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Tonight, LA blues punk duo Deap Vally – who we first met in 2013, just after the release of their debut EP, Get Deap! – kick off the second leg of their Live for the Last Time FAREWELL TOUR, which will have them playing their debut full-length, 2013’s Sistrionix,...
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More than two months since the announcement of the tour, I’m still in more-than-slight disbelief that Pussy Riot’s first-ever area appearance is not actually going to be in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection, but at Ardmore Music Hall. This coming Sunday, December 3rd, the Russian feminist...
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The City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection will always have an extra special place in its gritty little heart for Louise Post, who managed to namedrop us in a song about the breakup of Nick Cave and PJ Harvey… on top of everything else she did throughout three...
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This month 4AD brought the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection a few of its best shows, including post-punk revivalists Dry Cleaning at First Unitarian Church and neo glam rockers The Lemon Twigs at Underground Arts. And next Friday, June 10th, 4AD recording artist Aldous Harding will be...
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Last week Australian dream pop singer/songwriter Hatchie released her sophomore LP, Giving The World Away, courtesy of Secretly Canadian (Cherry Glazerr, Faye Webster, Skullcrusher). Although the album follows-up 2019’s Keepsake, Hatchie has said it feels like a restart of sorts. Without losing any of the charm of Keepsake or...
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Toronto-based singer/songwriter Gwendolyn Lewis – better known as DYLYN – is yet to release her first album, but she already has a sold-out US tour on the books. On January 7th the postmodern chanteuse will kick off a six-week run of dates supporting indie rockers Mother Mother, who will...
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This July Berlin-based musician Anika (Annika Henderson) released Change, her first album since her 2010 debut, Anika. Although, despite this decade+ gap between LPs, the British ex-pat certainly never left the music world, taking up DJing, forming Exploded View, and collaborating with the likes of Shackleton, Dave Clarke, Tricky,...
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“If we were one of the bands playing in Twin Peaks, this would be the sound,” says Lizzie Edwards, frontwoman of Lizzie & The Makers, of their forthcoming sophomore LP, Dear Onda Wahl. Lizzie’s chatting with me via phone from a coffee house in Red Hook, Brooklyn. She tells...
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“If I could ask something of any listeners, it’d just be to keep an open mind. Leave your expectations at the door. And I’d say that about any music, not just my own,” says Aubrey Haddard. Haddard is not your everyday Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter. “I do love movies. Jean Cocteau,...