theatre of living arts

by Max Miller Among a certain breed of crate-digging vinyl fetishists, few names are more sacred than the Sonics. The Tacoma-based garage rock group released two albums in the mid-’60s full of ramshackle covers and unhinged originals like “Strychnine”, “The Witch” and “Psycho”, Read More

by Donte Kirby “I would venture to say this is the best show we’ve ever had in Philadelphia. Thank you guys,” said Pete Bernhard, lead singer of The Devil Makes Three, to the crowd. The band, along with Joe Pug, had the audience rip-roaring and feet-stomping at the Theatre Read More

by Andi Bricklin Eric Hutchinson and Saints of Valory have been on a seven-week tour with Philly being their 3rd to last stop together.  In that time both Eric and the Saints have dropped records so new that as Eric put it, and I’m paraphrasing, “If it were a baby, you wouldn’t Read More

by Adam McGrath Guitarist Clark Vogeler joined the Texas alt-rock band, Toadies, in 1996, just as Interscope Records started to muck everything up. It was two years since “Possum Kingdom” dominated airwaves, but this was the beginning of the end of times for major label Read More