Music
25 Things to Do in Philly This Weekend
FRIDAY, MARCH 10 Creepoid @ Underground Arts A full night of Philly rock featuring Creepoid, whose pysch-grunge sound makes me think of Nirvana, Sabbath and the […]
Sound Into Sight: Exhibition of Concert Photos Opens Friday
Two things about concert photography in 2017: 1. There’s more of it now than ever before. 2. Most of it’s not so good. The smartphone […]
Music: 6 Shows to See in Philly This Week
International Women’s Day Benefit Concert @ Underground Arts | Wednesday, March 8 This benefit for the new Crossroads Women’s Center — “a grassroots, multi-racial, community-based, […]
Music: 6 Shows to See in Philly This Week
Dua Lipa @ Foundry at the Fillmore | Thursday, March 2 This young pop singer out of London is on Entertainment Weekly’s list of “10 […]
Songwriters, Win a Chance to Play at Firefly Music Festival
Submit a song to the Philadelphia Songwriters Project’s annual competition and you just might win a summer tour. This year’s theme is Songs of Our […]
Music: 5 Shows to See in Philly This Week
Bear’s Den @ Underground Arts | Thursday, February 2 Gill Landry from Old Crow Medicine Show is on tour with British folk rockers Bear’s Den. […]
Music: 5 Shows to See in Philly This Week
DJ Jazzy Jeff at Boiler Room x Budweiser’s What’s Brewing @ Foundry at the Fillmore | Tuesday, January 24 The What’s Brewing series highlights the […]
Remembering Richie Ingui of the Soul Survivors
“Expressway to Your Heart” was the 1967 Soul Survivors song that proved to be the first big hit for Philly music producers Kenny Gamble and […]
On the Record With World Cafe’s David Dye
The door to Main Street Music swings open, and a windswept-looking David Dye lurches into a room filled with shoppers half his age, thumbing through […]
Music: 5 Shows to See in Philly This Week
The GoAround @ Kung Fu Necktie | Tuesday, December 20 Chill out at Kung Fu Necktie with four acts who each bring a down-to-earth vibe: […]
Music: Shows to See in Philly This Week
Bad Religion @ The Fillmore | Wednesday, October 5 Do you think people choose to play punk music because punk bands never die? Bad Religion, […]
Why a Philly Bar Banned Bon Jovi (From Its Jukebox)
Rob Szatkowski couldn’t take it anymore. It was the early 2000s. He was tending bar at Billy Murphy’s Irish Saloon, a bar at the corner […]
Music: 6 Shows to See in Philly This Week
Danny Brown @ TLA | Wednesday, September 14 Rapper Danny Brown is coming out with a new album, Atrocity Exhibition, at the end of the […]
What Frank Ocean’s Blond Says About Living — and Loving — in the City Right Now
Cities are cold places densely packed with people who endlessly trade each other. In the city we trade stories, bodies, jobs, identities, seats in restaurants. […]
Someone Made Incredible, Weird, Awful Songs About Pat Toomey and Bob Casey
Yesterday I came across a song by a group called Papa Razzi and the Photogs that had a curious title. “Song About Pat Toomey, Believer […]