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(09/05/18 12:00pm)
When I saw the initial lineup release for the Budweiser Made in America Festival back in June, I was disappointed. Although I've always been a hip hop fan, I had never followed either of the announced headliners, Post Malone and Nicki Minaj, and nobody else stood out to me. It didn't help that there had been drama back in July on whether or not the festival would even remain in its current location after 2018 with Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney eventually reaching an agreement with the Roc Nation label to keep it in the city. As far as I was concerned, there was no reason for me to go. That changed a few weeks ago, when Kendrick Lamar was added to the lineup. I immediately grabbed a ticket to see the best rapper alive. Fast forward through a Saturday morning of day parties, and my friends and I were on our way to the Ben Franklin Parkway. Even with Kendrick on the list, I had average expectations—little did I know I was going to be blown away.
(09/04/18 12:00pm)
Logic is a hip–hop enigma; he stormed into the rap game with a ferocity back at the beginning of the decade, blowing up with songs such as “All I Do” from the Young Sinatra mixtape trilogy. With a rapid–fire flow, slick wordplay, and an empowering swagger, the rapper seem poised to grab the rap throne. His debut album, Under Pressure, received critical acclaim for its biographical storytelling, and he followed that up with a decent concept record in the form of The Incredible True Story. However, Logic then began to release music of a more uneven quality, ranging between the utterly vapid on songs such as “Super Mario World” to the incredibly impactful nature of “1–800–273–8255.” Now, he’s dropped “The Return” and brought everything full circle.
(09/01/18 1:00pm)
Philly has a chip on its shoulder. That’s what frontman Dan Cousart of local rock band RFA said when asked to describe the DIY scene of this city. You can hear it in Hop Along’s scratchy vocals or in the meandering twang of Kurt Vile or in the adolescent anxiety of Modern Baseball. Maybe it’s got something to do with an inferiority complex from being so close to New York, but the heart of Philadelphia rock is undeniably punk.
(08/30/18 12:00pm)
Ariana Grande has been making music for about five years, and for a career so short, her list of hits is impressive. From “Love Me Harder” and “Bang Bang” to “Side to Side” and “No Tears Left to Cry,” her music has been defined by an R&B and pop–dominated sound.
(09/07/18 4:00am)
“There’s some fly Asian shit out there, but no one can tangibly give you an example,” says Sean Miyashiro, the founder of 88rising, a management and media production company that intends to fix just that. In fact, on September 28th, this rapidly expanding label is coming to Philadelphia with artists like Rich Brian, Joji, Higher Brothers, Keith Ape, and more.
(08/29/18 1:04am)
Monday night's VMAs served as a resounding triumph for the much–maligned awards show. With outstanding performances by artists such as Juice WRLD, Jessie Reyez, and Hayley Kiyoko and deserving victories for a number of Latinx performers, there was plenty of positivity in the pop culture sphere.
(08/08/18 4:00am)
The line of over a thousand Rex Orange County die–hards surrounded the block outside Union Transfer on August 2nd, over an hour before he was set to come onstage. Teenagers dressed in bright yellow, flower–power styles, equipped with Juuls and plastic bottles filled with anything but water, kept their noses to their phones as they snapchatted what might be the pinnacle of their summer.
(07/25/18 3:55pm)
Last Saturday, when I went to a live show headlined by Snail Mail—an artist about whom I've been waiting to write—I remembered what it means to fully connect to a piece of music.
(08/01/18 3:15pm)
Philly native Anna Shoemaker felt a common kind of disenchantment with college as she started to realize the disconnect between her lectures and her actual goals in life. But, unlike most of us, she decided to act on these feelings by taking a leap for what she loved most: writing and performing music.
(07/17/18 3:18pm)
Whether you like it or not, summer is halfway over. So, what better way to ease the mental transition from chill to, well, Penn, than to check out all of the insane music coming to Philly this fall? If there’s any way to get your friends to leave the Penn bubble, it’s a bangin’ can’t–miss concert. Street’s rounded up the hottest (and coolest) acts coming to the greater Philadelphia area right around when class picks up.
(07/16/18 2:53pm)
Sometimes a big break can come from one single stroke of good luck. That’s what Calvin Langman, cellist for the Happy Fits, thought when he woke up one morning to find that a song from their debut EP Awfully Apeelin’ received over 30,000 streams on Spotify. Now at over a million plays, the song “While You Fade Away,” is what Langman says helped the band reach a new level of fame.
(07/12/18 1:00pm)
One of the most hypnotizing songs on Tyler, The Creator’s 2017 album Flower Boy is “Boredom.” The catchy tune fastened itself to the public’s memory because of the enchanting chorus from Alex O’Connor, who goes by the stage name of Rex Orange County. The mantra “Find some time to do something,” is a simple phrase that manages to pull on the heartstrings of self–recognition, reeling listeners in from the dark and lonely corners.
(07/09/18 3:14pm)
The girl is thin. She is white. She has the air of a lost fawn teetering on spindly legs. She is beautiful but couldn’t care less. She smokes cigarettes, or maybe she just looks like she does. You want to fix her.
(07/06/18 1:50pm)
Summer is the prime season for music. With outdoor concerts and loosely flowing wardrobe options, the desire to waste away your days dancing never seemed so tempting. But when temperatures surpass 90 degrees and the whole city all but shuts down, it creates a hazy dream of enforced laziness, and only certain playlists have the perfectly slowed ease to match it. Rather than curating a fresh one, though, here’s a short list of albums that you can play on repeat as a spiritual guide through the endlessly oppressive heat. There’s truly no better opportunity than days like these to strive for that increasingly evanescent patience of listening to a full record from top to bottom.
(07/03/18 3:16pm)
"Blues and jazz aren’t dying, they’re dead" is one of the most common misconceptions of the modern music industry. The statement may be true for purists of those genres who take up a derivative form of late greats like Miles Davis or B.B. King, but it completely neglects the current and more evolved sounds of bands like White Denim, a group that is undoubtedly rooted in blues.
(06/25/18 1:00pm)
Philadelphia is home to more than the birthplace of American history or the reigning Super Bowl champs; the city of brotherly love boasts a music scene that’d make Nashville or LA jealous (well, almost). You’ve heard of Hall & Oates. The Tonight Show wouldn’t be much without The Roots. And any self–respecting pump–up playlist will make space for “Dreams and Nightmares” (#freemeek?). Street presents: five don’t–miss Philly artists.
(06/16/18 11:55pm)
OH. MY. GOD.
(06/18/18 3:22pm)
Last Friday at Union Transfer, the Brooklyn punk rock band Parquet Courts, touring in support of their new album Wide Awake!, played a sold out show with Goat Girl—a London–based group who was, to my delight, a band of four women—and Street Stains. Though the volume of the latter two–man act’s sound made the majority of their lyrics indistinguishable, their frustrated screams of punk foreshadowed the crazed mosh pit that would later ensue with Parquet Courts.
(06/11/18 1:00pm)
It seems that, every year, more and more festivals pop up with more and more artists jumping on the summer set bandwagon. With hundreds of festivals slated to bring hours of music to fans this summer, it can be hard to keep track of who’s playing where—and who is worth seeing. Here are Street’s picks for the top five artists performing this summer (and where you can see them).
(06/07/18 5:25pm)
I had a history teacher once who included music and art in his lesson plans as a way of demonstrating the relationship between political and cultural climates. The more I understood these connections, the more I started to recognize similar ways in which today’s politics infiltrate music; yet, rarely did I see it in rock, and even more rarely did it come from all–white male bands. Parquet Courts changed that with their new album, Wide Awake!.
