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This June alt-rock legends Modest Mouse played a show at the relatively-nearby Archer Music Hall in Allentown, which sold out fairly quickly. However, on August 19th Isaac Brock and his Portland-based crew (including longtime bassist Russell Higbee and longtime percussionist Ben Massarella) will be playing Philadelphia proper when they...
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“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...
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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...
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This past Tuesday, August 5th, The Mann Center hosted the summer shed spectacle of the year, starring co-headliners The Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse, two legends of alternative rock whose histories with the Fairmount Park amphitheater are equally storied. In addition to previously sharing the stage of [what is...
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If the reunited Pixies were a person, they would’ve turned legal drinking age this April (with the original only making it to the ripe age of seven). However, for all of those latter-era Gen Xers who grew up just a little too young to catch them the first time...
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“I think headlining shows are, above all, most fun. You can fuck up and you kind of laugh along with your fans,” says Momma’s Allegra Weingarten, before Etta Friedman – Momma’s other co-founder, singer, songwriter, and guitarist – adds, “I think that those moments are very endearing. We never...
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Just last month Johnny Marr released Boomslang (2024 Deluxe Edition), a reissue of the long-out-of-print 2003 album from Johnny Marr + the Healers, the (sort of) solo debut of the legendary Smiths guitarist (and the album and special edition, which includes 7 bonus tracks, fucking rule). The re-release coincides...
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This month marks 20 years since I moved to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. I was the typical suburban alternative teen, migrating to University of the Arts to study among likely the only fans of The Velvet Underground and Nick Cave hailing from upper-middle-class, yuppie-breeding...
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Today Yoke Lore (AKA Adrian Galvin) released his latest single (and lyric video), “Hallucinate,” off of his upcoming debut LP, Toward A Never Ending New Beginning, which drops September 22nd on Yell House Records. Additionally, the indie rock singer/songwriter is set to kick off The Holy Havok Tour on...
This June alt-rock legends Modest Mouse played a show at the relatively-nearby Archer Music Hall in Allentown, which sold out fairly quickly. However, on August 19th Isaac Brock and his Portland-based crew (including longtime bassist Russell Higbee and longtime percussionist Ben Massarella) will be playing Philadelphia proper when they...
“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...
