Interview: In the studio with Auctioneer’s Craig Hendrix (playing Kung Fu...
Actiioneer | Photo by Peter English As seasons change so does the soundtrack, and Auctioneer’s low-lit guitar riffs, cavernous vocals and daze-dream drums are a blistering replacement for the surf rock...
View ArticleListen to “Swim,” a new track from Auctioneer
Photo by Emily "Birdie" BuschOn the tail of its Shaking Through Session with Weathervane Music, Auctioneer slips us a new track fresh from its upcoming release. “Swim” is a slow incline of chords that...
View ArticleTalking origins with Suz Slezak of XPN Artist-To-Watch David Wax Museum...
We got to gab with Suz Slezak of Boston’s David Wax Museum while the South-of-Americana group inched closer to Philadelphia for its November 29 show at Johnny Brenda’s. We talked mostly about the...
View ArticleInterview: Finding another angle with Delicate Steve (playing PhilaMOCA with...
I can say what I want. I can say that Delicate Steve‘s layered harmonies give me a feeling that can’t be classified as “good” or “bad.” I can say that the New Jersey-bred group’s absence of lyrics puts...
View ArticleThe Key’s Year-End Mania: Nikki Volpicelli’s top five local songs that made...
For The Key’s year-in-review, we asked our trusted sources – our writers and photographers, XPN’s on-air staff, fellow bloggers in the Philly scene and even a few musicians – to send us their Top Five...
View ArticleInterview: ONUINU’s Dorian Duvall doesn’t like pizza (playing Kung Fu Necktie...
Dorian Duvall, also known as ONUINU, makes cerebral electro-dance pop in Portland, OR. Last week, while visiting the left coast, I ran into him and made him pinky-swear that he’d chat with me before...
View ArticleThree things every musician could learn from Unknown Mortal Orchestra...
Every musician could learn a thing or two from Portland’s Unknown Mortal Orchestra. The hazy, psyched-out sixties-inspired group is in the middle of its world tour for ll, the follow-up to its 2011...
View ArticleParenthetical Girls are on a boat, playing PhilaMOCA tomorrow
The internet is a crazy place. You can find anything through a search. You can find an abandoned riverboat with a decaying dining room, or an Oregon winery that’s also part volcano. At least that was...
View ArticleTalking about the unknown with filmmaker Seth Klinger and Ron Gallo of Toy...
Photo by Seth Klinger It’s kind of fitting that my voice recorder was (accidentally) on for the full half hour between the time I stepped out of work and the moment I met with Ron Gallo (Toy Soldiers‘...
View ArticleUnlocked: Download “Pennies” by Bad Braids
Bad Braids’ front woman Megan Biscieglia has a voice that would make a Siren jealous. It’s hauntingly powerful and perfectly positioned in “Pennies,” a brief and unassuming track off of the...
View ArticleUnlocked: The Key’s Review of Bad Braids’ Supreme Parallel
Bad Braids’ Megan Biscieglia / Photo by Elizabeth Lennox I didn’t set out to write a “walking” review of Bad Braids’ Supreme Parallel, but once I started I couldn’t stop finding the, uh, parallels,...
View ArticleAn Interview with Johnny Marr (playing the Trocadero on Tuesday, April 30)
“The best advice I’ve been able to give is that [learning guitar] is a little like swimming. Just dive into it and splash around and be kind of crappy for a few minutes and don’t worry about being too...
View ArticleUnlocked: Watch the video for Bad Braids’“Ode to Fig”
We continue this week’s Unlocked series with Bad Braids, and the video for “Ode to Fig” from Bad Braids’ forthcoming album, Supreme Parallel, out on May 1st. Bad Braids – Ode to Fig from Daughters on...
View ArticleUnlocked: Q&A with Megan Biscieglia of Bad Braids
Before next Wednesday’s release of Supreme Parallel, we swapped email Q’s and A’s with Bad Braids’ Megan Biscieglia, the 25-year-old songstress behind the group who started writing and recording on...
View ArticleUnlocked: Bad Braids’ Megan Biscieglia’s “Songs I Love at the Moment”
Bad Braids’ Megan Biscieglia / Photo by Elizabeth Lennox Bad Braids’ Megan Biscieglia has musical tastes that range from 70′s Britfolk, Indonesian and Tamasheq crooners to Black Sabbath and The Everly...
View ArticleEnergy, confidence and devil sticks: Toy Soldiers celebrate The Maybe Boys at...
Toy Soldiers | Photo by Mike Bucher | www.bucherphotography.com All photos by Mike Bucher | www.bucherphotography.com Toy Soldiers released their newest record, The Maybe Boys, this past Tuesday and...
View ArticleExploring the animated side of garage-psych royalty King Tuff (playing the...
There’s something cartoonish about King Tuff. Most of his album art portrays hand-scratched drawings of large-nosed longhairs and magic bats. In his music videos, a paint stick follows him around to...
View ArticleThe Key’s Year-End Mania: Nikki Volpicelli’s 5 Behind-The-Scenes Women of 2013
Photo courtesy of Nicky Devine Year End Mania is the Key’s survey of the things below the surface that made 2013 awesome. In this installment, contributor Nikki Volpicelli highlights women doing...
View ArticleInterview: Power punk four-piece Potty Mouth on their breakout year and their...
Photo via facebook.com/pottymouthgirls “Visibility as a band made up of women is very important to us,” says Victoria Mandanas. “There is great value, for girls and young women, especially, in seeing...
View Article21st Century Psych: Temples carry golden age traditions into the digital age
We are not experiencing a psychedelic revolution. Psych music, since its inception, has oscillated through pop culture. In the beginning, when love, drugs and the Beatles were free, the Byrds spun...
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