B&S

  • The Return of Bonny Light Horseman (12/11 at Underground Arts)

    The City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection first met Bonny Light Horseman at Boot & Saddle in February of 2020, just before the world shut down…  The band – consisting of singer/songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, multi-instrumentalist/producer/arranger Josh Kaufman, and Fruit Bats leader (and former member of The Shins) Eric...
  • Flashing Back to 2016 with Cate Le Bon (10/6 at UT)

    This February Welsh art pop singer/songwriter Cate Le Bon released her sixth studio album, Pompeii, courtesy of Mexican Summer.  NPR claimed the album and artist, “made meaning out of high-art nonsense, turning simple, quotidian things into freaky and oblique images, the stuff of heady and sensual dreams,” and The...
  • Dehd’s Jason Balla on Blue Skies: “This is our best one yet!” (10/22 at Brooklyn Bowl)

    Unfortunately, Chicago trio Dehd’s show scheduled for this past Sunday at Union Transfer had to be cancelled with someone in the group’s touring party testing positive for COVID….  But, just today they announced more than a month of Fall dates, including an October 22nd stop at Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia. ...
  • Adia Victoria’s “blues existentialism” (4/19 at MilkBoy)

    In the decade that Adia Victoria has been kicking out twangy blues jams (In the MC5 sense, not the hippie or party-ready sense.), she’s managed to play all of the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection’s favorite barroom dive venues, from local metal mecca Kung Fu Necktie, to...
  • Meet Twen, This Sat. or Sun. at Boot & Saddle (w/ The Joy Formidable)

    Although I’m guessing many of our readers are currently in a food coma, hopefully you’ll be back on your feet for the weekend, as Philly will be getting two of the best shows it’s seen all year. Welsh rockers The Joy Formidable will play their most intimate Philly dates...