Free Download: Family Vacation’s debut EP (release show at The Fire on 12/1)
Last month we introduced you to a very new Philadelphia band called Family Vacation. The jangley guitar-pop and airy aesthetic of their song “Morning Clouds (Dew)” won me over right away, and today we’ve got even more to share. The band’s entire debut EP is now available as a free download, just as Family Vacation is gearing up to play a release party at The Fire on December 1. The set is great; “Sunrise Surf Club” has a cool Wavves vibe, and “Vacations” is a nice contemplative come-down, but the seasonally-appropriate, hummable prog-pop tune “Winter’s Wind” is winning me over all over again. Listen below, and get your free download at Bandcamp.
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Non-COMM Recap: Going introspective with John Murry (photos, audio, setlist)
With just his guitar and his voice, Bay Area by way of Mississippi songwriter John Murry played an emotional, powerful set Wednesday night at Non-COMM. Playing an assortment of songs from his current LP The Graceless Age, he also threw … Read More
- Non-COMM Recap: Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside dabble in retro rock (photos, audio, setlist)
- Non-COMM Recap: The late night gets weird with Foxygen (photos, audio, setlist)
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Non-COMM Recap: The late night gets weird with Foxygen (photos, audio, setlist)
Quirky upstate New York four-piece Foxygen got crazy in a late-night Non-COMM set yesterday that blended Doors-esque poppy psychedelia with punk-y dissonance. Check out the setlist below, and listen back to the set in its entirety here (via the WXPN … Read More
- Watch Surgeon perform "Greed" at Garage Mahal (playing Johnny Brenda's on Sunday)
- A conversation on A Pretty Daze with Philadelphia's Kurt Vile (headlining Union Transfer tomorrow)
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Folkadelphia Session: Morning River Band (and their record release show on Fri. 5/17 at Milkboy Philly)
I always thought Philly to be more of a bluegrass town, what, with its West Philly front porch jam sessions and train terminal busking, but that sweet-and-sour country style is alive and well in our fair city and giving us … Read More
- The Key Studio Sessions: Literature
- Listen / Download: "Fifth in Line to the Throne," a new song from Camera Obscura (opening for She and Him and The Mann Center in July)
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Non-COMM Recap: Going introspective with John Murry (photos, audio, setlist)
With just his guitar and his voice, Bay Area by way of Mississippi songwriter John Murry played an emotional, powerful set Wednesday night at Non-COMM. Playing an assortment of songs from his current LP The Graceless Age, he also threw … Read More
- Non-COMM Recap: Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside dabble in retro rock (photos, audio, setlist)
- Non-COMM Recap: The late night gets weird with Foxygen (photos, audio, setlist)
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Non-COMM Recap: Going introspective with John Murry (photos, audio, setlist)
With just his guitar and his voice, Bay Area by way of Mississippi songwriter John Murry played an emotional, powerful set Wednesday night at Non-COMM. Playing an assortment of songs from his current LP The Graceless Age, he also threw … Read More
- My Morning Download: "The Tide" by Bow Thayer & Perfect Trainwreck (playing Voltage Lounge on Saturday, May 18)
- Thee, Idea Men and friends cover Amy Winehouse's "Valerie" in Nashville (playing MilkBoy on 6/13)
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Non-COMM Recap: Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside dabble in retro rock (photos, audio, setlist)
Portland retro group Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside showed the Non-COMM crowd its rockability in a feisty set that closed out Wednesday night. The band is touring behind its latest LP Untamed Beast; check out the setlist below and … Read More
- Non-COMM Recap: The late night gets weird with Foxygen (photos, audio, setlist)
- Non-COMM Recap: Robert Randolph makes steel strings sing and the crowd dance (photos, audio)