by Matt Kelchner Early on in their night, PHOX lead singer Monica Martin kept catching herself giggling in between songs. After a third or fourth round of doing so, she finally explained to the crowd that she couldn’t help laughing at herself and her band singing the Read More

by Andi Bricklin There’s something magical about finding friendship in a university setting, there is something even more magical about finding friends that you can collaborate and create with.  Darla is a 7-piece funk band formed at Drexel University.  The music industry program Read More

by Matt Kelchner   “Everything becomes so blurry to me, a big blurry mass of impossible events, so it’s very hard to say,” is the first thing Monica Martin tells me as we talk about her band’s incredible success from last year. She’s the lead singer of the Wisconsin rootsy Read More

by Jane Roser Back in the mid-90s I had a friend who worked in a record store that went out of business. He gave me a box of CDs they were about to throw out and let me go through them. I was intrigued by one in particular called Live From The Milky Way, an EP by indie-rocker Read More

Blackberry Smoke Holding All the Roses Reviewed by: Jane Roser     Well folks, Atlanta, Georgia’s reigning Southern rock band Blackberry Smoke has done it again. Their fourth studio album, Holding All The Roses will release February 10th on Rounder Records and Read More

Father John Misty I Love You Honeybear Reviewed by: Lauren Rosier     One of the things I enjoy the most about music is that when musicians decide they want to make a solo album separate from their main gig. Josh Tillman, also know as J. Tillman, is a former member of Read More