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“I’m really excited to play Firefly. I’ve never played a festival before,” says Jordana Nye (better known as simply Jordana), the bedroom-pop-star-turning-legit-alt-pop-sensation behind “I Guess This Is Life” (which has more than a million streams on Spotify). Just yesterday the singer/songwriter released her debut LP, Face The Wall, courtesy...
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Last week Australian dream pop singer/songwriter Hatchie released her sophomore LP, Giving The World Away, courtesy of Secretly Canadian (Cherry Glazerr, Faye Webster, Skullcrusher). Although the album follows-up 2019’s Keepsake, Hatchie has said it feels like a restart of sorts. Without losing any of the charm of Keepsake or...
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The last time the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection saw viral-performance-artist-turned-pop-star Poppy was February of 2020, when she last appeared at Theatre of Living Arts, supporting her recently released third LP, I Disagree, which had the candy-coated cyber princess transform into a legit metal vixen (The album...
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Earlier during the pandemic, shoegaze savant Jasamine White-Gluz, the brainchild behind No Joy, released Motherhood, the first No Joy album in five years and their most eclectic and surprising yet. The album; which was released via Joyful Noise and received praise from the likes of Pitchfork, The FADER, and...
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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...
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Milwaukee’s Rose of the West are an amalgam of pretty much all of our favorite sounds: post-punk, ethereal wave, dream pop, ‘90s alt rock… basically everything that beautifully soundtracked the lives of the most whimsically angsty and morose teens of the mid-80’s to the mid 90’s… The band is...
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“I’m an interpreter. I’m a singer/singer,” Samantha Sidley tells me, giggling. Sidley is a jazz singer (but not songwriter), who is perhaps best known for her work with The Bird and the Bee, both as a touring member of the dream pop outfit and also as a contributor to...
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Although we’re really not fans of waking up in the AM, it just might be worth it this Friday when our good friends, Pure Bathing Culture, play World Café Live and XPN’s weekly Free at Noon series. Pure Bathing Culture are a Portland duo, comprised of Sarah Versprille and...
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Tonight, our very favorite nearly-Center City venue, Boot & Saddle, is hosting a stellar lineup. Opening the evening is local, post-riot grrrl rocker extraordinaire, Madalean Gauze, and headlining is ineffably quirky Chicago noise poppers, Ohmme. However, we may be most excited (but not by a lot) for Renata Zeiguer,...