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Hyper-melodic folk and shoegaze-inspired indie rock duo Babehoven, comprised of Maya Bon and Ryan Albert, found themselves in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection twice last year in very different settings… In March they opened an exceptionally quiet show for Naima Bock at The Lounge at World...
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“Union Transfer is amazing and one of my favorite venues, like Top 3. That’s the place I would want to go to see a show,” says Josh Hodges, founder and mainman of Portland, OR indie rock outfit STRFKR. The band has played the Eraserhood ballroom numerous times over the...
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“Every show’s just been amazing… It’s really fun to connect in a physical manner for the first time after not being able to do that for so long. We’re never gonna take that for granted again,” says Alex Bleeker, bassist and co-founder of New Jersey indie rockers Real Estate,...
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We last caught up with Land of Talk – Montreal-based indie rock outfit of Lizzie Powell, who have been signed to Saddle Creek since 2008 – in April of 2022, when they were touring behind their four-song Calming Night Partner EP, released in 2021, between 2020 LP Indistinct Conversations...
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“I think we’re a bar band and we always kinda will be. We’re bringing bar band energy wherever we’re playing,” says Paul Banwatt, drummer for Canadian indie rock outfit The Rural Alberta Advantage in a recent phone chat (During an interview last year, vocalist/guitarist Nils Edenloff echoed an alarmingly...
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“I feel like I’ve had this New Year’s Eve convo before and the general consensus is that it’s kind of a bummer ,” says Foyer Red drummer Marco Ocampo of the almost always overhyped holiday. Although vocalist and clarinetist (and Ocampo’s partner) Elana Riordan goes on to tell me...
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“It’s been such a surreal past few months. It’s been hard to even make sense of it, to have these audiences know the songs and be singing them back to me is the greatest thing that could ever happen… And it’s my debut record!” says Karina Rykman. Rykman’s first...
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Last month Los Angeles-based punky indie rockers Worriers — the project of songwriter Lauren Denitzio, who is currently joined by band members Atom Willard (Against Me!, Social Distortion), Franz Nicolay (The Hold Steady), Frank Piegaro, and Cayetana’s Allegra Anka — released Trust Your Gut, their second full-length of the...
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2023’s summer amphitheater season is slowly coming to an end… However, this past Tuesday, September 5th, The Mann hosted arguably the best shed rock spectacle of the year. The 14,000-capacity venue was nearly overflowing with fans ranging from teens to people well into parenthood, decked out in...