<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
        xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
        xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
        xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
        xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
        xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
        xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
        >
<channel>
        <title>R5 Productions</title>
        <atom:link href="https://r5productions.com/events/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
        <link>https://r5productions.com</link>
        <description></description>
        <lastBuildDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:21:10 +0000</lastBuildDate>
        <language></language>
        <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
        <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
        

<image>
	<url>https://r5productions.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/R5-Favicon-v2-150x150.png</url>
	<title>R5 Productions</title>
	<link>https://r5productions.com</link>
	<width>32</width>
	<height>32</height>
</image> 
                        <item>
                                <title>Sunshine Benzi</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 day ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/sunshine-benzi/warehouse-on-watts/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[SUNSHINE BENZI SUNSHINE’s future unfolds with the same radiant light that her name inherits. Hailing from a small town in Illinois called Pontiac, the internet’s newly-chosen It-girl is building a career with a gritty, no-nonsense attitude. Anchored by her bubbly personality and a larger-than-life mindset, SUNSHINE always believed she was destined for more, even before [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Star Moles</title>
                                <eventupdate>6 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/star-moles/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[STAR MOLES Gone are the albums of knights and dragonsGone are the kings and queens of CamelotWe&#8217;re going to HelWe&#8217;re dying to be someone on a road to somewhereThis album is what happens when we expireThis album is a banned four lokoThis album is the burger king on Columbus stThis album is PurgatorioThis album will [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Ink &#038; Dagger screening of &#8220;The Order&#8221;</title>
                                <eventupdate>6 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/ink-dagger-screening-of-the-order/philamoca/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[INK &#38; DAGGER SCREENING OF &#8220;THE ORDER&#8221; The Philadelphia premiere of the Ink &#38; Dagger film “The Order” – a phantasmagorical audio-visual overload of vampiric Philaspychogeography and pure psychic energy made manifest via filmmaker Nathanial Shannon, with score and sound-design by founding member Don Devore. Author Erik Bader will read from The Philadelphia Society of [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>DeathByRomy</title>
                                <eventupdate>7 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/deathbyromy/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[DEATHBYROMY DeathbyRomy is a Los Angeles–based alt-pop artist known for her cinematic sound, dark romanticism, and fearless collision of pop, industrial, rock, metal, and hip-hop. With more than 40 million streams on HOLLYWOOD FOREVER alone, she has built a passionate global following through emotionally raw songwriting, striking visuals, and an explosive live show. Her music [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Gripper</title>
                                <eventupdate>12 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/gripper/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[GRIPPER Philadelphia hard-rock champions Gripper today announce their debut album and share new single “Miss Behave” and “Other Bastard”. These two blown-out, explosive new tracks showcase the gritty energy that has swiftly made the five-piece a fixture on their local scene including support slots with Sheer Mag, Mdou Moctar, The Briefs, and The Tubs. They [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Tara Clerkin Trio</title>
                                <eventupdate>13 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/tara-clerkin-trio-3/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[TARA CLERKIN TRIO Somewhere Good is the first new music from the Bristol three-piece &#8211; Tara Clerkin, Sunny Joe Paradisos, and Patrick Benjamin – since their acclaimed 2023 mini album, On The Turning Ground. Described by Pitchfork as an “amble through blissful psych-pop and washed-out breakbeats, harpsichord interludes and dubby balladry”, it’s already on its [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Porcelain</title>
                                <eventupdate>15 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/porcelain/philamoca/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[PORCELAIN “Everything has changed,” sings frontman Steve Pike on “Apocalypse”, a track from Austin post-hardcore band Porcelain’s sophomore LP, Today’s Minor Victories; “Not for better but for worse.” It’s a sentiment that reflects a familiar millennial experience: comparing the world you dreamed of growing into with the constant indignities of late capitalism, the interminable imperialist [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Ink &amp; Dagger</title>
                                <eventupdate>19 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/ink-dagger-5/creese-student-center/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[INK &#38; DAGGER From 1996 to 1999 Philadelphia’s Ink &#38; Dagger burned like a roman candle, blurring the lines between punk, hardcore, and psychedelia, an enigma wrapped in rumors, vampire lore, and blood-spattered theatrics. Equal parts chaos and prank, their ever-shifting all-star lineup fed on the energy of others and spit it back out as something entirely [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Krill</title>
                                <eventupdate>21 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/krill/philamoca/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[KRILL Krill was formed in Boston in 2010, and recorded three LPs and two EPs of strange, grungy, and sometimes catchy songs before playing their final-ish show in Brooklyn in 2015. They released another album in 2020 under the name Knot, but that&#8217;s a Krill album, too, because it&#8217;s easier that way. Krill is now [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>La Sécurité</title>
                                <eventupdate>21 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/la-s%c3%a9curit%c3%a9/philamoca/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[LA SÉCURITÉ La Sécurité (Montréal/Tiohtià:ke) is a collective whose art punk is equal parts: jumpy beats, off-kilter arrangements and minimalistic melodic hooks; run through an insomniac filter, the result of excessive exposure to the city’s neon lights. The music is all about living dangerously, perfectly agreeable to being blasted onto dancefloors; while the lyrics share [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Haley Heynderickx</title>
                                <eventupdate>27 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/haley-heynderickx/the-sanctuary-of-the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[HALEY HEYNERICKX Following the release of her acclaimed debut I Need to Start a Garden and its long-awaited follow-up Seed of a Seed, Haley Heynderickx recently released What of Our Nature, a collaboration with Max García Conover. After a year of touring with Max and working on new material, she now returns to the road [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Jean-Michel Blais</title>
                                <eventupdate>28 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/jean-michel-blais/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[JEAN-MICHEL BLAIS Jean-Michel Blais was ready to make an epic. mirador, the pianist-composer&#8217;s fourth album, finds the Montrealer turning his gaze onto a wondrous world—exchanging contemporary minimalism for a light and generous maximalism. It&#8217;s an odyssey that spans choirs, strings and the music of the Andes, from Spanish caves to Estonian forests and all the [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Jake Xerxes Fussell</title>
                                <eventupdate>28 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/jake-xerxes-fussell-2/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[JAKE XERXES FUSSELL Over six unique and very personal studio albums, Jake Xerxes Fussell has found his musical future by reimagining, reorchestrating, and reunifying the past. By combining different traditional music sources in a completely original way, he routinely creates fresh works of art that are at once rooted in tradition and ingeniously modern. “It [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>@</title>
                                <eventupdate>29 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/16143/the-sanctuary-of-the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[@ Songwriters Victoria Rose and Stone Filipczak have a pact, a devotion to each other and to the music of @. In their solo existence, Victoria works as a beekeeper and Stone as a self-taught computer programmer, but when they get together, they become a singular, avant-garde song force. The East Coast house-show circuit first [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>James Ivy</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/james-ivy/ukie-club/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[JAMES IVY James Ivy is the project of the New Jersey-born, New York-based singer-songwriter and producer James Butler. His debut album, The Seams — simultaneously an ode to and critique of stagnancy — sees Butler muddle through the doldrums of life, stripped of ego or dogma. Acting as a marked moment of pause and resistance, the project [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Devil Master &amp; Zorn</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/devil-master-zorn/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[DEVIL MASTER The darkest, filthiest alleys of old Philadelphia, DEVIL MASTER arise once more to corrupt the children of light. Between tours and festival appearances, the masters of devilry wrote their third full-length, Bloody Dreams. Punkier, with a psychedelic lean, yet festooned with a feral black metal aura, the album gleams from the abyss. Engineered [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>William Basinski</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/william-basinski/the-sanctuary-of-the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[WILLIAM BASINSKI Honoring 25 of years of the composer’s ambient masterwork &#8216;The Disintegration Loops&#8217;. William Basinski is a classically trained musician and composer who has been working in experimental media for over 40 years in NYC and Los Angeles. Employing obsolete technology and analogue tape loops, his haunting and melancholy soundscapes explore the temporal nature [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Bike Routes</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/bike-routes-2/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[BIKE ROUTES Bike Routes is David Osterhout. Ever since his childhood, the South Jersey na;ve has harbored an intense and obsessive passion for music. AAer years of grinding locally with an acous;c guitar, he introduced the world to Bike Routes with his 2020 debut Just Let It Go. His songcraA naturally evolved across Love Is [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Advance Base</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/advance-base/the-side-chapel-of-the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ADVANCE BASE Advance Base is the melancholic soft rock recording project of Chicago, IL singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric piano, Omnichord, samplers, effect pedals &#38; drum machines, Ashworth builds minimalist, heavy-hearted, &#38; nostalgia-obsessed ballads around his conversational baritone. The warm, electronic sound of Advance [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Hour</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/hour/the-sanctuary-of-the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[HOUR The title of Ghost Bridge, the East-Coast-spanning chamber ensemble Hour’s masterful fifth record, is borrowed from bandleader Michael Cormier-O’Leary’s unrealized movie concept about a bridge that inexplicably starts disappearing. Equally rooted in contemporary classical, film soundtrack music, and experimental rock in the Jim O’Rourke and Dirty Three lineage, the six kaleidoscopic instrumentals on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Ulcer</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/ulcer/upper-darby-post-214-american-legion/upper-darby-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ULCER Hailing from Kagawa, Japan, they were birthed out of the ashes of the cult Japanese crust punk band Effigy, members playing with over 35 years of crust punk history bring you grinding metallic crust punk for fans of Amebix, Axegrinder and Hellbastard. LIFELESS DARK Boston based crust punk channeling the sound and feeling of [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Lily Seabird</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/lily-seabird/soloveev/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[LILY SEABIRD “Sometimes life gets so dark, it starts to feel like a bad trip,” at least that’s how Lily Seabird reflects on the seasons that led to the making of her new record, Lightspheres on Their Way. Seabird’s third record in as many years for Lame-O Records deals in mortality and reverence for the [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Mannequin Pussy</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/mannequin-pussy/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[MANNEQUIN PUSSY Mannequin Pussy turns raw emotion into cathartic, razor‑sharp rock songs that move between fury, vulnerability, and defiant joy. Centered around the visceral songwriting and voice of Marisa Dabice, the Philadelphia band has built a reputation for explosive live performances and deeply personal records that explore love, loss, identity, and resilience with unflinching honesty. [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Knumears</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/knumears/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[KNUMEARS Since forming in 2018, Knumears (guitarist/vocalist Matthew Cole, bassist/vocalist Dante Garcia II, and drummer Frankie Lopez) have been touring heavily and releasing a steady drip of heartrendingly compelling music. The band carries the torch for one of the most esoteric yet enduring corners of &#8217;90s hardcore&#8211;whether you call it screamo, skramz, emoviolence, or whatever [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>The Kilans</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/the-kilans-2/philamoca/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[THE KILANS The Kilans are an indie rock band from Salt Lake City known for their raw sound, kinetic guitars, and electrifying live shows. Formed in 2023, the lineup — Jack Ongman (vocals, rhythm guitar), Jacob Shultz (lead guitar), Cooper Brezoff (bass), and David Wiseman (drums) — came together after Jack and Jacob met while [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Whitmer Thomas</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/whitmer-thomas-3/philamoca/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[WHITMER THOMAS &#8216;Terminal Crew of Dudes&#8217; is the new album from Whitmer Thomas, released alongside his HBO comedy special of the same name. &#8216;Terminal Crew of Dudes&#8217; presents Thomas&#8217; totality: an electric romp as funny as it is heartfelt. Backed by a band of longtime friends, Thomas commands music and comedy with the ease of [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Call of Cthulhu Live!</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/call-of-cthulhu-live-2/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[CALL OF CTHULHU LIVE! In 2026, the Glass Cannon Network will unleash a nationwide tour soaked in full-blown Lovecraftian dread. Keeper Troy Lavallee helms a shifting roster of GCN icons and special guests—including Joe O’Brien, Skid Maher, Matthew Capodicasa, Jared Logan, Ross Bryant, Rob Kerkovich, Sydney Amanuel, Noura Ibrahim, Mary Lou, and more—as they descend [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Call of Cthulhu Live!</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/call-of-cthulhu-live/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[CALL OF CTHULHU LIVE! In 2026, the Glass Cannon Network will unleash a nationwide tour soaked in full-blown Lovecraftian dread. Keeper Troy Lavallee helms a shifting roster of GCN icons and special guests—including Joe O’Brien, Skid Maher, Matthew Capodicasa, Jared Logan, Ross Bryant, Rob Kerkovich, Sydney Amanuel, Noura Ibrahim, Mary Lou, and more—as they descend [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Sadurn</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/sadurn/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[SADURN Many songwriters will tell you that music is an outlet, a way of processing the material of their lives. For whatever alchemical reason, music can sometimes express what words alone cannot. This was true for G DeGroot of Sadurn—until it wasn’t. Cut off from their ability to sing just as their music had begun [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Marci</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/marci/philamoca/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[MARCI When we last heard from Marci aka Marta Cikojevic, she was dancing the pain away on 2022’s Marci.  A longtime member of Montreal soft-rock group TOPS, Marci established Cikojevic as a solo artist with an intuitive understanding of pop as a vehicle for emotional catharsis. Four years later, Cikojevic returns with Mask Lady and Late Night Girl, a [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>AJJ</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/ajj/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[AJJ Ever since Sean Bonnette and Ben Gallaty formed AJJ back in 2004, it’s felt like the world has been playing catch-up. That’s because the band—completed these days by guitarist/keyboard player Preston Bryant, cellist Mark Glick and (relatively) new drummer Kevin Higuchi—has always woven apocalyptic themes and imagery into many of its songs and lyrics. [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Bass Drum Of Death</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/bass-drum-of-death/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[BASS DRUM OF DEATH Bass Drum of Death is getting back to basics. From the bare-bones title of their sixth record—SIX—to the writing approach—their first two LPs were recorded entirely on GarageBand—the creative process for the group is strikingly similar to the early stages of their career. While the new album marks a return to [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>WHY?</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/why/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[WHY? Yoni Wolf was at war with himself. As he reached middle age, he was beset by questions that had plagued him for years. Why was life so difficult and lonely? When would the happy part of him take the steering wheel? Far from wallowing, he leaned into the dark and the light, asking how [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Greg Freeman</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/greg-freeman/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[GREG FREEMAN Greg Freeman won’t be getting comfortable anytime soon. Across New Mexico, Vermont, Los Angeles, and a long stretch of tour stops hooking those places together, All Set The Bone came alive. While writing and recording it, Freeman moved out of his longtime home in Burlington, holed up in a middle-of-nowhere part of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Friendship &amp; Charlotte Cornfield</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/friendship-charlotte-cornfield/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[FRIENDSHIP Music for sleeping and waking, walking and driving, hunting and fishing, for loitering outside a roadhouse on the haunted tundra. Okay in elevators, not great for dinner. On Caveman Wakes Up Friendship’s new album and second for Merge Records, the band’s historically capacious definition of country music grows wider still. Shambolic guitars are offset [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Protomartyr</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/protomartyr-3/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[PROTOMARTYR Since their 2012 debut No Passion All Technique, the Detroit post-punk band Protomartyr have mastered the art of evoking place: the grinding Midwest humility of their hometown, as well as the x-rayed elucidation of America that comes with their vantage. Protomartyr—vocalist Joe Casey, guitarist Greg Ahee, drummer Alex Leonard, and bassist Scott Davidson—have become [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Freak Slug</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/freak-slug/ukie-club/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[FREAK SLUG A visual artist and painter as well as an unconventional, self-taught songwriter and musician, everything that fuels the creative output of Manchester’s Xenya Genovese, AKA Freak Slug, is about raw, authentic, sometimes weird but always totally true self-expression. She’s not one to sugar coat things; “I’m a lot, so it’s a lot to [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>heavens to betsy</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/heavens-to-betsy/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[heavens to betsy More than three decades after they founded heavens to betsy, Corin Tucker and Tracy Sawyer still have something important to say. Just as riot grrrl punk rock and feminism pushed for inclusivity, bodily autonomy, and gender equality in the early-to-mid ’90s, there is arguably an even greater need for the scene to [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Hovvdy</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/hovvdy/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[HOVVDY Hovvdy’s Will Taylor and Charlie Martin have occupied a distinct corner of the modern-day indie landscape for more than a decade. Having evolved from their understated slowcore beginnings in Austin, Texas, they’re now seasoned veterans of the scene. Across their first five studio albums, the duo established their trademark sound of twangy indie rock, [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>The Paradox</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/the-paradox/warehouse-on-watts/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[THE PARADOX Formed in Atlanta in the summer of 2024, The Paradox — Eric Dangerfield (vocals/guitar), Christopher “Xelan” Bernard(lead guitar/ vocals), Donald Bryant (bass), and Percy “PC3” Crews (drums) — are among the most exciting new bands in rock music. As four young African American musicians from a city better known for rap and R&#38;B, [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Small Brown Bike</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/small-brown-bike/johnny-brendas/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[SMALL BROWN BIKE SMALL BROWN BIKE formed in 1996 in Michigan and released four full-length albums plus EPs and singles over their career. Their 2000 sophomore album Dead Reckoning earned international acclaim and a 5-star review from Kerrang, who praised its &#8220;unrivaled depth of emotion.&#8221; The band toured relentlessly, sharing stages with Hot Water Music, [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>NEW DATE! Hazlett</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/new-date-hazlett/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[HAZLETT Sweden-based, Australian-born Hazlett returns to the road following the success of his latest full-length album, &#8220;last night you said you missed me&#8221;.  Hazlett divulges: &#8220;When I started this whole thing I wanted anyone who starts to listen to feel like they’re part of this whole thing with me—growing and finding ourselves along the way.” [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Holywatr (Moved to Union Transfer!)</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/holywatr/union-transfer/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[HOLYWATR Holywatr is a unique, gritty blend of alternative metal, emo, and metalcore, forging a new path that transcends genres and leaves audiences begging for more. Fresh off tours with Architects, Chiodos, Warped Tour, and a SOLD OUT headline run, Holywatr has continued to stoke the fire on social media earning them millions of streams [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Wishy</title>
                                <eventupdate>4 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/wishy-2/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[WISHY “You can do what you want to do (every day is yours)/ Baby, it’s your life/ (That’s right) It’s such a sick ride.” That’s Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites, Wishy’s dual vocalists and songwriters, wrapping their voices around each other, symbiotic, coming to terms to with a conclusion: Life is, simply put, fucking crazy. [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Silly Goose</title>
                                <eventupdate>4 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/silly-goose/warehouse-on-watts/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[SILLY GOOSE Never content to sit still on the sidelines, Silly Goose slip through styles with a slick swagger. They’re salty enough to bust out a rap-rock banger that could just as easily light up the phones at TRL back in the day or the pit at Sonic Temple next year. At the same time, [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>LEENALCHI 이날치</title>
                                <eventupdate>4 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/leenalchi-%ec%9d%b4%eb%82%a0%ec%b9%98/asian-arts-initiative/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[LEENALCHI 이날치 &#8220;Leenalchi has changed the way I think about music, dancing and Korea. I have never heard anything quite like this.”— Brian Eno “I&#8217;m grateful to hear this Korean classical form used so playfully, in danceable guitar/synth rock, with serious hooks. Hihi! Haha! Hihi!”— Merrill Garbus (of Tune-Yards) Leenalchi (EEE-nal-chi) — the seven-piece Seoul-based [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Pinhead Gunpowder</title>
                                <eventupdate>4 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/pinhead-gunpowder/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[PINHEAD GUNPOWDER &#8220;Pinhead Gunpowder started writing songs in 1990 and made our first 7-inch the following spring. Nearly every year since, we&#8217;ve met up to play. Some years we recorded-five albums and eleven EPs-and some years we played shows. But since 2010, we&#8217;ve been playing just for ourselves, something bands forget to do. Rather than [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Mary In The Junkyard</title>
                                <eventupdate>4 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/mary-in-the-junkyard/philamoca/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[MARY IN THE JUNKYARD mary in the junkyard — Clari Freeman-Taylor (vocals, guitar, cello, viola, violin), Saya Barbaglia (Bass, viola, violin, backing vocals) and David Addison (drums) —  release the new single/video, “New Muscles,” from their debut album, Role Model Hermit, out July 3rd via AMF Records. In conjunction, they announce a North American headline [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Sweeping Promises</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/sweeping-promises/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[SWEEPING PROMISES Sweeping Promises was born in a disused and reverberant concrete laboratory in Cambridge, MA. Tracked with a self-devised “single-mic technique” and mixed in mono, serial band-starters Lira Mondal and CauField Schnug completed their debut, Hunger for a Way Out, just in time to enter quarantine. With only a single basement show under their [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>This Is Lorelei</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/this-is-lorelei/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[THIS IS LORELEI In 2024 the prolific New York artist Nate Amos released his label debut Box for Buddy, Box for Star under his solo moniker This Is Lorelei. The record was critically acclaimed and received year end accolades from Rolling Stone, Billboard, GQ, Pitchfork, Stereogum, The FADER, Paste, but the album and Amos’ star [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Lilyisthatyou</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/lilyisthatyou/the-first-unitarian-church/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[LILYISTHATYOU Hailing from Toronto, Lilyisthatyou is a genre-defying pop provocateur carving out her own lane at the intersection of dark pop, alt-rock, and electronic experimentation. Her music is equal parts seductive and unfiltered- blending raw, confessional songwriting with a sharp, irreverent edge that turns vulnerability into power. Her rapidly growing catalog has already amassed hundreds [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                                        <item>
                                <title>Basia Bulat</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://r5productions.com/event/basia-bulat/philadelphia-ethical-society/philadelphia-pennsylvania/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[BASIA BULAT Basia Bulat is a Montreal-based singer-songwriter whose work bridges gospel, soul, and classic folk, carried by a distinctive voice and a deeply expressive, multi-instrumental approach. A three-time Polaris Music Prize finalist and JUNO Award nominee, Bulat has built an international reputation through a rich and evolving catalogue, from her early analogue folk recordings [&#8230;]]]></description>
                                                                                        </item>
                </channel>
</rss>
