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                                <title>The Tubs</title>
                                <eventupdate>13 hours ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/the-tubs/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show THE TUBS Upon arriving in the United States for The Tubs&#8217; first tour of the country, frontman Owen Williams told The New Yorker, &#8220;We&#8217;re here to unite the country. We&#8217;re gonna come, like, three times. By that point, I think this place will start healing.&#8221; Then, joyously, they did just that, piling into a van and criss-crossing the States, bringing their literary, bleary-eyed, world-weary, night-of-your-life highwire act to the masses when it was needed most. Along the way, they signed to MergeRecords, who will release The Tubs&#8217; third full-length album, Hard Life, on September 11, 2026.]]></description>
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                                <title>Sovei</title>
                                <eventupdate>15 hours ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/sovei/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show SOVEI With vocals that recall the gossamer timbre of Billie Holiday and Solange Knowles, Sovei&#8217;s music is an exploration of personhood, perception, and the desire to be understood. Tonight is a celebration of their debut EP &#8220;Other.&#8221;Sovei will be joined by an &#160;all-star group of musicians from Philly&#8217;s experimental jazz, rock, and ambient scenes.&#160; MOUSTAPHA NOUMBISSI Moustapha Noumbissi is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter based in Philadelphia. Born in Belgium to Cameroonian parents, Moustapha grew up a participant of many musical traditions, including West African drumming, American pop, and choral music. His latest recordings with producer Lee Clarke favor indie rock and psychedelic soul. LARS LARS is a singer-songwriter and musician from Philadelphia. Their music is a deeply personal journey through the realms of self-discovery and acceptance. LARS weaves together melodic loops that serve as a backdrop for narratives exploring the intricacies of their experience as a black trans person. Through soulful compositions and genre-defying exploration, they invite listeners into a world where themes of identity, spirituality, and resilience intersect.]]></description>
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                                <title>Brennan Wedl</title>
                                <eventupdate>15 hours ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/brennan-wedl/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show BRENNAN WEDL This is a full circle moment for Brennan Wedl. The Minnesota-raised, Nashville-based songwriter has always felt like she was searching for herself, trying on various versions but never really feeling the euphoric ease that comes with finding comfort in one&#8217;s own skin.Through experimentation in spirituality and empowerment, devoting time and energy into her craft and learning to lean into a playful, carefree outlook, Wedl is experiencing the delicious life moments with a renewed clarity. On her self-titled album&#8211;&#8211;and debut for ANTI&#8211;&#8211;she shakes off the prying eyes of expectation, leaving behind the anxiety of forming yourself for others and welcoming in the delight of finally being exactly who you are.Wedl is already a prolific artist, releasing solo music since 2012, and co-founding the queercore outfit Dazey &#38; The Scouts in 2015. The band, she says, taught her about &#8220;complete vulnerability and collaboration,&#8221; and their surprise viral success on social media fuelled the next stepping stone in Wedl&#8217;s career.&#8220;It&#8217;s shown me the humanity that live music can create,&#8221; she says of theunexpected attention on the band.&#8220;It&#8217;s taught me so much about songwriting as collective care.&#8221;After a string of solo singles in 2024, Wedl&#8217;s latest LP gathers those foundation-cracking moments that make up a life, and sees her fully immersed in the lessons they create.There&#8217;s a coffee-ringed, neon-hue to Wedl&#8217;s songs; blurred faces past foggy windows that add to the anonymity of a new city where an array of outcomes await. After touring and moving around the country for the better part of a decade, Wedl likens home to her favorite snacks, a long phone call with a friend or the hum of a beloved song on an Uber driver&#8217;s radio. She grew up in a religious household, and fondly remembers visiting her elderly aunts at their convent.Spirituality still plays a huge part in Wedl&#8217;s version of home, but it&#8217;s a broader scope than a bearded guy in the clouds; after getting sober, she found herself drawn to meditation, morning pages and the compass of intuition. Now, Wedl looks to her &#8220;network in the sky&#8221; to notice the patterns in the universe pointing out the next steps.Wedl enlisted Katie Crutchfield (Waxahatchee) and Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Mavis Staples) to co-produce and play on the album, with instrumentalists Colin Croom, Lindsey Jordan and Matt McCaughan also sprinkled throughout. Together, they formed a middle ground between punk, grunge and Americana&#8211;&#8211;&#8216;grungetry&#8217; as they affectionately callit&#8211;&#8211;capturing all tracks within a 10 day stay at Cook&#8217;s studio in Durham, NC. With Cook&#8217;s beloved dog Remy witnessing from afar, Wedl&#8217;s songs were recorded live as a band, soaking up the collective energy and shaking off any kind of preciousness about the outcome. It&#8217;s a county fair carousel, housing a God-fearing Midwestern teenager; a sharp-tongued DIY punk rocker; a heartbroken, dejected road dog and the newcomer at the Nashville honky-tonk.&#8220;]]></description>
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                                <title>Froggy, PLEASURE DEATH &amp; The Angies</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 day ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/froggy-pleasure-death-the-angies/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show FROGGY Froggy is a Philly-based queer punk power trio formed in 2020. Starting the band as teenagers, they&#8217;ve written a collection of punchy and melodic tracks depicting the relatable and earnest parts of growing up, from 711 Nachos to ordeals with local creeps.&#160; Inspired by L7, The Dead Milkmen, Bikini Kill, and many other hard-hitting icons, Froggy delivers a powerful kick of youthful humor, grunge, and classic punk. PLEASURE DEATH Hailing from New York City, PLEASURE DEATH, is a queer heavy grunge duo harnessing power, revenge, and all consuming desire. Informed by RiotGrrrl ethos, their songs exorcise repressed rage born of r*pe culture and queerphobia, with a heavy dose of distortion. Live shows are an invitation to step into your shadow and purge whatever's killing your pleasure. THE ANGIES Channeling the lean riffs of the Rolling Stones, the swagger of the Stooges, and the confrontational performances of James Chance &#38; the Contortions, the Angies adrenalize the too-often listless musical landscape of today with a double shot of old school rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll.]]></description>
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                                <title>Small Brown Bike</title>
                                <eventupdate>6 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/small-brown-bike/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show SMALL BROWN BIKE SMALL BROWN BIKE formed in 1996 in Michigan and released four full-length albums plus EPs and singles over their career. Their 2000 sophomore album Dead Reckoning earned international acclaim and a 5-star review from Kerrang, who praised its "unrivaled depth of emotion." The band toured relentlessly, sharing stages with Hot Water Music, Cursive, Sparta, Cave In, and many others. In 2003, they released The River Bed on Lookout! Records before breaking up later that year.&#160;They reunited in 2006 and officially returned in 2009, recording their fourth album Fell &#38; Found in 2011 with producer J Robbins. AV Club praised them as "one of the best purveyors of this sound." The band continued to play shows and festivals through 2016, eventually going on an indefinite hiatus.&#160;In 2023, tragedy struck with the passing of one of their founding members, Travis Dopp, after a three-year battle with cancer. In 2026, the remaining founding members&#8212;Mike Reed, Ben Reed, and Dan Jaquint&#8212;announced shows to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their breakout record, Dead Reckoning, and honor the 30-year anniversary of the band's founding. THE CASKET LOTTERY Feel The Teeth captures a band navigating the tension between exhaustion and revelation, pushing through the haze of disillusionment while still searching for meaning. Lyrically, Feel The Teeth reflects the weight of an era that has shifted in unexpected ways&#8212;personally, politically, and socially&#8212;capturing the complexities of trying to find clarity in a world that often feels out of control.Where their 2020 album Short Songs for End Times felt like a direct confrontation with the chaos of a fractured world, Feel The Teeth dwells in the quieter aftermath, the moments of clarity amidst the noise. The album is soaked in existential fatigue&#8212;tracks like &#8220;Nightsong&#8221; and &#8220;Diamonds&#8221; bring us to the edge of the abyss, questioning the worth of it all, while grappling with the weight of personal and collective history. As Nathan Ellis explains, &#8220;Nightsong&#8221; is a reflection of how time and trauma warp the body and mind: &#8220;I don&#8217;t sleep very well anymore&#8230; now I just have these moments between being awake and my hypnogogic hallucinations.&#8221;At its core, Feel The Teeth is about grappling with internal conflict. Songs like &#8220;Bell Penny&#8221; take on self-preservation versus empathy, while &#8220;Echolalia&#8221; offers a sobering realization of the passing of time: &#8220;A song about middle age enlightenment. Realizing that I spent so many years wanting, when all I needed were the moments I had.&#8221;Throughout the record, teeth become a symbol&#8212;of the things we try to bury, of pain that refuses to be ignored, and of the subtle violence of everyday survival. Tracks like &#8220;Snake Dreams&#8221; and &#8220;Nothing Certain&#8221; explore anxiety and transformation, challenging the listener to not just endure, but to shed old skins and confront what&#8217;s lurking underneath.]]></description>
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                                <title>NAH</title>
                                <eventupdate>6 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/nah/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show NAH Since the release of his first demos in 2011, percussionist, sound manipulator and visual artist, NAH has been developing his own dynamic synthesis of textured noise and genre smashing percussive rhythms with firm roots planted in DIY punk, noise, avant jazz, electronic music and the restlessness of hip-hop. Performing live with little more than a drum kit and various samplers, he channels a frenetic energy that teeters on the edge of violent hostility and playful chaos. Recent years have found him not only producing his own work but also collaborating with artists such as Wiki, Mike, Moor Mother, Iggor Cavalera, Evicshen, Cities Aviv, Obongjayar and many more. CUBE LOVELOCK]]></description>
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                                <title>MESH</title>
                                <eventupdate>6 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/mesh/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show MESH 'No Fun At All' Record Release Show Philadelphia four-piece Mesh end a 5-year wait with debut LP No Fun At All, out Summer 2026 on Cincinnati&#8217;s Feel It Records. Members Sims Hardin (guitar/vocals), Allison Durham (12-string guitar/vocals), Tom Riese (bass) and Steve Darling (drums) formed in 2019, taking inspiration from a blend of influences: early British post-punk, 80&#8217;s indie and Philly living. Out of their local DIY scene, Mesh home-recorded their self-titled debut cassette, released in 2021 with Chicago&#8217;s Born Yesterday Records. Following their debut tape, the band zeroed in on writing and performing new material locally while also completing several Midwest and East Coast tours. Now via Feel It Records, Mesh release their debut full-length No Fun At All on vinyl and digital.On No Fun At All, Mesh break away from lo-fi recording habits, leaning into clarity and depth with eleven new tracks. Songs like &#8220;Hold Onto&#8221; and &#8220;Boots On The Pavement&#8221; move with urgency, accented by Durham and Hardin&#8217;s intertwined vocals and guitar work. &#8220;Atrophy&#8221; is a bright and jangly number highlighting Durham's voice and 12-string chime, while &#8220;Violent Peasant&#8221; captures a sardonic medieval critique of modern landlord/tenant inequities. No Fun At All is a playful yet mature, dynamic first LP from Mesh. Spin it til your turntable breaks. ERASER The quartet of Sonam Parikh, Pier Harrison Juliette Rando &#38; Kat Bean are the glorious blood &#38; guts behind Eraser. Much can be said of their paths to this apex, how this sound coalesced , but who has the time? We are here, now, to speak of Eraser's debut release, Hideout, on Siltbreeze Records.First, let me ask that you are familiar with the golden age of Rough Trade? Then if so, you would immediately connect with the sound of Eraser, which twitches &#38; gyrates in a mashup of Pere Ubu &#38; Kleenex. And yet there is a distinct New York-meets-Berlin No Wave tension underlying the fun. Think The Static meets Mania D. Are you in or out? TAURUS JUDGE Taurus Judge is making waves as one of Philly&#8217;s premier punk bands, following the glowing reception of their debut EP A Thing Rolled Up and their split with Gash. Their fiercely dialed-in live performances have also generated growing interest. The group&#8212;formed by Ian Norris (guitar), Cydney Berlinger (bass), Josh Merkin (drums), and now joined by second guitarist Nikhil Wadhwa- carves out a sound that mirrors the harsh Philadelphian soundscape: metal grinding, Septa Trains screeching to a halt, and a bombardment of illegal fireworks.]]></description>
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                                <title>Kiwi Jr.</title>
                                <eventupdate>7 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/kiwi-jr-2/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show KIWI JR. Refracting the realities of late-capitalist city life and the impossibility of work-art balance in a high-rent metropolis through satire and sarcasm, Toronto&#8217;s Kiwi Jr. has shaped their own deadpan postmodern indie rock. Their third album, Chopper, overseen by producer Dan Boeckner was released on Sub Pop Records in 2022. They have toured in 13 countries and opened for bands like Pavement, The Walkmen, Dinosaur Jr, Guided By Voices, and others. They are currently at work on their fourth album. 2ND GRADE LOG FLUME]]></description>
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                                <title>Maps &amp; Atlases</title>
                                <eventupdate>7 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/maps-atlases/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show MAPS &#38; ATLASES BARK CULTURE LOADCARD]]></description>
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                                <title>The Philadelphia Tom Petty Appreciation Band</title>
                                <eventupdate>8 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/the-philadelphia-tom-petty-appreciation-band-2/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show THE PHILADELPHIA TOM PETTY APPRECIATION BAND Your friends in The Philadelphia Tom Petty Appreciation Band are returning to Johnny Brenda&#8217;s to celebrate 50 years of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on Friday, Sept. 18 with an evening of big hits, minor hits, deep cuts, and deeper cuts from all corners of the Tom Petty canon: Petty with the HBs, Petty solo, Wilburys, and Mudcrutch. Do we even need to tell you how great this is going to be? &#160; &#160;Your friends in The Philadelphia Tom Petty Appreciation Band are: Pat Finnerty, Zach Miller, Mike Quinn, Justin Mazer, Luke Rinz, and Patrick Berkery.]]></description>
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                                <title>Midiron Blast Shaft</title>
                                <eventupdate>8 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/midiron-blast-shaft/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show MIDIRON BLAST SHAFT (REUNION 1997-2002) Great comedians will talk about starting their sets with their most difficult material, pushing the audience into opposition, with the intention of winning them over. &#160;If you ever saw Midiron Blast Shaft, you might&#8217;ve lightly chuckled to yourself as you watched four men in Daisy Dukes with blonde wigs tuning their guitars, before muttering to yourself, &#8220;What is this bullshit?&#8221; &#160;Quickly after the first song however, the realization hit that these guys are laughing at themselves, the outfits an expression of their extreme competency, daring the audience to confront their expectations. &#160;Midiron Blast Shaft don&#8217;t want to play against the JV team; their only competition is themselves.&#160;The band emerged in 1997 from greater Philadelphia, bringing their own blend of rock &#38; post-hardcore combined with a live show that left audiences blown away by theatrics and musicality. &#160;Their sound appealed to both the margins and the mainstream of alternative music fans and broadcast its message through lyrics equally politically charged and absurd. &#160;Midiron&#8217;s musical growth rate was faster than a spoiler-topped minivan. &#160;After releasing a 4-song demo tape and 7&#8221; record in 1998, local independent shop Siren Records released the band&#8217;s first full length, &#8220;Igneous Assertions&#8221;, in 1999. &#160;That album brought their first national tour, leading them through Baltimore to Reptilian Records. &#160;Midiron Blast Shaft&#8217;s second album, &#8220;Starts Fires in Your Pants&#8221; was released on Reptilian in 2000 and signified a leap musically, folding in metal-leaning riffs &#38; dissonance, while developing their signature woven guitar interplay. &#160;The songs were succinct, aggressive, and pounding. &#160;&#160;As the band continued to tour they shared the stage with the likes of Lungfish, Trans Am, Strike Anywhere, Oxes, Arab on Radar, and The Dwarves, among others before disbanding in 2002. &#160;Now in 2026, Midiron Blast Shaft have re-formed and resurrected their most focused and ferocious material that had previously only been experienced live. &#160; These 7 lost tracks are joined by a brand new one on an all new full-length release with Reptilian Records titled &#8220;Finish The Job&#8221;Midiron will mount &#38; ride their first live show in over 20 years this fall. SPACESHIP THROUGH HELL&#160;(Toby &#38; Zach from Dr. Dog + Pat Finnerty) DJ PATRICK TROXELL (Creepoid) &#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Swapmeet</title>
                                <eventupdate>8 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/swapmeet/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show SWAPMEET Swapmeet is a 4-piece band from South Australia composed of Venus O&#8217;Broin (guitar, vocals), Joshua Doherty (bass), Maxwell Elphick (guitar, drums, vocals), and Jack Medlyn (guitar, drums, vocals). Having recently caught the ear of American indie label Winspear, the band is readying their debut album and offering a taste of the new material with &#8220;I Know!&#8221;, a cathartic and buoyant debut single for their new label home. Revved up with gleaming, fuzzy guitars and energetic percussion, the new track blurs jangle pop, shoegaze, and alt-rock with tongue-in-cheek precision. The group met as teenagers in the early 2020s while playing in various projects around the Adelaide music scene and bonded over their love of 90s alternative, citing Pavement and Sonic Youth as early influences. They soon started writing music together and released their debut single in late 2023 and quickly returned with their debut EP, Oxalis, in mid-2024. The EP was well received, earning nods from Rolling Stone Australia and Triple J, and the band was soon moving out of local pub gigs and into big clubs, opening for international touring artists across the whole of Australia, and recently won the Emerging Artist &#38; Best Performance award at SXSW Sydney for their charismatic live show. Swapmeet will make their USA debut thisspring at SXSW Austin.]]></description>
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                                <title>Chanpan</title>
                                <eventupdate>13 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/chanpan/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show CHANPAN autogratis North American Tour Chanpan&#8217;s music channels a sense of sleekness alongside playful improvisation and deliberate musical choices. There are the nods to the playfulness and vibrancy of PinkPantheress and NewJeans, though tinged with something jazzier and fluid, a willingness to freestyle that&#8217;s characteristic of a distinctly American ethos. And yet these are all disparate definitions, and calling something &#8220;everything&#8221; is only helpful when you have the piece that binds it all together. On Mott Street in New York&#8217;s Chinatown, a neighborhood that&#8217;s become a kind of home base for the many facets of their work, a vision began to crystallize.One day a few years ago, Grace Dumdaw and Lance and Matthew Tran went out busking downtown, something clicked, and Chanpan was born. A disillusionment with working in various political spaces early in their careers led to a pivot to alternative modes of expression and change. In seeking something more immediate and loose, they turned to music, freeing themselves from the expectation that every choice should have a literal meaning, even if said choices are deliberate and specific. Though the music is a means, it&#8217;s not a means to an end. SHEBAD]]></description>
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                                <title>Baby&#8217;s First Rodeo</title>
                                <eventupdate>14 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/babys-first-rodeo-9/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show BABY'S FIRST RODEO SARAH GROSS MERCY BELL]]></description>
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                                <title>Porches</title>
                                <eventupdate>15 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/porches/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show PORCHES Shirt, the latest album from Aaron Maine aka Porches, is part angsty fantasy, part confessional melodrama &#8211; a rock album that oscillates between reality and make-believe to reflect both the innocence of suburban youth and the frayed reality of adulthood. A fusion of chaotic impulses, insatiable desires, and a perpetual yearning, Shirt plays with the tension between one&#8217;s person and persona &#8211; the weight of your dreams crashing up against your reality. The result is something both familiar and uncanny, an anthemic tribute to this intrinsic duality built on crashing and caressing sounds.A concise record that thrusts listeners into a fevered state, Shirt&#8217;s hormonal rock songs collide with emotional ballads to create a dynamic tension that propels the listener ahead. The album speaks in broad, relatable terms while maintaining an intimate connection with its creator, blurring the line between universality and personal revelation. Shirt is as much about the climaxes as it is about the banality between life&#8217;s most memorable moments, celebrating not just the first kiss but also the anxiety intertwined with it.It is instantly recognizable as Porches&#8217; heaviest album to date. Grungy guitars that shine with a menacing glint, drums and bass that punch you warmly in the stomach, interspersed with moments of eerie calmness to create a physical sense of tension and release that resonates with each track. The album adds an arresting body of work to Maine&#8217;s impressively dynamic catalogue. MACKEEPER Mackeeper is the duo made up of Miles Cohen and brother Nick Harwood. For most of their lives, they thought their tastes were too different to take collaboration seriously. Miles started out in rock bands, while Nick was cutting his teeth as a DJ and focused on directing and creative direction for other artists. After spending years individually honing their skills, they came together to combine their different musical influences and perspectives into a unified artist project.The ever-evolving result is a faintly surreal mix of rock with pop hooks, rap-inspired bars, and beats.Mackeeper explores strikingly honest and relatable themes throughout their debut EPRock Candy. Not surprising given that they recorded most of it on the back porch of their childhood home in Maryland. On their debut single, &#8216;Oh Canada&#8217;, Miles desperately sings, voice cracking, about a friend with a drinking problem, &#8220;He&#8217;s probably fine, all he had was a little red wine&#8221;. Childhood stories reevaluated through the lens of adulthood take on different meanings. In Mackeeper&#8217;s words, &#8220;Growing up is a choice, but a good one.&#8221;A six year age gap between Miles and Nick meant vastly different experiences of childhood and young adulthood. With Nick in LA and Miles in New York, music keeps them close and listening to their songs allows us to momentarily bask in that bond ourselves.&#8216;Oh Canada&#8217; was named one of Gorilla vs. Bear&#8217;s &#8220;Top Songs of 2025&#8221;, and Mackeeper was highlighted as an &#8220;Artist We&#8217;re Rooting For in 2026&#8221; by The Fader.]]></description>
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                                <title>A Black Celebration &#8211; Philly&#8217;s Favorite Depeche Mode Dance Party</title>
                                <eventupdate>18 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/a-black-celebration-phillys-favorite-depeche-mode-dance-party-15/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 9PM Doors &#160; A BLACK CELEBRATION - PHILLY'S FAVORITE DEPECHE MODE DANCE PARTY &#160; +++ FRIDAY JULY 3RD +++A Black Celebration - Philly's Favorite Depeche Mode Party Goth Beach Edition - Kick off your holiday weekend with us creepy tiki style! Goth beach attire is encouraged (not mandatory) for this event. Enjoy themed drinks, decor, and summerween photo ops!&#160; DJ Baby Berlin+ Special Guest:DJ Jeffo! (NYC) Photos: Urbanity Chic&#160;Black Celebration is the fifth studio album by Depeche Mode. This album further cemented the darkening sound and style of DM.&#160;ABC&#160;the party celebrates this darkening depeche mood as well. This event is an inclusive safe space goth party. Homophobia, Misogyny, transphobia, racism, xenophobia, physical violence or hate of any kind will not be tolerated.Expect to hear:TONS OF DEPECHE MODENEW WAVEDARK WAVEPOST-PUNKDEATH ROCKEARLY INDUSTRIALWAX TRAXGOTH CLUB HITSFACTORY RECORDSDepeche Mode, New Order, Ministry, Sisters Of Mercy, Bauhaus, Front 242, Cabaret Voltaire, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, The Cult, Xmal Deutschland, Pet Shop Boys, Tears for Fears, Erasure. INXS, Love and Rockets, Soft Cell, Killing Joke, Tones On Tail, Visage, NIN, Skinny Puppy, Nitzer Ebb, Cold Cave, Joy Division, She Past Away, Boy Harsher, Lords Of The New Church, Yazoo, Gary Numan, Echo &#38; The Bunnymen, Berlin, and more!#abcphilly #ablackcelebration #ablackcelebrationphilly #darkwavephilly #goth #gothnight #gothphilly #newwave #darkwave #depechemode #postpunk #synthpop #tradgothLet's have a black celebration...9PM Doors / $10-$15 / 21+]]></description>
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                                <title>Jo Passed &amp; Maneka</title>
                                <eventupdate>19 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/jo-passed-maneka/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show JO PASSED Jo Passed is Jo Hirabayashi&#8217;s dynamic and restless songwriting project. Infused with post-punk, alternative, grunge, and garage rock, the music is often described as angular and unpredictable. Following their Sub Pop debut, 2026's "Away" delivers a song-forward methodology that molds stress into a smooth, fun indie rock record, hitting a sweet spot between saccharine and melancholic. MANEKA In addition to past work in bands Speedy Ortiz and Grass is Green, Devin McKnight has long written his own music as Maneka, releasing his solo debut Is You Is in 2017. On 2022&#8217;s Dark Matters, McKnight set out to explore the full range of his experiences as a studio and touring musician, delivering a striking, unclassifiable mesh of genre influence through which McKnight deftly explored the anxieties of working as a Black man in majority white indie rock spaces.On his 2025 follow-up, bathes and listens, McKnight focuses his vision on Maneka&#8217;s musical identity, resulting in a more grounded album that still tests the extremes of McKnight&#8217;s songwriting talent. Elements of shoegaze and slowcore are prominent, but engineer Alex Farrar's exceptional production (Wednesday, Snail Mail, MJ Lenderman) makes bathes and listens cohesive, yet still distinct from any one style.&#160;Maneka opens bathes and listens with a Pinback reminiscent verse on &#8220;shallowing,&#8221; alternating with heavy choruses before exploding with alarm-call guitar in the song&#8217;s crashing coda. &#8220;shallowing&#8217;s&#8221; huge ending sets up &#8220;dimelo,&#8221; McKnight&#8217;s crunched, faceripping ode to Carmelo Anthony (specifically Hoodie Melo). &#8220;dimelo&#8221; is urgent and instantly enthralling, completely swarmed by distortion, with only faint squeals passing through its shroud.Such extremes are a fixture of McKnight&#8217;s songwriting on bathes and listens, and provide him a space to interact with his vulnerability &#8212; as on the album&#8217;s middlepoint &#8220;pony,&#8221; a softer moment of acoustic reflection that retraces McKnight&#8217;s days in high school football, picking apart what it meant to be an outsider in a world where coaches put unreasonable all-world expectations on seventeen year-olds. Singles &#8220;yung yeller&#8221; and &#8220;throwing ax&#8221; are similarly introspective, the latter describing the necessity of acceptance over denial before tumbling into a restrained, anfractuous guitar solo.The album&#8217;s ambitious denouement, &#8220;5225,&#8221; is a slowburning build around knotted guitar, steadily crescendoing to a moment of chaotic clarity that centers a boisterous, unexpected solo. &#8220;5225&#8221; momentarily steers bathes and listens away from its sonic milieu, only to plunge listeners back into the heavy, crunched distortion of the album&#8217;s closer &#8220;why i play 2k/land back,&#8221; concluding on a note that reminds us the land we call ours and pass on through legacy is all stolen. It&#8217;s declarative in a way that matches the stylistically focused nature of bathes and listens, the product of McKnight&#8217;s choice to allow his strengths to guide his songwriting, resulting in Maneka&#8217;s strongest work to date.&#160; POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL Synths, TVs, Philly.]]></description>
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                                <title>the machine x Sassy 009</title>
                                <eventupdate>20 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/the-machine-x-sassy-009/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show the machine x SASSY 009]]></description>
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                                <title>The Belair Lip Bombs</title>
                                <eventupdate>21 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/the-belair-lip-bombs/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show WXPN Welcomes THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS The Belair Lip Bombs might be Australia&#8217;s best-kept secret. But it won&#8217;t stay that way for long.&#160;Hailing from the coastal town of Frankston, the close-knit indie-rock four-piece have been building a loyal local following since they first formed eight years ago; fans across the band&#8217;s hometown of Melbourne and beyond have been magnetized to the group&#8217;s earnestness and ultra-sticky power-pop song structures.&#160;Now, the four close friends &#8212; lead singer/guitarist Maisie Everett, Mike Bradvica (guitar), Jimmy Droughton (bass), and Daniel "Dev" Devlin (drums) &#8212; are about to embrace a new chapter with their signing to Jack White&#8217;s Third Man Records (the first Australian release on the international label) and the unveiling of their endlessly listenable sophomore album, Again, which echoes the album&#8217;s joyous opening track (&#8220;Again and Again&#8221;) and winkingly symbolizes the band&#8217;s reintroduction to a global audience. ARMLOCK Longtime friends and collaborators, Lam (vocals and guitar) and Mitchell (guitar and keyboards) met while studying jazz at Monash University in Melbourne, eventually discovering a shared love of electronic music. After a handful of electronic and dance-oriented projects (I&#8217;lls, Couture, Kllo)&#160;Armlock came together through the band&#8217;s natural camaraderie and comfort with collaboration, and the two began incorporating guitar into the music they were making for the first time.&#160;Their debut&#160;Trust&#160;was released in 2021 and laid the groundwork for their imaginative and sonically rich sound, at times recalling&#160;Pinback&#8217;s lean alternative, Alex G&#8217;s adventurous indie, or the wave of mysterious-yet-endearing genre-bending music coming out of the UK from label's like Dean Blunt&#8217;s World Music or Vegyn&#8217;s PLZ Make It Ruins. In 2024 Armlock released their 2nd album 'Seashell Angel Lucky Charm'&#160;&#160;via Run For Cover Records. It was met with critical acclaim and introduced the group to the broader indie world. Following their latest single, 'Strobe,' the countdown now begins for their much-anticipated 3rd album.]]></description>
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                                <title>WITCH</title>
                                <eventupdate>21 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/witch/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show WITCH A pioneering Zambian psychedelic act, W.I.T.C.H. (the name is an acronym, standing for We Intend to Cause Havoc) were one of the defining acts of Zamrock, a fusion of Western rock and rhythm &#38; blues with traditional African sounds. They were among Zambia's most popular and influential bands in the 1970s as a wave of psychedelic and hard rock gained an audience in Africa. A landlocked nation in the South of Africa, Zambia was formerly Northern Rhodesia until gaining its independence in 1964, and as Zambia established its own national identity, local musicians began embracing the progressive influences of artists such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Jimi Hendrix, as well as the forward-thinking soul and funk sounds of James Brown. RON GALLO &#8220;The world is fucked, but the universe is inside you&#8221; is the common thread between all 4 albums of Ron Gallo - human, songwriter, musician and general disruptor.&#160; His debut album &#8220;HEAVY META&#8221; described by NPR as &#8220;literate electricity&#8221; was released to widespread critical acclaim and world-wide touring, and an unlikely hit single in &#8220;Young Lady, You&#8217;re Scaring Me&#8221; which has amassed over 70 million streams.&#160; He has performed at Coachella, Bonnaroo, Governors Ball, Newport Folk Festival and Pukkelpop. His latest album &#8220;checkmate&#8221; (out now on legendary Kill Rock Stars) gets back to the basics of songs for voice and guitar with attention on what is left to hang on to in a world that is seemingly crumbling before our eyes. He began an ongoing song series on social media called &#8220;7AM Songs of Resistance for the Internet&#8221; that addresses current social and political issues daily, the project has resulted in 90+ songs and reached millions worldwide.&#160; In 2023 he also published his first book titled "SOCIAL METEOR".]]></description>
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                                <title>Vivian Girls</title>
                                <eventupdate>21 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/vivian-girls/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show VIVIAN GIRLS While a reunion record titled Memory may conjure images of a band waxing nostalgic about the halcyon days of yore, Vivian Girls&#8217; newest record is anything but a pleasant reminiscence. The latent darkness that always haunted their records is on full display upon their return. Vivian Girls are back and they haven&#8217;t forgotten what they went through.During their initial run as a band, Vivian Girls were a band of outsiders for outsiders. They existed in warehouses and house parties. The DIY spots, the small clubs. They were a band for the freaks, the malcontents. The ones who loved The Wipers as much as Burt Bacharach as much as The Shangri-Las. The ones who talked about astrology and politics and romance with equal passion. They were the band that made the punks feel like they could sing harmonies and pop fans could get in touch with their anger. Cassie Ramone&#8217;s lyrics alternated between love, loss and rage. They were heart-on-their-sleeves romantics in one breath and a spiraling explosion of feedback in the next. They were a band that we needed. No one wrote about all the bands that started in their wake in 2009. But let us remember: Vivian Girls not only gave us their songs; they gave us a chance to believe in ourselves.]]></description>
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                                <title>Tōth</title>
                                <eventupdate>21 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/t%c5%8dth/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show TŌTH Brooklyn-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tōth (Alex Toth of Rubblebucket) returns with his third album, And The Voice Said. Known for emotionally potent songwriting shot through with wit and humor, Tōth creates live shows that feel less like performances and more like communal gatherings &#8212; heart-on-sleeve, deeply felt, and open to everyone. His stage presence is magnetic, his banter delightfully unhinged, and his trumpet playing soulful and expressive. Co-produced by Grammy-nominated artist Caroline Rose and featuring Kimbra, And The Voice Said captures Tōth in full bloom as both a singer and visionary artist. ANNA MOSS Vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Anna Moss hails from the verdant forests and lush limestone of the Ozarks; yet her musical personality oozes New Orleans, the artist&#8217;s adopted hometown for many years. Anna&#8217;s newfound brand of sultry stripped-down-soul is steeped in Southern R&#38;B, Americana, porch jazz; apocalyptic love songs, gritty hymns of humanity, abolition, and compassion busked to fruition in the historic French Quarter streets.]]></description>
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                                <title>IGNITE Philly 25</title>
                                <eventupdate>22 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/ignite-philly-25/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 6 PM – Doors Rapid five-minute presentations, accompanied by 20 slides ticking down at 15-second intervals, inspire the crowd with ingenuity, humor, and imagination—ideas that are a call to action, that turn the past upside down, that point the way by which you help make a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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                                <title>Cory Hanson</title>
                                <eventupdate>25 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/cory-hanson/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show CORY HANSON The biography of one Cory Thomas Hanson should be an easy tale to tell, right? Kid&#8217;s been in the business about 15-16 years now... that&#8217;s not much, even if you&#8217;re a crazy-busy All-American psycho like our Cory. Easy to run down the deets on that. And he&#8217;s been noted by no less than guitar hero John Frusciante as an engrossing, inspired guitarist. Okay, pigeonholed as guitarist. Plus, he&#8217;s been in a band steadily for the last twelve years! So...a careerist! Easy peasy. Alas, it&#8217;s complicated beyond such simple formulations &#8212; for this is a tale of two Corys &#8212; at the very least.Let&#8217;s get the roots uncovered quick: Cory&#8217;s a California Boy, come up in the 90s and aughts, an art school vet (CalArts, yo), and a musician since back in his youth. It runs in the family. He debuted back in the late aughts under the solo alias White Horses In Technicolor Everywhere. After that, he played a bit with Chad and the Meatbodies and Together Pangea before founding Wand in 2013. He&#8217;s written and lead-sung with them, rocking up six LPs with them to date. But here &#8212; on the last one, he played keyboards in all the tracks! So&#8230; not just a guitarist/singer, then. He does a bit of producing on the side too. And visual art. And of course, the reason you&#8217;re reading this right now is not because of no Wand, but rather, Cory Hanson! In addition to his steady-rolling discography with Wand, he&#8217;s been putting out solo LPs too since 2016. And those aren&#8217;t really like the Wand records at all. They have totally non-rock things like string orchestration and electronics as well as rock things like heavy guitar jams and they may be the best things he&#8217;s ever done. It&#8217;s not really up to us to say, though. Following 2021&#8217;s sophomore Cory album Pale Horse Rider and 2023&#8217;s &#8220;Cory-III&#8221; release, actually called Western Cum, he and Wand got one in &#8212; the insane Vertigo &#8212; and now Cory&#8217;s ready to release his latest solo effort, I Love People.Cory has toured the country with himself as well as Wand, and made videos and jokes and stirred the pot on social media, which may be some form of modern art (again, not for us to say). In fact, who&#8217;s to say that he won&#8217;t be writing poetry or comic books in the years to come? It&#8217;s hard to see all that he does (false equivalence: the forest) behind his dazzling musical efforts (lame comparison: the trees) but not as hard as it is to see the future. Otherwise, a lot more of us would be billionaires or America&#8217;s next top Models, etc. Unfortunately these things take real doing. Fortunately for the (at least) two Corys, the doing of it all just comes natural. As for us, we look forward to seeing and hearing etc what they come up with next.]]></description>
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                                <title>Robert Lester Folsom</title>
                                <eventupdate>27 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/robert-lester-folsom-2/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show ROBERT LESTER FOLSOM Sunshine Only Sometimes: Archives Vol. 2, 1972&#8211;1975 continues Anthology Recordings&#8217; excavation, and exploration, of southern singer, songwriter, and psychedelic serviceman Robert Lester Folsom&#8217;s bountiful archives. Recorded across Georgia in various bedrooms, a barn, and a motel room with a reel-to-reel and a revolving cast of whip smart studio musicians in the first half of a dazed and confused decade, Sunshine Only Sometimes furthers Folsom&#8217;s place in the canon of long lost but eventually found independently spirited, high-flying American folk rock. LIZ COOPER The thing about finding yourself is there's always another corner to turn. The Vermont-based singer/songwriter Liz Cooper made her third album during a period of intense self-discovery and reinvention. She moved to New York for the first time, weathered a pandemic, came out to herself after falling in love with a friend, and experienced her first queer relationship and breakup, all in the course of a few years. New Day marks both a personal and a musical revolution for Cooper &#8211; a plunge into psychedelic pop depths and a fullhearted reflection of a whirlwind chapter in her life. These songs scintillate with the kind of self-confidence that only beams through after you've aimed a sharp gaze inward and realized that whatever you see will always keep darting ahead of you.]]></description>
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                                <title>Devin Tuel &amp; Stephen Harms</title>
                                <eventupdate>28 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/devin-tuel-stephen-harms/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show DEVIN TUEL &#38; STEPHEN HARMS Devin Tuel &#38; Stephen Harms (formerly Native Harrow) have mesmerized audiences across the US, Canada, UK, and Europe with a series of six self-produced albums and a decade of captivating live performances. Known for their individualistic blend of folk-rock, soul, RnB, and Americana/roots, they have created a discography of &#8220;rich, engrossing records&#8221; and &#8220;instant classics&#8221; while single-mindedly following their own artistic code. They&#8217;ve consistently toured throughout Europe and the North America and have shared stages with Eagles, Robert Plant &#38; Alison Kraus, Beth Hart, Sierra Ferrell, Courtney Marie Andrews, The Heavy Heavy, The Cactus Blossoms, and more.Their original perspective and extraordinary songwriting, combined with a completely individual approach to crafting albums and steering their career, has dubbed the pair, &#8220;Twilight twang and vintage vibes&#8221; (ROLLING STONE), &#8220;Exquisite. Expect forays into desert funk, warm &#8216;70s groove, jazz and piano balladry&#8221; (UNCUT), and &#8220;Razor-sharp folk rock&#8221; (MOJO). JR EVERHART JR Everhart has been a steady presence in Philadelphia&#8217;s independent music scene for years, known for his work as a singer/songwriter and guitarist for&#160;Cosmic Guilt&#160;and as a guitarist for&#160;Owen Stewart&#160;and&#160;Low Cut Connie. With a knack for heartfelt storytelling and dynamic musicianship, he&#8217;s helped shape the sound of multiple projects, blending rock, folk, and psych influences. Everhart is busily finishing his debut, self-titled album and will be performing it in its entirety with an all-star band. JOEY SWEENEY Joey Sweeney began his career as a multi-hyphenate &#8212; writer/musician/creative &#8212; and has stayed true to that by addingmore hyphens over the last two decades. Starting out as a graphicdesigner, he soon began a career in media that saw him on theeditorial staff of Philadelphia Weekly for the better part of a decade,before graduating to larger publications like the Philadelphia Inquirer and Salon.com. During this time, he was awarded an AANAward For Music Criticism and was included in DaCapo's Best MusicWriting, edited by Jonathan Lethem.In the early aughts, Sweeney founded the groundbreaking Philly-centered commentary site Philebrity.com, which remains thecity's longest-running independent cityblog. By the 2010s, he'djumped the fence from editorial to advertising to build an entirely new skill set as a Creative Director at Quaker City Mercantile, working on behalf of some of the world's largest spirits brands; during this time, he also served as the Director of The 215 Festival, the Philadelphia-based literary festival. All the while, he has also continued to makemusic, gaining accolades from Pitchfork and American Songwriter, just to name a few, as well as continuing to writeshort stories and essays. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, the poet and editor Elizabeth Scanlon.]]></description>
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                                <title>Way Dynamic</title>
                                <eventupdate>28 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/way-dynamic/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show WAY DYNAMIC Way Dynamic, the solo project of Melbourne&#8217;s Dylan Young, will soon release internationally Massive Shoe &#8211; a third album that&#8217;s playful and understated, luminous and textured. Massive Shoe is minimalist folk-pop, art rock and baroque pop, produced and largely played by Young, who moonlights in Melbourne&#8217;s beloved Cool Sounds and Good Morning and has played drums with Snowy Band and Kankawa Nagarra.It&#8217;s tempting to only compare these timeless songs to those of yesteryear, but there&#8217;s a sensibility, a turn of phrase, that feels deeply contemporary: it&#8217;s telling that Waxahatchee&#8217;s Katie Crutchfield described &#8220;Miffed It&#8221; as her &#8220;favourite song in a VERY long time&#8221;, and Katie and MJ Lenderman have both taken Way Dynamic on tour. At the same time, Sir Elton John said that he &#8220;just cannot stop listening&#8221; to &#8220;Ibiza&#8221;. Young&#8217;s songs don&#8217;t shy away from sentiment, or equally from silliness: on any given song he might evoke a cruisy trip through hell or earnestly lament a miscommunication. Whether the journey is to space or along the Seine, we&#8217;re very much along for the ride. STAR MOLES]]></description>
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                                <title>AJAY</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/ajay/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 18:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show AJAY Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, AJAY encompasses the experimental nature of modern sound design with the soul-drenched ingredients of classic RnB. The self-produced artist's vulnerable falsetto and existential lyricism mesh seamlessly with analog synths, acoustic guitars, and wavy mellotrons. AJAY has acted as touring guitarist/bassist for Orion Sun, and as producer/engineer for several tracks on Neo-Soul legend, Bilal's Grammy Nominated album "Adjust Brightness." MARK LIGONDE Mark Ligonde is an alternative R&#38;B and jazz-fusion artist, bassist, and producer originally from South Florida. Growing up closely connected to his Haitian heritage, he developed an early relationship with rhythm that naturally led him to jazz. His music lives in the space between intimacy and experimentation, blending live instrumentation with modern production. He is currently working on his second album, COMING OF AGE, a project centered on identity, change, and self-discovery.]]></description>
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                                <title>Baby&#8217;s First Rodeo</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/babys-first-rodeo-8/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show BABY'S FIRST RODEO&#160; DYLAN EARL Born in Louisiana and naturalized by the Natural State, Dylan Earl seeks to understand himself by understanding others. His next album, &#8216;Level-Headed Even Smile&#8217; (2025), offers poignant nostalgia, land history, and a refreshingly progressive approach to country and western music. It is rife with his signature wry wit, irreverence, and an endearing desire to colour outside the lines. Earl is a welcome, original voice in the scene, finding favour in mainstream and alternative spaces alike as a loveable, alt-country hippie. &#160; OLIVIA ELLEN LLOYD]]></description>
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                                <title>J.D. Webb &amp; The Good God Damn with Sug Daniels</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/j-d-webb-the-good-god-damn-with-sug-daniels/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show J.D. WEBB &#38; THE GOOD GOD DAMN "Good God Damn&#8230;now that&#8217;s a f#%ing band!"* principal songwriter and frontman J.D. Webb exclaimed upon hearing his songs come alive with a full ensemble. Emerging from the Delaware and Philadelphia roots scene after Webb&#8217;s time fronting the bluegrass-Americana band Apache Trails and the release of his 2023 solo EP *Royal St. Ann Burgundy*, JD Webb and The Good God Damn have quickly established themselves with a sound that is both fiery and dynamic.Their music blends gritty storytelling with soulful Americana. Together, the band crafts a darkly charged force where fiddle, rhythm, keys, and guitars all collide into a visceral wall of sound. Their latest singles, &#8220;Nightshade&#8221; and &#8220;The Champ,&#8221; highlight this evolution: While the blues-infused &#8220;Nightshade&#8221; rides a swaggering bass line leading into Tom Waits&#8211;inspired dives and wet shadowy streets,&#160; "The Champ&#8221; charges in with restless and defiant energy, a Ronnie Hawkins - style roar of survival and resilience." SUG DANIELS &#38; THE CHOSEN FAMILY BAND Sug Daniels is a Delaware born, Philadelphia based, ukulele player, singer-songwriter, story teller, and producer and coach who is using the tools around her to capture the emotions of an era. Daniels&#8217; work is as colorful, vulnerable, and charismatic as her personality. She thoughtfully combines elements of folk, rock, and soul alternatives to create personal and tender music interlaced with messages of truth and positive change.&#160;Her single release with Don Giovanni Records "When I'm Gone" garnished well deserved attention from local and regional radio and venues and opened new paths. After years of touring with The Black Opry, playing official showcases in SXSW 2022, and supporting acts such as The Indigo Girls, Sarah Shook &#38; The Disarmers, Molly Tuttle, &#160;Adeem The Artist, Buffalo Nichols, Daniels released her debut studio album "I Believe In You" on September 23, 2025.]]></description>
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                                <title>Scoochie Boochie</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/scoochie-boochie/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show SCOOCHIE BOOCHIE Scoochie Boochie was born from a volcano, and now he&#8217;s the best rapper in the United States. &#160;In celebration of the release of his sixth album: The Drinking Fountain of Youth, he is embarking on a tour around North America, debuting brand new songs alongside viral hits like &#8220;I Have Sex&#8221; and &#8220;Car Butt&#8221;.Scoochie Boochie's music sits at the intersection of rap, comedy, and lore. &#160;Cinematic skits connect the songs, weaving a story across multiple albums full of sharp wordplay and oddball premises.After 10 years grinding in the comedy scenes of Grand Rapids, MI and Chicago, the eruption finally began in January of 2025, when music videos for Car Butt, I Have Sex, and several other songs went viral, opening the floodgates for 400,000+ new fans who have discovered the rest of his catalog is also fire, and that he's shockingly good live. GROOVEBOX VIP TICKET INCLUDES: -Early entry (This takes place 1hr before GA doors) -Meet and Greet/Photo Op&#160; -Bring a small handheld item from home for&#160;Scoochie&#160;Boochie&#160;to sign! (VIPs can&#160;bring one (legal, safe) object for&#160;Scoochie&#160;to sign. Just make sure it's&#160;something that complies with the venue's&#160;rules so it doesn't get confiscated - no merch provided)&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Mo Lowda &amp; the Humble</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/mo-lowda-the-humble/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show MO LOWDA &#38; THE HUMBLE Mo Lowda &#38; the Humble is a 4-piece, alternative rock band from Philadelphia, PA. NOAH RICHARDSON Noah Richardson is an alt singer-songwriter making waves all the way from his funeral home basement in Philadelphia. With his recent track &#8216;Tangerine&#8217; reaching Top 10 in US, UK, and Canada viral charts,Richardson surpassed over 650,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. With a magnetic energy that can't be ignored, his music and artistry has caught the attention of everyone from, NBC's "The Voice" to Unclear Magazine's "Next Artist to Watch," and American Idol. Recognized by esteemed labels across the world,Richardson continues to solidify himself as a rising star in the alt-pop scene.From humble beginnings as a street performer in Philly, Richardson's meteoric rise has taken him from playing for small crowds to audiences of over 15,000 people in just under a year. Following a successful few tours along the East Coast, Richardson has plans to embark on another tour this year, providing fans with many new releases. CLOVER STIEVE Clover Stieve ("Stee-vee") is a singer-songwriter from Frenchtown, NJ blending the genres of folk, pop, and soul. She released her debut EP, Atlas, (recorded at Electric Lady Studios) in May 2025, and her first LP, Born to Live, is set for release Sept. 2026.]]></description>
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                                <title>Bebe Stockwell</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/bebe-stockwell/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show BEBE STOCKWELL Bebe Stockwell, the Boston-born singer, songwriter, and performer crafts folk anthemspunctuated by an unapologetically and unfiltered Gen-Z perspective. Her life began inthe neighborhood of Beacon Hill where she took piano, drum, and guitar lessons, andpenning songs of her own served as an outlet as a kid. While attending the Clive DavisInstitute of Recorded Music at New York University, she continued to write and record.She eventually caught the attention of GRAMMY&#174; Award-winning producer M-Phazesand together they collaborated on her 2022 breakout &#8220;Love Me Back,&#8221; which to date hasamassed north of 7 million Spotify streams. &#8220;Love Me Back&#8221; paved the way for moremusic, including &#8220;Robbie,&#8221; &#8220;Frosty,&#8221; and &#8220;Helium,&#8221; as well as while along the way, sheshared stages with the likes of Claire Rosinkranz, Stephen Sanchez, Rachel Chinouriri,and M. Ward in addition to gracing the bills of Newport Folk Festival and Boston Calling.&#160;In 2024, the songstress inked a deal with Columbia Records and she released herdebut EP, Driving Backwards, to much acclaim in May 2025. GABRIELLE HOPE Gabrielle Hope is not your average 20-year-old singer-songwriter. Raised in Tennessee as one of 10 kids and now based in Virginia&#8217;s Shenandoah Valley, Hope eschewed college due to its high cost and turned towards the world of shape note singing in search of community. Practiced for centuries, shape note singing allows for easier sight reading because the practitioners start with syllables (fa, sol, la, mi, etc.) and add in lyrics later. Particularly in Appalachia and the South, oftentimes in churches, large groups still come together to learn four-part harmonies and honor this sacred tradition. Hope, who grew up singing in church choirs, fell in love with the scene despite the fact that most of her collaborators are senior citizens. &#8220;I adore old people,&#8221;she says, recalling banjo sessions with her friend Miss Rose at a retirement home. &#8220;She can&#8217;t play anymore, but I&#8217;ll go and play for her because she still wants to hear it.]]></description>
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                                <title>Nice Strong Arm</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/nice-strong-arm/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show NICE STRONG ARM Nice Strong Arm is a product of the creative and welcoming counterculture of Austin, Texas, in the late 1980's. The band found its sound playing shows with local peer upstarts like Ed Hall and opening for the underground heavyweights of the time such as Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, My Bloody Valentine, White Zombie, etc. The list is long.The band signed in 1986 to influential label Homestead Records after an improbable one show tour to open for Volcano Suns and to strut their stuff for Gerard Cosloy. They then went on to record three critically acclaimed LP&#8217;s, and tour the US indie college circuit non-stop.Charting and growing fanbase notwithstanding, the band split in 1990.A re-kindled amity in 2026 finds the trio eager. The old game is afoot: &#160;"let's write songs and play some shows!" The band is touring the U.S. later in 2026; the paint peeling live shows are back! N.S.A. are also recording a new record.&#160;Nice Strong Arm is:&#160;Jason Asnes: electric bass guitar &#38; VocalsEx- Swans, Alkaline, Saturnine, Crown Heights. In NYC, he became a successful club / event DJ recording and releasing tracks as DJ Angola.&#160;Jeffrey Kent Hoskins: &#160;Drums. Timbales.&#160;Ex- Flying Saucer, recording engineer and producer, cyclist.&#160;Kevin R Thomson: electric guitar and vocalsEx- Touched By A Janitor, Timco, Morning Champ, Enablers, Technician.&#160; SHADOW RIOT Born out of two years of free playing. Four friends (Kamyar Arsani, Jeff Barsky, Dug Birdzell, and Jerry Busher) turned the language they created into songs and performances over the summer of 2024. Persian protest vocals backed by musicians from DC's punk and experimental worlds. The Quiet Please 7" is available from Dischord Records. HEAVENLY BODIES Heavenly Bodies is an experimental rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The core group consists of Ashley and Dustin Burrows and Shaun Bailey. Developing deep grooves in real time and letting each performance be an escape for all who imbibe in the hidden rhythms of the universe. Music for freaks and the freak at heart.]]></description>
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                                <title>Be Your Own Pet</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/be-your-own-pet/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show BE YOUR OWN PET When the four members of Be Your Own Pet stepped into a practice space in December, 2021,it had been more than a decade since they&#8217;d all been in the same room. The quartet had lastbeen together in London&#8217;s Heathrow airport, having just played to sold out rooms across the UK.&#160;Their trajectory had been fast&#8212;in the span of two years and starting when they were just 16,BYOP released two albums (via Thurston Moore&#8217;s Ecstatic Peace in the US and XL Recordingsin the UK), found themselves magazine cover stars, and played to ravenous crowds around theworld. But the flame might have burned too quickly and they decided to call it quits.The quartet had been living in a pressure cooker&#8212;both to put on wild performances every nightand to keep up with the wild party lifestyle expected to come with their records. &#8220;You give abunch of teenagers some money and tell them to go on tour forever? It's probably not thehealthiest thing,&#8221; guitarist Jonas Stein says. &#8220;I just felt like I could not maintain a healthy emotional status and craved stability.&#8221; Vocalist Jemina Pearl was facing her own layer of stress as the focal point of constant judgment and attention singing at the center of the stage&#8212;not to mention as the only woman in the group. &#8220;We were all under 21 and were partying our asses off all the time,&#8221; she says. &#8220;And I think people had this expectation that the Be Your Own Pet show was gonna be crazy. We needed to be that spectacle every single night, and it was a lot for us to take on.&#8221;2023 finds Be Your Own Pet not only back with a new album, but stronger than ever before. Due August 25, Mommy bolsters the group&#8217;s patented garage punk ferocity with matured songwriting, inspired musicianship, and a fervor to claim their space and define their future. &#8220;I&#8217;m not your victim, I&#8217;m my own person/ I&#8217;m not some casualty, I set myself free,&#8221; Pearl roars on lead single &#8220;Hand Grenade&#8221;, propelled forward by a burst of guitar shrapnel from Stein and a time-bomb rhythm section courtesy of Vasquez and Eatherly. Born during the group&#8217;s first day of writing, the track is both a vicious rebuke of the sexism and abuse that pervades the music world and a steely refusal to be defined by it. &#8220;That song&#8217;s one of my little babies,&#8221; Pearl says. &#8220;By telling our stories and sharing our truth, we can gain power back from a situation where we felt powerless.&#8221; &#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Alex Cameron</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/alex-cameron-3/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show ALEX CAMERON I. In New York City on his thirteenth birthday, planes fell from the sky and crashed into the World Trade Center. This had nothing to do with Alex Cameron. He wasn&#8217;t there. He was in Australia. By the time the planes hit, it wasn&#8217;t even 9/11 anymore. It was 9/12. &#160; This has been the secret rhythm of his art. One day ahead of a most terrible, but inevitable truth. &#160; II. Alex Cameron&#8217;s new album is called &#8220;Late to Set.&#8221; &#8220;Late to Set&#8221; was born of 9 forgotten long form screenplays written between the year 2022 and 2025. Rejected by the studios, lost to the LA wildfires, the charred remains fragmented and saved in songs of deep confusion and regret. &#160; III. &#8220;Late to Set&#8221; is Al&#8217;s fifth album. Production credits include Mark Perkins, Zach Dawes and Maxim Ludwig among others. &#160; IV. Al once told me that a lie is never funny, but the truth is always funny. &#160; V. The album was completed on an avocado ranch in California after LA started burning in January 2025. &#160; VI. This is the world our fathers feared. &#8220;What a joy!&#8221; says Al. &#160; VII. The dissection of art is murder. Vivisection is the dissection of something while it&#8217;s still alive. You do that to something you don&#8217;t believe has a soul.&#160; &#160; VIII. REDACTED &#160; IX. &#160; Some lines, couplets and quatrains &#160; &#8220;I put on a tonne of weight/For a role I didn&#8217;t get/Aye/Now I&#8217;m always late for set&#8221; &#8220;You 3D print a guillotine/And then you tear the statue down&#8221; &#8220;Every puddle needs a drop of rain/Everybody needs a little pain&#8221; &#8220;I ordered a hooker to my home/And I yelled at my family/I have seen the childhood drain/From my own son&#8217;s face&#8221; &#8220;Jesus never had no doctor/He never had Covid-19/He never voted for Obama/And he never had no vaccine&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ve been selling your location for cash&#8221; &#8220;I am a violent man&#8221; &#160; X. I once read a book called Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Dale Peterson and Richard Wrangham. It&#8217;s about the differences between bonobos and chimpanzees. If you throw an empty cardboard box into a room full of bonobos, they&#8217;ll all fuck each other silly and generously share the box. If you throw that same box into a room full of chimps, they&#8217;ll kill and kill and kill until the last one gets the box. We share 99% of our DNA with both. &#160; Al once told me that a lie is never funny, but the truth is always funny.]]></description>
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                                <title>Cardinals</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/cardinals/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show CARDINALS]]></description>
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                                <title>DICE</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/dice-2/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show DICE]]></description>
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                                <title>Squirrel Flower</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/squirrel-flower/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show SQUIRREL FLOWER Fly off the handle bohemiennes~ the Squirrel Flower Express is coming your way. Ella Williams returns for her first full band headlining tour in 2 years!! DARI BAY Led by Burlington, Vermont-based musician Zachary James, Dari Bay is the result of a twisted home recording project gone horribly right. His eccentric lo-fi sound evolved into more grounded (if still slightly surreal) expressions by the time of Longest Day of the Year, a 2023 album that found Dari Bay&#8217;s experimental spirit folding into deceptively neutral, unassuming tunes. Double Double Whammy is pleased to be teaming up with Dari Bay, beginning with the expanded reissue of Longest Day of the Year (Originally a self-released and minimally distributed affair) in 2026."I remember working on this album and thinking it was a big vibe shift from other music I had made previously, and being excited by that,&#8221; James reflects. &#8220;After the release we were able to do some real fun scrappy touring and met a bunch of good people in the process. It hasn&#8217;t been very long since Longest Day was released but a fair amount has changed, maybe partially thanks to the album? With the reissue it&#8217;s a cool opportunity to extend the party a bit. On the album there&#8217;s a theme of staying at a party too long so it&#8217;s kinda perfect.&#8221;The more time passes, it becomes clearer that the party in question exists on a timeline of its own. There&#8217;s both ageless comfort and time-bending confusion in the sunset-colored guitar tones of album opener &#8220;Wait For You,&#8221; and in the unfussy amble of &#8220;Same Old Bumpy Road.&#8221; Hints of recognizable &#8216;90s alt rock achiness or twangy slowcore show up here and there, but closer listening reveals how winding and non-linear these seemingly stripped-down songs actually are. &#8220;Shy of a Nurse&#8221; wraps its heart-rending hooks in a tangle of feedback, and &#8220;Walk On Down&#8221; wanders through a lonely dust storm of jangling acoustic guitars and graceful vocal harmonies before opening up into an unexpected clearing of bells and key-changing countermelodies. This reissue includes the addition of one previously unreleased track, &#8220;Interstate.&#8221; Recorded before the sessions for LDotY, &#8220;Interstate&#8221; represents evidence of the transition from Dari Bay&#8217;s earlier, noisier material into the more fine-tuned songcraft of the album.James says, "&#8217;Interstate&#8217; is sort of a prototype for Longest Day Of The Year, I think it was one of my first attempts at writing pop-leaning music that felt somewhat successful. And lyrically I suppose it fits the theme of the album. It&#8217;s a love song that&#8217;s also a car song."&#160;The unpredictable twisting of guitar tones, lyrical phrases, and feeling itself puts Dari Bay in a lineage of idiosyncratic songwriters that reaches from Judee Sill and Alex Chilton through to Elliott Smith and Liz Phair, right up to present day boundary-bending contemporaries. The songs invite everyone in with a friendly smile, but make no promises as to where they&#8217;ll take us after that. Throughout Longest Day of the Year, James leans into listener expectations as often as he completely disregards them, ultimately finding a captivating equilibrium between the alien and the familiar.]]></description>
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                                <title>Nelward, Grocer &amp; Gloorp</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/nelward-grocer-gloorp/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show NELWARD nelward is an innovative music artist creating funky electronic artpop for the internet age. Early on, the melodies of classic Nintendo games were etched into his ADHD brain and never seemed to leave. Drawing from a wide array of influences, nelward enjoys the explorative aspect of music creation and is not one to dwell in one sound for too long. He is also known for the colorful and whimsical art direction in his often self-produced videos.In 2017, his first EP "Alive in Screen" established his foundational sound. The subsequent success of the new jack swing / nu metal banger Ghost and bubblegum pop earworm Never Wanna Fall in Love With U established him as a force to be reckoned with in the independent electronic music scene. 2020's "Eat Your Dreams" EP delved into heavier subject matter while tightening nelward's knack for catchy songwriting. 2024's single THE RUNAROUND combines infectious earworms while embracing musical exploration.Nelward is known for his animated live performances, completing a 40+ date tour of North America and Europe with TWRP from 2024-2025. In 2025 the nelward live band was born, representing a distinct chapter in the evolution of his live performance.Nelward represents a growing segment of independent electronic artists who are building significant followings through digital platforms while creating innovative multimedia art experiences. GROCER GLOORP]]></description>
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                                <title>Fantastic Cat</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/fantastic-cat/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show FANTASTIC CAT Dubbed &#8220;the Harlem Globetrotters of Americana&#8221; by Rolling Stone and &#8220;The Wu-Tang Clan of folk rock&#8221; by The Village Voice, Fantastic Cat is, much like pornography, better seen than described. Featuring four widely lauded singer/songwriters who trade vocals and swap instruments on nearly every tune, the band emerged to broad critical acclaim with the release of their irreverent debut, The Very Best of Fantastic Cat, which earned the group their first national TV appearance, sold out headline dates around the US and Europe, a performance at the Sundance Film Festival, and a song in the Paramount+ series Tulsa King. Two years later, they followed it up with the similarly celebrated Now That&#8217;s What I Call Fantastic Cat, which featured an appearance from Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz, landed the band dates with Dawes and Lucius, and prompted WFUV to declare them &#8220;one of the best Americana and rock bands to tumble out of New York over the last few years.&#8221;Now, Fantastic Cat has defied the odds&#8212;and their therapists&#8217; strong urging&#8212;to return with their third and most-likely-to-prompt-a-lawsuit-from-the-Meat-Loaf-estate album yet, Cat Out Of Hell. Produced by the band and mixed by D. James Goodwin (Goose, Kevin Morby, The Hold Steady), the collection elevates Fantastic Cat&#8217;s trademark blend of craftsmanship and chaos to new sonic heights, capturing the freewheeling, lightning in a bottle energy of their must-see live show and channeling it into a ramshackle house party full of existential searchers, desperate romantics, and barstool philosophers.Individually, each member of Fantastic Cat boasts their own impressive resume including appearances everywhere from the New York Times and the Tiny Desk to Bonnaroo and Cayamo. NPR said Anthony D&#8217;Amato &#8220;sings and writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter.&#8221; Pitchfork called Brian Dunne&#8217;s new album &#8220;wise and poetic,&#8221; declaring that &#8220;every song sounds like his life depends on it.&#8221; Paste proclaimed Don DiLego's latest record a "stunner,&#8221; and Rolling Stone hailed Mike Montali&#8217;s band, Hollis Brown, as &#8220;the soundtrack for a late-night drive through the American heartland."Together, they form a four-headed songwriting Hydra (yes, we know the Hydra had nine heads, but this one has four, so just deal with it) that combines the lush harmonies of CSNY, the playful wit of The Traveling Wilburys, and the relentless interpersonal strife of the Eagles.]]></description>
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                                <title>ULTRA SUNN</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/ultra-sunn-2/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show ULTRA SUNN In the heart of Brussels, a city where centuries of history coexist with a restless underground pulse, ULTRA SUNN emerged as one of the most vital voices of the new darkwave generation. Formed in late 2019 by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Sam Huge and keyboardist/producer Gaelle Souflet, the duo quickly carved their own space between heritage and modernity, between the shadows of Belgium&#8217;s electronic legacy and the urgent lightof the present moment.From the very beginning, their story was charged with paradoxes. Sam came from classical arts and archaeology, Gaelle from fashion design, worlds far removed from club basements. Yet what united them was a vision: electronic music not just as entertainment, but as catharsis,as community, as resistance. When they released their debut single Keep Your Eyes Peeled in 2020, it was more than a track, it was a manifesto. A pulsating anthem of vigilance and resilience, it spread like wildfire, from underground dance floors to TikTok feeds, accumulating more than 40 million streams and echoing far beyond the city that birthed it.ULTRA SUNN&#8217;s sound draws from the DNA of the Sound of Belgium, the industrial rigor of EBM,the strangeness of New Beat, the nocturnal melancholy of Coldwave. Yet they refuse nostalgia. Instead, they distill these elements into sharp, modern anthems, carried by Sam&#8217;s commanding baritone voice and Gaelle&#8217;s hypnotic synth textures. Their music is both vulnerable and defiant, embedding themes of mental health, identity, and empowerment within luminous melodies and pounding beats. SOFT VEIN]]></description>
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                                <title>Put It Down</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/put-it-down-13/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 22:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; ShowPUT IT DOWN - comedy show This month, Johnny Brenda&#8217;s brings you a disorienting multimedia collage of the absolute funniest people on the planet. Hosted by Andrew Shearer and Kyle Harris. Music from Desiree Dabice. &#160; @PUTITDOWNSHOW &#160; FEATURING: Clay Sublett Cassandra Kyriazis Dezzy Ben Wasserman Desiree Dabice &#160; &#38; house band, Thought Balloon with Samuel Acchione and Will Butera. &#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Crash The Cottage</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/crash-the-cottage-3/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 16:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 9 PM &#8211; Doors What The Dance presents ⋆˙⟡ CRASH THE COTTAGE: A BRATTY RIVALRY DANCE PARTY ⟡˙⋆ PHILLY! Come celebrate your favorite TV obsession as we dance to the Heated Rivalry soundtrack, the hottest queer pop anthems, and hyperpop all night long! Johnny Brenda&#8217;s Saturday, June 27 9pm 21+ Get ready to party as DJ @air__deejay gets things HEATED up! Comment your SONG REQUESTS below It&#8217;s gonna be a sweaty night, come dressed for the occasion! @thedanceparties]]></description>
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                                <title>Spencer Krug</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/spencer-krug-2/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show SPENCER KRUG As the Canadian musician behind Sunset Rubdown and Moonface, co-frontman of Wolf Parade, songwriting member of Swan Lake, and keyboardist for Frog Eyes and Fifths of Seven, Spencer Krug has been a major player on over twenty-five releases within the past two decades. He currently resides on Vancouver Island, continues to play with Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown, runs his own label called Pronounced Kroog, and writes, releases and performs a prolific amount of music under his own name, showcasing a mix of new and old material on stage.]]></description>
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                                <title>Hurry</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/hurry-2/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show WXPN Welcomes HURRY Hurry is the Philadelphia band led by Matt Scottoline, a jangly fixture in the City of Brotherly Love since the early 2010s. Over six albums &#8212; the last four released on beloved Philly label Lame-O Records &#8212; Hurry has grown from a local cornerstone into a defining force in contemporary power pop that&#8217;s toured worldwide.Their seventh album, Zoned Out, arrives July 10th on Lame-O Records. Engineered by Ian Farmer (Modern Baseball, Slaughter Beach, Dog) and featuring Rob and Joe DeCarolis on drums and bass, Justin Fox on guitar, and a cameo from Teenage Fanclub's Gerard Love, it's their best work yet &#8212; ten fuzzy, hook-laden songs that will lodge themselves in your brain. SAD13 Sad13 is the production alias of Sadie Dupuis, best known as the guitarist and songwriter of indie band Speedy Ortiz, as well as a poet who&#8217;s published two well-received books. Her solo project&#8212;which mixes electronic and rock subgenres in glittering home recordings&#8212;debuted in 2016 with &#8220;Basement Queens,&#8221; a collaboration with Lizzo, followed shortly thereafter by politically-minded pop album&#160;Slugger&#160;(Carpark Records). 2020&#8217;s studio-trotting, maximalist&#160;Haunted Painting&#160;(also on Carpark) showcased Dupuis&#8217; growing technical skills, and it was tracked alongside engineers like Illuminati Hotties&#8217; Sarah Tudzin and Spacemoth&#8217;s Maryam Qudus. Sad13 has played worldwide, hitting festivals like Glastonbury and BIGSOUND, and toured with artists including Deerhoof, Vagabon, and Ted Leo. As a session player, she&#8217;s contributed to albums by Backxwash, Ben Lee, the New Pornographers, and more. In 2023,&#160;Rolling Stone named her one of their Greatest Guitarists of All Time.&#160; DINA HASHEM]]></description>
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                                <title>Fat, Evil Children</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/fat-evil-children/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show FAT, EVIL CHILDREN Fat, Evil Children is a Southern California rock band. The name comes from a series of 1994 drawings done by Jack Logan, a musician / artist the band bonded over at their inception. The band consists of Nic Skrabak (vocals and guitar), Truman Sinclair (guitar), Sebastian Peters (bass), and Diego Fernandez (drums). Their music is sensitive, honest and is all produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by the band. Their second EP, Can&#8217;t Stop released on November 28th, 2025.]]></description>
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                                <title>David Ramirez</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/david-ramirez/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show DAVID RAMIREZ David Ramirez took a little time to get back to himself, and now he&#8217;s dead set on makingmusic for himself&#8212;for the sake of the music, and nothing else.&#8220;I love all the records I&#8217;ve made in the past,&#8221; says Ramirez. &#8220;But in making them, therewas always the thought in the back of my mind of where and what it could get me. I madeboth creative and business decisions with a goal in mind; a goal that often never came.This time it was all about just the joy of making it, about having fun with it.&#8221;The Austin, TX-based singer-songwriter&#8212;whose career has seen six full-length studioalbums, three EPs, countless collaborations, and an illustrious supergroup project in Glorietta&#8212;spent a season of rest away from his focus on writing songs. In the wake ofthe end of a long relationship, he wanted to prioritize processing his grief as a human, notas an artist bleeding onto the page.&#8220;The last thing I wanted was to write a heartbreak record. So I stopped writing altogether,and I just waited until I saw my heart start coming back to life. I wanted the next thing tobe hopeful and sweet and beautiful&#8212;a testament to music and my love for it.&#8221; THOMAS CSORBA Thomas Csorba has announced the May 22 release of his new album Tender Country via the newly-launched Turtlebox Records. His third studio album, Tender Country is country music uninterested in posturing, guided instead by tenderness, humor, and an acceptance of impermanence. That mentality comes across acutely in his new single, "The Big Time," a gorgeous country ballad that poignantly illustrates the hardships of a life on the road and the family milestones you can miss along the way.]]></description>
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                                <title>Born At Midnite</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/born-at-midnite/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show BORN AT MIDNITE Born At Midnite are not your garden variety drag and drop producers, they are a vertically integrated song machine. Employing samplers, fake drums, tape machine, and in-house art, all at a work-from-home pace; for the last half decade the Montreal duo have been casually careening towards &#8216;coolest band around&#8217; status. Playing into &#8211; whilst poking fun at &#8211; our era&#8217;s omnipresent narcissism and self indulgence the group stitch together an unsponsored sort of &#8216;product-placement-punk&#8217;.The band officially formed circa 2020 when, after jamming for fun, they recorded their first song and namesake &#8216;Born At Midnite&#8217;. Instead of overworked sob stories for short term gains, BAM prefers the &#8216;pose and get chose&#8217; method. Since 2020 they have been drip feeding songs to an ever growing following of discerning teenagers and in-the-know retail employees, which in the fall of 2025 culminated in their first singles compilation &#8220;Every Single Time&#8221;. PAYCHEQUE Paycheque is the synth-pop duo of Allison Goldfarb and Jackson MacIntosh. Their self-titled debut album, coming in June of 2026, documents life at the margins of post-pandemic Los Angeles: limited resources, long nights, and a sense of romantic longing propelling them forward. Written and recorded together at home using hardware synthesizers, the record draws from the hook-heavy elegance of OMD and New Musik, with an eye toward timeless classic songcraft filtered through sonic experimentation. Boy-girl vocals trade perspective over drum machines, cinematic synths and guitars indebted to UK jangle and new wave.]]></description>
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                                <title>Downtown Boys</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/downtown-boys/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show DOWNTOWN BOYS Downtown Boys have pushed relentlessly forward as an artistic and political project since their founding. Singer Victoria Marie and guitarist/singer Joey La Neve DeFrancesco first met at union meetings while working together at a hotel in Providence, RI, writing many of the band&#8217;s early songs about their organizing efforts and exploitative workplace conditions. The quintet is completed by saxophonist-synthesist Joe DeGeorge, bassist Mary Jane Regalado, and drummer Joey Doubek. Through years of creating and touring, Downtown Boys continued to grow as artists, musicians, and organizers. Now, Downtown Boys have arrived with Public Luxury on Sub Pop Records, an enthralling new record that keeps politics front and center while summoning the band&#8217;s most urgent and powerful sound to date.&#160; POP MUSIC FEVER DREAM Pop Music Fever Dream is a post-punk/no wave band from New York City. Their sound is wildly invigorating and deeply sobering, harkening back to the 1970s NYC no wave movement and American post-punk stylings of the 1980s. Their live show is equally as chaotic.]]></description>
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                                <title>Local Honeymoon</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/local-honeymoon/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show LOCAL HONEYMOON Local Honeymoon is an indie rock band from South Philadelphia. They play catchy, punk-tinged songs for fans of the Wonder Years and the Menzingers while dressing like dads on vacation. Although their songs are influenced by punk and emo, their live shows embrace a tongue-in-cheek Jimmy Buffett aesthetic, where band and audience alike dress up in Hawaiian shirts to sing along to songs about heartbreak and the miserable state of the world. HIT LIKE A GIRL Queer heartache is a unique experience, and one that Hit Like a Girl knows well. Drawing influence from pop, emo, indie and even hardcore, the band channels yearning, love and loss into intimate yet catchy music that may resonate with fans of Tigers Jaw, Future Teens, or Indigo De Souza.&#160;Hit Like a Girl is the songwriting project of Nicolle Maroulis (they/them), joined by a rotating live lineup that now features Mol White (they/them) on synth and backing vocals, Mike Davis (he/they) on drums, Nat Lopatine (they/them) on bass, and rotating members on guitar.&#160;Hit Like a Girl strives to represent trans and queer artists, and inspire them to follow their creative pursuits. In 2016 Maroulis founded No More Dysphoria, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization created with the goal of helping transgender individuals pay for major aspects of their transition. &#160;Maroulis is a masterful and prolific songwriter. In the eight years since Hit Like a Girl&#8217;s inception in 2017, Maroulis has released 4 full length records (You Make Sense (2017), What Makes Love Last (2018), Heart Racer (2021)) and one EP (Becoming (2022)). The band has performed alongside the likes of Mom Jeans, Kississippi, Origami Angel, Pool Kids, and Prince Daddy and the Hyena, and has toured with acts including John-Allison Weiss and The Iron Roses. ELEPHANT JAKE Elephant Jake is a band based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Originally based in New York, the band consists of Colin Harrison, Sal Fratto, Andrew Demarest and Carson Hyde. The band formed in late 2014, and the next year saw the release of their debut EP. Since then, the band has kept a busy show schedule and have released 3 full length albums, an EP, a Split EP, and their two newest singles, &#8220;Give Flight&#8221; and &#8220;Sustain.&#8221; &#8216;98 releases 5/1/26.]]></description>
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                                <title>Brittany Ann Tranbaugh</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/brittany-ann-tranbaugh/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors7:30 PM &#8211; Show BRITTANY ANN TRANBAUGH Brittany Ann Tranbaugh (pronounced TRAN-baw) is a Philly songwriter whose work combines Shania-esque hooks with a storytelling prowess reminiscent of John Prine and Lucinda Williams. Since quitting her day job in 2023, she has played over 300 shows including five national tours opening for Carsie Blanton. Accolades include Song of the Year in the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest, 1st place in the 2025 Songwriter Serenade Contest, and a 2026 American Songwriter Magazine holiday song contest win. No Depression Magazine named her a &#8220;Queer Country Artist to Watch in 2026.&#8221; Listeners can expect her debut LP Lucky Broke Girl, crowdfunded with the help of over 400 fans and recorded in Philly with her band and producer Nick Krill, in August 2026. SHONA &#38; A VERY SPECIAL GUEST]]></description>
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                                <title>Jim E. Brown</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/jim-e-brown-3/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show JIM E. BROWN 19 year-old pop sensation, Jim E. Brown, returns to the American city of Philadelphia for 3 consecutive concerts.&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Jim E. Brown</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/jim-e-brown-4/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show JIM E. BROWN 19 year-old pop sensation, Jim E. Brown, returns to the American city of Philadelphia for 3 consecutive concerts.&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Jim E. Brown</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/jim-e-brown-5/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show JIM E. BROWN 19 year-old pop sensation, Jim E. Brown, returns to the American city of Philadelphia for 3 consecutive concerts.&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Francis of Delirium</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/francis-of-delirium-2/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show FRANCIS OF DELIRIUM The epitome of a modern artist, Jana Bahrich does most things herself, no matter how painstaking - writing, producing, directing, designing and so on, going as far as to lose eyesight for a day after hand animating a video for a week straight. The daughter of Canadian teachers, she grew up moving around - born in Belgium, relocating to Switzerland then Canada before settling in Luxembourg. This wanderlust plus her mom constantly making art helped to foster an artistic curiosity in Jana from a young age as well as a passion for guitars, which accelerated in her mid teens - fueled by hours spent on YouTube watching music videos and live performances, scrollingReddit forums, and devouring music blogs, all in search of something new.Meeting and subsequently working with drummer and producer Chris Hewett - an American living in Luxembourg - led to Jana forming Francis of Delirium. Taking 90s US college rock influences and the majesty of Sufjan Stevens as the start point, her band are now known for euphoric music that breathes life into rock from a Gen Z perspective. Stereogum summed her up perfectly when saying "There&#8217;s a bit of Pixies and Snail Mail and The Beths in there, and maybe some Lomelda and Lucy Dacus and Built To Spill. You know, that really f*cking good sh*t.&#8221;Released as Jana was finishing up high school, her first single ('Quit Fucking Around') landed in2020. A brilliant introduction, it remains a raucous moment in her live show and is one of her most enduring songs. Shortly after it came out, she signed to artist-first indie Dalliance Recordings (Gia Margaret, HighSchool) and three EPs (All Change [2020], Wading [2021], The Funhouse [2022]) and a striking debut album (Lighthouse [2024]) on and Jana has Francis of Delirium flying - her confessional and honest songwriting strike a chord while raw, powerful guitars and surging drums add real bite, folding to softer moments and harmonic payoffs when need be.]]></description>
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                                <title>lowercase roses</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/lowercase-roses/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show LOWERCASE ROSES Mover, the fourth full-length album of introspective and artful pop rock from Philadelphia&#8217;s Lowercase Roses, explores many angles of its titular noun: emotional changes, shifts through time and space, and the labor connected to moving&#8212;which happens to be a job worked by Matt Scheuermann, the project&#8217;s songmaker, producer, and primary instrumentalist. Motion paces through the liminal scenes the record&#8217;s subjects haunt, and it flows between the doubt and desirousness of Mover&#8217;s lyrics. &#8220;I cannot overlook the relentless beauty of life,&#8221; admits Scheuermann, in spite of the destructive forces humanity wields against itself: capitalism, ecological destruction, genocide, incarceration. &#8220;We&#8217;re destroying our home and our family. But we were given a home and a family in the first place, and that is incredible.&#8221; He sees movement as a way through existence and understanding, a path to learn and grow with the earth. And so Mover is about acknowledging bad things, but also believing in better things. It coalesces into a warm and well-built home&#8212;sunny in its quirky decor, soft in its honesty, strongly structured by the supportive bones of Scheuermann&#8217;s masterful songcraft. Layers bustle and build, nudge aside or disappear, come back in a differently-tinted form, like musical furniture staged into a lived-in place of refuge. This restless arrangement and rearrangement reveals deft architecture: a beautifully uncanny, suspenseful-yet-steady collection about love, community, and the precarious act of making something meaningful amid end times. KOOF IBI Koof Ibi is a multi-instrumentalist in the Philadelphia area. On any given day you could find him strolling down Broad Street straight into the Kimmel Center with brass bands like The West Philadelphia Orchestra, sharing the big stage with Japanese Breakfast, or performing in the Philadelphia Museum of Art with poet/musician Moor Mother. Koof effortlessly blends his diverse musical influences into his own distinct style. At his solo shows Koof combines live instruments, loops, samples, and effects pedals to create surprising soundscapes, re-invented covers, and sonic liberation. LIZDELISE Lizdelise is an interdisciplinary artist and performer who makes music that centers queer joy, embraces the inevitability of grief, and makes you shake your *peach emoji*. Their sounds have been heard far and wide, most recently at the Cannes Short Film Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, and Lincoln Center. They are an Aries moon but you&#8217;ll have to guess their sun.&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Oneida &amp; Kinski</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/oneida-kinski/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show ONEIDA A song is a song until it isn&#8217;t, until it&#8217;s pushed to its limits and beyond to become harder, faster and more dissonant. The music on Oneida&#8217;s 17th full-length album, Expensive Air, all started as tightly structured, melodic rock songs then broke open these structures through the instinctual, improvisatory interplay, honed to razor sharpness in two years of live performance. &#8220;Success is like laughing in a car gunning carelessly through an ice storm,&#8221; says Bobby Matador, &#8220;and Expensive Air is how you laugh at yourself as the car spins into the ditch, or a tree. Same trip, but a little closer to the bone.&#8221; KINSKI Back to their original power trio roots following full-lengths for Sub Pop and Kill Rock Stars, cathartic riff riders KINSKI have been reconciling the tension between measured sonic experimentation and massive song structure for 25 years. Step with them now into &#8220;Stumbledown Terrace,&#8221; out now on Comedy Minus One.]]></description>
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                                <title>Bedouine</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/bedouine/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show BEDOUINE As a child, if you&#8217;re lucky, summer afternoons stretch out like a yawn, pool waves are as warm and engulfing as a blanket, the safety of your mother&#8217;s arms feels endless. On her new album, Neon Summer Skin, Bedouine, the project of Azniv Korkejian, explores this feeling of safety long before one can fully understand the concept. Written with vivid, honest and intimate imagery after visiting her family in Saudi Arabia, it tells the story of family and upbringing, and mourns the end of her childhood. There is a singular resonance and newfound heft in this music previously unheard in Bedouine&#8217;s discography.Bedouine is known for making gentle, lilting folk songs that build fingerpicked guitar melodies into tsunamis of emotion. Her masterful songwriting and timeless melodies have earned her praise from publications like Pitchfork, who said her music &#8220;boasts a surreal calm and lived in glow,&#8221; and Rolling Stone, who lauded her &#8220;humble folk-pop brilliance,&#8221; plus an NPR Tiny Desk Concert, and tours with the likes of Fleet Foxes and Father John Misty. OTHER DELIGHTS Other Delights. Ferncore. Easy glistening. Screwtop exotica. Cocobilly. A band with suchremarkable cross-genre fluency that no single descriptor captures their essence, and newterminologies emerge.Other Delights was forged in Los Angeles in 2024 by drummer and producer Robin MacMillan,singer-songwriter Adron, bassist Aaron Olson ( LA Takedown, Musical Tracing Ensemble) and Andrew Dorsett (Lake, Tucker Zimmerman) on keys. All shared passions for dollar-bin lounge,'60s Euro cinema soundtracks, bubblegum psychedelia and Tropic&#225;lia. Shaking off thehangover of recent cynic-donimated decades where "extra" is a pejorative, Other Delights gobananas - Adron's vocals frequently soar into operatic ranges. MacMillan's blocks and bellsconjure wild, hallucinatory, even cartoonish spaces. Olson's harmonica serves hammy andheartfelt in equal measure. Dorsett's keys sweep and sparkle in exquisite melodrama. "Yes,and," indeed.]]></description>
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                                <title>BLACKTRONIKA: Philadelphia Now And Then</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/blacktronika-philadelphia-now-and-then-2/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show BLACKTRONIKA: PHILADELPHIA NOW AND THEN As a tribute to his local roots, celebrated musician, producer, curator and professor King Britt brings you BLACKTRONIKA: Philadelphia Now and Then, a curated, weeklong series of performances, workshops and discussions celebrating Philly&#8217;s innovators of color in the electronic music scene. This night, join Beat Society @ Johnny Brenda's! RSVP: https://www.showpass.com/blacktronika-philadelphia-now-and-then-5/]]></description>
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                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/blacktronika-philadelphia-now-and-then/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show BLACKTRONIKA: PHILADELPHIA NOW AND THEN As a tribute to his local roots, celebrated musician, producer, curator and professor King Britt brings you BLACKTRONIKA: Philadelphia Now and Then, a curated, weeklong series of performances, workshops and discussions celebrating Philly&#8217;s innovators of color in the electronic music scene. This night, join&#160;Dexter Wansel performing his legendary&#160;Life on Mars album LIVE&#160;@ Johnny Brenda's! RSVP: https://www.showpass.com/blacktronika-philadelphia-now-and-then-4/]]></description>
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                                <title>Rocketship</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/rocketship/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show ROCKETSHIP Some of the best records are those that transcend the usual parameters of music to create worlds of their own. When it&#8217;s clear that what you&#8217;re listening to isn&#8217;t just a collection of that year&#8217;s songs, but a deeply thought-out, architected space where ideas clash, converse, interlock; these are the albums that end up lasting well beyond their era, changing with us, and revealing new surprises every time we return to them. One of the clearest examples of an album that crafts a strange and beautiful world not quite like any other is Rocketship&#8217;s 1996 full-length debut A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness. Even upon arrival, this was an experience unto itself, and 30 years later, these eight songs of bittersweet bliss still feel new. Slumberland is delighted to release a 30th Anniversary edition of this instant classic, making it readily available on vinyl and CD once again after years of unavailability and collector demand.Rocketship came into focus in the early &#8216;90s, incubating through a series of demos and early 7&#8221;s into their fully-realized album. The continuum of sounds that made up A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness were recorded at home by bandleader and vocalist/songwriter Dusty Reske with help from members of the early lineup. While they sometimes melt into one another, each of the eight songs goes somewhere a little different. The bright, jangling guitars, zooming tempo, and co-ed vocals of brilliant opener &#8220;I Love You Like the Way That I Used to Do&#8221; blurs mod energy into something dreamier, practically blueprinting the next decade of indie pop in the process. The atmospheric weather patterns of &#8220;Heather, Tell Me Why&#8221; drift between melancholic acoustic guitars and gusts of overwhelming noise. It&#8217;s baroque pop from another solar system, but it doesn&#8217;t feel jarring when the bass-forward slow down of &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go Away&#8221; follows, or bounding fits of fuzzy enthusiasm like &#8220;Carrie Cooksey&#8221; enter the picture. The songs cautiously orbit each other, all glued together by that interplanetary all-tube M2 Hammond organ, loud in the mix. This was an album of unrepentantly vulnerable melodies, unusual seventh chords, lingering ambient interludes, and soft sentiments in a time when unfriendly, self-conscious punk rock was the order of the day. Even in the considerably gentler environs of the U.S. indie pop scene of the time, these were bold moves. LIGHTHEADED Lightheaded are, simply, a great pop group. Their songs are full of melody and harmony, are bittersweet and memorable, familiar yet original. The Jersey based jangle pop softies make songs that call on the unsatisfied tunefulness of classic indie pop and college rock, as well as tapping into the idealistic daydreaming of '60s chamber pop. They signed on with Slumberland Records for the release of their proper debut album, 2024's Combustible Gems, then added UK based Skep Wax to their list of sponsors for the thoughtful, reverb-bathed follow-up, 2025's Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming.]]></description>
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                                <title>Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/teen-jesus-and-the-jean-teasers/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show TEEN JESUS AND THE JEAN TEASERS TEEN JESUS AND THE JEAN TEASERS IN NORTH AMERICA&#160; ARIA Award-winning indie-rock four piece Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers - Anna Ryan (they/she; vocals/guitar), Scarlett McKahey (she/her; guitar/vocals), Jaida Stephenson (she/her; bass) and Neve van Boxsel (she/her; drums) - have gone from strength to strength since the release of their debut EP Pretty Good For A Girl Band (2022), with its lead single &#8216;Girl Sports&#8217; landing at #55 on the triple j Hottest 100. Their debut album I Love You (2023) landed at #6 on the ARIA Charts, placed at #52 on the Hottest 100 (&#8216;I Used To Be Fun&#8217;), with its deluxe I Love You Too (2024) featuring new singles &#8216;Dull&#8217; ft. Softcult and &#8216;Please Me&#8217; ft. The Linda Lindas - the former landing at #187 in triple j&#8217;s Hottest 200 this year.&#160;They have just announced their second album GLORY - which was produced with 3x GRAMMY Award-winning, London-based Catherine Marks (boygenius&#8217; The Record, Wolf Alice) and features the singles &#8216;BALCONY&#8217;, &#8216;UNSCARRED&#8217;, and latest single 'MOTHER' - will be released November 7, 2025 (Community Music)Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers have raked in a slew of accolades including nominations and wins at the ARIA Awards, J Awards, APRA Awards, Rolling Stone Awards, AIR Awards and Music ACT Awards, being named one of Spotify&#8217;s Artists To Watch, and being hand-picked to open for legendary international heavyweights Foo Fighters and Pearl Jam in Australia and the US.&#160;Now based across Ngunnawal/Canberra, and Naarm/Melbourne, Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers are just as concerned about issues facing today&#8217;s women, non-binary people and young people everywhere as they are with making music that continues to push boundaries and expectations. They are ambassadors for Green Music&#8217;s No Music on a Dead Planet, played Rising Tide on Parliament House steps, contributed to the Parliament inquiry into challenges and opportunities within the Australian live music industry and are firm supporters of Michael&#8217;s Rule. This is a band never to be pigeonholed, and definitely never underestimated.&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Smoking Popes &#8211; Night One</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/smoking-popes-night-one/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show SMOKING POPES RADIATOR HOSPITAL]]></description>
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                                <title>Smoking Popes &#8211; Night Two</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/smoking-popes-night-two/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show SMOKING POPES RADIATOR HOSPITAL]]></description>
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                                <title>Smoking Popes &#8211; Two Night Package</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/smoking-popes-two-night-package/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show SMOKING POPES RADIATOR HOSPITAL]]></description>
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                                <title>Carnivorous Bells</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/carnivorous-bells/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show CARNIVOROUS BELLS CARTOON EARLY GRAVE NRG]]></description>
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                                <title>Cola</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/cola-2/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show COLA C.O.L.A. is sort of a self-titled album. It&#8217;s an acronym for Cost of Living Adjustment, a fitting conceptual framework for the band&#8217;s third record. Why? Because C.O.L.A. considers, among other things, socialism vs. hell. It considers: rolling the dice of life. The eerie and sweet pangs &#160;that nostalgia can provoke. This is not new territory for band members Tim Darcy, Evan Cartwright, and Ben Stidworthy. It is, in Cartwright&#8217;s words &#8220;a deepening of what we&#8217;ve been doing.&#8221; C.O.L.A. is an intricate, beautiful, and sometimes strange record. It is the band&#8217;s most refined offering. A perfection of carefully honed aesthetic impulses.&#160;Cola, as a band, says Darcy is defined by its &#8220;tasteful minimalism.&#8221; A deep appreciation for making music that is romantic, subtle, and deceptively intense. C.O.L.A., however, is the band&#8217;s most maximalist work to date. This is a little tongue and cheek (&#8220;We were so worried,&#8221; says Cartwright, &#8220;About all the songs on this record being too different&#8221;). In practice, this maximalism means that a song like &#8220;Hedgesitting,&#8221; has both live drums and a sample drum loop. &#8220;Hedgesitting,&#8221; is a gorgeous, lush song. It&#8217;s like a deconstructed, chopped &#38; screwed b-side from the Cure&#8217;s Disintegration. It&#8217;s also a little indebted to Sarah Records. &#8220;When you were young,&#8221; Darcy sings at the song&#8217;s start, &#8220;you came to make it.&#8221;&#160;C.O.L.A., like everything written by the band, is inherently collaborative. The band writes everything separately, then comes together and works in the studio. Look again to &#8220;Hedgesetting,&#8221; to see this in action, which started out with chords that Darcy had sent, then the band expanded it together, with Stidworthy remixing it right before heading to the studio. This division of labor works intuitively. It is a part of the band&#8217;s DNA to say, take an arrangement Stidworthy wrote, and then have Darcy and Cartwright build upon it. Take &#8220;Favoured Over the Ride,&#8221; as an example. &#8220;I wanted to create a dusky, melancholy palette for Tim to write lyrics for,&#8221; says Stidworthy. The song starts with a lonely, dreamy guitar riff. Then there&#8217;s a crisp line of bass and it all comes into focus: &#8220;What&#8217;s on the ceiling that&#8217;s caught your gaze?&#8221; sings Darcy. It&#8217;s a moment of clarity on a record that is interested abstraction. C.O.L.A. is full of these clarifying moments: where a whole swirl of feelings become so clear that it almost hurts a little bit. PARKiNG]]></description>
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                                <title>MESS</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/mess/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show MESS Pure MESS, fuss &#38; impact!. Banda mexicana de punk oi! - / , Mexican punk oi! band with UK 82 sounds. VAXINE New York, New York THE STRESS American Punk n Oi! From Long Island NY THE SLADS The Slads punk band from Philadelphia.]]></description>
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                                <title>Mikaela Davis</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/mikaela-davis-3/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM - Doors9 PM - Show MIKAELA DAVIS Every universe begins with a singular point, a quiet corner where instinct speaks loudest, where existential imagination can stretch its limbs. For acclaimed harpist and songwriter Mikaela Davis&#8217; new album, Graceland Way (due TK via Kill Rock Stars), that singularity was a hillside home in Chevy Chase Canyon, a spot nestled in Los Angeles County where time slowed, the world fell away, and Davis could create from a sense of warmth and deep attentiveness. The &#8220;canyon country&#8221; epic born of that care ties a neo-western future back to the lineage of Laurel Canyon, the mythos of Elvis&#8217;s Graceland, and Paul Simon&#8217;s restless reinvention&#8212;a place where Davis can explore the fragile balance of light and dark, grace and struggle, rose and thorn, as well as the mystical power found at their nexus.&#160; NIC PANKEN Born in Brooklyn and living in Kingston, NY, Nic Panken has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe, performing on NPR's Tiny Desk, at Newport Folk Festival and Austin City Limits as lead singer in NYC band Spirit Family Reunion. His debut solo record Near Divine or Merely Rhyme came out in April 2026, co-produced with multi-instrumentalist Jared Samuel (Kevin Morby), and featuring guest musicians Mat Davidson (Twain) and Austin Vaughn (Cass McCombs) among others.]]></description>
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                                <title>Soda Blonde</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/soda-blonde/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM - Doors8 PM - Show SODA BLONDE Faye O&#8217;Rourke (vocals), Adam O&#8217;Regan (guitar/keys), Donagh Seaver-O&#8217;Leary (bass) and Dylan Lynch (drums). The group emerged from the ashes of critically acclaimed indie rock outfit Little Green Cars, moving toward a bolder, more cinematic and emotionally charged sound that blends evocative lyrics with adventurous production. &#160;Their music traverses the tension between introspection and ambition, pairing O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s distinctive, expressive vocals with genre-defying arrangements that draw comparisons to synth-infused art-pop and emotionally honest songwriting. Soda Blonde&#8217;s debut single &#8220;Swimming Through the Night&#8221; immediately marked a stylistic shift for the members, establishing the band&#8217;s commitment to cinematic hooks and atmospheric grooves. &#160;The band&#8217;s first studio album Small Talk (2021) showcased polished, self-produced songwriting and was nominated for the Choice Music Prize. Their sophomore record Dream Big (2023) expanded their sonic palette and solidified their reputation as one of Ireland&#8217;s most compelling contemporary acts. In 2025, Soda Blonde released the People Pleaser EP and completed an ambitious live orchestral project with the National Symphony Orchestra at Dublin&#8217;s National Concert Hall, captured in both a concert film and a live album. &#160;Known for their emotionally charged live performances, bold visuals and genre-spanning sound, Soda Blonde continue to push beyond conventional pop boundaries while maintaining a deeply personal connection to their lyrics and visual storytelling.]]></description>
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                                <title>Buck Meek</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/buck-meek/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM - Doors8 PM - Show WXPN Welcomes BUCK MEEK with Kisser A gleaner of the forgotten, Buck Meek tips over the familiar and turns the unknown into a companion. On The Mirror, the artist&#8217;s fourth solo record and second album released by 4AD, there&#8217;s a tender power, countered by immutable vulnerability. With an uncanny curiosity, Meek conjures twin worlds to reveal the uniqueness in the mundane. Inviting in reflection as collaborator and demon as friend, The Mirror doesn&#8217;t seek to know but to ask, looking to the shape of a question rather than the illusion of its answer. KISSER Kisser is rock band from LA with Germaine Dunes, Luke Temple, Buck Meek, Jeffertitti Moon, and Jesse Quebbeman-Turley.]]></description>
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                                <title>Son Little</title>
                                <eventupdate>4 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/son-little/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM - Doors9 PM - Show SON LITTLE Conceived in a cabin overlooking the Delaware River in upstate New York, Son Little&#8217;s latest album, Like Neptune, trades in the existential dread permeating previous work for unbridled joy and self-acceptance. In this verdant space of freedom, Son Little transmutes the chronic pain of self-doubt into a beautiful opus about overcoming generational trauma, decorating the altar of the primordial blues and elevating the labor of healing to high art. TONINA Tonina is a St. Louis-raised, Brooklyn-based vocalist, bassist and writer who brings a rich blend of Jazz, Folk, and Latin boleros into her music, deeply influenced by her Sicilian andBlack American heritage and passion for storytelling.Her artistry spans singing, bass playing and songwriting creating an innovative sound that blends tradition with contemporary edge. She has garnered acclaim on NPR's favorite new artists list and former President Barack Obama's annual favorite songs list.She performs solo and with her quartet on stages worldwide, showcasing her multilingual repertoire in Sicilian, English, and Spanish. With over 5 projects, Tonina is steadily building a reputation for their unique fusion of Black, Latin, and folk traditions, and her upcoming projects promise to explore new sonic territories, continuing her journey as one of music&#8217;s most exciting rising voices.]]></description>
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                                <title>Zeke Sky</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/zeke-sky/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show ZEKE SKY ASTROKATZ BREAKKER SKULLOVICH]]></description>
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                                <title>Souled American</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/souled-american/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show SOULED AMERICAN Like a secret that can be kept no longer, the elusive &#38; influential Souled American make a rare appearance to promote SANCTIONS, their first record in thirty years. The band began in Chicago in 1986, hybridizing traditional roots music with roll &#38; roll to pioneer a style later celebrated as "alternative country." Acclaimed by Jeff Tweedy, The Jayhawks, John Darnielle, and Counting Crows, Souled American recorded 64 songs between 1988 and 1996, a legendary body of work that has been unavailable for decades and is only now receiving the attention it has long deserved.]]></description>
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                                <title>Marlon Magnée (of La Femme)</title>
                                <eventupdate>7 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/marlon-magn%c3%a9e-of-la-femme/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show MARLON MAGN&#201;E (OF LA FEMME) After fifteen years touring the world with La Femme, the band he co-founded (numerous goldrecords, Victoire de la Musique award, over 600 million streams, over 400,000 albums sold) and performed on the biggest stages in France and internationally (Accor Arena, Z&#233;niths, Glastonbury,Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza Chicago, Osheaga Montreal, etc.), Marlon is now returning as a soloartist with a debut album that reconnects him with his early passions.It showcases his taste for unexpected combinations and his unique style: a mix of rockabilly, punk,cold wave, and psychedelic psychobilly. The tracks, in French and English, feature sixties guitars, aneighties &#8220;synth orgy,&#8221; powerful drum machines, analog delays, and a deliberately raw energy.His influences are evident throughout the album: Velvet Underground, The Stranglers, Mot&#246;rhead,The Cure, The Stray Cats, JJ Cale, the Nuggets compilations, but also French-speaking artists such as Gainsbourg, Les Rita Mitsouko, M&#233;tal Urbain, Plastic Bertrand, and Marc Charlan. The result is afast-paced, edgy album (with tempos of up to 240 bpm) that is sometimes radical, designed &#8220;forthose whose hearts are bleeding and who want to fight.&#8221;Co-produced with Renaud Letang (Feist, Manu Chao, Peaches) at the legendary Ferber studio, thisalbum marks a true return to Marlon's roots and powerfully heralds the return of rock to the currentmusic scene.]]></description>
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