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By Izzy Cihak “We’ll all be gardening on rooftops and we’ll have to know jujitsu to defend our lives,” she tells me within our first minute of conversation. This was preceded by the prophetic, “Five years from now the internet as we know it will not Read More

By Raymond Simon Photo by Percy Bright “I often refer to the music of The Bailey Hounds as ‘cemetery blues’,” says Ryan Petrillo, the band’s lead singer and principal lyricist. “I’d like to imagine all these songs being sung in the Read More

By Juliet De Rose The Absolute Zeros are familiar with change. Since British frontman, Kelvin Cochrane, and North Philly percussionist, Sabu Rex, formed the group in 2007, they’ve experienced quite a few lineup changes. After the unexpected death of Sabu in 2008, they Read More

By Ryan O’Connell Photo by Olivia Vaughn On a damp fall Monday night at Philly Rising, a packed, yet well-organized open mic night at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, the Josh and Pete Band are set to go on at 10pm, in the Lightning Round. The hope is that someone drop outs Read More

By Hannah Zaic It’s pretty subdued at Milkboy Coffee the night Rachel Platten comes to town. The crowd is doing what coffee shop crowds do best: chat, listen, chat, sip, listen. Chat. Her opener, a very capable young man with an acoustic guitar, finishes the opening set. Read More

By Ryan O’Connell Cake is a rock band, one that is best found through Google searches when you include “the band” after their name. They’re from Sacramento, California, use a trumpet, and employ group vocals. If you are over twenty years old, they are the Read More