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  No ‘Complaint’: Watsky comes to Philly to perform his fifth album at Union Transfer

  Slam poet turned rapper George Watsky, known as just Watsky, is heading to Philadelphia’s Union Transfer on Feb. 27 with his Complaint tour.The tour which kicked off on Jan. 31 in Nashville, showcases Watsky’s fifth studio album, Complaint, which dropped on Jan. 11 of this year. This comes after his Welcome To...

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  Stardom or death: Metric’s James Shaw talks ‘coming of age’ in Philly, latest album and tour

  Founder and lead guitarist of Canadian synth-pop-rock band Metric, James Shaw views Philadelphia as his “coming of age city.”At 16 years old, Shaw gained admittance to Curtis Institute of Music, the city’s renowned conservatory that includes notable alumni, such as American composer Leonard Bernstein and American-Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti. A trumpet-major,...

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  Naked Gunn: Lansdowne native gets personal with new album, ‘The Unseen in Between’

  Steve Gunn says he doesn’t make visual art, but that’s only true in the most literal sense.In reality, songs from the Lansdowne-born musician’s new album, The Unseen in Between, evoke more than just a sense of auditory stimulation. Gunn might not realize it, but his record’s prodding lyricism evokes imagery in a...

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  Brother producers BNYX® and BEAUTIFULMVN pound the pavement to make the beat

  It is common knowledge that the music industry is a cut-throat industry for performers.But the same holds true for those behind the scene, the producers who craft and polish the sound. Luckily for brother producers BNYX® and BEAUTIFULMVN, the duo from Upper Darby has each other to brave the beats and tracks...

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  ‘Ashes to Ashes’: DJ Robert Drake on keeping the spirit of the Starman alive with annual Philly Loves Bowie Week

  The world was stunned when legendary singer and glam rock god David Bowie passed away on Jan. 10, 2016 after an 18-month battle with liver cancer. It seems Philadelphia took the death particularly hard, even creating an annual, in-memoriam Philly Loves Bowie Week.And it makes sense why a city with an officially...

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  Paying your dues: Sarah Bockel’s journey as Carole King in ‘Beautiful,’ coming to the Academy of Music

  In college, Sarah Bockel was a Joni Mitchell fan. But after three and half years of performing in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Bockel is all about the “Natural Woman.”Bockel stars in the jukebox musical coming to the Academy of Music beginning Jan. 8-20., which portrays how Carole Klein became Carole King,...

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  Flow so lovely: Bri Steves isn’t Philly’s next emerging rapper. She’s already here.

  It’s not often one can vividly recall the defining moment in which they saw the path their life would take.Rapper Bri Steves did. In a small South Philly recording studio, Steves, 23, then a junior at Temple University studying public relations, saw what her future could become. It was in that moment...

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  Powerful voices: Josh Groban and Idina Menzel build ‘Bridges’ around human rights in Philly

  It was all vocals and technical proficiency at the Josh Groban concert featuring special guest Idina Menzel  on Nov. 12. But the two were not shy from letting their activist voices sing too on their “Bridges” tour at the Wells Fargo Center.In the second half of the concert, the two appeared on...

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  Jonesing on the music: Stacy Jones pulls double-duty at upcoming Underground Arts show

  For over a quarter of a century, Stacy Jones has always had both drum sticks firmly in the music world.He got his start first as a drummer and songwriter for Letters to Cleo, a rock band which gained major traction after releasing "Here & Now,” which reached No. 10 on the Billboard...

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  Force of nature: Storm Large joins the Philly POPS for three days of classic musical hits

  When Storm Large was a kid, she considered herself “a fat, punk rocker, loud mouth, asshole runaway and kind of a dirtbag.”But she also knew she had one talent, an undeniable set of pipes that made even the parents at her third-grade recitals go, “holy shit.’”