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Taleen Kali and I have been Twitter buddies for a few years now, so I was super bummed to have to miss her debut performance in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection when she played Ortlieb’s last October… However, she and her band will be back in...
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We first met Brooklyn-based indie folk singer/songwriter Scout Gillett last summer, prior to the October 28th release of her debut LP, no roof no floor, an album she recorded in an actual barn with Ellen Kempner of Palehound, David Lizmi of MS MR, and producer Nick Kinsey. The album,...
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This Friday, April 7th, will see the release of Warm Blanket, the fourth full-length from Worriers, the musical outlet of LA-based punk rock singer/songwriter and visual artist Lauren Denitzio, who recorded and mixed the record entirely on their own, despite no proper training in audio recording. The album, which...
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“I just love playing shows anywhere… With every tour it’s a combination of, ‘Oh, wow! We haven’t been here in a long time,’ or, ‘Hey! This city has always been so great to us!’” says Nils Edenloff, lead vocalist and guitarist of folky indie rockers The Rural Alberta Advantage,...
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Being the week of SXSW, I realize most celebrating artists are currently caught in a cheap-beer-and-taco-fueled haze of Rock’N’Roll taking over Austin’s least conventional performance spaces (perhaps even an airport baggage claim…), so I was thrilled to get a chance to chat via phone with Why Bonnie band leader...
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“Part of me is happy to hear that there’s not a lot of information about us. We’ve never wanted our personalities to be front and center,” says queer, doomy, experimental black metal duo Ragana. This is not such a surprising revelation, as the two – Maria and Nicole, who...
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Few bands would seem better suited to headline Kung Fu Necktie – Philly’s Mecca of proto-punk – than San Diego garage-soul trio The Schizophonics, whose primary influences would seem to be MC5, The Stooges, and The Cramps. The band – who have been kicking out their jams since 2009...
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I vividly remember five years ago, a quartet of teens looking like the supporting cast of Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine thrusting their way through a beyond-sold-out Kung Fu Necktie (and an exceptionally sweaty and crusty cast of punks there to see A Giant Dog) to take the stage of...
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“We’re a band who has very fun, sexy Rock N’ Roll music,” says Gina Zo of her Philadelphia-based quartet, Velvet Rouge (formerly known as Zo). Gina Zo – a contestant for Team Blake on season 10 of The Voice at 17 and former Director of Marketing for Joan Shepp...