Kim Selfridge Mr Twin Sister FRIDAY 7/10 Mr Twin Sister This Long Island outfit has always been musically chameleonic — their 2011 LP as Twin Sister hopscotched from wispy dream pop to retro spy soundtrack and spaghetti western pastiche to…

Joshua Jackson PINS plays Boot & Saddle 7/2. THURSDAY 7/2 PINS Faith Holgate has dry, deadpan vocals for any occasion: got-it-bad ballads, aloof-but-excitable punkish rock, sweet-as-wine-gums garage pop. She and her swaggering, jangly guitar can knock your socks off at…

Maybe one day we’ll realize Pattern is Movement was one of the all-time greats. For now, we gotta say goodbye to this daring and delightfully bizarre little band that mixed delirious pop with wild-eyed r&b and honking experimentalism. At least…

Charles Mostoller Gregory Burnside Sr. with a photo of his son who was killed six months ago. Across the hall in the Metro, reporter Sam Newhouse has a story of a crime that has gone unsolved and a father struggling…

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‘I had succeeded in destroying everything I possibly could in my life, and other people’s.’ The last time Brian Christinzio played a show in the U.K., he knew his days were numbered. The letter telling him to pack up and…

from The New Republic, newrepublic.com Goffman, a sociologist, famously spent years documenting the lives of poor West Philadelphians dealing with crime and police brutality. She’s been praised almost universally. Quoth the New York Times: “On the Run” is, first and…

Rachel del Sordo Cynthia Mason Mason’s new EP, Cinematic Turn — her first new music in eight years — gets the release-party treatment tonight at World Café Live. Once and future Philly fixture Cynthia G. Mason says she hated music…

It’s definitely going to rain tonight. Look at it out there. But when? When will the storm hit? It matters to all of this city’s bicyclists and wimps and bicyclist-wimps! In this corner, we’ve got NBC weather guru Sheena Parveen…