In 2020, the Philadelphia-based musician Peter Gill released Hit To Hit, an extremely catchy and overstuffed collection of indie-pop songs with his band 2nd Grade. Last year, Gill re-recorded 2nd ...

You can always count on 2nd Grade’s Peter Gill for bite-size power-pop gems. At 3:30, “Teenage Overpopulation,” the latest single from the band’s imminent Easy Listening, is more like regular-sized ...

“Bum bum bum bum-bum-bum bum bum / Bum bum-bum-bum bum bum,” sings 2nd Grade’s Peter Gill onomatopoetically on “Beat of the Drum,” the sixth track off the five-piece band’s new album, Easy Listening.

Philly’s 2nd Grade are students of classic power pop — the kind started in the ’70s with Raspberries, Big Star, and Cheap Trick — and make their own excellent version of it, as you can hear on their ...

The students in Meghan Bowers’ second grade music class at Frank K. Hehnly Elementary School in Clark are learning new notes. Students learned new notes by watching “Do, Re, Mi” from the Sound of ...