By Alexandra Jones Photo by J.H. Kertis The West Philadelphia Orchestra has a constantly changing roster, no concrete style, and a healthy disdain for pop’s performer/audience divisions and power dynamics. This all-over-Philly institution plays a blend of genre musics that Read More

By Alexandra Jones Today I present you with a day in the life of Jen Levins. This isn’t really a typical day, but it happens often enough to cause trouble… I’m sitting in a café in the upper east side of Manhattan. There was a time in my life when I had a Read More

By Andrew Pomager Robert Pollard’s Guided by Voices (GBV) is one of those definitive indie-rock bands. When contemporary indie bands start to find their way from novel to missing-the-point, one play of Alien Lanes is a reminder of what rock should sound like. And unlike so Read More

By Kate Gamble Photo Courtesy Right On! PR We saw them last summer at the Piazza at Schmidt’s climbing up the stage scaffolding. We saw them at Lollapalooza performing in front of thousands of eager fans who were calling out their names. We even saw them on our television Read More

By Kirk Greenwood Photo by Olivia Vaughn Kill You in the Face-it’s an ironically off-putting name for a band whose upbeat, poppy sound seems to jive more with their MySpace claim of being “all around nice guys” than the morbid mental image the name conjures. The Read More

By Izzy Cihak Photo Courtesy Daffodil Publicity Martin Atkins has said that a band’s performance under the worst conditions should carry far more weight than that under the best conditions. I would like to think that the same rings true for music journalism. Conducting an Read More