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The last time I caught up with our phriends Bandits on the Run — the trio of Adrian Blake Enscoe, Sydney Shepherd, and Regina Strayhorn, who began their musical career as NYC buskers a decade ago — they were touring the recently released The Shakespeare Tapes, an EP inspired...
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It’s been less than a year since City Winery Philadelphia last hosted Stella Cole, the 27-year-old vocalist who made a name for herself doing interpretations of jazz standards and selections from the Great American Songbook on TikTok during Lockdown, earning praise from James Taylor, Michael Bublé, Meghan Trainor, and...
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“It kind of blows me away that it’s been that long. That album still has a near and dear place in my heart. That’s when people really started taking notice, especially with ‘Stampede,’” says Will Anderson, vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and founder of NYC indie rockers Hotline TNT when...
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Earlier this month indie rockers Slow Fiction released dollhouse, their 11-track debut LP which had FLOOD Magazine saying, “ specialize in breezy, dreamy power-pop as banged out by a five-person lineup that inevitably presents a denser sound than many of their peers.” And earlier this week the New...
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“It’s funny, I still think of Johnny Brenda’s as like the new spot,” says Kid Millions, aka John Colpitts, drummer and co-founder of New York-based experimental rockers Oneida, who are preparing to play the venue for just about the umpteenth time on August 10th when I let him know...
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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...
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Earlier this month English singer/songwriter and Polydor recording artist Holly Humberstone sold out her fifth consecutive show in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection when she returned to Theatre of Living Arts on June 9th. (Her first area appearance was supporting girl in red at Union Transfer...
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This Wednesday, April 22nd, The Antlers will play their most intimate local show in well over a decade when they come to Johnny Brenda’s on the final night of headlining dates behind 2025’s Blight, the seventh full-length from Peter Silberman’s indie rock project. The North American dates — which...
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“Bewitched was the first album when we were really a proper band, that we’d done as a quartet; we did Lunapark as a trio. Bewitched is the first record that really felt like Luna to me,” says Dean Wareham, founder and frontman of the legendary NYC band, who will...