Added on 12/05/2023
NEPA Scene Staff
Camp Bisco , F.M. Kirby Center , Philadelphia , Wilkes-Barre

From a press release: While Camp Bisco seems to have had its last dance, Philadelphia jam band and festival founders The Disco Biscuits will be back in Northeastern Pennsylvania to perform at the F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre on Thursday, March 28 as part of their 2024 Why We Dance Tour. Doors open at 6:30 […]
Added on 11/09/2023
NEPA Scene Staff
Harrisburg , New York , Philadelphia , punk , Wilkes-Barre

From a press release: Today, Wilkes-Barre melodic hardcore group One Step Closer begins a month-long North American tour supporting Chicago pop punk bands Knuckle Puck and Real Friends with Arm’s Length, playing all 28 dates, plus their own headlining shows in Chicago and Albany in between. Starting in Cleveland, they will travel coast to coast […]
Added on 10/13/2023
NEPA Scene Staff
Elkins Park , Philadelphia , punk , Scranton , The Menzingers

From a press release: At this point, The Menzingers are an absolute institution. The Scranton natives’ multi-decade reputation as punk rock road warriors with an unbeatable catalog is cemented as hard truth on their seventh album, “Some of It Was True,” despite its title. The follow-up to 2019’s well-received “Hello Exile” accomplishes the daunting task […]
Added on 10/06/2023
NEPA Scene Staff
Bloomsburg , country , F.M. Kirby Center , Fort Washington , Luzerne , Philadelphia , Plains , River Street Jazz Cafe , Scranton , Wilkes-Barre

From a press release: With an unmistakable voice and evocative songwriting prowess, Zandi Holup is a wildflower – unique, free as the wind, and blossoming in Music City. Born and raised in the Philadelphia suburb of Fort Washington, she drifted from city to city until she found her home in Nashville six years ago. Influenced […]
Added on 08/10/2023
NEPA Scene Staff
Conshohocken , music festival , New York , Philadelphia , Scranton , Scranton Iron Furnaces

From a press release: Indie rock band Petal, the nom de plume of singer/songwriter Kiley Lotz, is set to return to their hometown of Scranton this Saturday, Aug. 12 to headline the second annual Good Things Are Happening Fest. The Run for Cover Records artist independently released their first new song in five years, “You […]
Added on 08/01/2023
Scott Kucharski
Bethel Woods , country , Hershey , Hersheypark Stadium , music festival , New York , Outlaw Music Festival , Philadelphia , review

Willie Nelson and his annual Outlaw Music Festival came to the beautiful grounds of the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in New York on Saturday, July 29. The 2023 tour is the largest iteration of the longtime festival that celebrates the legendary American icon. The festival originally debuted in Scranton as a one-off event […]
Added on 07/14/2023
Rich Howells
F.M. Kirby Center , Kingston , Philadelphia , punk , Scranton , Wilkes-Barre

When a band makes emotional music that is as deeply personal as it is universal to anyone who has loved, lost, and lived to tell the tale of heartache, confusion, and existential dread, it stands the test of time. 10 years after Captain, We’re Sinking released “The Future Is Cancelled,” the Scranton punk quartet will […]
Added on 07/13/2023
NEPA Scene Staff
Lackawanna College , New York , Philadelphia , play , sci-fi , Scranton , Scranton Fringe Festival

From a press release: Big Brother is watching, and all of Northeastern Pennsylvania will soon be watching too. This summer, the Scranton Fringe Festival is producing the Pennsylvania premiere of Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s gripping adaptation of the George Orwell classic “1984.” This dark dystopian masterpiece will be presented at the Peoples Security Bank […]
Added on 06/12/2023
Rich Howells
actor , comic books , convention , films , Philadelphia

Following many years as Wizard World, the long-running pop culture convention relaunched as Fan Expo Philadelphia in 2022. Its second year proved to be no sophomore slump as even more well-known celebrity guests met thousands of fans of all ages at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Friday, June 2 through Sunday, June 4, including Hayden […]
Added on 05/26/2023
Rich Howells
Carbondale , Conshohocken , Esta Coda , Karl Hall , New York , Olyphant , Philadelphia , Plains , premiere , River Street Jazz Cafe , Scranton , V-Spot , Wilkes-Barre

When talking to Esta Coda about their band, songwriting, live shows, or just life in general, the theme that keeps coming up again and again is “friendship.” It’s the force that motivates them, surrounds them, flows through them, and binds them together, to roughly paraphrase a friendly Jedi. It’s key to the longevity of the […]