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Screaming Females
Union Transfer, Philadelphia, April 5
April 9th, 2018 | by Brian O'Neill | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
HIRS is a collective, but onstage there are only two members. Esem plays a severely distorted guitar and does it quite well; JP screams
Idles
PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, March 11
March 18th, 2018 | by Brian O'Neill | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
John Sharkey III came to some prominence fronting Clockcleaner. The band’s noisy art-punk got less dissonant as they went
Bananarama
PlayStation Theater, New York, February 24
March 6th, 2018 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
As we should all know by now, we’re living in the age of the reunion, a time when bands from disparate generations can coexist at
The Liza Colby Sound
The Barbary, Philadelphia, January 18
January 29th, 2018 | by Brian O'Neill | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
It was a bit surreal to see Chuck Treece open the show at 7pm sharp still wearing his coat and Eagles toboggan hat like he was
The Dream Syndicate
Bowery Ballroom, New York, December 2
December 14th, 2017 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
While it seems with each passing year more old favorites reunite to relive past glories and/or receive the wider recognition they
The Jesus and Mary Chain
PlayStation Theater, New York, November 17
December 4th, 2017 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in What's the Rumpus? | 1 Comment »
It’s been nearly 10 years since the Reid brothers—a pair of siblings whose squabbles make those of Oasis’ Gallaghers seem like
Ariel Pink
El Club, Detroit, October 29
November 16th, 2017 | by Kevin J. Ellliott | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
I keep coming back to a concert video of Frank Zappa in Barcelona on his last tour in 1988. Wearing harem pants and a frumpy, white, suburban-dad Baja This Is Not a Death From Above Concert Review
October 30th, 2017 | by Brian O'Neill | published in What's the Rumpus? | 4 Comments »
I absolutely love You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine. It came out when I just started working in a record store in Columbus. I was the metal buyer, but the beautiful
Arcade Fire
Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, September 17
September 27th, 2017 | by Brian O'Neill | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
Arcade Fire has been an unlikely success story for some time now, but it’s still an interesting and fairly unprecedented rise to
Oxbow
Kung Fu Necktie, Philadelphia, July 16
July 20th, 2017 | by Brian O'Neill | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
Tonight’s opening bands encapsulated both extremes of the noise spectrum, starting with the local Mob Terror, who merge equal