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One Man Rocker Hanni El Khatib Combines “Old Weird America” With A Modern Esthetic

May 20, 2013 - Hanni El Khatib is a first generation American who grew up with a Palestinian father and a Filipino mother in San Francisco. His music has origins in the 50’s and 60’s soul, blues, r&b and garage rock, and all those influences are filtered through a love of punk.
Singer Songwriter Laura Stevenson Continues To Confront Life’s Terrifying Questions

May 13, 2013 - Sometimes dark (yet often humorous!) Long Island raised Laura Stevenson describes herself as an “unfunny Woody Allen.”
Brits Treetop Flyers Channel LA In The 60's

May 6, 2013 - London’s Treetop Flyers effortlessly capture the CSN&Y sound of California Folk-rock in the 60’s on their debut The Mountain Moves. They all met on the periphery of the London folk scene that gave the world Mumford & Sons and Laura Marling.
A New City And A New Sound For The Saint Johns

April 29, 2013 - A little reinvention never hurt. The Nashville duo of Jordan Meredith and Louis Johnson met in St Augustine, Florida, and quickly discovered how well they sang together.
LA Sisters Bring Energy Of 70’s Punk To Bleached

April 22, 2013 - You could hear it in their first singles in 2011 - sisters Jessica and Jennifer Clavin and their band Bleached are onto something.
Nashville's Escondido Sounds Like “Desert Sex”
Raw Gospel and Roots at The Heart of Nashville’s Luella and The Sun
What’s It Like Inside A Twenty-Something’s Head? Listen To Waxahatchee’s New Cerulean Salt To Find Out
After a three-year intermission from the music world, Duquette Johnston is back on the national stage with his upcoming release, Rabbit Runs a Destiny.
There’s something so warm and so likeable about Birdie Busch, West Philly’s whimsical, verse-weaving siren—that hearing her sing is like being greeted with a wave of energy. Her lyrics are quirky, candid, and refreshing, and she infuses each song with a real sentimentality that makes you think she’d make a great listener and a great best friend.
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Watch Julia Holter’s new video for “World” (playing World Cafe Live on 7/13)

In advance of her forthcoming For Loud City Song LP, Julia Holter has shared a new video for lead single “World.”  The...Read More

Tonight’s Concert Picks: Japanese Guy at PhilaMOCA, Femme Fest at Sellersville Theater, Cruiser at Ortlieb’s Lounge, Telequanta at...

Japanese Guy perform at PhilaMOCA tonight.  The less-talked about side project of a Fleet Foxes member, Japanese Guy is the...Read More

My Morning Download: “College” by Rogue Wave (playing Union Transfer with The Boxer Rebellion on June...

Photo by Terri Loewenthal Rogue Wave have a new album, Nightingale Floors, coming out on June 4th. The band plays Union Transfer on...Read More

The Swollen Fox is celebrating its 3-year anniversary at PhilaMOCA on 7/11

The Swollen Fox has announced a special 3-year anniversary concert at PhilaMOCA on July 11th with TJ Kong & the Atomic Bomb, Swift...Read More

Watch Tin Bird Choir perform WXPN’s lunchtime buskers’ series at The Porch at 30th Street...

The Chester County-based folk group Tin Bird Choir performed in a stripped down two-piece configuration for this weeks’...Read More