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Basic / Victor Vieiera Branco’s Bark Culture / The Er Band (Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA, June 17, 2026) [DID NOT ATTEND]

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[DID NOT ATTEND: June 17, 2026] Basic / Victor Vieiera Branco’s Bark Culture / The Er Band

I really enjoy seeing Chris Forsyth and his various projects.   Basic is his recent project with Forsyth on guitar, Nick Millevoi on baritone guitar and drum machine, and Patrick Avery on percussion and electronics.  I’ve seen them twice and really enjoyed their rocking, possibly improvised set.

Rooted in Philadelphia, Bark Culture is Vieira-Branco’s creative brainchild, where intriguing sonic forces feel at once dark and lyrical, sometimes effusive yet always fresh and compelling. With each member focused on injecting energy and emotion, Bark Culture pushes the envelope, reinventing itself as an experimental group that strikes a perfect balance between written material and open improvisation.

The ER in the ER band is Philly guitar deity Emily Robb.  The ER Band is Dustin Burrows on guitar and organ, Daniel Provenzano on bass, and Richie Charles on drums. If you enjoy the sound of a band locking in on the root note and getting real filthy, you will probably dig this.  I saw her open for Mdou Moctar and she played uninterrupted for 40 minutes.  She played bluesy riffs.  She looped herself.  She played solos over those riffs.  She made noise.  She experimented with melodies and feedback.

This sounds like an interesting night of experimental improv, but I had tickets to see Wilco tonight, and that’s what we did.

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Mdou Moctar [Unplugged] (PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PA, July 10, 2023)

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[ATTENDED: July 10, 2024] Mdou Moctar 

Mdou Moctar had just played Union Transfer on June 28.  A week later, he announced two intimate acoustic shows and one of them was back in Philly, practically across the street in PhilaMOCA.

I didn’t go to last week’s show but I didn’t want to miss this one:

New York and Philly! We’re doing a couple of intimate last minute acoustic(ish) unplugged shows. We can’t wait to see you! Grab tickets before they sell out! See you soon!

It was funny to have Emily Robb open for this set because she was so loud.  The show was billed as acoustic and I almost didn’t bring earplugs (which we definitely needed for Emily Robb).  Emily said that she had opened for Mdou on a previous tour and I can see when Mdou was on fire that Emily was appropriate.

But indeed I didn’t need them for Mdou’s set. (more…)

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Emily Robb (PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PA, July 10, 2023) [MDOU MOCTAR]

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[ATTENDED: July 10, 2024] Emily Robb

Emily Robb is a guitarist from Philadelphia.  I didn’t know much about her, but the last time she opened a show (which I didn’t attend) I wrote:

Emily Robb plays an electric guitar (and is referred to as a guitar abuser).  She has a solo album out that is an incredible amount of fuzzy guitar noise.

No vocals, no artifice, barely even a drum. It’s a totally fried, mutant offering that’ll entice the twisted seekers– a sustained, distilled meditation on the unabashed revved up freedom of rock.

She came up on stage with her guitar and pedals and amp and… played.   For forty plus minutes.

She played bluesy riffs.  She looped herself.  She played solos over those riffs.  She made noise.  She experimented with melodies and feedback.

Sometimes it was interesting.  Sometimes it was tedious.

She played a whole section in which sliding her pick up the strings was a major part of the sound. (more…)

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Kurt Vile and the Violators / Schoolly D / Emily Robb (Ardmore Music Hall, Ardmore, PA, October 9, 2023) Philly Music Fest Night 1 [DID NOT ATTEND]

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[DID NOT ATTEND: October 9, 2023] Kurt Vile and the Violators / Schoolly D / Emily Robb

I really respect Philly Music Fest.  If I lived closer to the venues and didn’t have other things (like a family), I’d love to go to every night.  But I don’t.  Lat year I didn’t go to any.  This year I’m going to one show.

But it’s not this one.

I’ve seen Kurt Vile a few times and he always plays a good show.  But my wife and I had seen him fairly recently, so there was n need to see him again so soon.

Schoolly D is an old-school rapper who i kind of thought I knew, but I guess I mostly know him from Primus.

We hopped into my dart and headed for the nightbreak to see a man they called Schooly D. [–Harold of the Rocks]

I don’t know what he’s like these days, but I imagine him on stage with a Casio drum machine freestyling.  His latest album came out in 2010 and it was more mixing and sampling than lyrics.

Emily Robb plays an electric guitar (and is referred to as a guitar abuser).  She has a solo album out that is an incredible amount of fuzzy guitar noise.

No vocals, no artifice, barely even a drum. It’s a totally fried, mutant offering that’ll entice the twisted seekers– a sustained, distilled meditation on the unabashed revved up freedom of rock.

This night actually sounds kind of unpleasant.

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