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by Jane Roser “The Rev”, as Jim Heath is affectionately called, has been preaching his high octane, fast paced, big red rocket of love rockabilly music for twenty five fiery years. The flame still burns gloriously on their 11th studio album appropriately titled REV. Read More

by Melissa Duong When Ships Collide, a local Philadelphia band, is reminiscent of your standard emo garage band with their sixties pop infused indie rock vibe.  As the band describes themselves, they are a “shooby doo wop a wop wop” sort of sound.  I’m not quite sure what that Read More

by Robert Brind Jimmy Faber has finally become a professional guitarist.  He’s paid his dues. He’s played in countless venues in Philly for free. Now, playing guitar is his only job. He puts in three hours of practice time outside of rehearsals, and rehearses with, well, a lot of Read More

by Sebastian Mackay It takes a lot of balls and an equal amount of grit to fund one of the most bad-ass independent EPs to be released in 2013 and then give it away for free. But for Anchors to Anchors, the pop punk easycore fusion, it’s more about world domination than becoming Read More

by Jane Roser   “I think a friend named the band,” I’m sitting backstage at DC’s iconic 9:30 Club chatting with Jonathan Segel of Camper Van Beethoven, one of the bands that truly defined rock music of the 1990s (and one whose cassette tapes I wore Read More

by Elizabeth Wagner One of the Founding Fathers is turning 308 years old on Friday and Philly is ready to celebrate the life of a man very close to their hearts. What better place to host an event honoring the man who presented the famous kite experiment in Philadelphia than Kite Read More