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Doors: 7:00 PM
Show: 7:30 PM
The Bret Tobias Set
The Set is heartily celebrating the release of a new EP, Tuneless Blues (release date: 2/13/26). It features five sonically disparate tracks telling tales of crises big and small, personal and national. Bret cut his teeth co-fronting the Bigger Lovers, a Philly guitar pop group that swung for the fences in the aughts. The Lovers got four stars from David Fricke in Rolling Stone, opened for Wilco, got panned in Pitchfork, recorded a World Cafe session and built a respectable fanbase one bespectacled dude at a time. Bret re-emerged in 2023 with a set of sharply observed and somewhat dyspeptic contenders via the Pleaser EP. The Butter Valley Malcontent EP followed a year later.
The No Good Crowd
You know those nights when everything clicks—the pints are flowing, the band sounds like an old friend, and the songs flash that sly grin you didn’t know you needed. That’s The No Good Crowd.
Yes, it’s four dudes making raucous indie rock in the age of bedroom pop, chillwave, shoegaze, and whatever else is trending this week. We know. Still, from the very first shows, a genre-blurring mix of garage rock, power pop, jangle, punk, and a little Americana muscle memory showed up—and refused to leave.Guitarists Jamie Olson and Jim McGuinn have been making noise together since their early-2000s Philly days in Cordalene, then took the scenic route through breakups, side projects, roots bands, punk bands, bluegrass detours, and a decade-long Minnesota exile before circling back home. Add longtime collaborators and trusted rhythm-section troublemakers Brendan Skwire and Neil Simpkins, and—eventually, inevitably—The No Good Crowd happened.
Bitter Bitter Weeks
Bitter bitter weeks is the music project of record producers / Miner Street Recordings studio owners, Brian McTear and Amy Morrissey (Sharon Van Etten, The War on Drugs, Kurt Vile). McTear launched Bitter bitter weeks as a solo project in 2001 with a widely praised Self-titled LP on Princeton’s My Pal God Records. It landed reviews in Pitchfork, Alternative Press, Magnet and a cover feature on The Philadelphia CityPaper. In 2004, McTear produced a second LP Revenge with his new studio partner Amy Morrisse. The album’s title track would be added to Kim Gordon’s and Thurston Moore’s Protest Records compilation alongside Cat Power, Sonic Youth and the poet Allen Ginsberg. In 2007 the group released its third full-length, Peace is Burning Like a River with The A-sides’ Mike Flemming on bass and drummer Ric Menck of The Velvet Crush and Matthew Sweet. McTear’s unique voice is often said to be Bitter bitter weeks’ most distinguishing feature, with arresting songs about loss, heartbreak, and protest. Stylistically, the project calls to mind early REM and Sebadoh, while McTear admits that he’s long welcomed the influence of music he and Morrissey have produced for other bands – artists like Eltro, The Bigger Lovers, Mazarin, Matt Pond PA, and Los Halos.
