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“I like to curate my shows, and Dancing and Crying is a very clubby show with really theatrical elements.  It’s a hybrid of a live show, like going to a DJ set and there’s something very theatrical,” says Canadian electro-pop artist Kiesza – best known for 2014 debut single...

This coming Saturday, May 30th, Fire Talk Records’ Robber Robber wrap their initial North American run behind sophomore LP Two Wheels Move the Soul at our very own Johnny Brenda’s.  The making of the follow-up to 2024 debut full-length Wild Guess was largely characterized by Robber Robber co-founders Nina...

Those who’ve had the reissue of Flipper’s Generic Flipper — the debut LP from the legendary San Francisco punks — in heavy rotation since it was made available for the first time in a decade last month, via San Francisco label Superior Viaduct, will be excited to know that...

“The first time I visited Philly I just remember there was a huge Carvana!” laughs Margaret Sohn, the New York-based, Korean-American electronic musician behind Miss Grit, referencing their first trip to Fishtown, which had Miss Grit opening The Fillmore for indie rock veterans Metric in October of 2022.  The...

This Wednesday, April 22nd, The Antlers will play their most intimate local show in well over a decade when they come to Johnny Brenda’s on the final night of headlining dates behind 2025’s Blight, the seventh full-length from Peter Silberman’s indie rock project.  The North American dates — which...

The last time we saw Latin alternative pop singer/songwriter VALÉ in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was October of last year when she opened a sold-out Theatre of Living Arts for alt-pop sibling duo (and America’s Got Talent quarterfinalists) BETWEEN FRIENDS.  And the time before that...

Earlier this year, the founders/originators/inventors of twee (a designation that they themselves have mixed feelings about… preferring “indiepop”), Heavenly, released Highway To Heavenly, their fifth full-length and first in three decades…  The album, technically the follow-up to the UK band’s 1996 LP, Operation Heavenly, dropped on February 27th via...

This Friday, February 27th, will see the release of the deluxe edition of Staring at the Sun, the 2024 sophomore full-length from Hotel Fiction, the Athens, GA-based duo of best friends Jade Long (piano, vocals) and Jess Thompson (guitar, vocals), who first met as students at the University of...

“It’s been a lot of touring in the past year.  I’ve never toured that much in a year before.  I’ve learned a lot about the logistics of touring and getting a band around the country,” laughs singer/songwriter Cornelia Murr, who serves as her own tour manager and has been...