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The City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection first met Bonny Light Horseman at Boot & Saddle in February of 2020, just before the world shut down…  The band – consisting of singer/songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, multi-instrumentalist/producer/arranger Josh Kaufman, and Fruit Bats leader (and former member of The Shins) Eric...

This Saturday night, May 21st, Johnny Brenda’s will likely be rocking quite a bit harder than usual…  Portland-based quartet Blackwater Holylight will be bringing their doomy, gloomy, ultra-heavy psych rock to the Fishtown venue best known for hosting darlings of indie pop and experimental rock (not that there’s anything...

“I love Philly so much…  It feels like an extension of New York or something, even though they’re so different,”  singer/songwriter Margaret Glaspy tells me during a recent phone chat.  Just last November the New York-based, folk-leaning musician opened Theatre of Living Arts for Ruston Kelly with a solo...

Last September Asheville-based indie rock singer/songwriter Indigo De Souza played a sold-out show at Eraserhood’s exceptionally intimate PhilaMOCA.  However, she’s already returning to David Lynch’s former neighborhood, this time to play across the street, at the much larger Union Transfer on Sunday, January 30th.  But, during a recent phone...

This weekend, our favorite contemporary purveyors of soul, Durand Jones & The Indications, kicked off their latest headlining tour in Harrisburg.  And this Wednesday, September 8th, they will find themselves headlining our very own Union Transfer.  After those dates wrap with two nights at the Hollywood Palladium on the...

Tonight, our very favorite nearly-Center City venue, Boot & Saddle, is hosting a stellar lineup.  Opening the evening is local, post-riot grrrl rocker extraordinaire, Madalean Gauze, and headlining is ineffably quirky Chicago noise poppers, Ohmme.  However, we may be most excited (but not by a lot) for Renata Zeiguer,...