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As joy, despair and resistance coexist in our hearts, there was no better place to be on Valentine’s Day than Philly’s Boot & Saddle, where Upholstery’s glitter-and-doom cabaret easily shared a stage with Rainbow Crimes’ existential howls and life-giving beats, as well as Presages’ heavy, chilly rock and thrum. Such is love.
—M.J. Fine; photos by Chris Sikich
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