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“I’ll be singing about freedom and how to be alive together and create a safe world where everyone can be in it and have freedom to have safety…  I want nothing less than world peace,” proclaims singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Shara Nova, better known as My Brightest Diamond. ...

“We’ve never gotten to play venues this big…  We’re the first band on these bills, so we feel like we’ve really got to bring our A-game,” says Brendan Dyer, founder and mainman of LA alt-rockers MILLY, who are about to embark on two pretty massive tours.  Just after a...

We first met Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Nisa – who described her sounds as, “genre-less music, leaning on pop, but not being tied to a genre.” – last February, while she was on her first-ever tour, which included a stop at MilkBoy.  Although at the time Nisa only had EPs and...

This Thursday Los Angeles duo crushed – comprised of Bre Morell and Shaun Durkan – kick off a four-date North American tour, which will find them headlining our very own Ortlieb’s Lounge this Saturday, March 30th (March 28th will have them at TV Eye in Brooklyn and the final...

The last time we saw Arlo Parks in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was last May, when the West London-raised, Los Angeles-based soulful indie pop singer/songwriter played an exceptionally intimate performance for WXPN members that provided one of the highlights of last year’s NON-COMM at World...

While the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection recently had the pleasure of having lo-fi indie rock phenom Samia open our instantly-legendary boygenius show, those in Boston and New Haven were treated to an opening set from equally amazing Polyvinyl alternative rocker Palehound, whose recently released fourth LP,...

This coming Sunday, October 8th, Los Angeles indie rock singer/songwriter Miya Folick will be returning to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection (where I recently found out she has some history) to headline The Foundry at The Fillmore.  She’s currently touring ROACH, her second LP, which dropped...

Summertime is quickly coming to an end, but the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection is still awaiting one of the summer’s best double-headlining jaunts, which will find itself at Underground Arts on Friday, August 25th…  This July two of our favorite indie folk acts — Brooklyn quartet...

“It’s gonna be a banger of a night,” says JOSEPH of their current headlining tour, not quite a sentiment often associated with shows at World Café Live (They’ll be playing The Music Hall of the singer/songwriter haven on Friday, June 23rd.)  The Portland-based folksy indie pop trio of sisters...