by Ziggy Merritt Walking back home from a night at a Making Time event always leaves me with the chills. The hours spent in the often intimate, club settings have a known knack for leaving your voice faded and your ears in a blissful state of shock. I was lucky enough to jump on Read More

by Matt Kelchner As part of the week-long celebrations around the city celebrating the Craft Brewers Conference being held in Philadelphia, local stalwarts Victory Brewing Company hosted their fourth annual “Amber Waves” Thursday evening. On the fifth floor of the National Museum Read More

by Jane Roser “The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.” – Helen Hayes “Wow. That’s a blast from the past!” I’m chatting with multiple Grammy Award-winning artist Mary Chapin Carpenter about her early days spent cutting her teeth on the singer-songwriter Read More

photos and review by Alexandra Healey Having never been to Boot and Saddle in South Philly, I wasn’t sure what to expect from the show featuring Philly’s own, Rozes with headliner Max Frost. Most people were already drinking since it was Cinco De Mayo and they were Read More

Used Cassettes Rock n’ Rills Reviewed by: Tiffany Taylor South Korean rock n’ roll wave crashers, Used Cassettes, are finally releasing their full LP Rock n’ Rills. If you did not know what Asian fusion was before, be prepared to get it now. Used Cassettes is comprised of places Read More

Evie Ladin Band Jump the Fire Reviewed by: Max Miller While a student of Appalachian tradition, Evie Ladin has set out to show that mountain music does not actually need to remain rooted to the mountains. Though now based out of Oakland, Ladin notes that a lifetime of wanderlust, Read More