Adrianne Lenker

August 18th saw the release of NYC-based singer/songwriter Margaret Glaspy’s third full-length, Echo the Diamond, courtesy of ATO Records.  However, the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection had already gotten a few chances to experience the songs live.  “We had the opportunity to play the songs on this...

This month marks 20 years since I moved to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection.  I was the typical suburban alternative teen, migrating to University of the Arts to study among likely the only fans of The Velvet Underground and Nick Cave hailing from upper-middle-class, yuppie-breeding...

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...

Being packed into a cramped corner of the seemingly well-beyond-sold-out Franklin Music Hall this past Saturday night (2/4), it was hard to believe that the headliners were, not so long ago, playing to half-capacity crowds at the likes of Tin Angel, Boot & Saddle, and MilkBoy.  However, in less...

This Wednesday, May 11th, indie pop singer/songwriter Molly Burch returns to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection when she headlines The Foundry at The Fillmore.  However, we’re equally excited to see opening act NoSo, who is currently on the road supporting Burch.  NoSo (shorthand for North/South) is...

“I love Philly so much…  It feels like an extension of New York or something, even though they’re so different,”  singer/songwriter Margaret Glaspy tells me during a recent phone chat.  Just last November the New York-based, folk-leaning musician opened Theatre of Living Arts for Ruston Kelly with a solo...

The last time I caught up with Brooklyn-based indie folk rockers Big Thief was in 2016, when they were opening for Nada Surf at World Café Live, so their headlining show last Saturday, October 2nd, the second of two sold-out nights at the 1,300-capacity Union Transfer, was something quite...

“The album was inspired by spending a lot of time in the desert, spending so much time in movement across the country, and being in a kind of particular poetic, existential state at a reflective time,” says Indigo Sparke of Echo, her debut LP, which was released this February...

Next Monday, June 24th, Eleni Mandell kicks off her latest tour of the Northeast in Boston.  And that Wednesday, June 26th, will bring her once again to World Café Live Upstairs.  And although we’ve never officially covered Mandell, we are friends of her sonic sisters, Inara George and Becky...