Friday

US Royalty, Cut Off Your Hands, CANNOT BE STOPPED. Black Cat. $12. All ages.
Death By Sexy, The Whore Moans. The Red & The Black. $8. +21.
Mello D & the Rados, Soul Cannon. Velvet Lounge. $10. +21.
Super Diamond (Neil Diamond cover band), The Reflex. 9:30 club. $22. All ages.
Freeland, Alex Metric. Rock and Roll Hotel. $17. [...]

Sometime last year, Philadelphia avant-rock group Capillary Action sent me a copy of their latest album, So Embarrassing, for review at Ground & Sky. I listened to it and was so completely bewildered that I had no idea what to write, and ended up never writing anything (sorry fellas). But this is more a sign [...]

For God's sake, can anyone write an article about Marnie Stern without mentioning that, ooooh, she's a woman who shreds on guitar? It might be uncommon, but come on, it's not like she's a freakin' alien or something.
Of course, while Stern herself has expressed some exasperation that her mere gender grabs all the headlines, [...]