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One Concert After Another
After I started seeing Wilco live, it's been one concert after another - whether its Wilco or one of the members of the band
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Philadelphia Kicks Ass....David Byrne Endorses
When the Philly music scene is at its best, it looks like what went down during Philly Music Fest 2025.
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Dr. Dog: We're All In It Together Now, As We All Fall Apart
The best Philly band of the last 20 years brought their vast catalog to Ardmore Music Hall for 2 nights to open the 2025 Philly Music Fest
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Space is the Place
Improv music reigns supreme this week with the monthly the Dungeon Crawl, Ravi Coltrane, and Marshall Allen sprinkled with a set by one of my favorite…
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Live Music Remains Undefeated
Seeing live music will always win over watching live sports - another crushing Philly sports loss is erased by the memories of a live show
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The October 2025 Concert Schedule
September was a good run - now its on to October
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Records Are Made to Be Broken
2025 is looking challenge 2017 for my most concerts in a calendar year after surpassing my second highest total from 2024 with Geordie Greep at the…
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September 2025

The Official End of Summer
Ending summer by skipping Phish at Hampton and spending that time with Nels Cline, Molly Tuttle, Frankie & the Witch Fingers, Daniel Donato's Cosmic…
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Car Seat Headrest Can Do Whatever The Fuck They Want When They Want To
Will Toledo's outfit Car Seat Headrest brings their college rock opera "The Scholars" to the Skyline Stage at the Mann
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The End of My Own Summer (Shove It) with the Deftones
29 years to the day since my first Deftones show, I start the end of summer concerts with Deftones, IDLES and The Barbarians of California.
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We Don't Have to Go Back
A few months after the Town Hall and the World Cafe Live is still LOST
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Three (Not) of a Kind
After an amazing double dose of nine inch nails, the only thing common in the next three concerts with music that was so sonically different was the…
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