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“This next body of work is, I think, the strongest body of work of my career. I created it in the wake of enormous change, and I was set free in a lot of ways, and untethered myself from a lot of expectations,” says multi-platinum, two-time GRAMMY-nominated artist K....
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“We’re going on before Ministry, so we won’t be doing any ballads. We’re gonna keep it as hard as we can,” gothic/industrial/dark wave legend Gary Numan (who is far more light-hearted than you’d imagine) tells me during a recent phone chat. Numan is currently on a tour that has...
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Beloved 90s Riot Grrrl band, Bikini Kill, first announced their comeback US tour in 2019, with the Philly show originally scheduled for May of 2020. But due to the pandemic, all shows were postponed not once, but three times over the last three years. I was afraid the show...
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After more rescheduled dates than any of us can remember, this coming Friday (4/7) Kathleen Hanna, Kathi Wilcox, and Tobi Vail’s Bikini Kill – co-founders of riot grrrl, arguably the most important musical movement of the ‘90s – are finally bringing their reunion tour to Franklin Music Hall for...
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Being packed into a cramped corner of the seemingly well-beyond-sold-out Franklin Music Hall this past Saturday night (2/4), it was hard to believe that the headliners were, not so long ago, playing to half-capacity crowds at the likes of Tin Angel, Boot & Saddle, and MilkBoy. However, in less...
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Indie rock singer/songwriter Bartees Strange has already made a major splash in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection this year, with an April show supporting Car Seat Headrest at Franklin Music Hall and a September appearance at WXPN’s XPoNential Music Festival in Camden. However, the DC-based musician...
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Canadian indie poppers Alvvays have described their latest single, “After The Earthquake” – inspired by Haruki Murakami’s After the Quake – as, “a rapid fire recital of drive-thru breakdown, tectonic breakup and boyfriend in a coma brake failure.” The track is off of the band’s third LP, Blue Rev, released...
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This Friday, November 11th, 25-year-old Nashville indie rock singer/songwriter Sophie Allison – better known as Soccer Mommy — returns to Philadelphia to play Franklin Music Hall, her biggest headlining show in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection yet, as part of her Touring, Forever trek. The tour...
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“I had my sister listen to it and she said, ‘This is like the chaos remix!’” says Sam Huntington of “control,” the first single from local Philadelphia duo Crooks & Nannies in five years, which dropped this Wednesday. The song is an older track, which Madel Rafter (the other...
“This next body of work is, I think, the strongest body of work of my career. I created it in the wake of enormous change, and I was set free in a lot of ways, and untethered myself from a lot of expectations,” says multi-platinum, two-time GRAMMY-nominated artist K....
“We’re going on before Ministry, so we won’t be doing any ballads. We’re gonna keep it as hard as we can,” gothic/industrial/dark wave legend Gary Numan (who is far more light-hearted than you’d imagine) tells me during a recent phone chat. Numan is currently on a tour that has...
