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                                <title>Lowercase Roses</title>
                                <eventupdate>21 hours 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>21 hours 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>5 days 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>6 days 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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                                <title>BLACKTRONIKA: Philadelphia Now And Then</title>
                                <eventupdate>6 days 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>Eliza Niemi, Another Michael &amp; 22° Halo</title>
                                <eventupdate>11 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/eliza-niemi-another-michael-22-halo/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 09 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 ELIZA NIEMI Eliza Niemi is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and film composer from Toronto. Her lyric-driven, uniquely-arranged music has been described as &#8220;slice of life&#8221; and &#8220;ASMR pop.&#8221; Before she became a cellist and vocalist, her father taught her the basics of bass and guitar at home. They would play together by ear, which fostered her deep musicality and a creative ethic that prioritizes joyful collaboration. Collaboration has always been at the centre of her practice &#8212; whether it be in improvising, playing in her friends&#8217; bands (Dorothea Paas, Andr&#233; Ethier, Little Kid, Evan J Cartwright), or running her label Vain Mina Records. Her LPs Staying Mellow Blows (2022) and Progress Bakery (2025) were long listed for the Polaris Music Prize. ANOTHER MICHAEL Something very special happens in the moment when a listener truly connects to a song. It&#8217;s an intangible reaction that bridges science and emotion, turning firing synapses into something cosmically beautiful. Another Michael exists for that moment: when a song transforms the setting of a long walk home, or speaks to a past experience while simultaneously making a new one, or taps into something universal by relating details so specific and personal that they could only be revealed in music. In 2023 the band released Wishes To Fulfill, the first in a pair of albums dedicated to their love of song, and now they&#8217;re back already with the experimental next chapter, Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down. Together, the dual LPs create and pay tribute to the power of transcendent musical moments.&#160; 22&#176; HALO]]></description>
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                                <title>Baby&#8217;s First Rodeo</title>
                                <eventupdate>12 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/babys-first-rodeo-6/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 08 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 BABY'S FIRST RODEO&#160; Agalisiga Chuj Mackey &#124; Kenwood, OK Agalisiga &#8220;The Chuj&#8221; Mackey is a Cherokee singer/songwriter who grew up in the small traditional Cherokee community of Kenwood, OK. Mackey melds a classic country and blues sound drawn from Jimmy Rodgers and R.L. Burnside with his deep baritone voice honed from his upbringing in singing Cherokee ceremonial songs. In a short time, the 21-year-old father of two has grown from covering vintage tunes down at the creek to performing on big stages around the Midwest while cultivating a growing audience among country western fans and Native Americans alike. Audiences are universally intrigued to hear the Cherokee language sung in this mode and captivated by Mackey&#8217;s authentic folksy presence on stage. Outside of his music, he is a language and culture educator at the Cherokee Immersion Charter School, where he teaches children from Pre-K to 8th grade both ceremonial songs and contemporary Cherokee music. &#160; Mandy Valentine &#124; Philly, PA&#160; Mandy Valentine is a Philadelphia-based 6-piece country western style rock &#38; roll band. Fun, energetic, and described by WXPN as &#8216;playful yeehaws&#8217;, the Mandies play originals and covers in the vein of Elvis, Dolly, Nancy Sinatra, The Beatles, and 60s girl groups. &#160; Roberta Faceplant &#124; Philly, PA&#160; Roberta Faceplant is a honky tonk hurricane from Philadelphia. &#160; 2 Step Lessons&#160; Vintage by Little Bear Vintage&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Rocketship</title>
                                <eventupdate>17 days 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>A Black Celebration &#8211; Philly&#8217;s Favorite Depeche Mode Dance Party</title>
                                <eventupdate>17 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/a-black-celebration-phillys-favorite-depeche-mode-dance-party-13/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:50:11 +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 MAY 1ST +++A Black Celebration - Philly's Favorite Depeche Mode PartyDJ Baby Berlin+ Special Guests:DJ BRAD SCOTT (Easton, PA) UNBONED (Philly) 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>Westrock Presents: Tonewood and Friends with Crickets and Cicadas</title>
                                <eventupdate>18 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/westrock-presents-tonewood-and-friends-with-crickets-and-cicadas/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7PM &#8211; Doors8PM &#8211; Show Westrock Presents - Tonewood Brewing &#38; Friends: Crickets &#38; Cicadas CRICKETS &#38; CICADAS FREE SHOW --- RSVP DOES NOT GUARANTEE ENTRY]]></description>
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                                <title>Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers</title>
                                <eventupdate>19 days 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>20 days 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>20 days 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>20 days 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>BASIC</title>
                                <eventupdate>20 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/basic/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 31 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 BASIC VICTOR VIEIRA BRANCO'S BARK CULTURE THE ER BAND]]></description>
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                                <title>Feaster</title>
                                <eventupdate>24 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/feaster/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 27 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 FEASTER Feaster is a rock quartet born from the Delaware River, rising in the greater Philadelphia music scene. Delivered with a punk urgency, their music blends prog and psych rock, layered with riffs that spiral into chaotic yet precise sonic landscapes. They confront the absurd, the magical, and the morbid with raw hooks and frantic energy, intensified by their live performances. HUMILITARIAN The five-piece rock group, born out of dusty basement shows and independent venues of Philadelphia, came out screaming from the start with a sound initially drawn from anthemic and powerful indie rock; heavily influenced by emo with traces of modern psychedelia. Humilitarian has maintained a steadfast, cultish following since its inception in early 2019 with &#8220;alternative music for the introspective optimist&#8221; and &#8220;dance rock for emo people&#8221;. ALRIGHT JUNIOR Alright Junior is one of those rare alternative rock bands that can be both fiercely technical and emotionally immediate. Their sound blends driving rhythms, turbulent dynamics, evoking lyrics, and melodic urgency into something unmistakably their own, equal parts intensity and finesse. Each member brings a sharpened musicianship that elevates their live shows into kinetic, high-energy experiences that feel larger than the room.]]></description>
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                                <title>Pete &amp; Bas</title>
                                <eventupdate>26 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/pete-bas/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 25 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 PETE &#38; BAS Pete &#38; Bas Save America Pete &#38; Bas are back. After tearing through sold-out show after sold-out show on their 2025 North America tour, the duo return to the US with unfinished business.What started as a couple old South London chaps having a laugh, has become a full-scale takeover. Armed with razor-sharp wordplay, heavyweight production and zero filter, the Cockney geezers have been turning packed venues into absolute chaos across the globe.&#160;This year, Pete &#38; Bas return to America to finish the job. Brace yourselves. DELIVERY BOYS Meet Delivery Boys, Brooklyn&#8217;s waviest alternative rap group, established in 2015 by founding members Max Gertler and Goldwood. The duo&#8212;originally actual delivery boys for local delis&#8212;formed the collective out of a shared love for hip-hop and the cultural richness of New York City. Daily cyphers, late-night sessions, and mutual music obsessions laid the foundation for their early recordings. VIP INFO General admission ticket Exclusive, very limited pre-show PETE&#160;&#38;&#160;BAS&#160;Meet &#38; Greet&#160; Early Venue Access: Skip the lines with early entry to the venue, giving you the best choice of spots and extra time to enjoy the atmosphere&#160;(entry 1hr before GA doors) &#160;Early Merch Access: Get early access and take your time checking out all the&#160;PETE&#160;&#38;&#160;BAS&#160;tour merch. Exclusive Tour Poster SIGNED by&#160;PETE&#160;&#38;&#160;BAS]]></description>
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                                <title>Carnivorous Bells</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month 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>Crash The Cottage</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/crash-the-cottage-2/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 9 PM &#8211; Doors ⋆˙⟡ 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 Friday, April 24 9pm 21+ Get ready to party as DJs @air__deejay &#38; @outergr8ce get things HEATED up! It&#8217;s gonna be a sweaty night, come dressed for the occasion! @thedanceparties]]></description>
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                                <title>Cola</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month 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>Rubber Band Gun, Sam And Louise Sullivan &amp; Star Moles</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/rubber-band-gun-sam-and-louise-sullivan-star-moles/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 ONE BIG NIGHT. ONE BIG BAND. TWO LONG SETS.May 24th, the HNJ players (Rubber Band Gun, Sam and Louise Sullivan, Star Moles) will perform each other&#8217;s songs as one band. The night will feature music from across the catalogs of all 3 groups, played in 2 long sets with a brief intermission. RUBBER BAND GUN Home-recording producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Rubber Band Gun (Kevin Basko) crafts genre hopping concept records from his studio &#8216;Historic New Jersey&#8217; out of Philadelphia. With over 70+ RBG releases, Basko has proved to be a prolific face of both the pop familiar and the weird within the indie rock world. SAM AND LOUISE SULLIVAN Sam and Louise Sullivan are a family band. They grew up playing traditional music but are trying to go pop. They write their songs slowly, one at a time. They live in Philadelphia, PA, which they consider to be the promised land. STAR MOLES Star Moles began in 2017 as the one woman band of Emily Moales, crafting dreamy bedroom pop and rock albums. Based in Philadelphia, Star Moles has released 5 albums including her most recently highly acclaimed &#8220;Highway To Hell&#8221;.]]></description>
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                                <title>Widowspeak</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/widowspeak/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* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show WIDOWSPEAK An album called &#8220;Roses&#8221; would be concerned with romantic gestures. Across the ten tracks that make upthe seventh and newest Widowspeak record, intimate spaces and stages of love are captured with anostalgic, vaseline-coated lens. Candles burn inside red glass as lovers get close in a leather booth. Celebrity headshots gaze down like angels in a restaurant. Elsewhere, carnations are pressed in a black book and dancers pull each other close. Widowspeak is a band that riffs on big emotions without beingtoo self-serious. The sweetness, even silliness, of an extended limerent phase that becomes as all-consuming as a pulpy trade paperback. Cars and their drivers serve as a way to talk about codependency. And old love gets worn in, soft as an old tshirt. If music can simultaneously be naturalistic and noir, saturated and lush, that is Widowspeak. They&#8217;re a band that knows how to set a scene.These songs use intimate moments to talk about deeper heartaches: the restlessness inherent in modern existence, waiting around for something tohappen. Or, feeling at odds with playing a role in your own life. &#8220;Roses&#8221; might be the most romantic Widowspeak record, but it&#8217;s also the most deeply realist: the stage is set not with dramatic overtures but the backdrop of the minutiae and repetition of daily acts. Small observations before, during, and after work: the ritual of pouring water for customers, catching a cold on your day off. Daydreaming about winning the lottery, or maybe realizing you already won. Here, love is away to talk about what drives us, and Widowspeak suggest it can be the whole point. The light that illuminates the dark corners of a day, a life. A reason to keep going despite the pain it can cause. As thetitle track goes:Not all thorns will prick you, you still feel the first. And now you don&#8217;t grow roses because the one still hurts... I want to be the one. THOMAS DOLLBAUM The realest-deal storyteller in indie-rock today is the Tampa-born, New Orleans based singer/songwriter Thomas Dollbaum, and Birds of Paradise is his most powerful and dynamic work yet. Following up his critically acclaimed Wellswood (Big Legal Mess, 2022) and Drive All Night EP (Dear Life Records, 2025), Birds of Paradise is a goodbye letter to lost loved ones and former selves. These songs find Dollbaum searching for acceptance in the transient in-between places: Florida&#8217;s pine flatwoods, backroads leading to 1-95, where birds fly across the water. And even though the ghosts of his alt-county predecessors Townes and Molina are definitely present, on Birds of Paradise, Dollbaum emerges from their shadows waving to the past, sounding all the more like himself.]]></description>
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                                <title>Niko Rubio</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/niko-rubio/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show NIKO RUBIO Akin to the ebb and flow of a Venice Beach wave at sunset, Niko Rubio wades through styles, vibes, and emotions. As if rising out of the ocean, her swell of inspiration crests by absorbing everything from traditional Mexican Ranchera music to nineties alternative rock and 21st century indie pop, reaching shore, and leaving a hypnotic hybrid in its wake. In her words, she makes music &#8220;for the Latina girls who love Gwen Stefani, Foster the People, and Julieta Venegas, heard all of the classic Latin artists at a quincea&#241;era, and went back to school where everybody was listening to Lana Del Rey.&#8221; Following an independent grind, the Mexican Salvadorian-American singer and songwriter posted up millions of streams on 2021&#8217;s Wish You Were Here EP. People appropriately christened her &#8220;California girl meets Latina queen.&#8221; Along the way, she graced the stages of festivals such as Lollapalooza and BottleRock in addition to supporting Omar Apollo on tour. She further honed a genre-breaking, yet culture-integrating vision with her 2023 EP, Un Mill&#243;n de Besos. A sought-after songwriter, she has notably penned songs for the likes of Anuel AA, The Warning, and Gwen Stefani, with whom she collaborated on &#8220;True Babe&#8221; and &#8220;Purple Irises&#8221; [with Blake Shelton]. Coming full circle in 2024, she paid homage to her grandmother and grandfather on Mar y Tierra EP. It marked her first full Spanish-language effort&#8212;produced by GRAMMY&#174; Award-winner Lester Mendez and co-written with Maria Vertiz, Cuco, and Le&#243;n Leiden. Among many highlights,&#8220;Sirena&#8221; [feat. Cuco] amassed 1.4 million Spotify streams. After organically building an audience, Niko knows who her people are, and she feeds them with her 2025 Ring Ring EP[Atlantic Records] and much more to come. FRANCOIS FUQUA]]></description>
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                                <title>MESS</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month 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>Flipper</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/flipper/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 09 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 FLIPPER WITH GUEST VOCALIST MATT KORVETTE The iconic and influential punk/noise/grunge band, Flipper, is back with Matt Korvette (Pissed Jeans) as guest lead singer. Flipper has been a shining light in alternative music since 1979. The album, "Generic Flipper", is a modern masterpiece and was championed by Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), King Buzzo (Melvins) and many others. The lineup features original member, Stephen DePace, and is rounded out by Kelli Mayo (Skating Polly) and Jon Kelly (The Flood). EYE FLYS]]></description>
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                                <title>Erin Fox &amp; The Hounds</title>
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                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/erin-fox-the-hounds/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 09 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 WXPN Welcomes ERIN FOX &#38; THE HOUNDS KELSEY CORK &#38; THE SWIGS JOHN FAYE LO-PRIESTESS]]></description>
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                                <title>Alex Savoth (Record Release)</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/alex-savoth-record-release/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM - Doors8 PM - Show WXPN Welcomes ALEX SAVOTH Known primarily for his work with Stereo League, Alex Savoth&#8217;s solo debut, Midnight Sun, is a quiet departure from his role as a bandleader. Releasing May 8th, 2026, the album was shaped by a period of solitary writing and a preference for more subtle, atmospheric arrangements. While the songs began in isolation, Savoth eventually brought them to life by collaborating with a small, stellar lineup of Philadelphia musicians who helped realize the project's understated vision. It is a humble record that doesn't aim for the anthemic, choosing instead to lean into the stillness of the early morning hours. For Savoth, Midnight Sun is less of a grand statement and more of a quiet check-in with his own craft, supported by the community that has long defined his sound. MAX DAVEY Max Davey is a Philadelphia-based Indie Folk, Americana artist and producer known for her intimate storytelling that explores themes of love, grief, and life's complexities. Often collaborating with multi-instrumentalist Steve Novoa, she has released a series of eclectic singles, making a mark on the local Philly music scene. She&#8217;s performed at regional festivals like The Philadelphia Folk Festival, ALT 104.5 FestivALT, and Midnight Mountain Music Show. Max is currently working on her debut record. When not on stage or in her home studio, you&#8217;ll find her at local shows supporting the music community. JAMES CLARK James Clark is a Philadelphia area singer-songwriter crafting story-driven folk/pop with an Americana edge, turning everyday moments into vivid, emotional snapshots. Anchored by a soulful, gritty, and dynamic voice, his performances move easily between stripped-down intimacy and soaring, full-bodied intensity, drawing listeners into the heart of each song. A regular presence on stages across eastern Pennsylvania, James has built a reputation for compelling live sets and honest songwriting rooted in storytelling and atmosphere. His recent work reflects his focus on detail, memory, and the emotional weight carried in life&#8217;s quieter moments.]]></description>
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                                <title>Corey Bernhard&#8217;s Eternity Ensemble</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/corey-bernhards-eternity-ensemble/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show COREY BERNHARD'S ETERNITY ENSEMBLE W.S.G. KHEMIST MAYFIELD &#38; MUHSINAH From touring with superstar jam fusion group Snarky Puppy or hip-hop icons Pusha T and Talib Kweli, to backing up Ed Sheeran on SNL or playing duo with Ariana Grande live on MTV, to playing experimental sets with members of The War on Drugs, to writing and producing for Philadelphia legends Bilal and DJ Jazzy Jeff, it&#8217;s hard to fathom how Corey Bernhard has time to show up at his day job as keyboardist on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. One thing is certain: Bernhard is one of his generation&#8217;s most dynamic (and busiest) musicians. Hailed by Okayplayer as a &#8220;pillar of the Philadelphia music scene,&#8221; his solo debut Fool&#8217;s Pirouette was released in January 2022 and was featured on NPR&#8217;s notable new music playlist. Reviewing his pandemic era collaboration with friend and Philadelphia rapper The Bul Bey, SWTS (2020), WXPN raved that the duo &#8220;tackles big themes to a beautiful score.&#8221; In addition to releasing his own music and working with the aforementioned, the in-demand keyboardist/producer has performed with Thundercat, James Taylor, Marsha Ambrosius, Bootsy Collins, Doechii, Teedra Moses, Brittney Howard, Lil Simz, Cory Wong, Trombone Shorty, Peter Frampton, Pete Townshend, Donald Harrison, Jr, Terence Blanchard, Eric Roberson, John Scofield, Meshell N&#8217;Degeocello, Lalah Hathaway, and Andrew Bird among others. He was also co-founder and producer/composer of the band Killiam Shakespeare, which released 3 projects including collaborations with Aloe Blacc, Freeway, and other rising artists, receiving acclaim from Wax Poetic, Afropunk, The Huffington Post and more.Bernhard&#8217;s sophomore solo release, A Blessed Leap into Eternity is a sprawling experimental folk jazz suite released in 2025 to critical and cultural acclaim.Bernhard was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard as an economics major. 3XPLOTITS FT. SUZANNE SHEER Philadelphia producer duo 3XPLOTITS &#8212; made up of 3xpo and Lotits &#8212; have spent the last few years crafting the sound of Cake Productions artist Suzanne Sheer from behind the boards. On April 30th at Johnny Brenda&#8217;s, they bring that world to life on stage: a live production set builtin real time on drum machines, turntables, and keyboards, with Sheer as the featured voice. Expect something that sits somewhere between a live show and a studio session &#8212; cinematic, soulful, and a little unpredictable. The set will also serve as a special live preview of Sheer&#8217;s sophomore album &#8216;Voices&#8217;, produced entirely by the duo, before its release later this spring.]]></description>
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                                <title>Cole Pulice</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/cole-pulice/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show COLE PULICE Saxophonist, composer and improviser Cole Pulice traffics in shimmering, otherworldly beauty. On Land&#8217;s End Eternal, their first album for Leaving Records, the Oakland-based artist expands their compositional palette beyond signal-processed saxophone to include layers of electric guitar and lush choral arrangements. The result is a prismatic collection of pastoral chamber jazz in six parts. Cole&#8217;s previous release, a 22-minute electroacoustic odyssey titled If I Don&#8217;t See You in the Future, I&#8217;ll See You In the Pasture (Longform Editions, 2023), was named &#8216;Best New Track&#8217; by Pitchfork and included in the publication&#8217;s Best Songs Of The 2020s. Cole has also released a smattering of solo and collaborative work on beloved labels including Moon Glyph, Aural Canyon and Cached Media. Their performance history includes appearances at Pitchfork Music Festival (UK), Rewire (NL), &#220;BERJAZZ (DE), Copenhagen Jazz Festival (DK), Drone Not Drones (US), &#38; Noise Pop Festival (US).]]></description>
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                                <title>Portrayal of Guilt</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/portrayal-of-guilt/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show PORTRAYAL OF GUILT &#8230;Beginning of the End is the latest album from Portrayal of Guilt, a curious title for a bandthat has treated each release like a new creative start, constantly reinventing themselves since their inception less than a decade ago. In that relatively short time, the Austin trio have not only toured the world over, created their own musical eco-system and released three seminal full-length albums, they have done it in a manner that avoided compromise, welcomed free experimentation and avoided labels outside of "menacing," &#8220;compelling&#8221; and &#8220;must hear.&#8221;Portrayal of Guilt made an immediate impact in underground circles with their debut Let Pain Be Your Guide by mixing nihilistic hardcore, black metal, classic screamo, and imaginative textures. We Are Always Alone and CHRISTF*CKER LPs followed in 2021, the band&#8217;s breakout body blows that corroded the band&#8217;s commitment to genre, nodding at industrial music, post-metal, sludge and even post-hardcore, all while cementing the band&#8217;s tendencies toward experimentalism. Portrayal of Guilt&#8217;s fearless spirit reimagined their ownsound as classical (Devil Music EP) and EBM / goth (CHRISTF*CKER II) on more recent efforts. And though the pacing of releases and the band&#8217;s evolution has remained steady, Portrayal of Guilt&#8217;s execution has kept their audiences hungry for the band&#8217;s ever-evolving sound. STREET SECTS THE INFINITY RING COMMITMENT Commitment is an inevitability, set to release their full length, &#8220;Fear Of&#8221;, on LA-via Philadelphia label Get Better Records this spring. &#8220;Fear Of&#8221; packs a punch composed of raw punk, hardcore, and d-beat inspired music that essentially results in fast punk that sometimes includes groove as often as it does blast beats. Lyrically, the themes of &#8220;Fear Of &#8220;include sexual liberation, sacred rage, vengeance, violence, insecurity, surveillance, overconsumption, social media, and mind control/brainwashing. The band aims to peel off listener&#8217;s faces, leaving grinning skulls and exposed brains as the canvas for vocalist Tatiana Salazar&#8217;s indoctrination. The formula is quite simple, but the result isn&#8217;t.]]></description>
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                                <title>Case Oats</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/case-oats/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show CASE OATS Casey Walker never thought she&#8217;d write an album. A novel, maybe, when she was in undergraduate school for creative writing. But music always called to her, and it wasn&#8217;t until she moved to Chicago and met a stable of musicians that she realized that recording was within reach.Walker formed Case Oats in 2018 and turned the band into a Chicago fixture until finally, in 2025, signing with Merge Records, and releasing a debut record to critical acclaim. Chicago Sun-Times called it a &#8220;standout debut.&#8221; Rolling Stone hailed it as &#8220;a winning set of alt-country and folk songs with warm melodies, novelistic verses, and unassuming vocals that recall Daniel Johnston and Kimya Dawson.&#8221;The album was produced by Walker&#8217;s longtime bandmate and fianc&#233;, Spencer Tweedy (drums), and recorded in a makeshift Chicago basement studio, in the bungalow rented by Jason Ashworth (bass) and Max Subar (guitar and pedal steel), featuring fiddle work by Scott Daniel and guest pianist/organist Nolan Chin. Walker&#8217;s songs get to the heart of relationships and experience, and bring city life down to earth&#8212;to the porch swing, where Walker believes everyone ultimately belongs. HENRY TRUE]]></description>
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                                <title>Wicca Phase Springs Eternal &amp; The Mystery Mountain Band</title>
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                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/wicca-phase-springs-eternal-the-mystery-mountain-band/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show WICCA PHASE SPRINGS ETERNAL &#38; THE MYSTERY MOUNTAIN BAND It&#8217;s impossible to talk about Wicca Phase Springs Eternal without talking about transformation. For over a decade the singer, songwriter and producer Adam Andrzejewski has used the moniker as a wide creative umbrella, under which he&#8217;s made a vast body of work that&#8217;s as consistently compelling as it is constantly changing. This deft ability to blend sounds and styles has become his calling card, but no matter the genre signifiers&#8211;from rap beats, to new wave synths, to goth atmospherics&#8211;the beating heart of WPSE is Andrzejewski&#8217;s singular voice and esoteric-yet-emotional lyricism. Those key elements have centered the project through musical explorations, and now on his latest full-length, Mossy Oak Shadow, Andrzejewski really puts them to the test. Shedding thumping 808s and intricate production in favor of a no-frills band and sparse live recording, the album is a stirring collection of hazy folk rock songs that prove Wicca Phase Springs Eternal can truly be anything. &#8220;I always kind of thought that as long as I have the Wicca Phase Springs Eternal name that I can do whatever I want,&#8221; Andrzejewski explains. &#8220;The name provides a framework for the lyrics and aesthetics of the project&#8211;my songwriting with a mystical overlay to it&#8211;and as long as I can make something work within that, then the genre doesn&#8217;t totally matter.&#8221; That daring creative mentality is what steered Andrzejewski when he first started the WPSE project, through his work as a co-founder of the influential GothBoiClique collective, or as member of Thraxxhouse and Misery Club, and even with his punk side project, Pay For Pain. Still, few could have guessed that the new proper Wicca Phase Springs Eternal release would be a set of country-leaning folk songs performed without a wink in sight. As with all things Wicca Phase, Mossy Oak Shadow finds Andrzejewski fully committed. &#8220;There&#8217;s always been acoustic songs on my records but usually they&#8217;re in the context of a beat-based Wicca Phase album. I think the idea here was to just kind of start fresh and go hard in this other direction,&#8221; he says. &#8220;The temptation is to call it a country record, I don't really think it&#8217;s that&#8211;but there&#8217;s acoustic guitar and slide guitar, and I think my interests and themes do have elements of country in sort of an archetypical way.&#8221;&#160; FANCLUBWALLET Fanclubwallet is the indie rock project of cartoonist-turned-musician Hannah Judge, a longtime champion of Ottawa&#8217;s local music scene. Even before making music herself, Hannah was immersed in the community; sharing mix CDs, cold-emailing bands for opening slots, and building friendships wherever she could. In 2020, she began quietly recording demos in her bedroom, eventually launching fanclubwallet at the height of the pandemic. What started as a lo-fi bedroom pop project quickly gained traction, with her breakout track &#8220;Car Crash In G Major&#8221; racking up over 14 million streams.Since then, Hannah has toured internationally, opening for artists like CHVRCHES, Yot Club, and Dream Ivory, all while staying deeply rooted in the DIY ethos. She runs Club Records, an Ottawa-based label and free resource hub dedicated to supporting independent musicians. With her second full-length album &#8220;Living While Dying&#8221; on the way, Hannah continues to blend infectious songwriting with a genuine love for her community and craft.]]></description>
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                                <title>Maxwell Stern &amp; The Good Light Band</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/maxwell-stern-the-good-light-band/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show MAXWELL STERN &#38; THE GOOD LIGHT BAND Maxwell Stern is a singer and songwriter living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His musical career began and blossomed in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio at the tail end of the 00&#8217;s with his band Signals Midwest. As Signals grew to become one of the tentpoles of Cleveland&#8217;s independent music community, Stern's songwriting prowess grew and his world-traveling continued, with various iterations and projects eventually reaching the UK, Europe, Australia, China, and Japan.Max&#8217;s latest 12-song LP, In the Good Light, was released on Los Angeles-based Lauren Records on August 9, 2024, and features contributions from members of Ratboys, Sincere Engineer, Into It. Over It, and Slaughter Beach, Dog. Pedal and lap steel contributions from Mike "Slo-Mo" Brenner (best known for his work in Magnolia Electric Company) are woven throughout, contributing a sweet and wistful edge to the album's twelve tracks. The end result is a collection of thoughtfully crafted, pop-oriented songwriting filtered through a DIY punk ethos.In the Good Light finds Maxwell Stern embracing love, tenderness, and authenticity. You can feel it in the performances and collaborations. You can hear it in Max&#8217;s voice, in the scenes he captures and the moments he memorializes in song. The title track speaks to that authenticity:"I wanna see you in the good light / further out where your hope and home cancollide / So sing it out into the steep night / I wanna see you in the good light" LABRADOR The sort of lean, sharp pop music that you get from a steady diet of Motown, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival. The short-story wit of Paul Weller, Smokey Robinson, Nick Lowe. Labrador&#8217;s My Version Of Desire is that rarest of modern marvels: an impeccably crafted sonic story collection as replete with hooks as it is heartfelt insights into our todays and yesterdays. Guitars chime and fizz in the power pop tradition; choruses burst in technicolor, memorized before they&#8217;re even over. You sit down with My Version Of Desire &#8212; or you drive with it, let it guide you to the bus stop or the corner store &#8212; and hear the tangles of life pulled at like snarled-up guitar cables. It&#8217;s an album that&#8217;s lived-in and lived-with. OLD SOULS Old Souls is a two-piece instrumental musical project by life-long friends Sean Lee and John Helmuth. Their music is heavily influenced by scores written for old spaghetti western films, late night drives and latin instrumental music from the 1950s and 1960s.]]></description>
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                                <title>Noah Guy</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/noah-guy/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show NOAH GUY A self-proclaimed film school dropout, Noah Guy approaches music through a cinematic lens. The Philly-born, Los Angeles&#8211;based singer, songwriter, and producer treats each project as the soundtrack to his life &#8212; storyboarding songs like scenes and delivering them with raw, full-body emotion.Blending R&#38;B, pop, and progressive soul, Noah pairs confessional lyrics with intricate, self-produced instrumentation. His breakout mixtape Who&#8217;s Taken Time?! (Act I &#38; II) &#8212;recorded while couch surfing during his first year in L.A. &#8212; introduced his orchestral touch and fearless emotional honesty.He continued his evolution with the 2024 EP IT MUST BE LOVE, with singles &#8220;JAMEELA&#8221; and&#8220;LET U LEAD&#8221; (with Billy Lemos) surpassing 1.5 million streams and earning recognition from Apple Music 1 Radio as an &#8220;Emerging Artist&#8221; of 2024. In 2025, he released &#8220;My Loss&#8221; and&#8220;Again,&#8221; expanding his visual and sonic world and setting the stage for his next chapter.In 2026, Noah unveiled &#8220;Higher,&#8221; announcing his debut album MEMORIA, in blue &#8212; a 10-song journey through grief, growth, and acceptance, and a celebration of love, loss, and the beauty of feeling it all. BRANDON Brandon Joseph, professionally known as Brandon, is a 27-year-old singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Riverside, California. Raised in a musical household by Trinidadian parents, he began singing in his church choir and developed a distinctive approach to guitar as a left-handed player adapting right-handed instruments. His music blends soul, R&#38;B, and alternative-pop, which is shaped by personal experience and a devotion to albums as complete immersive works.His debut album, Before You Go, explores love, heartbreak, and self-discovery through intricate guitar work, cinematic soundscapes, and emotionally rich storytelling. From the lead single &#8220;Right Back&#8221; to tracks like &#8220;September&#8221; and &#8220;Seeing Stars,&#8221; Brandon balances intimacy and expansiveness, creating music that lingers and resonates. Beyond his artistry, he challenges expectations for young Black musicians, encouraging creative freedom and authenticity in every note.]]></description>
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                                <title>Mikaela Davis</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month 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;]]></description>
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                                <title>Soda Blonde</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month 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>1 month 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>Colleen</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/colleen/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM - Doors8 PM - Show COLLEEN The compositions of Colleen, aka multi-instrumentalist C&#233;cile Schott, are as richly varied as they are precise. Each of Colleen&#8217;s albums is shaped by her predetermined distinct instrumentation and parameters, including works composed entirely of music boxes, pocket synthesizers, and baroque stringed instruments. The connective essence of Schott&#8217;s music is in her ability to create pieces within specificity that are both transcendently expansive and imbued with profound emotions. Libres antes del final is an album that reaches for the hope and desire to be truly freed from unnecessary suffering and harmful thoughts before reaching the end of one&#8217;s life cycle.&#160; MANNA DAVE P]]></description>
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                                <title>Sonido Gallo Negro</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/sonido-gallo-negro/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM - Doors8 PM - Show SONIDO GALLO NEGRO Sonido Gallo Negro is a band from Mexico City going back to the roots of psychedelic tropical music with guitars, eccentric organs, analog synthesizers, theremin... they mix exotic rarity and esoterism which will alter your perception and force you to dance until you get exhausted. Add to it visual hypnotics and live performance by Dr. Alderete.Since 2010, they have had multiple tours around Europe and America, visited 20 countries and more than 50 cities. Five studio albums later, they became one of the most recognized bands of Mexico City.]]></description>
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                                <title>One Liner Madness</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/one-liner-madness-3/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM - Doors8 PM - Show ONE LINER MADNESS ONE LINER MADNESS is a Time Out Critics' Pick traveling comedy contest that finds the best joke writers in the country. It was founded in Brooklyn in 2016.&#160; On Sunday,&#160;April 26,&#160;64&#160;Philly-area comedians&#160;will go head-to-head in a bracket-style, single-elimination, one-liner&#160;joke&#160;contest. Audience applause determines which performers advance, and who ultimately becomes the 2026 ONE LINER MADNESS CHAMPION and winner of the&#160;trophy&#160;and&#160;cash prize. It's like a March Madness tournament, but just under two hours, and with&#160;jokes&#160;instead&#160;of&#160;basketballs.&#160; This not-to-be-missed contest is hosted, created, and produced by comedian and game show writer&#160;Emily Winter&#160;(from E!, The New Yorker, NPR), and Larry Mancini (from the Brooklyn Comedy Festival) with help from Philly local&#160;Carolyn Busa (owner of Peak Secondhand). It's been recommended in/on The New York Times, Time Out, The Boston Globe, LAist, WGN, Real Milwaukee, Axios, WHYY and more.&#160; Advance purchase recommended.&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Son Little</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 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.]]></description>
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                                <title>Rickshaw Billie&#8217;s Burger Patrol</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/rickshaw-billies-burger-patrol/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM - Doors8 PM - Show RICKSHAW BILLIE'S BURGER PATROL Cash Grab Tour 2026 &#8220;Our catalog has never been short on big dumb riffs, but the idea on this record was to really turn the screw,&#8221; says RBBP bassist Aaron Metzdorf. On Big Dumb Riffs, that screw is cranked incredibly tight.&#8220;We just wanted &#8216;the part&#8217;: The opening of Pantera&#8217;s &#8216;Primal Concrete Sledge&#8217;, the breakdown in Primus&#8217; &#8216;Pudding Time&#8217; &#8212; the shit that makes you move and lose your mind. Just that part the whole time.&#8221;Across 11 concise, taut songs &#8212; most clocking in around 2 minutes or less &#8212; Rickshaw Billie&#8217;s Burger Patrol demonstrates their skillful ability to blend the merciless low end of Leo Lydon&#8217;s 8-string guitar, Aaron Metzdorf&#8217;s masterful chordwork on the bass, and Sean St.Germain&#8217;s driving drumming.Hot on the heels of their breakout 5th studio release Doom Wop (2023), Rickshaw Billie&#8217;s Burger Patrol returns with Big Dumb Riffs: A whole new variant of the fuzzed out, overdriven, melodic, groovy music they have been making since 2016. While Big Dumb Riffs is decidedly more aggressive and rhythmic, it still retains the overtly melodic feel of Doom Wop. But Leo Lydon&#8217;s vocals are considerably more angry and negative (song titles like &#8220;1-800-EAT-SHIT&#8221; and &#8220;Body Bag&#8221; should be a clue.)&#8220;The whole writing process was, &#8216;what if we just played two notes the whole song&#8217;,&#8221; Metzdorf says. &#8220;&#8216;What if we tuned down to almost unusable string tension?&#8217;, &#8216;what if we write a record that will make everyone say &#8216;wow that is dumb&#8217;? Leo and I really move around on stage a lot. Being a dingus is crucial to the groove. All these riffs were designed to allow us to act bigger and dumber on stage.&#8221;Big Dumb Riffs will be available for streaming and download on March 22, 2024. LP to follow in late Spring. AMERICAN SHARKS American Sharks is a three-piece band hailing from Austin, TX. Their punk-metal hybrid sound blends pop hooks with blasting-yer-face riffs resulting in something akin to if Weezer went Stoner Rock. Coupled with hook-laden singalong lyrics, American Sharks&#8217; forthcoming 2026 album Not Dead Yet is a, uh, breathtaking return.]]></description>
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                                <title>Anjimile</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/anjimile/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM - Doors8 PM - Show ANJIMILE Anjimile (ann-JIM-uh-lee) Chithambo has forged a distinctive musical path characterised by unflinching introspection and deep honesty. Emerging from Boston&#8217;s vibrant indie scene while studying at Northeastern University, Anjimile captivated audiences with earnest songwriting, delicate sonic textures, and performances that felt like prayer and celebration.&#160;Critical acclaim quickly followed; 2020&#8217;s Giver Taker, hailed by Rolling Stone as one of the year's best albums, positioned him as a compelling voice exploring enduring themes of spirituality, identity, and liberation. With The King (2023), Anjimile intensified his examination of Black and trans existence amid personal and societal turbulence, reaffirming his courageous commitment to navigating discomfort as a means of liberation.You&#8217;re Free to Go, picks up where The King left off, but with its hands open wide - a central question being: what happens when you let go and let love in?&#160; BROTHERKENZIE brotherkenzie is from minnesota.]]></description>
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                                <title>Boogarins</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/boogarins-2/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show BOOGARINS Brazilian psychedelic rock band Boogarins mark the 10th anniversary of their acclaimed second album, &#8220;Manual, ou Guia Livre de Dissolu&#231;&#227;o dos Sonhos&#8221;, with a commemorative live show featuring the record performed in its entirety. Nominated for a Latin Grammy Award and regarded as a defining release of their generation, the album helped establish the band as one of Brazil&#8217;s most important contemporary rock acts.Recorded in Gij&#243;n, Spain, during a break in their first international tour, the album captured the energy of a band whose songs were forged on the road and shaped by live experimentation. For this anniversary performance, Boogarins revisit the album through the lens of their evolved live sound, bringing back classic arrangements and improvisations that became central to their concerts. More than a nostalgic celebration, the show aims to create new memories by reconnecting audiences&#8212;both longtime followers and new listeners&#8212;with the music, stories, and spirit of &#8220;Manual.&#8221; GARCIA PEOPLES Formed in New Jersey by guitarists Tom Malach and Danny Arakaki, the band took a few years to find their flying shape, solidifying into a lineup with Danny&#8217;s brother Cesar on drums and Derek Spaldo on bass by mid-2016. Ramping up their acceleration around the time of their 2018 Cosmic Cash debut on Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records, they&#8217;ve blasted through residencies and new songs and sessions and collaborations, relocating to New York, picking up two new members in keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Pat Gubler and bassist Andy Cush, and leaving a trail of live tapes in their wake. This year, they&#8217;ve delivered not one but two new albums for BBiB: the sleek and song-oriented Natural Facts and the sprawling improvisatory opus of One Step Behind. 2019 also saw the first performances by the full Garcia Peoples lineup, a six-person behemoth with Spaldo on third guitar.With a stash of live recordings accumulating at the Live Music Archive, Garcia Peoples&#8217; music is very much a living entity. Since the release of their previous two albums, songs have started to expand, jam suites have grown, and experiments have been undertaken. The first part of 2019 has seen Garcia Peoples back Philadelphia guitarist Chris Forsyth (an expanded Solar Peoples Band has hit double-drummer overdrive several times now), and joined with guitarist Ryley Walker. They&#8217;ve improvised on WFMU, and jammed with the sounds of ocean waves and falling rain at strange late night happenings. Probably something else new and wonderful and weird has happened in the Garciaverse since I wrote this.Whether or not you thought you knew Garcia Peoples&#8217; music, One Step Behind is something new and beautiful, for new heads and old. No matter where you stand&#8211;behind, beyond, or another plane altogether&#8211;One Step Behind is ready. For those about to get on the Bus, we salute you.]]></description>
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                                <title>Accessory</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/accessory/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7PM &#8211; Doors8PM &#8211; Show ACCESSORY Accessory is the solo project of Jason Balla, a songwriter and multi-disciplinary artist based in Chicago. Their work centers on the conflict between optimism and melancholy, holding the seemingly-infinite weight of both with equal perspective and grace, pointing to their correspondence through curious and complex melodic experiences that mimic the tension of the natural and digital world. Through his work as Accessory, Balla investigates the impact of their integration in how humanity relates to one another, synthesizing intimate acoustic arrangements and human vocals with electronic mutation. GOLDEN APPLES Golden Apples might be one of the best kept secrets in guitar music, but their new full-length, Bananasugarfire, is about to change that. The boldly titled album is impossible to ignore, a kaleidoscopic blast of fuzzed out guitars, joyful songwriting, and vibrant production that&#8217;s as human as it is hooky. It&#8217;s exactly what a truly great indie rock album can be: fun yet fulfilling, inventive yet inviting, confident yet candid&#8211;music that lifts you up with melody, noise, and heart.]]></description>
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                                <title>Sluice</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/sluice/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8PM &#8211; Doors9PM &#8211; Show SLUICE When Justin Morris moved to New York City in 2019 after a lifetime in North Carolina, he was planning to do the opposite of what people usually move to the city to do: give up on his dream. Since childhood, that dream had been simple&#8212;write songs, play in bands, live inside &#8220;indierock.&#8221; But a run selling merch for one of the era&#8217;s biggest indie stars unsettled that conviction. From his vantage point on the bus, the everyday grind of touring felt out of step with the spellbinding shows; encores gave way to a working reality that showed him the job-like side of something he&#8217;d only ever romanticized and left him wondering where the glow had gone. To his green worldview, the gap between the fantasy of &#8220;making it&#8221; and its reality was jarring. If this was &#8220;the dream,&#8221; he thought, maybe it needed to be reconsidered. New York was meant to be a clean slate, maybe even the place he&#8217;d learn another trade and leave music behind. Then, less than a day into his Bushwick sublet, a man with a gun kicked in his bedroom door, forced him to the floor, and tied his hands with TV cables. In the days after the robbery, unable to make sense of anything except through song, he started writing again. Those songs became the beginning of a new project he called Sluice.Sluice, now a four-piece band from Durham, North Carolina&#8212;with Morris on guitar and vocals, Oliver Child-Lanning on bass and various instruments, Avery Sullivan on drums, and LibbyRodenbough on fiddle&#8212;return with Companion, their third album and Mtn Laurel Recording Co. debut. It follows 2023&#8217;s Radial Gate, the quietly beloved record Morris made after fleeing New York for a Craigslist house in Hillsborough with then-stranger Child-Lanning, tracking songs at Sylvan Esso&#8217;s studio Betty&#8217;s while working carpentry jobs and wondering, as he sings on &#8220;WhatThe Fuck?,&#8221; if he should do something else like &#8220;go back to school.&#8221; Radial Gate caught him halfway out the door of music, steeped in a hermit-like loneliness of rivers, dams, and floodgates. Instead, its release brought the dream back, but it looked different than it did to the&#8220;kid reading in a bunk&#8221; on a tour bus, crying and asking, &#8220;what happened to it all feeling so good?&#8221; that he sings about in &#8220;Vegas.&#8221; Companion begins where that disenchanted loneliness leaves off. Recorded with producer/engineer Alli Rogers at Betty&#8217;s in the winter of 2024 and slowly tended over two years, it sounds like someone deciding there may yet be a dream of music worth struggling for&#8212;and that the point of that dream isn&#8217;t stardom or escape, but companionship. HIDING PLACES Hiding Places formed in the countryside of Athens, Georgia in 2020, but their roots trace back to a shared college radio station at UNC Chapel Hill. Guitarists/vocalists Audrey Keelin and Nicholas Byrne, bassist Michael Matsakis, and drummer Henry Cutting create a twinkly, raw folk-alternative collaboration that blends earnest storytelling with intricate, guitar-driven textures.]]></description>
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                                <title>Zeke Sky</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 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>2 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>Emily Yacina</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/emily-yacina/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7PM &#8211; Doors8PM &#8211; Show EMILY YACINA Emily Yacina has been self-releasing music for over a decade, offering a &#8220;treasure trove of wrenching melodies and delightfully off-kilter meditations on time and absence&#8221; (Stereogum). Although she&#8217;s collaborated with some of the most notable names in indie rock, including Alex G and Rostam, Yacina is a singular artist. Her voice is compelling and instantly recognizable, sometimes winking, lilting, or layered and chopped and used as an instrument. Veilfall arrives six years after the release of her debut studio album, and is another mesmerizing entry in her catalogue. Illuminating Yacina&#8217;s sharp command of crystalline production, Veilfall showcases an expanded roster of collaborators operating at the highest level. Her ability to mine intangible emotions is sage-like, as she navigates formless concepts like the process of grieving, and the types of alienation that can follow in its wake. GRACIE GRAY ABI REIMOLD]]></description>
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                                <title>Robber Robber</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/robber-robber/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8PM &#8211; Doors9PM &#8211; Show ROBBER ROBBER Pinpointing the specific catalyst for an avalanche can be slippery &#8212; any combination of classic elements, human interference, or freak accident can trigger disaster &#8212; and documenting these precise moments often rests on serendipitous reflexes. On Two Wheels Move the Soul, Robber Robber offer themselves as ignition and capture every sound in the wake. Involuntarily thrust into the throws of rootless nomadism, Robber Robber ringleader Nina Cates collects a series of pressurized vignettes to assemble the Burlington quartet&#8217;s thrillingly explosive sophomore album.Two Wheels Move the Soul was written and recorded throughout the winter of 2024 and 2025, a season of Cates&#8217; life characterized by near-constant upheaval. In January of 2025, Cates (and Robber Robber co-founder) Zack James were displaced from their longtime home at the behest of a landlord&#8217;s call to have their building demolished. In a moment&#8217;s notice &#8212; and amidst a particularly brutal Vermont winter &#8212; Cates and James were left to fend for themselves. Luckily, the two were able to tap a deep well of support within their community, finding respite on the couches of Lily Seabird, Greg Freeman, and Thus Love&#8217;s Echo Mars. An unused attic provided their longest arrangement.&#160;The personal and economic chaos of living at the mercy of nameless powers-that-be redirected into a hyperfocused attention on Two Wheels Move the Soul. Returning to Little Jamaica Studios &#8212; one of the sites for their acclaimed debut Wild Guess &#8212; Cates, James, guitarist Will Krulak and bassist Carney Hemler hunkered down with their trusted engineer Benny Yurco. The familiarity between the cast of characters allowed the studio to become a sanctuary, and foregrounded Two Wheels Move The Soul&#8217;s constant foray into sonically adventurous terrain. &#8220;Everywhere else that we had to be, we were very much visitors,&#8221; James recalls. &#8220;When we were working on the record, it was nice because it felt like this is our space.&#8221; Still, an overwhelming sense of impending doom hangs over Two Wheels Move the Soul. Every scribble on the guitar thins the air, each stab of percussion and wave of distortion makes it that much harder to breathe. EMPATH CULT OBJECTS Cult Objects is celebrating their first LP release, Amulet! This new record sees the Philadelphia band move out of the basement and onto the dance floor. While still taking their emotionally raw blend of post-punk and noise rock with them, they added some gothy dance floor dissonance, haunting vocals, and grooving bass lines. They entered the studio to make a scrappy post punk record from 1982 that, if played next to ESG or Bush Tetras, would sound like they were recorded in the same studio weeks apart. It&#8217;s the sound of dancing at the end of the world.]]></description>
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                                <title>Solar Circuit</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/solar-circuit/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show SOLAR CIRCUIT Solar Circuit is a jamtronic electropop quartet blending female-led trance vocals, live improvisation, and nostalgic eurotrance energy into a high-energy, dance-driven live experience. Known for their relentless &#8220;controlled chaos,&#8221; the band fuses live instruments and electronics into an emotive, synth-forward sound that lives at the intersection of trance, jam, and modern electropop.Built for movement and momentum, Solar Circuit&#8217;s shows flow seamlessly between driving dance grooves and exploratory improvisation- equal parts club energy and jam-band spontaneity. With extensive national touring under their belt, they&#8217;ve delivered standout performances at venues and festivals including The Caverns, Elements Festival, Domefest, Mountain Music Festival, Beardfest, and Summerdance. Formed in Philadelphia, Solar Circuit has shared the stage and collaborated with a wide range of artists including Lotus, Papadosio, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Dopapod, Spafford, TAUK, Andy Frasco, Karina Rykman, Big Something, Break Science, and more.Their latest studio single, &#8220;Hold On Tight,&#8221; alongside live soundboards on Nugs.net, a constant growing catalog of originals and reimagined genre-spanning covers, showcase a unit in constant forward motion- designed for the dancefloor and the deep dive alike. THE REALITY CHECK EXPERIMENT]]></description>
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                                <title>Silkworm</title>
                                <eventupdate>4 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/silkworm/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show SILKWORM Founded in 1987, SILKWORM is a storied and beloved rock band, revered among many of those in the know. The band released nine richly distinctive, influential albums and "a bunch" of singles, EPs, and compilations over an eighteen-year period, as well as touring worldwide in North America, Europe, and Asia, notably playing every state in the continental USA except Delaware.The group recently played together as a dual-guitar quartet for the first time in thirty years, at Steve Albini&#8217;s memorial in late July 2024.&#160;The experience was so rewarding that they began to discuss regrouping for some additional events...which led them to poking at the best possible options for doing so&#8230; COME Come (Chris Brokaw, Arthur Johnson, Sean O&#8217;Brien and Thalia Zedek) formed in Boston in the early 90's &#160;and released 4 LP's as well as numerous EP's and singles on the Matador, Sub Pop, Beggars and Domino labels throughout the decade.They toured with many of the 90's most significant &#160;bands including Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., Pavement and Dirty Three.In 2013 they reunited around the Matador reissue of "Eleven Eleven " their seminal debut LP, and have since reunited every few years to play shows and festivals in the United States and in Europe.&#160;In 2021 Fire Records began reissuing Come&#8217;s entire catalogue, starting with &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; their 2nd album and previously unreleased Peel Sessions.]]></description>
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                                <title>TRAITRS</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/traitrs/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show TRAITRS With their cinematic blend of horror-based imagery, anthemic choruses, motorik drum loops, atmospheric synths and angular guitars, Canadian cold wave duo TRAITRS stare unflinchingly at our dystopian present while paying homage to artists from the post-punk past. In the decade since their debut record to now, the Toronto-based TRAITRS went from bedroom artists selling cassette tapes on a small boutique record label to accumulating millions of streams worldwide and performing hundreds of shows on massive stages across multiple continents. With their much-anticipated new album Possessor, produced by long-time collaborator Josh Korody (The Beaches, The Dirty Nil, Japandroids, Tanya Taqaq, F*cked Up) and mastered by Matt Colton (The Cure, Depeche Mode, Fontaines D.C., Wet Leg, Dua Lipa, Blur etc), TRAITRS continue to develop their melancholic sound and imagery with the emotional follow up to 2021&#8217;s critically acclaimed LP Horses in the Abattoir. DJ BABY BERLIN]]></description>
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                                <title>Flyte</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/flyte/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show FLYTE To make their fourth album, Between You and Me, Flyte&#8212;Will Taylor and Nick Hill&#8212;set out to return to something raw and instinctual. Just weeks before joining legendary producer Ethan Johns (Paul McCartney, Laura Marling, Ray LaMontagne) in his West Country studio, the duo began writing at a small window table in Taylor&#8217;s North East London flat. They wanted to see what would happen if they didn&#8217;t overthink their songs, if they simply sang for themselves in the exact moment&#8212;candid reflections on love, fallibility, and staying vulnerable. They didn&#8217;t fuss over demos or arrangements; they just wanted to capture the feelings. They knew Johns thrived on intuition, so they let that sensibility guide them from the beginning. SAMANTHA CRAIN Samantha Crain is a Choctaw-American singer, songwriter, film composer, and producer from Oklahoma. A two-time winner of the Native American Music Award, Samantha defies categorisation, marrying folk music with the sounds of country rock and college indie. Samantha's latest album, A Small Death (2020), was released on Communion's Real Kind Records. The album received universal acclaim with tracks finding themselves in constant rotation on 6music.Samantha has toured extensively over the past decade nationally and internationally, presenting ambitious orchestrated shows with her band as well as intimate folk leaning solo performances. She has toured with First Aid Kit, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lucy Rose, The Avett Brothers, The Mountain Goats, and many others.&#160; VIP PACKAGE 1 General Admission Ticket1 Limited Edition Poster1 Limited Edition Tote BagAccess to an unplugged acoustic performance prior to the showFlyte M&#38;G following the Acoustic PerformanceVIPs will be able to remain in the venue until doors]]></description>
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                                <title>Marlon Magnée (of La Femme)</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 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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                                <title>Arts Fishing Club</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/arts-fishing-club/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM - Show ARTS FISHING CLUB Arts Fishing Club is more than just a band; they are storytellers, explorers of the human condition, and purveyors of living life boldly. An ethos demonstrated by frontman Christopher Kessenich&#8217;s first 4.5 month tour in which he walked 1600 miles along the east coast from Maine to Atlanta to Nashville, played 60 shows, and slept in strangers&#8217; living room floors.The boldness that compelled such an adventure is felt in AFC&#8217;s electrifying live shows where the band weaves the raw energy of rock and the introspective lyrical honesty of folk to create a sound that is timeless and refreshingly original.Whether performing in sold out small clubs or on festival stages (Bonnaroo, Summerfest, Treefort, Mile of Music), their engaging stage presence and ability to connect with fans makes their live performances a cornerstone of their success.With a growing fanbase, commitment to pushing their creative boundaries, and an infectiously entertaining live show, Arts Fishing Club is poised to make a lasting impact on the indie music landscape. CARDINAL BLOOM Cardinal Bloom is an Indie Rock Band from Salt Lake City Utah, one of the birth places of the modern Indie Rock genre. Cardinal Bloom's debut album &#8220;The Only Place I&#8217;ve Ever Known&#8221; released September of 2024 marking a new era of their music while still holding true to the sound they've carved as their own. Cardinal Bloom&#8217;s music encapsulates the nostalgic and bittersweet feeling of &#8216;better days,&#8217; yet leaving you a notion there is still so much life ahead of us to be lived.]]></description>
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                                <title>Sessa</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/sessa/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show SESSA Pequena Vertigem de Amor &#8212; the third full-length in Sergio Sayeg&#8217;s expanding catalogue as Sessa &#8212; is not just an evolution in the S&#227;o Paulo artist&#8217;s sound; it is a transformation. Like a camera lens slowly zooming out, Sessa&#8217;s records reveal a progression from the private, carnal and earth-bound erotic desires probed on 2019&#8217;s Grandeza, to an exploration of the limits and possibilities in relationships between people in love on 2022&#8217;s Estrela Acesa.With Pequena Vertigem de Amor, which translates to &#8220;Lil&#8217; Love Vertigo,&#8221; Sessa&#8217;s view turns upward, to the infinite sky, catching glimpses of universality in the intimacy of becoming a father. Sessa says these songs &#8220;are a mix of personal chronicles and quiet meditations about life in the face of personal change, of experiencing something so big that you realize your insignificant size in space and time.&#8221; KOLUMBO Since he was a landlocked Dallas, Texas kid, beach culture has held a tropicalmystique for Kolumbo composer, arranger, keyboardist Frank LoCrasto. Familytrips documented by camcorder videos, featuring slinky jazz-fusion soundtracksare etched in the Brooklyn-based artist&#8217;s memory. In his mind, there will always bea fantasyland replete with wicker furniture, pristine beaches, swaying palm trees,the smell of vanilla-scented suntan lotion, and breathtaking aqua water expanses.These days, LoCrasto uses his imagination to create dreamy musical locales withthe Brooklyn-based, Tropically-minded Kolumbo. The tiki-jazz torchbearers are released their second full length, Sandy Legs, in September 2024, on the Allah Las record label, Calico Discos, a boutique imprint now a part of Innovative Leisure. The 8-song album conjures the lush sounds of 1960s exotica, 1970sBrazilian fusion and the jazz-funk albums produced by Creed Taylor for CTI.Previously, the Texas-born, Brooklyn-based composer has released four soloalbums, recorded music for three feature length films, and has had songs placedin the 2014 movie, Obvious Child, and the 2020 HBO series, How to With Jon Wilson. In addition, LoCrasto has recorded and toured with Fruit Bats, Dawes,Cass McCombs, Pat Martino, Grateful Shred, Jeremy Pelt, James Iha, ParquetCourts, Nicholas Payton, Greg Osby, Okkervil River, and Wallace Roney.]]></description>
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                                <title>The Thing</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/the-thing-2/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show THE THING What is The Thing? It&#8217;s a New York band, sure, but it&#8217;s also an ethos. A return to rock &#38; roll&#8217;s roots &#8212; to garage bands toiling between the family minivans, to groups like the Beatles and their unique alchemy, to tape machines and live band recordings instead of slick studios and myriad songwriters. &#8220;We've kind of adapted the ethos of: with restriction comes creativity &#8212; old becomes new. And throughout every part of the process that remains true,&#8221; says guitarist/vocalist Jack Bradley.Never is that more apparent than on their self-titled third record, out August 6th on their own label. A rough and tumble suite of 12 songs that nods to everyone from The Kinks to The White Stripes, The Thing sounds like old New York revivicated and remixed. &#8220;It showcases all of us, all of our different personalities,&#8221; says bassist/vocalist Zane Acord. &#8220;In The Thing, we&#8217;re a collective band. We hang our hats on being a true band &#8212; where we all have the spotlight. I think that gives us a different edge.&#8221; That album follows 2023&#8217;s debut, Here&#8217;s the Thing, and The Things Is, which dropped the following year.The four members of Thing came from intersecting backgrounds, lending to their rock-and-roll-as-melting-pot vibe. Acord grew up with a drummer dad who hipped him to bands like Led Zeppelin and Grand Funk Railroad; he met guitarist/vocals Michael Carter &#8212; an avid Beatles fan &#8212; in middle school. The duo went on to collect Bradley in high school, an aspiring producer with a studio in his basement and a yen for psych rock. Jazz drummer Lucas Ebeling linked up with the band when everyone found their way to New York in 2022. They&#8217;ve since played more than 300 shows across the world.The band&#8217;s self-titled work, then, is a culmination of all those influences &#8212; and all that hustle. &#8220;We threw all of our different various influences throughout &#8212; all the decades of rock and roll and adjacent genres &#8212; and ended up with something of our own,&#8221; Bradley says. &#8220;Our contribution to the genre. Our style. Our&#8230; thing.&#8221;LONG LIVE THE THING. THE BAXBYS The four members of The Baxbys&#8212;Alex Nordlund (lead vocals/guitar), James Miller (lead guitar/vocals), Spencer Rosenfeld (bass/keys), and Chris Sciucco (drums)&#8212;formed in the basements of Amherst, Massachusetts in 2021. After amassing a loyal fanbase in the local college music scene, The Baxbys branched out to the rest of the Northeast, where they began selling out headlining shows and self-producing their first releases. Central to their identity is a democratic approach to songwriting; with every member contributing material, the band has a diverse and dynamic discography. The band&#8217;s collective creativity fuels their chorus-driven sound, defined by stacked guitar chords and powerful vocal performances. BARNEY CORTEZ]]></description>
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                                <title>The Antlers</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/the-antlers/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM &#8211; Doors8 PM &#8211; Show THE ANTLERS The follow-up to 2021&#8217;s rustic, folk-tinged Green to Gold, Blight asks many questions without offering easy answers. Over the course of nine new songs, the Antlers&#8217; founder and primary songwriter Silberman reckons with our passively destructive tendencies &#8211; absentminded pollution, unwitting wastefulness, and the inadvertent devastation of the natural world. But despite its heavy themes, Blight is far from a punishing listen. With its adventurous arrangements and persistent momentum, it plays more like an iridescent odyssey.&#160;The album was recorded over the course of a few years, with the lion&#8217;s share tracked and produced in Silberman&#8217;s home studio in upstate New York, a compact outbuilding perched at the edge of a neighbor&#8217;s sprawling hayfield.&#8220;So much of the record was conceived while walking these massive fields,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I felt like I was wandering around an abandoned planet.&#8221;&#160;And in a sense, Blight does feel like science fiction, sounding as if it were delivered from the near future. The album is a work of meticulous world-building, teeming with ear candy and surprising stylistic shifts. While many songs begin with sparse elements&#8212; a fingerpicked guitar, hypnotic organ stabs, or a nimble piano melody &#8212; they rarely remain tethered to their foundations. They often reimagine themselves partway through, shifting mid-track from gentle ballad to throbbing electronica, only to land somewhere entirely different by the end.&#160; TŌTH Brooklyn-based songwriter and trumpet player Tōth (Alex Toth of Rubblebucket) willreturn with his third album &#8211; And The Voice Said &#8211; on February 27, 2026 (Northern Spy//Egghunt Records). Tōth is known for his emotionally direct songwriting, magneticstage presence and trumpet playing. His forthcoming album was co-produced by Grammy nominated artist Caroline Rose and features Kimbra. This record finds Tothfully blossomed as both a singer and a songwriter with his most potent music yet.]]></description>
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                                <title>Just Mustard</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://johnnybrendas.com/event/just-mustard/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM &#8211; Doors9 PM &#8211; Show JUST MUSTARD MISS GRIT New York-based musician Margaret Sohn &#8211; aka Miss Grit (they/she) &#8211; is a bold experimentalist and architect of sculptural texture. They&#8217;re known for deftly moving between analogue and digital, guitar and synths, and creating an immersive cosmos of sound with futuristic frameworks for their searching introspection. On their acclaimed 2023 debut, Follow The Cyborg, they built a fluid future beyond the gender and genre binaries, where a non-human machine goes in pursuit of liberation. For this year&#8217;s follow up, however, Sohn has powered down the android and turned the search inward.Under My Umbrella lifts the lid on the Korean-American artist&#8217;s internal world, lasering in on the anxieties and heartbreak of the past two years. The title is a nod to the iconic Rihanna song and embraces Sohn &#8220;letting people in more on this record and trying not to shy away from that. The cyborg is shutting down &#8211; I&#8217;m letting it all out.&#8221;]]></description>
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