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(10/06/19 5:45pm)
Walking into the Fillmore Philadelphia on a cool September evening might bring you a night of dancing alongside your lifetime best friend, or maybe a night of reciting the lyrics you have inscribed within the walls of your mind. But this past weekend, the Fillmore was the place to fall in love. It was the 21st stop on Daniel Caesar’s CASE STUDY 01 Tour, complementing the release of his sophomore album this past June.
(09/24/19 6:01am)
14 years is a long time to wait for anything. It's especially long when you’re waiting for a second album. The successful 2005 collaboration between Calexico and Iron & Wine followed great albums from both individual bands, and ran parallel to an incredible international tour. Another something, anything, was expected from this collaborative effort an era ago. Calexico and Iron & Wine’s Years to Burn (2019) tour stop at Union Transfer on Sep. 20 showed us why we waited.
(09/25/19 2:26am)
Almost every music fan has found themselves scrounging for tickets on Live Nation or Ticketmaster's website at least once before. The prevalence of these two agencies in the concert–going process isn't anything new. However, many aren't familiar with the history of the companies themselves and the huge role they play in shaping the live music industry.
(09/23/19 3:45am)
When exploring the niche of indie pop music, it doesn’t take too long to stumble across Fitz and the Tantrums. Their 2013 release “Out of My League” was quickly adopted by the happy–go–lucky Tumblr crowd that year and pushed their name to the top of the genre as a staple summer anthem. Six years later, their sound has only gotten stronger. Their third studio album All the Feels was released this past weekend and indicated the maturity the band is heading toward, still coupled with their youthful sound.
(09/19/19 9:42pm)
Salvaging beauty from the wreckage that is boredom is what Maia (who prefers to go by her first name, and is known to her fans as mxmtoon) does best. The artist from Northern California demonstrates this skill on her debut album the masquerade, which was released this past weekend. It's the eighteen–year–old’s memoir about what it’s like to exist in the spaces that today’s teenage girls occupy—high school hallways, therapy sessions, and meme pages—and the sense of displacement she feels.
(09/18/19 2:51am)
As college students, getting out to concerts is tricky. We always face that dilemma of whether we should spend money that could go towards necessities such as food to splurge on a show, or to stay in and save money. Plus, when you do get out to a concert, you have to deal with large crowds, people talking during the performance, blocking your view by taking pictures and videos, and getting way too drunk while you're trying to enjoy the show.
(09/16/19 11:54pm)
This past Wednesday, Kacey Musgraves blessed the stage at The Met Philly with her presence. The country–pop star has been on a streak of success following the release of her Grammy–winning album Golden Hour, and she proved exactly how her success came to be with her set at The Met. Featuring tracks off of Golden Hour and her earlier albums Same Trailer, Different Park and Pageant Material, her performance was a great sampler of her music and a perfect treat for her fans.
(09/15/19 12:49am)
If the phrase House of Sugar sounds at all familiar, you've likely spent some time in Fishtown, the location of the SugarHouse Casino after which (Sandy) Alex G's latest album is named. A Philadelphia resident himself, Alex Giannascoli, who typically goes by Alex G, recorded the album between releasing and touring 2017's Rocket, a mixture of acoustic alt-country and heavily-distorted weirdo DIY.
(09/16/19 3:34am)
Austin Post created his first mixtape on his high school laptop using Audacity, a free audio editing software. Eight years later, his new album Stoney found its way onto the Grammy nominations list for Album of the Year.
(09/12/19 2:36am)
The opening track on Be The Cowboy, Mitski's critically acclaimed 2018 album, begins with a single tone. It's piercing in its volume, but then pares down into a drone behind her voice, like a flame that focuses into an intense blue heat. Her music gives off that same sense of restraint, a straining against the bounds of the ordinary and quotidian, burning brightly and singularly.
(09/10/19 3:34am)
Norman Fucking Rockwell! is many things—a combination of soft rock and piano ballads, a string of pop culture references to famous artists, a rumination on the tumultuous relationships, and the culmination of Lana Del Rey’s career. Since her beginnings with the viral debut single “Video Games” in 2011, the singer has been characterized by a unique, cinematic quality driven heavily by themes of romanticism and depression. Despite commercial success and solid critical acclaim from records such as Ultraviolence and Lust for Life, there’s always been a slight incoherence in her content, missing a measure of realism and depth. Released Aug. 30, NFR resolves these issues as Del Rey perfects her personal brand of melancholy.
(09/10/19 11:51pm)
The trope of the unfulfilled businessman is a familiar, if all too real, one. We see it in movies like Netflix’s Set it Up, where a low–ranking finance bro finds true happiness by eschewing his corporate dreams, and in our daily lives, where 20% of the Class of 2018 entered the consulting industry after graduation. We hear little of these people’s hopes and dreams as they grow into middle–aged businessmen and women, leaving us to wonder: is there really life after we settle at Bain or BCG or Deloitte?
(09/10/19 6:22am)
With a voice that sounds like it belongs on the soundtrack of Juno, Greta Kline harbors a deep longing and desire to rewire every aspect of her life on Close It Quietly. Her band, Frankie Cosmos, recorded their fourth album near their homes in New York, letting the scenes and stories pocketed in each street heavily influence their work. The group consists of guitarist and vocalist Kline, bassist Alex Bailey, synth player Lauren Martin, and drummer Luke Pyenson—but all the songs are derived straight from the ruled pages of Kline’s journal, as she writes about disorder in her small universe held within the album.
(09/16/19 4:58am)
Now that school is well underway, it’s only appropriate that we take a look back at which songs truly defined the summer of 2019. Usually, summer hits are upbeat tracks in a major key that have a vaguely positive message, and Street wants to see how this summer measured up.
(09/13/19 2:35am)
If you’ve ever attended a BROCKHAMPTON concert, then you’ve probably heard the chant “F**k Pitchfork” at some point during the show. This tense relationship between BROCKHAMPTON and the widely acclaimed music publication goes all the way back to BROCKHAMPTON’s debut album, SATURATION.
(09/08/19 6:11am)
On Aug. 16, English folk rock musician Frank Turner released his eighth studio album, No Man’s Land, a concept album detailing the lives of women overlooked by history. At the same time, he has been releasing weekly episodes of a podcast titled Tales From No Man's Land, which gives a historical account of the women included in the album.
(09/09/19 2:23am)
The consumer is never going to view a piece of art in the same way as its creator. Though an artist can painstakingly try to relay messages through their work, the consumer ultimately decides how to interpret the final product. This phenomenon rings especially true when examining the career of Frank Ocean.
(09/05/19 1:31am)
Made In America represents a lot of things. To some, it’s the unofficial end to summer, the last time to break out that patriotic outfit before it goes into storage. To others, it represents the finest of Philly, bringing together a collection of eclectic food trucks, causes, and music fans that would never otherwise meet. All in all, it can be viewed as a melting pot of hip–hop and electronic heavyweights—the kind of place where DJs and MCs battle for the biggest crowds.
(09/03/19 2:52am)
Three years after the release of their debut album, Light Upon the Lake, Chicago–based band Whitney came out with their second album, Forever Turned Around, on Aug. 30. Drummer Max Kakacek and guitarist Julien Ehrlich formed Whitney shortly after breaking off from their original band, Smith Westerns, in 2014. The success of Whitney’s Light Upon the Lake led to a two–year international tour that recently came to an end. Much like in Light Upon the Lake, Forever Turned Around celebrates bittersweet memories and hard truths.
(09/05/19 12:57am)
Many of us probably wrote music while we were locked away in our childhood bedrooms, toiling in front our computer’s webcam and scribbling down emotional poetry. Broadcasting these diary entries to an audience of just ourselves, these creative moments tend to remain tucked away as digital files and forgotten as we age. But what happens when these pieces of content become more than just pastimes for the creative teenager?
