Los Angeles

You may have already heard earlier today that October 2nd is the official release date for when no one’s watching, the debut full-length from Los Angeles alternative rockers wilt… who you may have seen opening The Foundry for Remo Drive in 2024… or maybe you caught them at Kung...

“We were a different band in a lot of ways from when we played Philly at World Café Live in 2023; we even had more members then.  We’ve learned and grown so much since then,” says Wallace, drummer of indie pop/rock trio Koyal, who will be returning to the...

Last month LA-based, Paris-bred lounge pop duo Pearl & The Oysters – comprised of Juliette Pearl Davis (Juju) and Joachim Polack (Jojo) – released Monkey Mind, their sixth full-length and third for Stones Throw (also home to our phriend Sofie Royer).  The album, easily one of the year’s best,...

This past weekend Los Angeles psychedelic garage rockers Allah-Las kicked off a week of East Coast headlining dates that will have them returning to Underground Arts this Friday, July 24th.  The shows come ahead of the band’s sixth full-length, Sirenas, which drops more than a month later on August...

“I’ve done it now for 25 years, and you hope to have that one hit single, but it’s essentially still an underground career,” says Ryan Kattner aka Honus Honus aka the frontman of Man Man, the originally-Philadelphia-based experimental rockers (now based in Los Angeles) that spent the aughts and...

Next Friday, July 10th, Midwest emo legends American Football will be playing their biggest Philadelphia show ever when they headline Franklin Music Hall as part of the first US leg of their “No Feeling” World Tour, which comes in support of their fourth self-titled LP and first in...

Although we’re officially amidst one of the dryest seasons of the calendar year for live music, Philadelphia does have a handful of upcoming July shows really worth getting excited about… perhaps none more so than when Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek brings his solo show back to Johnny Brenda’s...

Last week alternative/electro-pop trio Cannons kicked off the Afterglow Tour, a co-headlining jaunt with electronic duo Bob Moses, whose opening duties are being handled by Oxis, the marine electronica artist who you may have seen opening The Fillmore for Magdalena Bay last October (captured by our live photographer, Morgan...

“Having lived there for so long, playing First Unitarian Church is always especially wonderful, and getting to play the Sanctuary, especially, feels like a major accomplishment,” says harpist, composer, and one-time (and longtime) Philadelphia resident Mary Lattimore during a phone chat last month.  Our discussion was cut short due...