Music

Next month Americana singer/songwriter Ondara will just about be celebrating the one-year anniversary of the release of his third album, Spanish Villager No: 3, when he headlines The Lounge at World Café Live on Wednesday, September 13th (The album dropped September 16th of 2022, courtesy of Verve Label Group.) ...

This Friday, August 18th, Japanese experimental legends Boris will celebrate Heavy Rocks turning legal drinking age with a reissue of the 2002 album courtesy of Third Man Records.  Heavy Rocks (2002) , never-before-released on...

“I’m excited to kick it off in Philly!  I don’t know that I’ve ever started a tour in Philly, starting where my roots are!” says ZZ Ward.  The Bucks County native – whose parents grew up in the area and who lived there herself until she was around eight,...

Summertime is quickly coming to an end, but the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection is still awaiting one of the summer’s best double-headlining jaunts, which will find itself at Underground Arts on Friday, August 25th…  This July two of our favorite indie folk acts — Brooklyn quartet...

Next week Los Angeles garage punk trio Together Pangea kick off about a week of end-of-summer shows that will have them returning to our very own Underground Arts on Thursday, August 24th.  They played the Eraserhood basement just last April on some of the band’s first post-lockdown dates.  They...

Last Tuesday and Wednesday The National brought their stellar show in support of their recently dropped ninth studio album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, to The Met Philly.  The Tuesday show included “Tropic Morning News,” from the new album, in addition to fan favorites from across their massive discography...

The Weight Of A Wave, the fourth solo LP from musician and composer Annie Hart (1/3rd of synth-pop group Au Revoir Simone) drops today courtesy of Uninhabitable Mansions.  However, the album’s origins date back to even before Hart wrote and recorded her previous full-length, Everything Pale Blue, an ambient...

American indie pop band The Drums, hit the halfway point for their current Summer Tour across North America with their performance at Theatre of Living Arts in Philadelphia on Friday night. They primarily played tracks from Portamento, which they released in 2011. The Drums didn’t play any songs from their...

Last month New York/Philadelphia-based Strange Ranger released their Pure Music LP on Fire Talk Records.  And the album — recorded in a cabin in upstate New York amidst a blizzard — has been surprising critics in the best possible way.  “Strange Ranger continued their metamorphosis from indie rock to experimental electronic...