New York

This September, BAILEN celebrated album release day for SWIM!!!, the sibling trio’s third full-length and first fully independent release, with a WXPN Free At Noon show, something BAILEN bassist/vocalist Daniel Bailen and I realize during a recent chat has kind of become a tradition for the New York City...

Last Thursday, Kingston, New York’s Assembly hosted opening night of the Rare Kisses Tour, a double-headlining jaunt featuring legendary Detroit synth-punk duo ADULT. and New York City noise rock icons A Place To Bury Strangers, which will have the two acts returning to Underground Arts this Tuesday, November 10th. ...

While the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection has a handful of appealing live music options for Halloween night, including some sonically spooky stuff in Eraserhood, we will be spending the evening at The Foundry at The Fillmore for the weekend’s best rock show.  Headlining the show are...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

“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...

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...