Artist: cheers elephant

Invited to Paste Live Sessions NYC, Philly group Cheers Elephant took to the sky for a rooftop performance in Brooklyn. Even with the bare bones set-up, the local quartet made sure residents of the southernmost borough could hear their psychedelic pop-rock loud and clear. Check out the video from the live session of Cheers Elephant’s “Leaves,” a spunky track that has been featured on NPR and Spotify. After a brilliant set at City Hall Presents summer concert series, Cheers Elephant will play a few more local shows this summer - stopping at MilkBoy on [...]

Philly psych-pop four-piece Cheers Elephant brought a high-energy set to the Philadelphia City Hall courtyard yesterday evening for the City Hall Presents summer concert series. Their hour-long set drew heavily on their two most recent albums - Man is Nature and Like Wind Blows Fire - and the   band momentarily lapsed into an impromptu cover of AC/DC's "Hell's Bells" as the clock tower chimed 6 p.m. Cheers Elephant plays locally a couple more times this summer, hitting the Pastorius Park concert series on July 17th and MilkBoy on July [...]

Tonight, California rockers Best Coast head to the TLA for what's sure to be a high energy concert.  The group, who take a page from lo-fi, garage and surf rock released their sophomore album, The Only Place , last year.  Joining them will be the NY band Guards and another California group The Lovely Bad Things .  You can find tickets for the concert here .  Check out the title track to their second album below. And if you're on a budget (or you just [...]

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The fourth annual Caravan Music Festival will once again bring a boatload of Philadelphia bands to the woods of Maine of a three day concert of music, fun, lake swimming, exhaustion, and who knows whatall else. The massive lineup of the festival - which happens August 2nd, 3rd and 4th - includes a lot of returning favorites like Cheers Elephant, hosts / organizers Penrose, The Lawsuits, Juston Stens and the Get Real Gang and more. There are also some newer-ish names like Pine Barons, and perplexing others such as The Jawn and Vitamin Cheese. As a general rule [...]

Photos by Abi Reimold | AbiReimold.22slides.com Cit Hall Presents begins its new season next Wednesday, May 29 with Philly based Brazilian band Alo Brasil in the City Hall Courtyard at 5:30PM. City Hall Presents is a series of free performances that showcases the diversity and richness of the Philadelphia performing arts community. The events are free and take place every Wednesday at 5:30 in the City Hall Courtyard. WXPN has curated several of events this Summer including the opening event with Alo Brasil, followed by Cheers Elephant on June 5, and [...]

XPN welcomes Charles Bradley to Union Transfer tonight.  The "Screaming Eagle of Soul" entertained the crowd during a recent Free at Noon performance with his exuberant showmanship and knock-out funk / R&B songs.  Following up his 2011 full-length debut, the 64-year-old crooner released Victim of Love earlier this year.  Tickets and information for tonight's show with Paul & the Tall Trees can be found here .  Watch the former James Brown impersonator perform "Why Is It So Hard?" live on the Public Radio Rocks stage at SXSW below. [...]

Drexel's student run Mad Dragon Records is celebrating their 10th anniversary with a concert at the The Trocadero on Friday, May 17. Performers include Cheers Elephant , Hoots & Hellmouth , Kuf Knotz , Andrew Lipke and the Prospects , Matt Duke , and Wild Rompit . Tickets are available here . The label will also be releasing a 10th Anniversary compilation of previously released and unreleased material from bands that have recorded for the label. The CD will be distributed at the show and will be made available [...]

Drexel's student run Mad Dragon Records is celebrating their 10th anniversary with a concert at the The Trocadero on Friday, May 17. Performers include Cheers Elephant , Hoots & Hellmouth , Kuf Knotz , Andrew Lipke and the Prospects , Matt Duke , and Wild Rompit . Tickets are available here . The label will also be releasing a 10th Anniversary compilations of previously released and unreleased material from bands that have recorded for the label. The CD will be distributed at the show and will [...]

Grandchildren 's  Golden Age  is featured in this week's Unlocked series [ link ] It's been a big week for show announcements, with The Monkees [ link ], Patty Griffin [ link ], Pet Shop Boys [ link ] and The Olms [ link ] unveiling Philly dates Joe Pug played a show at Johnny Brenda's this week - check out a free download of five tracks from the Chicago singer-songwriter [ link ] Khari Mateen will kick-off Brewerytown's summer jazz concert series on May 15th [ link [...]

Matt Marchinowski of Big School Records is moving out of Philadelphia.  To celebrate his time here, Marchinowski has pieced together a snapshot of the local music scene with a 27-track mixtape called Philamixington II , available as a free download via his Tumblr .  The second installment in the local music mixtape series, this collection samples various genres, circles and side projects with tracks from radio favorites like Cheers Elephant (pictured), basement staples Roof Doctor and The Hundred Acre Woods and new-projects-from-old-buddies like Avery Rosewater .  From Marchinowski [...]

Legendary folk musician Richie Havens is remembered for his soulful voice and historic set at Woodstock [ link ] Mike Kinsella of Owen previewed new material in this week's Folkadelphia session [ link ] In celebration of Earth Day, The Key took a look back at Philadelphia's Earth Week in 1970 [ link ] Suzie Brown , Cheers Elephant and more to play the 65th Annual Pastorius Park Free Summer Concert Series in Chestnut Hill [ link ] Ryan Tennis brings [...]

Cheers Elephant at Pastorius Park, 2011 The Chestnut Hill Community Association has released details for their annual free concert series , kicking off on June 19th with Suzie Brown and running through July 31st with John Train.  The shows will happen every Wednesday evenings and will feature top local acts in indie rock, Americana, jazz and more.  The full schedule is listed below; go here for more information.  Check out a photo recap of Cheers Elephant's appearance at the park in 2011 here and watch Suzie Brown on NBC's [...]

Cheers Elephant recently made a stop at Daytrotter during their extensive national tour. You can take a listen to and download their session for free HERE (w/a membership). (Illustration by Johnnie Cluney)

Cheers Elephant are back in their old stomping grounds after an extensive national tour and stop at SXSW. Their most recent release Like Wind Blows Fire is rock through rose-colored glasses - the same rosy pink that dominates the LP's cover art. The pop-rock outfit keeps their sound relatively simple and put together. It's the effects-laden guitar, played by Jordan Del Rosario, which gives them their psychedelic feel. Combine this with a tight drum kick by Travelin' Matt, deep bass lines from Robert Kingsley, and dreamy, low-key vocals by Derek Krzywicki, making for [...]

Indie rockers Darwin Deez play the First Unitarian Church tonight.  The Asheville, North Carolina band formed in New York City in 2009, feeling at home at the Sidewalk Cafe, a launching pad for off-beat pop acts including Kimya Dawson and Adam Green.  The band released their self-titled debut of upbeat, dance-along tracks shortly after in ... Continue reading �

The music portion of the Austin's annual South by Southwest festival kicks off today, and many of our city's finest up-and-coming bands have been spent the last week crammed in hatchbacks or vans with amps and instruments, making their trek to Texas. Several have, over the past couple years, recorded Key Sessions in our studio, ... Continue reading �

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Here's a new session from our pals at HotBox Studios with Cheers Elephant performing "Peoples," the opening track from 2012's Like Wind Blows Fire . The band is beginning an extensive tour tomorrow in Nashville that will end towards the end of April. They'll be back in Philly on Thursday, April 4 to open for Darwin Deez at the First Unitarian Church.

Watch Philadelphia rock quartet Cheers Elephant perform Peoples , a song off their awesome 2012 LP Like Wind Blows Fire , live in studio for HotBox Media.  Those of you who haven’t checked this band out yet, head to Bandcamp to listen to all the music that the band have put out to date.

Tonight at Underground Arts, local experimental pop band Grandchildren will kick off their spring tour and give fans a taste of their new album Golden Age, which is slated for a May release. Yesterday, The Key's Adam Gould talked to Grandchildren about five things that have changed about the band since their 2010 debut Everlasting; ... Continue reading �

This past year has proven to be a very busy one for psych-pop act Cheers Elephant . The band has been incessantly performing shows since the release of their latest full-length album Like Wind Blows Fire this past April. In addition to headlining a number of local spots, 2012 also saw the band sharing the stage with some national acts as well, which included Mayer Hawthorne, Brooklyn-based Rubblebucket, San Francisco Area's the Mother Hips, and backing the legendary Chubby Checker, just to name a few. Next month, the band will embark on a headlining tour across the U.S., which [...]