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The last time the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection saw The Greeting Committee was just this February, when they headlined The Lounge at World Café Live after selling out the venue almost immediately. However, the Kanas City indie rockers are already prepped for their return, when they...
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Although Americana singer/songwriter Michaela Anne calls Nashville home, she certainly has a special place in her heart for the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. When we last spoke, in November of 2019, just prior to her headlining show at MilkBoy, she told me that her recent sold-out...
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“We’re a band who has very fun, sexy Rock N’ Roll music,” says Gina Zo of her Philadelphia-based quartet, Velvet Rouge (formerly known as Zo). Gina Zo – a contestant for Team Blake on season 10 of The Voice at 17 and former Director of Marketing for Joan Shepp...
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“I’ve just always wanted to make funk music. I wanted to make funk, soul, R&B,” says Kelsey Wilson, best known as one-half of the core of Wild Child, an Austin Americana outfit that has been putting out music since 2011. And although Kelsey tells me during a recent phone...
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“We’ve played like less than 10 shows, but at the ones we have played, we’ve gotten positive responses,” jokes Dorota Szuta, singer, songwriter, and guitarist of California trio Heavy Gus, who are about to kick off a short Fall tour that includes a September 7th stop at The Lounge...
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This Thursday, August 25th, indie folk outfit Florist will be playing The Lounge at World Café Live, our favorite listening room in the city and a far cry from their last local stop, which had them playing gallery space PhilaMOCA in August of 2019. And, during a recent phone...
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“’You remind me of Joni Mitchell.’ I get that all the time,” says folk-pop singer/songwriter Jamie Drake, laughing. Drake is discussing the reactions she usually gets to her, “authentic Laurel Canyon folk vibe.” This June the Los Angeles-based musician released her sophomore LP, New Girl, via AntiFragile Music, and...
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Over the course of the past year the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection (along with the internet) has found a profound amount of love and affection for R&B artist Saleka. And the local singer/songwriter is literally about to take her show on the road as the opening...
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Although their third and latest LP (Entropy) came out in 2018, North Carolina folk-pop outfit The Collection have been dropping one-off pandemic singles for the past year-and-a-half, including “Blue Day,” “Loud,” “GET LOST,” and “Won’t Stop Yet,” which was released earlier this year. The song, a charmingly irreverent anthem...