Root Down in the Shadow

  What's the point of making friends with the best music fans in Philly if you can't invite them to come hang for a year end house concert. For a suggested donation of $15-20 we're going to supply 3 incredible artists for one last house show of the year! The artists include the beautiful songstresses Jeannine Hebb & Lily Virginia each from Brookyn, NY and Jake Lewis and the Clergy from Lancaster, PA. You can check in on the event on facebook, but the official list will be held by RSVP-ing at RootDownInTheShadow[at]gmail. com ****You can invite friends, but we're limited to 50-60 peeps, so RSVP asap**** "doors" at 7:30pm.. music will start promptly at 8pm. Don't be left out in the cold! Be sure to RSVP so you get the address for the West Phila/University City location. Lily Virginia - Yuriko "Run Around" Jake Lewis & the Clergy JEANNINE HEBB - THESE DAYS - Balcony TV Session

last week we found Jennine Hebb playing a quick NYC/Philly 2 night jaunt opening for Gillian Grassie.  Friday she was at the Ardmore, Pa MilkBoy Coffee   The setup was standard chill, non-Starkbucks coffeehouse set up with great surround sound like qualities.  It was first come first serve seating complete with the standard coffee house goodies and BYOB if you thought ahead. The Brooklyn based Jeannine Hebb came to town with Tokyo native, Yujin Amano , a fellow Berklee comrad.  Yujin played electric guitar, while Jeannie played her Yamaha CP and manned the vocals! Jeannine was making her Philly area inaugural performance of her own material.  She mainly played tracks from her recently released full length debut Whileaway , while adding in a selection from her EP, an unreleased track, and even a few covers.  It was a good move to have you interested in both all of her merch tabl e offerings, albeit unnecessary as there was a killer deal of both album & EP or $10!  Th

The best thing about living along the megalopolis of I-95 cities is the close proximity and ease of travel to each other!  Here are the best upcoming shows that I have spotted for your viewing pleasure!  If you go, please let me know how the shows were.  I'll review as many as I make it to! FEBRUARY 13th PITTSBURGH Allen Stone @ Stage AE  Young White guy with Soul... Are you sure? Check out his awesome single ' Sleep ' or ' Another Break Up Song' and decide for yourself!  For more info check out this article by the Pittsburgh City Paper FEBRUARY 16th  BALTIMORE Blind Pilot with Cotton Jones @Ram's Head Live.   Although it is going to require me to take a day off, I'm going to head down to Baltimore. Two reasons: I saw them in November at Union Transfer and it was awesome, so I must go again.  The second reason is a boneheaded one.  I picked up their fantastic poster by drummer Ryan Dobrowski , and the band was hanging out afterwards and signing m

Music News across the land and Concert Updates for the Philadelphia Metro area! - Music News..   It's been a crazy week.  I didn't make it to any concerts.  I would have loved to have gone to David Wax Museum @ Johnny Brenda's or to see Brett Dennen opening for Amos Lee , but life gets in the way sometimes.  Instead, I spent a lot of the week listening to some bands for the first time. Amongst the recent plays were:   Pearl and The Beard : see NEXT CONCERT below.  HoneyHoney : see my recent FREE music post. HoneyHoney - Billy Jack by LostHighwayRecords   Bear Hands : A friend just went to see We Were Promised Jetpacks and she gave a shout out to check out Bear Hands as they were a quality opener.  I went to their site bearhandsband.com and was immediately pleased.  The site's wallpaper is an integrated video player that continues as you browse the site.  'High Society' is the opening track, it's a solid listen with a

Several weeks back, the current single for Jeannine Hebb , 'Call Him Out' was brought to my attention for a first listen.  The quirky throw back traditional song reminded me enough of Meaghan Smith 's The Cricket's Orchestra that I was going to dig deeper. Jeannine Hebb's 'Call Him Out' from Whileaway I picked up the album, Whileaway , on it's release date September 20th, 2011 and started to digest it.  'I Believe' immediately surprised me with an R&B type number that is perfectly sung and not too over powering like Alicia Keys.  I was already way off of expectations and Jeannine changed it up yet again with a Pop number ' Back to Me Again'.  It was a 180 degree turn from 'Call Him Out' with a shout out loud confident vocals reminiscent of a Katy Perry track. As I made it through Whileaway I was continually surprised with the impressive vocal range, especially 'Tell Me No' and 'Tragedy'.  Listening