Jorja Smith – The Foundry – Philadelphia, PA – May 11, 2018 Click on thumbnails to see full-sized pictures! Photos by Chris Sanchez-Paralta © 2018 Continue reading
Lydia Lunch – Kung Fu Necktie – Philadelphia, PA – May 7, 2018 Lydia Lunch is one of our great iconoclasts, an artist destroying and recreating expectations with each syllable and movement. On Monday she brought her brand of no wave music to Kung Fu Necktie and obliterated the crowd. With her solid band Retrovirus … Continue reading
Forth Wanderers, Ó & The Obsessives – First Unitarian Church – Philadelphia, PA – May 4, 2018 Last Friday, the First Unitarian Church saw a youthful triple threat play through the unseasonable heat. Headlined by the superb Sub Pop-minted New Jersey band Forth Wanderers with the wonders of Ó and the rocking The Obsessives opening, … Continue reading
Juice – World Café Live – Philadelphia, PA – May 3, 2018 On May 3rd, 2018, Juice, an up-and-coming band from Boston College took the World Café Live by storm! They are a seven-piece band that even incorporates an electric violin, adding individuality to their performance and songs. Juice performs music from a series of … Continue reading
Ripe, The Dip & Thumpasaurus – The Roxy – Los Angeles, CA – April 27, 2018 In 2012, seven people came together at Berklee School of Music to form Ripe, a soul group from Boston. With a few EPs released, the band have made a small headway into the groove world since their start. In … Continue reading
Waxahatchee & Hurray for the Riff Raff – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA – April 16, 2018 Click on thumbnails to see full-sized pictures! Photos by Nick Bergmann © 2018 Continue reading
Herb Alpert & Lani Hall – World Café Live – Philadelphia, PA – April 23, 2018 World Café Live took a Tijuana taxi south of the border the other night when legendary trumpeter Herb Alpert and his long-time wife Lani Hall (who used to be the lead singer of Sergio Mendes and Brazil ‘66) shared … Continue reading
Hayley Orrantia The Goldbergs Actress Likes Her Music Like She Likes Her Tea by Jay S. Jacobs On television, Hayley Orrantia is known as Erica Goldberg, the brainy and tough only daughter of a Jewish family in the Philadelphia suburban town of Jenkintown back in the 1980s. In real life, Orrantia is brainy and tough, … Continue reading
The Suffers – World Café Live – Philadelphia, PA – April 19, 2018 Click on thumbnails to see full-sized pictures! Photos by Nick Bergmann © 2018 Continue reading
Altan Irish Ensemble Makes for Thoroughly Modern Traditionalists by Brad Balfour When the Irish group Altan visited New York during St. Patrick’s week, it transformed the City Winery in lower Manhattan into a pastoral scene. It was rich with lilting melodies, harmonious voices and the engaging sonics of various traditional instruments such as violin, accordion, … Continue reading
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