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Friday, April 29th, Nashville-based singer/songwriter Caroline Spence will be releasing her fourth full-length, True North (via Rounder Records), which has already produced some of the year’s best Americana singles (“Clean Getaway,” “The Gift,” and, most recently, “Scale These Walls.”) Although her headlining show at MilkBoy was cancelled after the...
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Although MØ’s recent stop at Union Transfer last Wednesday (April 13th) didn’t leave quite the impression on the city as a whole that Waxahatchee’s two sold-out shows at the venue did earlier that week, for the modest crowd in attendance, the hour-long performance seemed to pack a profoundly satisfying...
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Last week Lindsey Jordan, better known as Snail Mail, played her first post-lockdown show at Idaho’s Treefort Music Festival. The performance was the first since Snail Mail’s critically acclaimed sophomore LP, Valentine, and since Lindsey had surgery to correct vocal cord polyps, which delayed the tour. However, the album,...
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“Fucking Kathleen Hanna Tweeted about my record and I literally shat my pants! I’m literally thinking of getting that Tweet printed on a fucking shirt!” Madi Diaz tells me during a recent phone chat. The last time I talked to the Nashville-based artist was last August, just prior to...
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“I feel like we’re at the peak of ourselves as a band, so I’m excited to get out there and play these songs,” says William Keegan, guitarist and vocalist of SoCal power-poppy garage rockers Together Pangea. The trio released their fifth full-length, DYE, last October on Nettwerk Records, and...
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Although child-star-turned-pop-sensation JoJo is definitely a “downtown” kind of girl, post-lockdown she’s established herself as a staple of Eraserhood, the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection’s art district most famous as the inspiration behind David Lynch’s Eraserhead. Last October she headlined an exceptionally intimate (and exceptionally sold out)...
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The Beths are the kind of band that teach you how to pogo through heartbreak. And that was certainly the vibe when the New Zealand harmony-laden power pop quartet played a sold-out show at Eraserhood’s Underground Arts last Thursday, February 24th. The basement venue’s capacity-crowd hopped, bopped, and chanted...
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Would you know what I meant if I said that something resembled a film adaptation of a Bret Easton Ellis novel? Well, last Thursday night, February 10th, Underground Arts resembled a film adaptation of a Bret Easton Ellis novel. The charmingly seedy basement venue, normally the home to punks,...
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Last September Asheville-based indie rock singer/songwriter Indigo De Souza played a sold-out show at Eraserhood’s exceptionally intimate PhilaMOCA. However, she’s already returning to David Lynch’s former neighborhood, this time to play across the street, at the much larger Union Transfer on Sunday, January 30th. But, during a recent phone...
Friday, April 29th, Nashville-based singer/songwriter Caroline Spence will be releasing her fourth full-length, True North (via Rounder Records), which has already produced some of the year’s best Americana singles (“Clean Getaway,” “The Gift,” and, most recently, “Scale These Walls.”) Although her headlining show at MilkBoy was cancelled after the...
Although MØ’s recent stop at Union Transfer last Wednesday (April 13th) didn’t leave quite the impression on the city as a whole that Waxahatchee’s two sold-out shows at the venue did earlier that week, for the modest crowd in attendance, the hour-long performance seemed to pack a profoundly satisfying...
