Tennis: The indie pop duo Tennis pair swooning '50s pop melancholy with smooth-and-easy '70s soft rock in a beguiling, calming fashion that matches the sailing trips that provide them with inspiration. They formed on a months-long excursion and do most of their songwriting while bobbing on the seas. Patrick Riley helms the guitars and keys, Alaina Moore handles vocals and keys, and they often produce their own records in burnished, mid-fi tones. The band's 2010 debut album, Cape Dory, laid out their sonic template meticulously and they stuck to it for the decade that followed, with occasional tweaks like the more muscular sound of the Patrick Carney-produced Young & Old from 2012 or the more sophisticated song structures of 2020's Swimmer.
Molly Burch: Burch burst onto the music scene in 2017 with her debut album Please Be Mine, a ten-track ode to unrequited romance that she wrote after studying Jazz Vocal Performance at the University of North Carolina in Asheville. Please Be Mine earned praise from critics for her smoky, effortless vocals and bleeding-heart lyrics.
Time | Venue | Age | |
---|---|---|---|
Tiny Desk Contest On The Road 2025 | 8:00pm | Music Hall at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
Time | Venue | Age | |
---|---|---|---|
Vertical Current | 5:00pm - 8:00pm | Penn Museum - Stoner Courtyard | All Ages |
Archawah (Vinyl Release Show) / Christina Ward / Cadre Noir | 7:00pm | Milkboy Philly | 21+ |
Fraternal Twin / Wesley Wolffe / Microgoblet / Prill | 8:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
Bear Ghost / Spaceman Bob | 8:00pm | Music Hall at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
Samantha Crain / Jess Nolan | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
Will Orchard / A Meadow / Jess Kerber | 8:00pm | The Lounge at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
Time | Venue | Age | |
---|---|---|---|
Poison Ruin | 6:00pm | Spruce Street Harbor | All Ages |
We Call It Jazz: A Journey to the Heart of New Orleans | 6:30pm | Music Hall at World Cafe Live | 21+ |
Cell Tower / Mila Culpa / Rig B / Henderson Century | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
Philadelphia Heritage Art Ensemble | 7:00pm - 8:30pm | Hawthorne Park | All Ages |
Smushie | 7:30pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
BashfortheWorld | 8:00pm | The Lounge at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
Time | Venue | Age | |
---|---|---|---|
James McKain & James Paul Nadien & Evan Palmer / Cartoon / Nomad War Machine | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
Hallelujah The Hills / The Tisburys / Dan Spenser | 7:30pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |