Cough Cool, Brendan Codey and more appear on experimental music holiday comp
If you like Christmas but don’t necessarily get into the more cheesy / campy / sentimental elements of Christmas music, this might just be the compilation for you. Put together by Vancouver musician Crystal Dorval, who performs as White Poppy, Whiteout is a chilling, windswept set of lo-fi experimental rock – including two of Philadelphia’s own tape-hiss heads. Listen to Cough Cool‘s “Joy to the World” and Brendan Codey‘s “I’ll be Home for Christmas” below, and stream / download the entire set here.
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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
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- Non-COMM Recap: The late night gets weird with Foxygen (photos, audio, setlist)
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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
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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)
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Wander to the shore in Brendan Codey's new music video for "Twin Chimney"
Here’s a cool, stylized and mysterious music video for Brendan Codey‘s “Twin Chimney,” the title track from his newly released EP on Marmara Records. Done up to look like it was shot on 8 mm film (unless director Zach Mami … Read More
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- Listen to "Twin Chimney," a new track from Brendan Codey