avant-garde

  • Anika: “The music does its own thing.” (5/29 at JB’s)

    May 24, 2022
    Last year British-born, Berlin-based post-punk-leaning, avant-garde singer/songwriter Anika (real name Annika Henderson) released Change, her second solo album and first since 2010, on Sacred Bones.  In September we chatted about the album (which was inspired in equal parts by ‘90s alternative music, the current state of politics, the pandemic,...

  • Kassie Carlson of Guerilla Toss: “Philly always brings the party…” (4/28 at JB’s)

    April 26, 2022
    Over the past decade, New York-based art-rock outfit Guerilla Toss has gained a reputation for more or less reinventing themselves with every release…  And last month the band released Famously Alive, their fifth full-length and first on Sub Pop.  The album, while embracing the noisier elements of their past,...