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Music: 8 Shows to See in the Next 7 Days
The Bul Bey @ Boot & Saddle | Wednesday, June 21 Philly rapper The Bul Bey’s known for his wordy, mile-a-minute rhymes and his stylish […]
Music: 9 Shows to See in the Next 7 Days
The Kominas @ Johnny Brenda’s | Wednesday, June 14 The Boston-based Kominas have been mixing punk with psych, surf and Punjabi folk for more than […]
The Firefly Festival Lineup Is Wonderfully Bonkers
The lineup at the annual Firefly Music Festival is always noticeably eclectic, but if this year’s bill looks especially insane, that might be your doing. The […]
Release Me: New Music by Local Artists
Matt Cappy @ 2300 Arena | Thursday, June 8 Philly trumpeter to the stars — he’s played with Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Jill Scott, Maxwell […]
Music: 10 Shows to See This Week
The Avalanches @ TLA | Wednesday, June 7 Like the census, or cicadas, Australian dancey cut-and-paste geniuses operate on their own schedule. The group only […]
Music: 9 Shows to See in the Next 7 Days
Macy Gray @ Ardmore Music Hall | Thursday, May 25 Macy Gray remains one of the most unique voices in R&B, and I’m not just […]
37 Things to Do This Weekend
FRIDAY, MAY 12 Marc Maron @ Merriam Theater If you only know him as the host of WTF and the star of Maron on IFC, […]
Music: 10 Shows to See in the Next 7 Days
T.I. @ TLA | Wednesday, May 10 T.I. is closer to the end than the beginning. The 36-year-old rapper whose hits include “What You Know” […]
Music: 8 Shows to See in the Next 7 Days
Balkan Beat Box @ TLA | Wednesday, April 26 The Gypsy punk/funk/hip-hop/kitchen sink band from Israel/New York continued its search for the perfect world party […]
Tonight: Reef the Lost Cauze and Smif-n-Wessun
This stacked rap bill promises righteous beats to bob heads and badass rhymes to move minds. Which is not to say either act gets the “conscious hip-hop” tag […]
Music: 8 Shows to See This Week
Waxahatchee @ Johnny Brenda’s | Wednesday, March 15 Born in the Birmingham DIY scene, kickass singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield has adopted Philly and Philly has adopted […]
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, […]
Rapper Future Remixes Rocky Theme
Just in time for the release of Creed at the end of the month, Atlanta rapper Future has taken the original Rocky theme, that triumphal tune […]
Is Schoolly D Philly’s Greatest Hip-Hop Crash and Burn?
First, the Founding Fathers came to Philadelphia to birth American democracy, the shimmering benchmark of freedom and self-empowerment that has alternately subjugated and enlightened the world […]
Snoop Dogg Offends With Transphobic Comment on Instagram
Rapper Snoop Dogg is in the, well dog house, this week after he posted a photo on Instagram that some are calling transphobic.