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by Ziggy Merritt Few nights of the year leave you hankering for aspirin and three glasses of ice cold water the day after. Of these nights, New Year’s Eve remains one of the few that the entire globe can celebrate in all of its Dionysian delight. Hearing the call to help usher in Read More

by Lauren Rosier On Friday night, the sounds of beautiful singer/songwriter folk music plunged into the ears of music lovers at Philadelphia’s Union Transfer. Native Philadelphia indie folk band Good Old War returned home for a holiday show and invited The Voice season 8 winner, Read More

by Matt Kelchner On Wednesday, the Black Keys’ frontman/guitarist Dan Auerbach brought his side project, the Arcs, to Philadelphia for a performance at the newly opened Fillmore in Fishtown. The group released their debut album, Yours, Dreamily, back in September and Read More

by Ziggy Merritt This past Monday marked the live debut of the Applejacks, a legacy of musicians taking up the work of the late and great Philadelphia-native, Dave Appell. With a pedigree reaching back to the 1950s there was an understandable need to do proper justice to Appell’s Read More

by Matt Kelchner Earlier this year, prolific singer/songwriter and all around good guy Kevin Devine announced a series of 7” records that would be released via Bad Timing Records. Dubbed the “Devinyl Splits”, each would feature Devine on one side and a special guest on the other Read More

all photos by Dan Williams Photography   Read More