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DJ Ryan’s New Release of the Week: Zoos of Berlin’s “Taxis” All Over

DJ Ryan’s New Release of the Week: Zoos of Berlin’s “Taxis”

A notebook of short, shape-shifting song ideas that pulls from indie rock, dub, and ambient techno.

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
26 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Let There Be Rock Philadelphia

Let There Be Rock

A new show series at JT's Burgers & Brews featured Secret Address, Sappers and Swamp City Rockers last week.

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Bengal (B. Gallman)
26 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Oct. 26: The Weekly Roundup Philadelphia

Oct. 26: The Weekly Roundup

Welcome! You're reading a weekly wrap of articles from Philly Midbrow, which publishes daily reviews about arts and culture events happening across our city. Scroll for local story

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Multiple authors
26 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Inside the studio, WAM looks into the distance while a friend films him on a phone. They are both wearing SORRY MOM shirts. There is a plant hanging from the wall. Gwangju

A Film Only a Mother Could Hate

A DIY video screening spotlit the anti-authority sensibilities of a Gwangju skate crew.

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Jisu Sheen
26 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Purple Rose’s “Bastard” hooks you, then leaves you hanging Detroit

Purple Rose’s “Bastard” hooks you, then leaves you hanging

Devin Scillian’s new family drama delivers warm, witty company right up until the bombshell.

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Jenn McKee
26 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Revelations of Divine Love Philadelphia

Revelations of Divine Love

Ambient artist Jason Calhoun dropped a new album — and then played an improvised composition at the release party.

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Tyler Maxwell
26 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Figuring Rights For Figure Models Philadelphia

Figuring Rights For Figure Models

Izzy True interviews Emilia, a leader for a local workers collective of figure models.

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Izzy True
26 Oct 2026 · 1 min read
Revolution Revisited Hartford

Revolution Revisited

At Claire Gallery's "Founding Mothers" exhibit.

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Jamil Ragland
25 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Welcome to the World of Anna Sui, Where More Is More Detroit

Welcome to the World of Anna Sui, Where More Is More

Cranbrook Art Museum’s first fashion-focused show in years is a dizzying, joyful retrospective of the Metro Detroit native’s work.

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Erica Hobbs
23 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Gilla Band Melted My Brain, and I Loved It Detroit

Gilla Band Melted My Brain, and I Loved It

Maybe there’s still hope out there for bizarre, avant-garde music.

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
23 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
DJ Ryan’s New Release of the Week: Hot Chip’s “Random Violence” All Over

DJ Ryan’s New Release of the Week: Hot Chip’s “Random Violence”

The synth-pop band’s new single is a beautiful send-off to a friend.

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
23 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
A Robot Love Story with all the Feels Detroit

A Robot Love Story with all the Feels

The high-tech staging of the Tony-winning musical “Maybe Happy Ending” is dazzling, but it’s the human questions underneath that stick.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
23 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Utility Works Welcomes The Goodbye Party Philadelphia

Utility Works Welcomes The Goodbye Party

That band plus Raavi and Carmen Perry played a show at a Lansdowne maker space.

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Tyler Maxwell
23 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
The Artist Behind The Architecture Philadelphia

The Artist Behind The Architecture

A new exhibition is paying dues to a Philly architect described as "the most important Puerto Rican artist you've never heard of."

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Nora Grace-Flood
23 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
Restoring The Past For The Future Hartford

Restoring The Past For The Future

Conserving Artemisia Gentileschi's Hercules and Omphale Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford Oct. 22, 2026 The 2020 Beirut Port explosion killed more than 200 people, left 300,000 displaced and caused

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Jamil Ragland
23 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Black Writers & The Fires All The Time New Haven

Black Writers & The Fires All The Time

Two concurrent exhibits display Black writers' historic pursuit of artistic freedom.

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Brian Slattery
22 Oct 2026 · 7 min read
Singer Chloe Kimes Makes Fearlessness Look Fun Detroit

Singer Chloe Kimes Makes Fearlessness Look Fun

The singer, a Michigan native by way of Nashville, played to a room of friends, family, and fans of her viral hit “Coors Light.”

  • Go to the profile of  Leyland DeVito
Leyland DeVito
22 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Let’s Make The Native American Day Song Swap At Cain’s An Annual Thing Tulsa

Let’s Make The Native American Day Song Swap At Cain’s An Annual Thing

Capping a citywide celebration, this night centered Indigenous music and dance on Tulsa's most iconic stage

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Lindsey Claire Smith
22 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
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