temple

Written by Brittany Rotondo San Francisco-based rock outfit Thao & the Get Down Stay Down‘s latest release, Temple, out today, is a modern-day technological feat, weathered with silky fusion songs that sound like quarters at the arcade.  Frontwoman Thao Nguyen’s fifth studio Read More

by Geno Thackara You can’t live in or around Philadelphia without being at least vaguely aware of its place in music history. Jazz in particular is part of the city’s DNA just as much as cheese steaks, big colorful art murals and parallel parking in maddeningly narrow Read More

By Adam McGrath There are certain benchmarks in a band’s evolution that must be met in order to grow from local favorite to the national spotlight. That first big festival gig, a second release that builds on the first, and piling into a big brown van called the Slug for a Read More

by Geno Thackara Well, this is one show that lives up to its name (or since the program first started in London, I should say it does what it says on the tin). Communion is an ongoing showcase that brings a bill of up-and-coming artists to a series of major cities each month for Read More

by Dan Emmons Photos by: Krystal Spencer Upstairs at Pub Webb, right off Temple University’s campus, stood a man of mystery, known simply as Get Up.  With DJ deck in place and images of his art being animated behind him, Get Up played a feverish set on the 1’s and 2’s to the tune Read More

By Christina Andreadis   Thomas Wesly Pentz, a former Temple graduate and Philadelphia teacher has gone from local Philly DJ to become an international demand in a blink of an eye. Better known as Diplo, he is worth getting to know. Since exploding on the music scene Read More