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As all serious music fans in the Mid-Atlantic know, this week is the official/unofficial start of touring season (“Fall Edition”), so hopefully we’ve all gotten enough sleep throughout the summer to spend 4-7 nights of each of the next 12 weeks or so in the city’s nightclubs, barrooms, listening...
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“You can expect a trio of clam aliens screaming about butter,” says Tea Eater songwriter and frontperson Tarra Thiessen (also of Gustaf, Sharkmuffin, and MamajoeVramajoe) when I ask what’s in store for those who come out to the self-assessed “weirdo art punk” band’s show tomorrow, August 13th, at Nikki...
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“This feels the most like me, in this moment, sonically and lyrically. I spoke more on how I thought the songs should go, giving myself permission to take up space and reflect how I feel and own that, and advocate for myself in small ways… I think there’s a...
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“Just the city being so loud and crazy all the time has come through in the music. Also, the constant internal anxiety brain. It’s so fun, but it’s also overwhelming, this constant, crazy, buzzing energy,” says Laveda frontwoman Ali Genevich, referring to how her and guitarist Jacob Brooks’ 2023...
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“We’re really gonna try to muss up City Winery,” laughs Adrian Blake Enscoe, one-third of Brooklyn indie-folk-pop-Americana outfit Bandits on the Run, before Sydney Shepherd (his partner in life and music) proclaims, “We’ve performed everywhere from Broadway to the subway.” That is actually true… Adrian, Sydney, and Regina Strayhorn...
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This coming Monday, June 30th, MilkBoy is hosting my most anticipated show of the summer. Vienna-based, multidisciplinary artist Sofie Royer will be headlining the barroom that I regularly refer to as “Center City’s last old school rock club.” Royer is touring behind LP #3, 2024’s Young-Girl Forever, a collection...
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“When you release an album, it’s really magical, like opening a door, and I feel like I can finally have some fun,” says Raquel Berrios, one-half of Puerto Rican indie duo Buscabulla, going on to say she and her husband/Buscabulla’s other-half, Luis Del Valle, are excited to get out...
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The last time we saw Blondshell in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was when she opened Franklin Music Hall for Exile in Guyville’s 30th anniversary tour, which — I find out during a recent Zoom chat — was apparently the first encounter our phriend, and one-time...
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You may have caught NYC dreamgaze outfit PANIK FLOWER last year when they opened MilkBoy for our phriends partygirl. And, during a recent Zoom chat with four of the five members of PANIK FLOWER, I find out that it was apparently a highlight of their young career. This Thursday,...
As all serious music fans in the Mid-Atlantic know, this week is the official/unofficial start of touring season (“Fall Edition”), so hopefully we’ve all gotten enough sleep throughout the summer to spend 4-7 nights of each of the next 12 weeks or so in the city’s nightclubs, barrooms, listening...
“You can expect a trio of clam aliens screaming about butter,” says Tea Eater songwriter and frontperson Tarra Thiessen (also of Gustaf, Sharkmuffin, and MamajoeVramajoe) when I ask what’s in store for those who come out to the self-assessed “weirdo art punk” band’s show tomorrow, August 13th, at Nikki...
