Nestled between the Velvet Underground’s impressive debut The Velvet Underground & Nico and their eponymous third album The Velvet Underground is the comparably overlooked LP, White Light/White Heat. Running just over 40 minutes in length, this 6-track album is the last of the group’s work with John Cale, a masterful multi-instrumentalist and founding member of […]
Philadelphia-based punk band Beach Slang is making a return to their hometown with a show at Underground Arts on July 14 – only this time, they’ll be coming home as Quiet Slang. The new moniker is part of front man James Alex’s project to return to the acoustic roots of their characteristically rock sound. He’s […]
The majority of the audience was made up of people in the age range of about 15 to 27. Just as Rainbow Kitten Surprise (RKS) is a mix of different genres, the crowd was a combination of edgier looks like ripped denim and glittery eye makeup with delicate spring tank tops or cardigans. The main […]
Hinds never gives anything less than every ounce of energy they have. In the past few months alone, they released their second album I Don’t Run, played 16 shows at SXSW, toured with Albert Hammond Jr., and have sold out several shows on their European tour. In what is too often a male-dominated genre, this […]
There’s a funny picture online of Ty Segall gently holding up a cat while giving the camera a boyish smile in a room of soft orange light with a unicorn tapestry hanging on the wall. On Sunday evening at the Trocadero, we got to see this tender side of the man behind the music as […]
Hinds, a female alt-rock group from Madrid, initiates this year’s sound of summer with their new album, I Don’t Run, released on April 6. This album is the follow-up to the hazy garage pop-rock of their 2016 debut, Leave Me Alone. With film photographs as album covers and girlish lyrics of angst, Hinds channels a […]
Last Friday, local Philadelphia rock band RFA hosted a record release show for their new album, Rfa. The four band members that make up RFA met in high school over a shared love of artists like Elvis, The Rolling Stones, and The Strokes. Flash forward six years, and the group is starting to sell out […]
On the last day of the year 2000, a relatively unknown three-person rock band hailing from Brooklyn debuted a five-song EP with a picture of a girl wearing a necklace with big gold letters that spelled out “Master” on the front. It was the first recorded form of their sound that they put out for […]
In an age when artists rely more heavily on touring as a means of financial support, sometimes live performances are about audience engagement just as much as they are about the music itself. Sometimes it takes the form of a rock star jumping into the crowd, a pop star professing a speech of love for […]
Del Water Gap, a Brooklyn-based project led by singer-songwriter Holden Jaffe, released a new EP in 2017 called 1(646)9432672. With a unique sound that crosses acoustic and electric, city and country, Del Water Gap continues to attract those who crave poetic lyrics backed with steady rhythms that infect the mind for days to follow. The […]
