Union Transfer

While 2024 has already given us opportunities to see “classic albums” by Ride, The Charlatans, and Deap Vally in their entirety (the first two on the same night), I was equally entranced by Kim Gordon’s front-to-back performance of her 2024 LP, The Collective, this past Friday (6/14) at Union...

We’re nearly halfway through Pride Month and we’ve already attended some fabulous events.  However, there are still several musical celebrations of queerness that we’re eagerly anticipating, including June 22nd at Theatre of Living Arts.  The evening will be headlined by Lynn Gunn electropop outfit PVRIS, with opening duties being...

“I came from the late ‘90s hardcore scene, and the uncool-est thing you could do is release an album of songs under your own name.  Being a singer/songwriter was extremely uncool before the indie thing,” Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Divine Fits, Operators) tells me during a recent...

The last time The Dresden Dolls played the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was December of 2007, when they appeared at Theatre of Living Arts.  At the time, Lou and Bowie were still with us, the South Street landmark was known as “The Fillmore at the TLA,”...

This Friday, May 31st, the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection will have two opportunities to see Oakland-based garage punk quartet Shannon & The Clams, who will be playing this week’s WXPN Free At Noon at World Café Live, before they play a full-length headlining set that night...

Last week local punk rockers Mannequin Pussy played their seventh consecutive sold-out show at Union Transfer.  It all began in August of 2021, when the Marisa Dabice-led band opened the first three dates of Japanese Breakfast’s five-night run at the Eraserhood venue, marking the official/unofficial return of live music...

Alyse Vellturo, better known as PRONOUN, has the distinction of being the first artist I went to see live post-lockdown (Earlier that year, prior to the release of her June 2021 EP, OMG I MADE IT, we chatted and she told me she was desperately itching to get out...

“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...

“Every show’s just been amazing…  It’s really fun to connect in a physical manner for the first time after not being able to do that for so long.  We’re never gonna take that for granted again,” says Alex Bleeker, bassist and co-founder of New Jersey indie rockers Real Estate,...