November 2010

By W.T. Edwards Photos by Zack Gross All photos taken at Media Bureau/MBN Studios. Special thanks to Keith Andrew Cohen and Ben Barnett It was an early Saturday evening when I met up with Philadelphia artist Jillian Kesselman. With an auditory backdrop of Misfits (both the band Read More

By Jason Sendaula Photos by Zack Gross Kayti Didriksen’s work covers several different forms of visual media painting, mosaics and murals. She splits her time between the studio and doing community work. Having recently relocated her studio from New Jersey to South Read More

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