By Raymond Simon Even in the information age Iceland remains a curiosity to most Americans. This tiny island nation, sitting in the North Atlantic, roughly halfway between Great Britain and Greenland, is home to, at most, 330,000 inhabitants. Until the country’s banking Read More

By Randy LoBasso Here’s a lesson you can marker up on the front of a blank CD. If you work hard enough and are willing to make a few gig-concessions, you can live as an unsigned musician in Philly. Just ask the guys from Up The Chain. This gyratory collective is headed by Read More

By Randy LoBasso The first thing you hear when you pop in Bells Bells Bells’ new album, A Ghost Could Live Here, is the heavy, reverbed fingerplucks of Kevin Fassett’s (a fitting word might be…) axe, coming at you with the apathetic force of a horror villain. Read More

By Izzy Cihak When Boston quartet Mean Creek are asked what the best part of South by Southwest is, they promptly reply: “Cheap beer and cheap tacos.” Though it’s not all about ingestion. They also talk about the fun of getting to check out bands they’ve Read More

By Alexandra Jones Up in the urban-rustic wilds of Fishtown, Rob Garcia and Sarah Everton – AKA Reading Rainbow – make some of Philadelphia’s best-loved new music out of the basement studio of their cozy home. Their songs reflect the band’s city-dwelling Read More

Philadelphia’s music scene is way underappreciated. Like any city, we have our fair share of the iconic, the semi-obnoxious, and the downright intolerable. And maybe the reason why the city Love doesn’t get recognized for its startling music is our fault – Read More