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by Jane Roser (with help from her brother, Brian and sister, Anne) It was 1989 at North Stafford High School in the boonies of Stafford, Virginia. Our prom theme was “A Night To Remember”, which would have been cool, except it also happened to be the name of a book Read More

by Dan Emmons The past six months have been a wild ride for Philadelphia emcee, Mike Voss. Working a “shitty day job” in the middle of nowhere (New Jersey), Voss has managed to keep his ten-year rap career alive. He claimed five Freestyle Friday victories in a row on BET’s 106 Read More

by Meaghan Paulosky Indie, electronic, pop? Maybe post-Britpop infused with a bit of folk? None of it? All of it? Well, whatever they are, Scanners have got it figured out.   Formed back in 2004 as a three-piece group (one piece being a drum machine), Scanners have since managed Read More

by Erin Sullivan We’ve always heard the popular saying “keep your friends close and your enemies closer”. How about if we rolled your enemies and friends into one package? Making friends with The Enemies in this case should not be hard. And once you become a fan and a Read More

by Matt Kelchner   When asked what their current plans were after the release of their debut self-titled album back in late January, Max Kuehn, one of the four members of Southern California’s FIDLAR, responded with “TOUR TOUR TOUR TOUR TOUR TOUR TOUR home TOUR TOUR TOUR”. Read More

By Dan Emmons   Australian retro-dance pop band Gold Fields brought their show to the TLA last week as part of their February-March US and Canada tour.  The tour came through Philadelphia as a pit stop on its way to SXSW to promote their single “Dark Again”  off Read More