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Philly Has A Shoegaze Problem Philadelphia

Philly Has A Shoegaze Problem

Comprador's latest album sends reviewer Izzy True down a smoke-filled genre spiral.

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Izzy True
6 May 2026 · 1 min read
Sweating Strawberries Phliadelphia

Sweating Strawberries

The Afterglows, Emotional World and Try the Pie turned an under-attended basement show into a juicy jam fest.

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Tyler Maxwell
6 May 2026 · 2 min read
Up Close With Green Corn Rebellion Tulsa

Up Close With Green Corn Rebellion

The local supergroup reunited to welcome spring, with opener David Hernandez and friends

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Eric James Stephens
6 May 2026 · 5 min read
Lightening Up In A Tense Time All Over

Lightening Up In A Tense Time

Podcaster Chris Duffy's new book aims to put us all in a better humor

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Jenn McKee
6 May 2026 · 4 min read
I Spent An Evening Walking Admiral Boulevard. Tulsa’s Music Scene Did the Rest. Tulsa

I Spent An Evening Walking Admiral Boulevard. Tulsa’s Music Scene Did the Rest.

Kendall Whittier's venues deliver everything from witty folk to EDM with a banjo sample

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Eric James Stephens
6 May 2026 · 5 min read
Jazzy Derby Day Brunch Oakland

Jazzy Derby Day Brunch

Before the ponies ran in Saturday's 152nd Kentucky Derby, The Farmer and Her Cook on Washington Street in Old Oakland hosted a jazzy brunch on their patio.

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Lisa Gray
6 May 2026 · 3 min read
Queer Feminists Design Korea's Future Gwangju

Queer Feminists Design Korea's Future

At film fest, Jisu Sheen catches up with martial-law resistance.

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Jisu Sheen
6 May 2026 · 5 min read
Lapping Around Love Park Philadelphia

Lapping Around Love Park

We Walk PHL is celebrating a decade of community strolls this May in tandem with mental health awareness month.

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Marquis Combs
6 May 2026 · 3 min read
What It's All About Philadelphia

What It's All About

It's about: Opening up your home, playing music, helping each other out, and positively dangerous tempos (like, 180 BPM and above).

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Tyler Maxwell
5 May 2026 · 2 min read
How Black Bodies Are Meant To Perform New Haven

How Black Bodies Are Meant To Perform

Examined in a dance-art work-in-progress staged in town.

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Janday Wilson
5 May 2026 · 5 min read
Han Okhi's Cinema Language Gwangju

Han Okhi's Cinema Language

Jisu Sheen explores an avant-garde pathbreaker’s work, then & now, at Korean film fest.

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Jisu Sheen
5 May 2026 · 4 min read
Coke Bust Comes Through Philadelphia

Coke Bust Comes Through

The hardcore show must go on — and it did, in spite of of one bandmate's hand injury, at PhilaMoCA last Friday.

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Pierce Jordan
5 May 2026 · 5 min read
So ... Drinks? Baton Rouge

So ... Drinks?

Audience votes for "$5 Margaritas" at Take XII Student Music fest.

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Serena Puang
4 May 2026 · 2 min read
Artist, Heal Thyself Baton Rouge

Artist, Heal Thyself

K.T.Ho draws on her diasporan journey in "A Refugee's Origin" at Shell Gallery.

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Serena Puang
4 May 2026 · 3 min read
Don't Make Stuff Up. Period Hartford

Don't Make Stuff Up. Period

"Lifespan of a Fact" wastes time on the obvious.

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Jamil Ragland
4 May 2026 · 3 min read
British Artists Capture The Decline New Haven

British Artists Capture The Decline

Yale British Art museum exhibit captures the half-century-ago wrestling with modernism.

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Brian Slattery
4 May 2026 · 5 min read
MCA Day Comes to Cratediggaz Philadelphia

MCA Day Comes to Cratediggaz

Philly pays tribute to late rapper Adam Nathaniel Yauch of the Beastie Boys.

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John Morrison
3 May 2026 · 2 min read
Black Eyes Brings D.C. to Philly Philadelphia

Black Eyes Brings D.C. to Philly

The spirit of Revolution Summer returned in full force to The Rotunda Friday night.

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Tyler Maxwell
2 May 2026 · 3 min read
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