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Axios
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Philly weekender: Broad Street Run, First Friday and festivals
📅 The first weekend in May is here, and that means Philly is brimming with outdoor festivals and events. 🚨 It's First Friday! Look for special events and exhibits at galleries, showrooms and shops across the city. 🍤 The Southeast Market returns to FDR Park this weekend. Dozens of vendors, food and drink are on tap. Saturday and Sunday from 10am-6pm. Pro tip: Some vendors are cash-only. 👩🎨 The Bok Building's open studios is Friday from 5-9pm. Explore all nine floors of the hip South Philly hub for creatives at this free, family-friendly event. 🎶 Spend the weekend in Manayunk at the Sing Us Home Festival. Headlining the outdoor music fest on Venice Island, which runs Friday-Sunday, are the Bouncing Souls, Frank Turner, and Dave Hause & the Mermaid. Tickets: $59+ 🛍️ Shop at the Philadelphia Marketplace in Dilworth Park on Friday and Saturday from noon-6pm. At least 20 markers and crafters from across the region will set up shop. 🎉 South Street Live on Saturday is a day of outdoor events and festivals all along the hoppin' South Philly road, including: 🍻 Maifest at Brauhaus Schmitz: This German beer fest runs from 11am-6pm. Tickets: Free, pay as you go 🔊 Vinyl Block Party: Shop thousands of albums and vintage clothes outdoors from 9am-5pm outside Repo Records. 😄 Saturday is Mt. Airy Day! Head up to Northwest Philly from 11am-5pm for a street festival of music, food, rides and kids activities. 🌷 The Rittenhouse Row Spring Festival on Saturday from noon-5pm is chalk full of vendors, live music, family activities all set up around the park. 🎨 Let the kids explore and play at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Family Festival on Sunday from 10am-3pm. Count on art making, activities and workshops.
Boston Globe
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Joe Gittleman on life after the Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Things came together quickly for the core members of the new group — Gittleman on bass, as he'd been for the Bosstones, singer-guitarist Sammy Kay, and drummer Michael McDermott, who has played with the Bouncing Souls and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. Ahead of the upcoming release of Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'It's been a pretty whirlwind creative time,' said Gittleman from his office on the campus of Vermont State University in Montpelier, where he teaches classes about the music business. 'We're enjoying the process of becoming a band.' Advertisement As one of the main drivers of the Bosstones, the rowdy third-wave ska band that helped revive the Jamaican style in the 1990s, it was Gittleman who was pitted against 'I think the Bosstones was a really lucky and wonderful thing, and that's how I choose to remember it,' he said. 'Dick's got things that are important to him, and we both made our decisions accordingly.' While making the record that would turn out to be the Bosstones' last, 2021's 'When God Was Great,' Gittleman and Barrett were at odds over the vaccine mandates. Advertisement 'There was no blame or anger about that,' Gittleman said. But Barrett's activism 'was going to impact all of us, ultimately. 'I can't speak for any other Bosstones, but I can certainly say for me, I'm happy where I'm at now, where I'm heading.' Gittleman first met Sammy Kay a decade or so ago on the ska scene, when the latter was helping to manage a like-minded band, the Pietasters. As a songwriter, the gruff-voiced Kay thought he wanted to be the next Bob Dylan, 'but then realized the world didn't need another Bob Dylan,' Gittleman said with a gap-toothed smile. Kay, who grew up in New Jersey and now makes his home near Cincinnati, has done some hard living. 'He's up front about his mental health struggles and addiction,' Gittleman said. 'I'll say that for him, because he says that himself.' But they bonded over a shared commitment to songwriting, and their mutual love of the Clash. 'In Sammy, I found someone who is similarly obsessed on the songwriting side,' Gittleman said. 'Not everyone is. 'He's a very sweet, caring person who really is in music because he likes connecting with people.' Kay, who is about 20 years younger than Gittleman, brings an energy that fuels the older musician. They just returned from a West Coast tour with another Boston-based ska band, Big D and the Kids Table. 'We win rooms over,' Gittleman said. 'We can hop in front of people who've never heard of us and make the most of every experience. We're up there rippin'.' 'Beliefs & Thieves' features a few explicit ska songs ('Ya Ya,' 'Lorelei'). But it also has songs that don't quite fit the mold of Gittleman's previous band. 'Battles,' for instance, is a straight-ahead melodic punk song, while 'Old Dog' is bathed in a dreamy echo that borders on shoegaze. Advertisement The album was mixed by Paul Kolderie, the recording engineer who cofounded Boston's Fort Apache Studios and has worked on albums by the Pixies, Radiohead, and the Bosstones, among many others. 'At this point, he's probably my longest collaborative relationship,' said Gittleman. Kolderie 'didn't know Sammy from a hole in the wall,' he noted, yet he recognized the power of his voice and pushed it up in the mix. Kay 'plays music with a heavy hand,' Gittleman said. 'He adds color to everything. He's not a passive participant to music. Perhaps that's what made me go, 'I want to keep working in this direction.'' The Kilograms (the name was chosen as a mashup of Kay's and Gittleman's initials) are restoring a sense of fulfillment to the time Gittleman spends onstage, he said. How exactly does he define that? After a moment, he answered. 'Love on stage, in the room, honestly. The idea that we're moving together, hoping to accomplish something creatively. 'And maybe do some good along the way.' THE KILOGRAMS Opening for Dropkick Murphys, with the Menzingers. March 14, 7 p.m. $42.50-$79.50. MGM Music Hall at Fenway. 2 Lansdowne St., Boston. James Sullivan can be reached at .
