Music

This past Saturday, July 29th, the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection had the honor of spending the one-year anniversary of Surrender with Maggie Rogers on her Summer of ’23 Tour.  The singer/songwriter celebrated the first anniversary of her second LP at the TD Pavilion at the Mann,...

“I hope fans just really enjoy being present with me, because I demand it… and dancing,” says disco/soul/funk/R&B singer/songwriter Gavin Turek, only partially joking.  “I’m a serious performer.  I demand a presence and a mutual respect for each other.  The audience is performing for me, just as I’m performing...

Next week Kari Faux kicks off her first post-pandemic tour.  The headlining jaunt begins August 3rd in Atlanta, and includes a show at The Foundry at The Fillmore on Wednesday, August 9th.  The dates are in support of the Little Rock born and bred rapper’s latest full-length, REAL BITCHES...

Earlier today Lawrence, Kansas punk duo Sweeping Promises – comprised of Lira Mondal and Caufield Schnug – dropped their recent Unacceptable Color performance.  Unacceptable Color is a live music channel produced by Mondal and Schnug, photographer and multimedia artist Shawn Brackbill, and engineers Rob and Ryan Pope (of The...

Today Yoke Lore (AKA Adrian Galvin) released his latest single (and lyric video), “Hallucinate,” off of his upcoming debut LP, Toward A Never Ending New Beginning, which drops September 22nd on Yell House Records.  Additionally, the indie rock singer/songwriter is set to kick off The Holy Havok Tour on...

Although the humidity has been making the usually-slow summer concert season even snailier than usual, with a massive drought of shows and sparse audiences at those that are happening, last Thursday’s (7/20) return of Jenny Lewis to The Metropolitan Opera House produced a crowd of several thousand – including...

Last Saturday, July 15, Sad Summer Festival returned to Philadelphia for it’s fourth annual day of early 200os emo shows. This years lineup featured headliners Taking Back Sunday and The Maine, along with performances from PVRIS, Head Automatica, Hot Mulligan, Mom Jeans, Stand Electric, and Sincere Engineer. Taking Back...

When Wiretap Scars – the debut LP from Sparta, an El Paso-based post-hardcore outfit comprised of 3/5ths of the recently disbanded At The Drive-In – dropped, I was about to start my senior year of high school.  The Spectrum, North Star Bar, and Trocadero still remained, Franklin Music Hall...

This May, Nanna – co-lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist of Icelandic indie folk outfit Of Monsters And Men — performed a midday, Free At Noon mini set at World Café Live as a part of this year’s NON-COMM.  The performance was on the eve of the release of her...