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“I can see if you’re on Twitter or on Instagram. I can read your phone,” jokes Addie Sartino, lead vocalist for The Greeting Committee, upon being asked if she has a message to fans coming out to see the indie rock band on their upcoming headlining tour. Sartino, a...
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“We would play the smaller venue for like a decade, and rolling our amps through the bigger venue, it was kind of like stinging. So, when our fate changed, it was such a milestone,” says Mother Mother vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter Ryan Guldemond (with whom I last spoke...
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My first encounter with David Bazan’s Pedro the Lion came in November of 2002 when he played Washington DC’s The Black Cat, which had recently relocated to a few doors down the street. Pedro the Lion were touring their third LP, Control, a concept album revolving around a businessman...
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Last week Melbourne-based neo-soul quartet Hiatus Kaiyote kicked off their North America summer tour, in addition to dropping “Cinnamon Temple,” their fifth and final single from their upcoming fourth LP, Love Heart Cheat Code. The album drops this Friday, June 28th, courtesy of Brainfeeder Records/Ninja Tune, and this Saturday,...
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Just last March we saw Quasi – Janet Weiss and Sam Coomes – return to Johnny Brenda’s in support of Breaking the Balls of History, both their tenth studio LP and their first studio LP in ten years, in addition to their first for Sub Pop. However, the Portland...
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Earlier this month Nate Amos (of Water From Your Eyes) released Box for Buddy, Box for Star, the first “official” album from This Is Lorelei (which dropped courtesy of Double Double Whammy), a solo project whose music he’s been self-releasing online since 2014. The album — whose origins date...
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This Thursday, 6/20, folk supergroup Bonny Light Horseman are bringing their brand-new double album (and first for Jagjaguwar), Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free, to Union Transfer. While the trio – comprised of Josh Kaufman, Eric D. Johnson, and Anais Mitchell – have played the City of Brotherly...
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While 2024 has already given us opportunities to see “classic albums” by Ride, The Charlatans, and Deap Vally in their entirety (the first two on the same night), I was equally entranced by Kim Gordon’s front-to-back performance of her 2024 LP, The Collective, this past Friday (6/14) at Union...
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Last Saturday, The Dresden Dolls blew the audience away with a just-under-three-hour set, appropriately titled An Evening With The Dresden Dolls. Amanda Palmer, on vocals and keys, along with Brian Viglione on drums, gave an incredible, unique, and unforgettable performance that brought me a newfound love for this renowned...
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We’re nearly halfway through Pride Month and we’ve already attended some fabulous events. However, there are still several musical celebrations of queerness that we’re eagerly anticipating, including June 22nd at Theatre of Living Arts. The evening will be headlined by Lynn Gunn electropop outfit PVRIS, with opening duties being...
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“The live shows are heading in this doom jazz direction,” says Nashville musician Rich Ruth during a May phone chat. Although Ruth is perhaps most recognizable as a touring member of Americana singer/songwriter S.G. Goodman’s band, he also spends just as much time on the road with his own...
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“Christina and I are still going crazy up there! We just can’t contain ourselves! It’s true joy and we have to move our bodies! I’ve actually tried to stand still, just to see if I could do it, because I know a lot of shoegaze bands like to just...
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“I came from the late ‘90s hardcore scene, and the uncool-est thing you could do is release an album of songs under your own name. Being a singer/songwriter was extremely uncool before the indie thing,” Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Divine Fits, Operators) tells me during a recent...
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Australian indie pop sibling trio Sheppard are celebrating a number of milestones. The Brisbane band moved to Nashville last October, became the first band to ever play Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (This April they returned to Australia to play a gig on a pontoon for local heroes partaking in...
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It’s a big day for mercury, the Tennessee-based indie rock project of Maddie Kerr. This morning they released short film “Together We Are One, You And I” – a collaboration with producer Alex Farrar (Indigo De Souza, Snail Mail, Waxahatchee, Squirrel Flower, Wednesday, Plains…) and filmmaker Harrison Shook –...
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“I wish it wasn’t more than two years between full-lengths…” Jeanines’ musical polymath Jed Smith glumly muses, before vocalist, songwriter, and namesake Alicia Jeanine chimes in, “I think it’s fine to have an LP every three years! We’re busy, we have jobs… We’re doing the best that we can!” ...
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Philadelphia-based rockers Soraia recently dropped their cover of Blondie classic “Union City Blue.” And we’re proud to premiere the official music video for the ZouZou Mansour-led garage rockers’ take on the legendary power pop track. The clip was shot by local videographer Tom Quigley at Boom Room in Fishtown,...
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This weekend, self-proclaimed Feminist Pop Princess Morgan St. Jean will kick off the “This Is For Life” North America Tour, her first-ever headlining trek. The five-date East Coast jaunt comes in support of the LA-based singer/songwriter’s My Mind And I EP (which dropped this April) and includes a stop...
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Next month, our phavorite locally based internet radio station, Y-Not Radio, officially turns 14. And this Thursday, June 6th, Kung Fu Necktie will be hosting the Y-Not Radio 14th Anniversary celebration with English slacker pop phenom Lauran Hibberd (opening the evening is local bassist and songwriter Harlee Torres). The...
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The last time The Dresden Dolls played the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was December of 2007, when they appeared at Theatre of Living Arts. At the time, Lou and Bowie were still with us, the South Street landmark was known as “The Fillmore at the TLA,”...
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This coming Wednesday, June 5th, sibling power pop duo Durry will be headlining The Foundry… exactly six months to the day since the Minnesota outfit were originally set to play the Fishtown venue. But during a recent phone chat with Austin and Taryn Durry, Austin (whose sickness resulted in...
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Darkroom has the distinction of being our favorite album of the year by an artist that we’ve never actually met. The LP, which dropped May 17th, is the sophomore full-length from French-Canadian duo Ghostly Kisses (comprised of Margaux Sauvé and Louis-Étienne Santais), the follow-up to 2022’s Heaven, Wait, both...
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This Friday, May 31st, the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection will have two opportunities to see Oakland-based garage punk quartet Shannon & The Clams, who will be playing this week’s WXPN Free At Noon at World Café Live, before they play a full-length headlining set that night...
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Last week local punk rockers Mannequin Pussy played their seventh consecutive sold-out show at Union Transfer. It all began in August of 2021, when the Marisa Dabice-led band opened the first three dates of Japanese Breakfast’s five-night run at the Eraserhood venue, marking the official/unofficial return of live music...
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Local Run for Cover Records outfit Another Michael are headlining a hometown show tonight at Johnny Brenda’s. However, we’re just as excited to get another chance to see Tenci, who will be providing direct support. Tenci is the Chicago-based indie folk project of singer/songwriter Jess Shoman, who we have...
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The last time we saw Nashville singer/songwriter Maggie Rose in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection she was headlining the grand reopening of the Music Hall at World Café Live in September of 2021. Although music fans were still navigating their comfort levels in live settings at...
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The City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection first met multicultural British rock trio Calva Louise in April of 2022 on their first-ever US tour, when they were supporting alt-rockers Slothrust at The Church. Well, the band – comprised of Venezuelan vocalist/guitarist Jess Allanic, French bassist Alizon Taho, and...
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Last year the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection saw a number of noteworthy “classic album” tours, from Superheaven doing Jar at Union Transfer to Sparta doing Wiretap Scars at Underground Arts and Boris and Melvins doing Heavy Rocks and Bullhead (respectively) at Brooklyn Bowl. However, the first...
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We remember the days of Texas psych-funk trio Khruangbin playing Eraserhood’s Underground Arts like it was yesterday (The last time was apparently 2018…) However, their last date in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection had them headlining the significantly grander and more opulent opera house (The Met...
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The City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection saw Long Beach, New York-based, highly danceable, alt-rockers Family Dinner just last year when they opened a sold-out Ukie Club for Oso Oso, our local buddies Carly Cosgrove, and Kicksie, but they’re already preparing to return, as tonight they’re kicking off...
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This March SoCal psych-soul trio Chicano Batman released Notebook Fantasy, their first full-length since 2020’s Invisible People. The album was produced by GRAMMY winner John Congleton – known for his work with PHILTHY phriends like Bully, BAILEN, Blood Red Shoes, and even some artists whose names don’t begin with...
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Alyse Vellturo, better known as PRONOUN, has the distinction of being the first artist I went to see live post-lockdown (Earlier that year, prior to the release of her June 2021 EP, OMG I MADE IT, we chatted and she told me she was desperately itching to get out...
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Last Saturday, Spanish Love Songs headlined a stacked lineup at the Theatre of Living Arts. With support from Worry Club, Sydney Sprague, and Oso Oso co-headlining, the show was an incredible experience. The band’s energy was unmatched – only by the energy of the audience. The setlist included songs...
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Nashville-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Lydia Luce recently found herself on tour supporting our good buddy Andrea von Kampen for a March trek (The two will be reuniting for a November tour of the UK.) “We’ve been friends for a little while. We’re in each other’s top ‘sounds like’ on...
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We first met Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Nisa – who described her sounds as, “genre-less music, leaning on pop, but not being tied to a genre.” – last February, while she was on her first-ever tour, which included a stop at MilkBoy. Although at the time Nisa only had EPs and...
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We last saw charmingly gothy alternative chamber pop outfit Sloppy Jane in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection just this February, when they opened the last area show ever for blues punk duo Deap Vally at Underground Arts on the band’s farewell tour. Sloppy Jane’s live lineup...
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The last time Walla Walla, Washington indie rockers Chastity Belt played the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was nearly half a decade ago, when they headlined First Unitarian Church in November of 2019 in support of their self-titled fourth LP. Well, they’re preparing to return to the...
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Toronto rockers, Metz, tour their for newly released fifth studio album, “Up on Gravity Hill,” bringing along Florida punk band, Gouge Away, to play songs from their newly released third studio album, “Deep Sage.” I’ve been a fan of both bands for a few years and I’ve seen them...
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Hyper-melodic folk and shoegaze-inspired indie rock duo Babehoven, comprised of Maya Bon and Ryan Albert, found themselves in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection twice last year in very different settings… In March they opened an exceptionally quiet show for Naima Bock at The Lounge at World...
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Today Vancouver-based queer pop phenom Xana released “Monster,” the third single from her forthcoming sophomore LP, The Sex Was Good Until It Wasn’t, which drops May 10th. “I wrote this song at a time where I was forced to look my mistakes square in the eye and take accountability...
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This past Saturday, legendary experimental rockers Swans returned to Union Transfer for the first time since 2016. They played one of their famously deafening two-and-a-half hour sets, opening with an hour-long rendition of ‘The Beggar,’ the title track of their 2023 LP. The extremely talented musicians put on an...
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“I always think of the intense smell of the alley behind The Trocadero. I often think of that when I think of the worst smell I’ve ever smelled,” says Dustin Kensrue, laughing, discussing the many times he was at the legendary Chinatown venue fronting post-hardcore legends Thrice. However, he...
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New York folk rock group Driftwood are currently touring behind their sixth full-length, December Last Call (which dropped last month), while also celebrating their 15-year anniversary as a band, and they’ll be headlining our very own MilkBoy on Friday, May 3rd. “The rock club vibe, we did that for...
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“I made this record with the intent of sort of riling people up more. In the past, whenever I would play my new music for friends, they’d be like, ‘Oh, that’s nice,” or something like that, and for this one I was like, ‘Fuck that! I wanna incite something...
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Earlier this month, emo legends Dashboard Confessional announced a fall tour, which includes a September 15th stop at The Met. However, the artist on the bill that we’re most excited about is Nashville-based (She’s originally from Wellsboro.) pop-punk powerhouse Taylor Acorn, who will be opening the entire tour. We...
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This Friday, 4/19, South Street – Philadelphia’s historic hot spot for goths, punks, rockers, weirdos and alternative kids of every variety – will fittingly be hosting the Gothic Summer Tour at Theatre of Living Arts. Headlining the evening is Australian progressive pop sister duo The Veronicas, whose ...
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“Union Transfer is amazing and one of my favorite venues, like Top 3. That’s the place I would want to go to see a show,” says Josh Hodges, founder and mainman of Portland, OR indie rock outfit STRFKR. The band has played the Eraserhood ballroom numerous times over the...
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This Thursday, April 18th, Vermont alt-rock group Sir Chloe will be headlining The Foundry at The Fillmore. However, we’re just as excited to see Daffo, who is opening Sir Chloe’s current tour and for whom Thursday will be a homecoming show. Daffo is the project of singer/songwriter Gabi Gamberg,...
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“Every show’s just been amazing… It’s really fun to connect in a physical manner for the first time after not being able to do that for so long. We’re never gonna take that for granted again,” says Alex Bleeker, bassist and co-founder of New Jersey indie rockers Real Estate,...
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Friday night The Foundry at The Fillmore was filled with a number of people who were likely getting ready to partake in the Wrestlemania festivities of the weekend, in addition to a plethora of other girls and gays decked out in vinyl, fishnets, and harnesses, who probably weren’t...
“I can see if you’re on Twitter or on Instagram. I can read your phone,” jokes Addie Sartino, lead vocalist for The Greeting Committee, upon being asked if she has a message to fans coming out to see the indie rock band on their upcoming headlining tour. Sartino, a...
“We would play the smaller venue for like a decade, and rolling our amps through the bigger venue, it was kind of like stinging. So, when our fate changed, it was such a milestone,” says Mother Mother vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter Ryan Guldemond (with whom I last spoke...
