Why Bonnie ~ Foyer Red ~ Kolezanka
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM Why Bonnie90 in November, the first full-length LP from Texas quintet Why Bonnie, crashes into existence with a squeal of feedback and a burst of distorted guitar. It’s a dynamic introduction to a more raw-edged indie sound from a band who have matured from bedroom dream pop into a sophisticated rock act, their evolving sound a reflection of the journey undertaken by songwriter Blair Howerton on this vividly rendered collection of songs. As much a product of songwriter Howerton’s love for the intimate songwriting of fellow Texans Townes Van Zandt and Blaze Foley as it is her affection for the alt-rock of the Lemonheads and the Replacements, the eccentric pop of Sparklehorse, and “definitely Sheryl Crow,” 90 in November is a meditation on the pains and pleasures of nostalgia and a lesson in learning how to look back at the people, places, and experiences that have shaped us, with room for both unvarnished honesty and rose-tinted melancholy. https://whybonnie.bandcamp.com/Foyer Red Foyer Red’s EP Zigzag Wombat is somehow both twee and aggressive at the same time; their playfully chaotic arrangements bridge art-punk, math rock, and sweetly sung indie with a dash of the zoomies. Imbuing their lyrics with fantastical imagery derived from quotidian experiences (“I saw this graffiti tag one day, “zig zag wombat angel” says Elana Riordan on the inspiration behind “Plutterbee” and title of their EP), the songwriting trio of Elana Riordan, Marco Ocampo, and Mitch Myers have crafted a compelling, complex and clever introduction to their varied sound. Citing Canadian underground math-rock legends Luge (Riordan), Atlanta’s incredible post-punk Omni (Ocampo), and Björk (Myers) as musical inspirations there’s something confounding and utterly brilliant about Foyer Red’s debut EP Zigzag Wombat.https://foyerred.bandcamp.com/track/etc-2 Kolezanka After years recording under various monikers, from her youth back in Phoenix to her recent years in New York, Moore released a few early projects as koleżanka before making her official debut with 2021’s “Place Is”. Created with long-time koleżanka collaborator Ark Calkins, “Place Is” is an exegesis into the very notion of “place” and all of the ways place can be interacted with and identified. After her debut release, she joined ascendant art-punk group Foyer Red. Moore characterizes it as an era of discovery, from “getting a foothold” with Place Is to crediting the adventurousness of Foyer Red with opening up her own writing for koleżanka. During the long, dire winter months of late 2020 and early 2021, Moore found herself holed up in her Brooklyn apartment. This chapter became the genesis for koleżanka’s sophomore album, “Alone With The Sound The Mind Makes”. Fittingly for an album concerned with the internal workings of our thoughts and emotions, Moore let herself wander when writing “Alone With The Sound The Mind Makes”, following stream of consciousness wherever it led. Moore had to learn to navigate it solo, to “make friends” with various unsettled states, and in the process, she wrote an album that dives deep into a person’s reckoning with themself, their body, their experiences, their perceptions. https://linktr.ee/kolezanka
Brackish ~ Mt. Oriander ~ Mt. Worry
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PMBrackishsongs about new jersey from philadelphia since 2015https://brackish.bandcamp.com/Mt. OrianderMt. Oriander is Keith Latinen! He used to play in Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) and he plays in Parting now.https://mtoriander.bandcamp.com/Mt. Worry
Two Good Eyes ~ Bren ~ Frankford Fitler
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM Two Good Eyeshttps://instagram.com/twogoodeyesmusic?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=Brenhttps://instagram.com/whatthebren?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=Frankford Fitlerhttps://instagram.com/frankfordfitler?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Cold Soul ~ Honeythunder ~ The Regulars
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM Cold Soul https://earlink.coldsoulband.com/ Honeythunder https://linktr.ee/honeythunder The Regulars https://linktr.ee/the_regulars
Fever Dolls ~ Pons ~ Heavy Harold
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:40 PMFever DollsFever Dolls is the shape-shifting, label-defying project of producer-songwriter Evan Allis. Founded in 2018 with singer Renn Mulloy, Fever Dolls was born out of a desire to forego the self-seriousness of indie rock in favor of big hooks, clever lyrics, and broad musical range. Reflecting the highs and lows of modern life, Fever Dolls’s sound draws on everything from country folk to heavy metal to present a catalog of material as diverse and varied as its audience. 2020’s The Phantasm at Lake Wallenpaupack EP, produced by Paul Kolderie (Hole, Radiohead), showcased Fever Dolls’ hit-making sensibilities while continuing to push listeners’ expectations of what a single musical act could be, with Vox’s Emily Van Der Werf remarking “Fever Dolls (and songwriter Evan Allis) seem to borrow from an entirely new set of artistic influences on each and every track, while still sounding like themselves.”www.feverdolls.comPonsBIO: NYC NO WAVE / GOLD STANDARD GROOVEhttps://www.instagram.com/pons_the_band/ Heavy HaroldHeavy Harold finally took the hint. After years of their friends not wanting them around, they vanished. The Philadelphia indie natives, once considered “Philly’s latest heroes” by impose magazine, had slipped into the shadows like a dormant volcano. But now that volcano is rumbling, and ready to spew out the hits once again. Heavy Harold’s sound is a mix of diy indie and new wave that they have crafted since high school. The members can usually be seen in the background of a few other local artists like Schilly, Joy Again, and ARTHUR. But now it’s their time to shine. Clapping is encouraged.https://open.spotify.com/artist/2iJ4w0mTdAGwrH7ReI9uiF?si=VuTLmz69RcmgMp3K7nUzzg
Nicole Saphos Band ~ Brittany Ann Tranbaugh ~ Sadie Gustafson-Zook
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM NICOLE SAPHOS BANDSinger/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Nicole Saphos’ musical identity can be categorized somewhere between jazz and indie rock. To date, she’s released three critically acclaimed albums, and has performed at venerated venues such as The Kennedy Center, Rockwood Music Hall, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others. Downbeat Magazine describes her as a ‘distinctive & warm presence on the bandstand’. Operating in the Fiona Apple / Dirty Projectors sphere of the alternative music spectrum, the LA-native, Philadelphia based artist is known for her harmonically bold and rhythmically driven original music. In 2019, Nicole became the first songwriter invited to attend the prestigious residency program at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. She has also received several prominent grant awards for her work in songwriting and performance, including 2018 & 2020 Artist & Scholars grants from the Montgomery County Arts Council, and a 2020 Regional Independent Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. nicolesaphosband.comBRITTANY ANN TRANBAUGHBrittany Ann Tranbaugh (pronounced TRAN-baw) is an award-winning singer/songwriter based in Philadelphia, PA. Originally from the Lehigh Valley area in PA, she kicked off her music career as a teenager playing at Godfrey Daniels, one of the country’s only remaining bona fide folk listening rooms. She has since performed all over the US and Canada in theaters, living rooms, basements, bars, coffee shops, backyards, and on festival stages including Firefly and Philly Folk Fest. Accolades include 2021 Song of the Year in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest for her queer country heartbreaker “Kiss You” and finalist spots in the Gems in the Rough, Kerrville New Folk, and LEAF NewSong competitions. In April 2022, she debuted an EP entitled “Quarter Life Crisis Haircut,” her first official release in over a decade. In this new batch of memorable and thoughtfully crafted songs produced by Jackson Emmer, she tackles a wide range of topics including her sixth grade queer awakening, an awkward run-in with an old acquaintance, and the impossibility of true folk music authenticity in this day and age. At times witty and sarcastic, at other times heartbreaking and raw, the EP undoubtedly showcases Tranbaugh’s finest work to date.brittanyanntranbaugh.com SADIE GUSTAFSON-ZOOK Every time Sadie Gustafson-Zook carves a linoleum block, sews a pencil case out of scraps, or admires the way the ink in her Pilot G-2 glides over her journal, she thinks, “I should be doing this all the time.” The act of creating something tangible is the air Sadie breathes. Her songwriting is the same- weaving an internal dialogue, the stories she tells herself, warm melodies and clever chords into something real, something she can physically feel with her hands and her throat. And chances are that you’ll be able to feel them too. Sadie is widely recognized for her songwriting, winning the 2022 Kerrville New Folk Songwriting Competition, the 2022 Newsong + LEAF Songwriting Contest, as well placing in the top two at the 2022 Rocky Mountain Folks Fest Songwriter Showcase. She’s been featured on Folk Alley and the Basic Folk Podcast and has performed at renowned festivals and venues including Kerrville Folk Festival, Rocky Mountain Folks Fest, Walnut Valley Festival, and Club Passim, among others. sadiegustafsonzook.com/
Franz Nicolay ~ Timeshares ~ The Tisburys
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PMFranz Nicolay For several years after my last record, I needed a break, and actively tried to keep from writing songs. But the combination of working on new Hold Steady material, writing my second book, and having unexpected time on my hands like everyone else in spring 2020 eventually primed the pump for a record’s worth (including a co-write with my THS bandmate Steve Selvidge). I assembled most of the material in April 2020 and recorded in spring 2021. The years off had constituted a time in which I thought I was finished as a musician; they were time characterized by the loss of several musician friends to suicide both acute and de-facto, and by consideration of the cost of “working the art muscle.” I was approaching a familiar sort of life crossroads which I’ve traditionally addressed on the principle of “blow it all up and see if that fixes things.” My previous album had ended with an image of endless, repetitive cycling; this one sees a way forward (“I am another now and not the same/I shall not pass this way again”). The pretty bleak and brutal worldview of “Wandering Star” and “The Morris Column” and the rest of the first side—culminating in an unforgiving dawn—gives way to a side two that, if it doesn’t exactly offer a light at the end of the tunnel, at least senses a faint glow up ahead. “New river, spring for me” is a kind of prayer for hope. The album was recorded at Atomic Garden in Oakland with drummer Ara Babajian (the Slackers) and bassist Frank Piegaro (Worriers); with generous help from friends including Jeff Rosenstock and Mike Huguenor (Death Rosenstock), Deanna Belos (Sincere Engineer), Lauren Denitzio (Worriers), Peter Hess (Philip Glass Ensemble), Steve Selvidge (The Hold Steady), and Todd Beene (Lucero, Chuck Ragan). The album artwork was by David Espinoza Alvarez (https://www.el-dee.net/), and the video for “New River” was directed by Diana Morales, both from Mexico. I met them through a wonderful group of friends in Mexico City.TimesharesPhilly punks Timeshares have signed to Wiretap Records for their next full-length album “Limb” out September 9th on Digital and 12″ LP soon after in October. The first single “Siren Sound,” is a fine example of this band’s ability to churn out warm, grizzled heartland punk. Speaking about the song, bassist Mike Natoli (who wrote this one) tells us, “I had just moved back to my hometown and got reluctantly dragged to my 10-year high school reunion. While I wasn’t necessarily questioning myself, it still managed to stir up some weird thoughts and feelings about what I was doing with my life. I wanted to write about the subject from the reverse perspective of ‘A Plea From A Cat Named Virtute’ by The Weakerthans and make it a proposition to my golden retriever Buddy. This wild idea that we could trade lives and he could go out on my adventures while I got to blend in with the scenery and not talk to anyone was something that seemed mutually beneficial.”The TisburysPhiladelphia Indie Rock; new album, EXILE ON MAIN STREET out now, stream the first single “Garden”
Thumpasaurus ~ Natalie Brooke (The Loft)
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 8:00 PM *Due to popular demand the show has moved from Cambridge Hall to The Loft at Warehouse on Watts* ThumpasaurusIn the beginning there was Thump… The primordial groove of the Universe. Thump thumped its way through all things. In the beginning groove was harmony, and harmony was groove, and it was good. Long before the age of humans, the Thumpasaurus roamed the Earth, serving the cosmos as the teachers of the Thump. The thump traversed all beings, and the Thumpasarus helped distribute its secret wisdom to all sentient and non sentient creatures. It was good. As time passed and the Earth fluctuated between periods of great peace and great unrest, the Thumpasaurus became a threat to growing forces of evil- who fueled by a primary motivation in consumerism sought to eliminate the Thumpasaurus. To save the species and protect the goodness of the Universe, The Thumpasaurus fled the earth to the outer reaches of space time – though the Thumpasaurus swore to return to the Earth as harbingers of the age of reawakening. In their last gift to the consciousness of the cosmic manifestation of the Earth and its beings, the Thumpasaurus wrote down the secrets of the Thump in a manuscript of real troof and buried it in a sacredly SECRET location (the appalachian mountains) in hopes that the Thump would survive and benefit future generations with happiness, love and thump. As buildings turned to sand, and memories to dust, so too did the ancient memory of the Thumpasaurus and with them disappeared the philosophy of Thump.http://thumpasaurus.comNatalie BrookeNatalie Brooke is funk and rock brought to you by a powerful 4 piece from the DC area – female fronted with Natalie on keys, keytar and vocals and always backed by a stellar band. The music was once said to be the mashup of Rick James and Rush; a fiery blend of fast tempos, totally danceable grooves and some sloshy rock elements, too. Natalie’s keyboard playing is exceptionally unique because it is just as percussive as it is melodic and pianistic. Every performance from this band is electric.https://instagram.com/nataliebrooke_thebandhttps://facebook.com/music.nataliebrooke
Hot Mart (EP Release Show) ~ The Coral Gables ~ Austin Albright
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:40 PMHot MartHot Mart is a Philadelphia based band comprised of Danielle Bruno, David Skovron, Danny Provencio Jr, Austin Albright, and Andrew Gerber. With their first single “Guess I’m Just Like My Mom,” released in August 2022, they exposed their alternative, goth, and punk influences that call to mind the sharp, heart wrenching lyricism of The Cure’s Robert Smith coupled with turbulent riffs akin to The Clash. Hot Mart explores many topics in their music from the fear of expression and trauma to bordering the line of sanity and intrusive thoughts. Their first self-titled EP, released in December 2022, unveils their eclectic mix of styles from the love ballad “Pretty Kitty in the City” to the off kilter, dissonant anthem “Sanatorium.”Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0hg5sbkMPq0G9Pboma92txHere is a music video for our single “Guess I’m Just Like My Mom”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZivaAeuZ8o&ab_channel=HotMartBandLinkTree: https://lnk.bio/hotmartband The Coral GablesThe Coral Gables are a rock and roll trio based in New York City and formed in 2021. Since then, they have developed a rich body of original work, creating a unique fusion of old school country-influenced indie rock characterized by tasty guitar licks, groovy bass lines, tight drum fills, and witty lyrics that leave listeners entertained, emotionally devastated, and, in some cases, deceased. In August 2022, they released their first EP, ‘Moral Fables’, containing five of their favorite songs, including early singles “When’s It Gonna Stop?” and “King of Being Down on His Luck”.http://www.keepitcoral.com/Austin AlbrightAustin Albright is an indie musician of sorts from the woods of Philadelphia. The small, often overlooked parts of life find refuge in his music as he speaks to their peculiarities. From the monotonous repetitiveness of small talk to the lifespan of a goldfish, no topic is off limits. His songs have been compared to artists like Parquet Courts and Kevin Morby for their rough-around-the-edges vocal delivery and indie flair. While the guitars of David Skovron and Dan Shade create a lush wall of sound, Albright’s driving bass unites with Tom Flamm’s pounding drums to create garage rock with a Philly flair. His latest EP, “Living Room Life” released November 3rd as Albright and his bandmates look towards the future.https://svenjorgensonsjollyjams.wordpress.com/https://www.instagram.com/aus_ight/
Cat in the Wall ~ Noah Roth ~ So Long Surfer
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM Cat in the WallCat in the Wall is a Philly based Alternative Rock Fusion band that has been playing together and releasing music consistently since they met in 2013. Pat, Jon, and the two Kyle’s quickly became best friends, bonding over It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Foo Fighters. As they got older and their music tastes broadened, Cat in the Wall started to incorporate elements of jazz, funk, and indie rock into their music. Over the years, Cat in the Wall has released two EPs, two singles, and their debut album, Now You’re Talkin’ My Language, which came out in March of 2020. Noah Roth Noah Roth is a Chicago-born songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and recording engineer. Noah began putting out adventurous indie rock records in Chicago at the age of 14. In 2018, following the release of their third record, Noah moved to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, they began recording a fourth LP. Following a long gestation period, Noah released “Breakfast of Champions” in September 2022. Their most ambitious work yet, “Breakfast of Champions” stays true to their roots while incorporating more elements of alt-country and ambient music. So Long Surfer So Long Surfer is a Philadelphia-based collective work of Eric Juelke (Vox, Guitar, Bass), Kyle Ciarrocchi (Vox, Guitar), Noah Uy (Drums), and Harlee Torres (Bass). Their sound is described as a mix of 60s rock and modern psychedelic music. In early 2022, The band was brought together while enrolled at the Univerity of the Arts and by their mutual love of writing, playing, and listening to music. In August 2022, So Long Surfer released their first single, “What you Found” alongside their self-titled EP which released September 2022.