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weird philadelphia
There are lots of reasons why I sometimes wish that I still lived in Philadelphia; this passage in the new issue of The Wire is only the one that's most recently come to my attention:
"[T]he Fishtown area in the north-east of the city is rapidly becoming a lightning rod for some of the key players in the contemporary sub-underground, so much so that the Philadelphia Weekly recently ran a piece entitled 'The New Weird Neighbors' ... Kings of fuzz Bardo Pond have long made Fishtown their home but now Frankford Avenue boasts folk group Espers, sound artist Eric Carbonara, repatriated English folk spirit Sharron Kraus and Christina Carter of Scorces and Charalambides. Heather Leigh Murray, Carter's partner in Charalambides and a solo artist in her own right, now lives around the corner, as does Jack Rose of improvising ensemble Pelt, and Fursaxa's Tara Burke. Such a focused assembly of leftfield musicians has resulted in a creative rethink of performance options, with intimate shows at local houses and backyard performances supplanting club and bar gigs..."
A lot of the people on that list are among my favorite artists working at the moment.
Urban readers: anything exciting going on in your city right now? Musical or otherwise? |
Sunday, March 21, 2004
12:04 PM
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