Ryan O’Connell

By Ryan O’Connell Photo by Travis Shuggin The three women in Mountain Man are Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Amelia Randall Meath. Their names are not simple, but their music is. The music of Mountain Man is vocally driven, accompanied only by sparse acoustic Read More

By Ryan O’Connell Hometowns create two kinds of people- those who stay and those who leave. The two members of Revolution, I Love You chose to leave their hometown. They chose to leave an area in Delaware that they never considered rural until someone considered it rural Read More

By Ryan O’Connell There is a house in the wilds of West Philly- a few blocks past the University City area. In that unassuming three-story, eleven bedroom house lives Kickin’ Bear. It is not the famous Native American. It is a six-piece rock band recently relocated to 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 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

By Ryan O’Connell Photo by Zack Gross On her way to Nashville, Tennessee, cruising through the rolling hills of Virginia and into Tennessee with two other singer/songwriter gals, Christy Jefferson got pulled over. The state trooper who nabbed them looked like a teddy bear. Read More