Scranton punk band The Menzingers will release new ‘After the Party’ beer with Neshaminy Creek
What better way to celebrate the release of a new album called “After the Party” than with some beers? On Friday, Feb. 3, the day their fifth studio album comes out through Epitaph Records, Scranton punk band The Menzingers have already sold out the record release show with singer/songwriter Roger Harvey at Kung Fu Necktie […]
STREAMING: Preview Boo Baby debut album ‘Orange You Glad’ by Scranton native Robert Salazar
From a press release: The renaissance man is a rarity these days. Thankfully, some people are still willing to try, one of whom is Boo Baby. His imminent full-length debut, “Orange You Glad,” grooves like a drive home after work, with lyrics ready to inspire you to start your real job. It tackles the creative […]
Millie Bobby Brown, Eleven in ‘Stranger Things,’ will be meeting fans at Wizard World Philly June 3-4
Millie Bobby Brown became an overnight star when the sci-fi/horror series “Stranger Things” was an instant hit upon its release on Netflix in July of 2016. Less than a year later, the 12-year-old English actress who shaved her head to play Eleven, a quiet and mysterious young girl given psychokinetic abilities through torturous government experiments, […]
Neil Simon comedy ‘Last of the Red Hot Lovers’ will be performed at Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre on Feb. 17
From a press release: The F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre will welcome back Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre Company on Friday, Feb. 17 at 7:30 p.m. for a performance of Neil Simon’s hit comedy “Last of the Red Hot Lovers.” Tickets, which are $18, $28, and $38, plus fees, are on sale now and available through […]
STREAMING: Scranton’s The Menzingers debut imagery-filled title track of ‘After the Party,’ due out Feb. 3
As we get closer to the anticipated release of “After the Party” on Friday, Feb. 3, fans of Philadelphia punk band The Menzingers have been piecing together the new album through various song and video premieres since last summer, when they returned to their hometown of Scranton for an outdoor concert and debuted two of […]
Scranton’s Motionless In White plays with Falling In Reverse and Issues in NYC Jan. 27 and Philly Jan. 28
From a press release: Las Vegas post-hardcore band Falling In Reverse is bringing Scranton metal band Motionless In White, along with Issues, Dangerkids, and Dead Girls Academy, on their national “The End Is Here” tour, which stops at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on Friday, Jan. 27 at 6 p.m. and The Fillmore […]
PHOTOS: Low Cut Connie, Shilpa Ray, and Karikatura at Bowery Ballroom in New York, 12/02/16
After playing there back in April, Philadelphia rock ‘n’ roll band Low Cut Connie returned to The Bowery Ballroom in New York City to bring the house down again with Brooklyn cabaret punk powerhouse Shilpa Ray and NYC-based roots pop band Karikatura on Friday, Dec. 2. It was a great mix of original music to […]
Wilkes-Barre noise rockers An Albatross reunite with Dead Milkmen for Philly protest show on Jan. 20
Shows by Wilkes-Barre noise/punk rock band An Albatross are few and far between these days, with members living in different cities and playing in other bands now, but they’ve found a compelling reason to get together again with another band that occasionally reunites, The Dead Milkmen, for a politically charged show in Philadelphia. Dubbed the […]
MUSIC VIDEO: Scranton’s The Menzingers are nostalgic ‘Lookers’ in new live tour video
After seeing colorful characters engaged in a funny food fight in their “Bad Catholics” music video that was released last month (and shot in their hometown of Scranton), it seems that Philadelphia punk band The Menzingers kept it simpler for the new black and white video for “Lookers,” the first single from their upcoming album, […]
Formerly of Wilkes-Barre, Philly musician Strand of Oaks releases new album, ‘Hard Love,’ on Feb. 17
Originally from Indiana, folk rock singer/songwriter Timothy Showalter is known to local music fans for his time living and playing music in Wilkes-Barre at places like Cafe Metro, where he was featured in a 2011 documentary about its closing. It wasn’t long after his time in Northeastern Pennsylvania that he moved to Philadelphia and achieved […]
