Philly Music Fest Presents 2 Nights Of: The Wonder Years at Underground Arts Friday Octobr 17, 2025> Doors: 6:00 PM | Show: 7:00 PM > with support from: Dryjacket, Golden Apples, Public Works Saturday Octobr 18, 2025 > Doors: 6:30 PM | Show: 7:30 PM > with support from: Caracara & KulfiGirls 21+ About Underground Arts Visit undergroundarts.org for venue details including how to get here, parking, FAQ, UA Merch, Private Events, & everything else - Food, Concessions + Drink Menus | Venue FAQ | Contact Info - About The Wonder Years Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | X (Twitter) | Spotify For a number of years, this would have been an almost-blank page. Back in the mid-2010s, a few years a@er The Wonder Years had first formed in Lansdale, PA, just north of Philadelphia, the band would be asked to provide a bio for events they were playing. All Dan Campbell would write was 'The Wonder Years is a band.' That was it. They'd then receive the programs for whatever fesMval or event it was for and laugh. Most bands, the frontman remembers, would write a "full page thing about how their last record charted and ours would just be a blank page with those six words at the top." A lot of Mme has passed since then, and a lot has changed, although also not that much, at the same Mme. If The Wonder Years — completed by guitarists MaT Brasch and Casey Cavaliere, drummer Mike Kennedy, bassist Josh MarMn and keyboardist/mulM-instrumentalist Nick Steinborn — could get away with a six-word bio, they probably would. As it happens, when it comes to The Hum Goes On Forever, context is important, which is why you're reading these words. The most important reason is that this is the first record the band has made since Campbell became a father. And so, when he sings its very first words — 'I don't want to die' — on its very first song, "Doors I Painted Shut," they shimmer with a liTle extra poignancy and potency. Because as someone who has sung candidly about how despondent he's felt at Mmes, thoughts of unexistence are no longer possible. It doesn't mean they stop, but Campbell can no longer succumb to the abject malaise they induce. About Dryjacket Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Spotify Dryjacket is an alternative-indie band from South Jersey under Hopeless Records. The band's members consist of Joe Junod, Brad Wyllner, Ian Foley, and Adam Cerdan. The majority of them are about 23-25 years old. I was fortunate enough to be able to sit down with a couple of them and talk a little more in depth about their band and what to expect in the future. About Golden Apples Website | Instagram | YouTube | Spotify Golden Apples possess the rare ability to make music that’s at once familiar and elusive, instantly satisfying and also undeniably unique. On their self-titled sophomore album, the Philadelphia-based band have seamlessly combined the off-kilter catchiness of ‘90s college rock with dashes of dreamy shoegaze, scrappy bedroom pop, homespun psychedelia, and more. The result is a vibrant and eclectic sound that works in tandem with Edling’s agile lyrics, and an album that aims to capture the endless highs and lows of life without sanding down the complexities and contradictions–all done with humor, humanity, and most of all, hooks. Led by songwriter Russell Edling, Golden Apples began as something more akin to a solo endeavor. The project started as his previous group, Cherry, was ending, and the pandemic was beginning. Edling hunkered down in relative solitude outside of Philadelphia and made Golden Apples’ 2021 debut LP, Shadowland, but it wasn’t long after that he began writing again. This time, however, he sought a very different creative process. “With the last record, I felt like everything was under the microscope of my vision and my abilities,” he explains. “This time I wanted the opposite, I wanted to go to a studio with musicians I trusted and just knock it out.” About Public Works Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Spotify Public Works is a musician from Ocean County, New Jersey. About Caracara Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Spotify About KulfiGirls Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Spotify Alt Pop Veena Rock