After “uniting by fate” roughly 25 years ago, Rival Schools is marking its near-three-decade run as a band with reissues and a tour, including a stop at First Unitarian Church on Monday.
Rival Schools is back in Philly for the second time this year, after opening for Thursday at the Theatre of Living Arts in February. For the band’s frontman, born-and-bred New Yorker Walter Schreifels, Philadelphia is very familiar.
“Philly just has a lot of what New York has,” Schreifels said. “And it’s sort of like going over and spending summer with the cousins, that’s what I always feel like in Philly.”…