punk they created for their first album. I was devastated when the band announced that their lead vocalist and guitarist, Isaac...

The last time the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection saw Scowl was on opening night of the World War Tour, which kicked off this February at Union Transfer and had the band paired with Show Me The Body, Jesus Piece, Zulu, and TRiPPJONES, which was captured by...

“I’m so excited we’re playing at Johnny Brenda’s, because it’s one of my favorite places, and we fought for that.  We actually switched some dates around!” says Molly Burch during a recent phone chat.  We’re discussing the Los Angeles-based indie pop singer/songwriter’s upcoming fall headlining tour, which kicks off...