Synthpop to serene singer-songwriters, it’s one other eclectic and thrilling week throughout Philly. Listed here are 15 live shows to see within the subsequent seven days; tickets and extra data will be discovered at WXPN’s concerts and events page.
Sunday 11/13: Courtney Marie Andrews at 118 North
After performing the most effective Free At Midday live shows of 2022 – don’t consider us? Listen here. – Phoenix-via-Nashville singer-songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews and her stellar band play 118 North tonight in Wayne. Their new album Unfastened Future is out now, The Useless Tongues open, and for those who purchased tickets for this present when it was initially situated at MilkBoy, take notice: the gig has been relocated up the Principal Line. // 7:30 p.m., 18, 21+
Sunday 11/13: Magdalena Bay at Union Switch
Top-of-the-line releases of 2021 that’s loved a brand new life in 2022, Mercurial World by Miami duo Magdalena Bay skips round throughout all manners of digital music, from 8-bit to hyperpop to rippling trance. The bow that retains all of it tightly wrapped collectively is the stellar songcraft of Penn alum Mica Tenenbaum and her artistic associate Matthew Lewin, and their means to craft music that uplifts with dazzling hooks, heat melodies, and optimistic vitality, whereas additionally subtly slicing the temper with lyrical moments of existential dread. They’re not right here to wallow, although, they’re right here to bop, and you are able to do that with them tonight at Union Switch. // 8 p.m., $25, AA
Monday 11/14: Tenci at PhilaMOCA
Chicago singer-songwriter Jess Shoman and her band Tenci are taking one other move by way of the Philly area – roughly their third time prior to now 12 months – to headline PhilaMOCA in assist of their new album A Swollen River, A Nicely Overflowing. With meditative songs within the vein of early Angel Olsen, Tenci alone would make this a stellar present, however the Philly openers emospacebird. and Ther present an excellent stronger case for going out on a Monday evening. // 8 p.m., $13, AA
Monday 11/14: Pawnshop Roses at Ardmore Music Corridor
Ever listened to a dwell album and puzzled “how do I get to be a kind of individuals cheering within the crowd”? Now’s your probability, as long-running blues-informed native rockers Pawnshop Roses are recording their new dwell album this Monday with a present at Ardmore Music Corridor. It’s free to attend, however it’s important to RSVP to claim your spot. // 8 p.m., FREE, 21+
Tuesday 11/15: The Lone Bellow at Union Switch
New York Metropolis roots trio and XPN favorites The Lone Bellow are again in Philly this Tuesday to play Union Switch in assist of their just-released album Love Songs For Losers. It’s their fifth studio album, and and Pop Issues referred to as it a mirrored image on “love and ache, life and dying, how we’re all doomed to die and the easy joys we will have within the meantime.” Sibling trio Bailen opens the present. // 8 p.m., $28, AA
Wednesday 11/16: Thee Sacred Souls at Underground Arts
Thee Sacred Souls is rapidly making a reputation for themselves with their easy-going Motown-influenced smooth jams. The San Diego trio will convey the allure, and native opening act AJAY, to the cavernous Underground Arts. // 8 p.m., $20, 21+
Thursday 11/17: Ani DiFranco at Union Switch
Modern and iconic singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco’s newest launch, the twenty fifth Anniversary Version of Dwelling In Clip, is a group of dwell recordings remastered, and is touted because the next-best-thing to expertise her present in-person. However followers have the possibility to do exactly that on Thursday at the most effective live performance venues in Philly, Union Switch. // 8 p.m., $35, AA
Thursday 11/17: Gladys Knight at The Appel Middle
York, PA made the brief record of tour dates for soul famous person Gladys Knight. Make it out to the Appell Middle’s Strand Theatre to listen to GK & The Pips classics that span all the way in which again to the 60s. // 7:30 p.m, $70, AA
Thursday 11/17: Josh Ritter at South Orange PAC
Roots rock and singer-songwriter followers are trying ahead to seeing Josh Ritter this Thursday in New Jersey. If the troubadour-style, acoustic guitar music fits you, Ritter is named the most effective. // 7:30 p.m., $39, AA
Friday 11/18: Rayland Baxter at Ardmore Music Corridor
Right here’s an anecdote that provides an concept of what to anticipate from a Rayland Baxter present: for the making of his new album If I Have been a Butterfly, the Tennessee singer-songwriter spent greater than a 12 months toiling away at a studio in a former rubber-band manufacturing unit. It’s a setting that displays Baxter’s mix of psychedelia and ‘60s pop, which is elevated by a commanding voice and the eccentric stylings of his onstage ensembles. // 8 p.m., $22, 21+
Friday 11/18: Bartees Unusual at The Foundry
Bartees Unusual has been a station favourite this 12 months. He performed XPNFest this 12 months, with a set that Walden Green described as “a run the place each track was extra modern, ballsy, and breathtaking than the final,” and that very same weekend guest DJ’ed on the Friday Morning Mixtape for an hour of deep funk deep cuts. Unusual is among the can’t-miss dwell acts of the current indie second, one thing he’s certain to show once more on the Foundry. // 8 p.m, $22, AA
Friday 11/18: Stella Ruze at Tellus360
Stella Ruze is a degree of native pleasure for XPN and the Philly people rock scene. The seven-piece recorded one of many last pre-pandemic Key Studio Sessions in 2020, and John Vettese recapped their set ultimately 12 months’s XPNFest. Their mix of New Orleans sounds and jam scene vitality — bolstered by mandolins and four-part vocal harmonies — is completely engineered to get a crowd (particularly a tipsy one) out of their seats and dancing. // 10:30 p.m., $5, 21+
Saturday 11/19: Pinkshift at First Unitarian Church
To not do them soiled, however these previous few years Baltimore indie punk-emo hybrid Pinkshift have been enjoying an prolonged recreation of “all the time the bridesmaid, by no means the bride.” After sharing payments with style stalwarts like PUP, Model Pussy, and Sheer Magazine, they’ll lastly be claiming their spot within the limelight with an upcoming headlining gig on the First Unitarian Church, accompanied by Jigsaw Youth and Jhariah. // 8 p.m., $16, AA
Saturday 11/19: Woman Alma at World Cafe Reside
She’s described in press releases as “the one and solely Woman Alma,” if that provides you a way of the gravitas one in every of her reveals holds. On the Music Corridor at World Cafe Reside, she’ll be joined by Philly’s Vertical Present & V The Vocalist, plus DJ Reddz, to prepare dinner up a fusion of jazz, soul, and home that’s certain to gas for the physique in addition to for the center. // 7 p.m., $17, AA
Saturday 11/19: Godcaster at Johnny Brenda’s
Philly-rooted label Ramp Native is spreading its wings with a two-night showcase – one at Johnny Brenda’s in Fishtown, adopted by a second evening at Brooklyn’s Iconic Child’s All Proper. Unhinged label stars Godcaster headline the Philly gig, together with Turbo World and Tomato Flower. // 8 p.m., $13, 21+
