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“Philly has this attitude that, ‘We don’t care, but we really do care,’” jokes Canadian electro-pop legend Lights, who’s spend quite a bit of time in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection over the past decade and a half, including a plethora of shows at The TLA. ...

Last May we saw queer country singer/songwriter Fancy Hagood at the Music Hall at World Café Live when he opened the No One Gets Out Alive tour for our phriend, and fellow Nashville-based Americana artist, Maggie Rose (He’s also toured with our pal Kaitlin Butts!)  However, earlier this month...

Atta Boy took eight long years between their first and second LP… so it’s not entirely surprising that it was more than a decade into their career before the Americana-tinged indie pop outfit embarked on their first proper tour…  The L.A.-born quartet formed in high school and released their...

“I feel like every time I come to Philly now is a full circle moment,” says indie-pop singer/songwriter Anna Shoemaker, who is currently New York-based, but hails from the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection.  The last time we spoke — in celebration of her last official stop...

Vocalist Veronica Swift is gearing up to play her fourth area show this year when she’ll be headlining the Music Hall at World Café Live on September 12th.  Swift sold out Longwood Gardens this March, before making special appearances at The Dresden Dolls’ June shows at Union Transfer, which...

“We kind of wanted to circle back to more of the rock venue feel.  We enjoyed the intimacy of the last one, but we got a lot of feedback from people who felt trapped in their chairs,” Cloud Cult founder and primary songwriter Craig Minowa tells me, laughing.  March...

“I’m so excited to play that show.  That’s definitely gonna be a huge thing.  I don’t wanna say it’s all about me, in like a narcissistic way , but I really want it to be a showstopper,” says locally grown pop singer/songwriter Ciara Grace of her upcoming CD Release...

Just last March we saw Quasi – Janet Weiss and Sam Coomes – return to Johnny Brenda’s in support of Breaking the Balls of History, both their tenth studio LP and their first studio LP in ten years, in addition to their first for Sub Pop.  However, the Portland...

Darkroom has the distinction of being our favorite album of the year by an artist that we’ve never actually met.  The LP, which dropped May 17th, is the sophomore full-length from French-Canadian duo Ghostly Kisses (comprised of Margaux Sauvé and Louis-Étienne Santais), the follow-up to 2022’s Heaven, Wait, both...