I’m not generally a fan of vacations… in any general, contemporary use of the term.  I hate the beach, I hate celebrations, and I hate leaving Center City Philadelphia (or, even my apartment, for that matter.)  But Daydream Vacation has proven to be an exception.  Daydream Vacation are Dave Einmo of Head Like A Kite and Asya of Smoosh.  Dave […]

“We don’t really think about what kind of fans we want to attract when writing music, we make it for ourselves, ultimately.  I would say listen to this album, if you want to hear something interesting from Australia,” Ela Stiles (of Songs) tells me of her latest project, Bushwalking… which is beyond interesting and actually quite brilliant.  Bushwalking is comprised […]

“My first album really was born out of necessity – the desire and need to write and record music at that time in my life, coupled with the reality of raising a kid. I couldn’t be rehearsing with bands as much anymore,” singer/songwriter Kelli Scarr (former Moby and J. Viewz collaborator and member of Moonraker and Salt & Samovar… and […]

“Aesthetically, we are into playfully morbid universes – Zombie flicks, Philip K. Dick, the Museum of Natural History – witches, bad dreams, Jesus, old gambling towns, gangsters, and creepy small towns,” explains Fenster, a Post-Pop trio whose methods and inspirations would seem to be as conceptually intellectual as their sounds are avant-garde-ily enjoyable. “We are really into cities and the […]

“I’ve taken up running, which has completely changed my perception of music,” Emily Wells tells me during a recent convo… Emily Well’s aesthetic has been a pastiche of playful contradictions that, somehow, always seem to work almost perfectly. Her sound generally falls into the realm and demographic of postmodern folk, however it also owes itself to the classical (She is, […]

So I may rarely leave Philadelphia but, trust me, I get around… well, musically speaking. Although I only left Center City four times this year, I did make it out to more than 80 concerts. The ten best ran the gamut from Piano Pop to Noise Pop to Post-Hardcore and Digital Hardcore. And the settings ran the gamut from an […]

So everyone who knows me knows that I’m not really a big fan of the holidays. Most of you have also realized that I don’t do nearly as much rocking as I used to – I’m far more prone to indie popping these days. However, I do enjoy, every so often, indulging in my roots as a headbanger (beyond the […]