New York Times

  • Catch Up With Alvvays, 11/12 at Franklin Music Hall

    Canadian indie poppers Alvvays have described their latest single, “After The Earthquake” – inspired by Haruki Murakami’s After the Quake – as, “a rapid fire recital of drive-thru breakdown, tectonic breakup and boyfriend in a coma brake failure.”  The track is off of the band’s third LP, Blue Rev, released...
  • Superorganism’s Orono Noguchi on, “making the boldest, biggest, coolest thing EVER!” (11/5 at UT)

    This July London-based, internationally bred pop outfit Superorganism released World Wide Pop, the year’s most unabashedly candid collection of songs, and also one of the year’s best.  New York Times called the band’s sophomore album, “An explosion of bubble-gum hooks, wild production ideas and genuinely poignant reflections about growing...
  • mxmtoon w/ Chloe Moriondo, One Night on South Street (6/5 at TLA)

    This Sunday, June 5th, the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection will have its live debut of two of 2022’s best releases when bedroom pop stars mxmtoon and Chloe Moriondo play Theatre of Living Arts.  Headlining the evening is mxmtoon, who’s touring behind her second studio album, rising,...
  • Aldous Harding Hits the Road (6/10 at UT)

    This month 4AD brought the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection a few of its best shows, including post-punk revivalists Dry Cleaning at First Unitarian Church and neo glam rockers The Lemon Twigs at Underground Arts.  And next Friday, June 10th, 4AD recording artist Aldous Harding will be...
  • illuminati hotties, Bringing the Tenderpunk (2/26 at The Church, w/ Fenne Lily and Pom Pom Squad)

    “The songs tell a story of my gremlin-ass running around LA, sneaking into pools at night, messing up and starting over, begging for attention for one second longer, and asking the audience to let me do one more,” says Sarah Tudzin of illuminati hotties’...
  • Lucy Dacus’ Home Video and 10 More Gems from Matador Records

    This Friday, June 25th, sees the release of Lucy Dacus’ third LP, Home Video, courtesy of Matador.  The album chronicles the existential ins and outs of Dacus’ formative years in Richmond, VA.  Her fourth and latest single, “Brando,” tells the tale of a high school friend obsessed with Old...