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In the Wingsnew
Franzschubert beat the Brat, eat the chicken and raise the lamb.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
12-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Try a Little Tendernessnew
Tony Malaby and Angelica Sanchez marry beauty and brawn in their intense improv sets.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
12-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Hood Once Known for its Jazz Clubs Stages Revivalnew
The often raucous weekly jam sessions at Reuben's Marc in East Mount Airy are drawing generations of musicians from across Philadelphia to improv and experiment alongside acclaimed pianist Orrin Evans.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Michael T. Regan and Rick Valenzuela |
12-18-2007 |
Music
Sex Mob Rulesnew
For the jazz rock vets, the whole world is Downtown.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
12-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sex Mob
It's Been a Hell of a Year for Pop Genius Brian Christinzionew
He's checked in to a mental institution and conquered England with an album nobody in the States has heard.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Patrick Rapa |
12-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Revenge of the Nerdsnew
This is the second-to-last time you will find Ween and They Might Be Giants in the same sentence.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
11-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: La Cucaracha, Ween
Sturm und Twangnew
Lewis & Clarke explore uncharted territory at the banks of the Delaware Water Gap.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
11-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Amy Pickard is Happy ... Her Songs Are Notnew
Pickard has no trouble distinguishing between how she feels when she's compelled to write and how she usually feels these days.
Philadelphia City Paper |
M.J. Fine |
11-13-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Metalhead Mezzo Jennifer Roderer Debuts with Opera Company of Philadelphianew
If you ask dramatic mezzo Jennifer Roderer, opera and heavy metal are blood brothers.
Philadelphia City Paper |
David Shengold |
11-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
On the Couch with Folk Rockers Girlymannew
Of the many changes afoot at Camp Girlyman, drums are the ones you notice right away. As in now there are some.
Philadelphia City Paper |
John Vettese |
11-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Girlyman, Joyful Sign
Hail Sinead, the Lord is With Theenew
For all their enduring words, the prophets and psalmists were mad in every sense, raging one minute and appeasing the next. If Sinead O'Connor had been born 2,700 years earlier, she would have fit right in.
Philadelphia City Paper |
M.J. Fine |
10-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Sinead O'Connor, Theology
Gillian Grassie Wants You to Hear Her Harp Beatnew
Grassie gives as much respect to singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell and Ani DiFranco as she does to such harpists as Catriona McKay and Rudiger Oppermann, and she wants to counter the preconception that her instrument's for putting people to sleep.
Philadelphia City Paper |
M.J. Fines |
10-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gillian Grassie, Serpentine
Normal Love and Satanized Tamper in God's Domainnew
Both genre-splicing Philadelphia bands deftly combine modern classical, heavy metal and audacious experimental techniques.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
10-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Van Halen Fan Comes to Termsnew
Despite my aversion to reunion concerts, nostalgia erodes the best of defenses, and I've laid down the cash to see Van Halen.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
10-02-2007 |
Music
Everywhere He Goes, Devendra Banhart Sees Trailsnew
Trying to pin the man down for a normal interview is a bit like trying to send him a postcard -- by the time your message arrives, he's already somewhere else.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
10-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Devendra Banhart
