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“Union Transfer is amazing and one of my favorite venues, like Top 3. That’s the place I would want to go to see a show,” says Josh Hodges, founder and mainman of Portland, OR indie rock outfit STRFKR. The band has played the Eraserhood ballroom numerous times over the...
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“I feel like I’ve had this New Year’s Eve convo before and the general consensus is that it’s kind of a bummer ,” says Foyer Red drummer Marco Ocampo of the almost always overhyped holiday. Although vocalist and clarinetist (and Ocampo’s partner) Elana Riordan goes on to tell me...
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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...
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August 18th saw the release of NYC-based singer/songwriter Margaret Glaspy’s third full-length, Echo the Diamond, courtesy of ATO Records. However, the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection had already gotten a few chances to experience the songs live. “We had the opportunity to play the songs on this...
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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...
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Earlier today Lawrence, Kansas punk duo Sweeping Promises – comprised of Lira Mondal and Caufield Schnug – dropped their recent Unacceptable Color performance. Unacceptable Color is a live music channel produced by Mondal and Schnug, photographer and multimedia artist Shawn Brackbill, and engineers Rob and Ryan Pope (of The...
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“I feel like we’ve been playing shows since we had like one song. And we were playing shows, and we would do cover songs to fill up the time. I feel like the shows came first, and then really diving into the music making process has been a slow...
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Denver-based husband-wife indie pop duo Tennis (with whom we last spoke in January of 2018) have played many of our favorite Philly venues over the past 10+ years, although not necessarily in a logical order… They’ve headlined Johnny Brenda’s, Union Transfer, Underground Arts, MilkBoy, Underground Arts again, and Union...
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Being the week of SXSW, I realize most celebrating artists are currently caught in a cheap-beer-and-taco-fueled haze of Rock’N’Roll taking over Austin’s least conventional performance spaces (perhaps even an airport baggage claim…), so I was thrilled to get a chance to chat via phone with Why Bonnie band leader...