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By Jessica Selby Treasa Levasseur, the humble and determined singer-songwriter from Canada, says she started making music as a baby. Her mother was a singer, and Treasa sang in church when she was younger and local bands later on. When she started driving her own car, she took Read More

By W.T. Edwards Canada’s award-winning songsmith, Tom Wilson, is back, this time as the guitarist and lead singer of LeE HARVeY OsMOND. Reincarnated from the likes of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings and Junkhouse, Wilson’s new band has surely tapped a previously unheard Read More

By Jason Sendaula Butch Ross is a singer/songwriter I had the pleasure of meeting about ten years ago. At the time he was “the usual,” by which I mean a guy and a guitar and a nice voice. Since then Butch has moved from the guitar to the Appalachian dulcimer (very Read More

By Chris Kocher Growing up in a rough South Philly neighborhood in the 1960s, Joziah Longo often found solace in two things: music and his own active imagination. Friday nights at the Longo home meant parties in the basement, with various relatives and friends arriving with their Read More

By Juliet DeRose It’s shortly after 1p.m. on a typically hot Friday in June. While most are drumming their fingers in their cubicles, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the weekend, Keith Goodwin, Tim Arnold, Dan Schwartz and their tour van roll on toward Clearwater, Read More

By Murphy McFadden Photos by Olivia Vaughn Rooted in and out of Philadelphia with a history that dates back to a middle school punk band, Cheers Elephant is Derek Kryzwicki, Roberto Kingston, Jordan del Rosario, and Travelin’ Mat. Origivation recently had the opportunity to Read More