Eraserhood

Rachel Bochner is currently our phavorite burgeoning queer pop icon in the making.  We’ve been Twitter mutuals for a little while and I found out recently that she’s besties with likeminded queer pop phenom Xana, who we got to know earlier this year.  The two actually played Philthy mini...

“I’m not gonna play another show for 11 months, which is awesome for me… and my nervous system… but it’s bittersweet,” says Adrianne Lenker two songs into her second sold-out performance at Union Transfer in as many nights.  The vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of indie folk icons Big...

Last year masked and anonymous Portuguese extreme metal outfit GAEREA played two packed shows in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection.  And this Saturday, 11/23, they’ll be playing their biggest local date yet at Union Transfer, with opening night of avant-garde metal band Zeal & Ardor’s North...

This August, Canadian composer and musician Caribou performed a free pop-up DJ set at our very own Bok Bar Rooftop, prior to the October release of his Honey LP (via Merge Records and City Slang) and his subsequent headlining tour, which kicked off earlier this month and will find...

Australian psych rockers Pond have had quite the busy 2024, dropping their first-ever double album (Stung!) this summer and releasing a full concert video (Live at the Lodge Room) last month, chronicling the conclusion of the band’s tour of the US this May.  (Although, releasing 10 studio albums in...

“Hausu and Japanese horror were really big inspirations for Squeeze, whereas for the new one it was Thelma & Louise, denim, and big ‘80s hair,” Sasami Ashworth, better known mononymously as SASAMI, tells me of her upcoming third solo LP (She’s a former member of Cherry Glazerr.), Blood on...

For the second year in a row, Boris are giving us a massive Fall “classic album” tour!!  Last year we saw the Japanese experimental metal legends doing Heavy Rocks (2002), alongside Melvins, who were doing 1991’s Bullhead, featuring Boris’ namesake.  And this year the Tokyo band are taking it...

“It was two totally different gigs and crowds.  It was like a rap event going on downstairs and my audience was all confused,” says Jazmin Bean, laughing, of their most recent show in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection, which had the genderless British alt-pop artist headlining...

“We’re gonna have a big old fat party!” says Serra Petale, songwriter and guitarist of London-based quartet Los Bitchos, who kicked off a seven-date North American tour last night in DC and will be headlining our very own Underground Arts tonight, 9/23 (And Petale admits to being a big...