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New Wave/Post-Punk legends The Pretenders have spent much of the past year performing show-stealing (we’re assuming…), hits-filled festival gigs and support sets for Axl, Slash, and Duff’s Guns N’ Roses and Foo Fighters. However, this past Sunday, July 14th, they brought An Evening with The Pretenders to the 2,500-capacity...
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Last week Leeds post-punks Yard Act announced Where’s My Utopia?, their sophomore LP, which drops March 1st on Republic Records, in addition to lead single/video, “Dream Job.” The album — co-produced by the band and Remi Kabaka Jr., of Gorillaz — follows up 2022 debut full-length, The Overload, and...
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TONIGHT, Johnny Brenda’s — our favorite “mini rock n’ roll ballroom” — is hosting a killer double-headlining bill of a doomier and gloomier variety than normally finds itself at the city’s premiere hipster haven. Closing out the evening will be ultra-heavy Portland psych rockers Blackwater Holylight (Who we first...
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2023’s summer amphitheater season is slowly coming to an end… However, this past Tuesday, September 5th, The Mann hosted arguably the best shed rock spectacle of the year. The 14,000-capacity venue was nearly overflowing with fans ranging from teens to people well into parenthood, decked out in...
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The Weight Of A Wave, the fourth solo LP from musician and composer Annie Hart (1/3rd of synth-pop group Au Revoir Simone) drops today courtesy of Uninhabitable Mansions. However, the album’s origins date back to even before Hart wrote and recorded her previous full-length, Everything Pale Blue, an ambient...
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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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Beloved 80s English post-punk band Love And Rockets returned to Philly for the first time since 1999 to perform at The Fillmore on 6/10 as a part of their first tour in 14 years. This is a band I was never sure I’d be able to see live, so...
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“It’s always moody. Expect a moody set, and some mood swings,” says Brie Deux of Tampa-based post-punk trio Glove while we’re discussing their current batch of headlining dates, which will have them at MilkBoy on Thursday, June 22nd. We first met the group – which also includes Rod Wendt...
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This past Saturday, June 3rd, post-punk legends The Sisters Of Mercy played their first show in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection since Halloween of 2008. Their 80-minute, 21-song set included 9 brand-new songs (The band hasn’t officially released new music since 1993.) interspersed with classics from...