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This Friday, February 23rd, singer/songwriter and guitar legend Mary Timony – famed member of Autoclave, Helium, Wild Flag, and Ex Hex, in addition to Lindsey Jordan/Snail Mail’s former guitar teacher, who Wild Flag bandmate and Sleater-Kinney co-founder Carrier Brownstein once called, “Mary Shelley with a guitar” – will release...
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NYC indie-pop sibling trio BAILEN have deservedly been darlings of WXPN for a number of years now… Just last year they played NON-COMM for the second time, their second Free At Noon, and a set at XPoNential Music Festival that proved to be a highlight of the exceptionally rainy...
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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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This month marks 20 years since I moved to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. I was the typical suburban alternative teen, migrating to University of the Arts to study among likely the only fans of The Velvet Underground and Nick Cave hailing from upper-middle-class, yuppie-breeding...
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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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Last week Lindsey Jordan, better known as Snail Mail, played her first show since the pandemic at Idaho’s Treefort Music Festival. The performance was the first since both the singer/songwriter’s critically acclaimed sophomore LP, Valentine, and since she had surgery to correct vocal cord polyps, which delayed her tour. ...
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This Friday, June 25th, sees the release of Lucy Dacus’ third LP, Home Video, courtesy of Matador. The album chronicles the existential ins and outs of Dacus’ formative years in Richmond, VA. Her fourth and latest single, “Brando,” tells the tale of a high school friend obsessed with Old...