The Return of Now, Now, Monday at Boot & Saddle
Brilliantly charming Minneapolis indie pop duo Now, Now, recently dropped their first new recording in half a decade, serving as the follow-up to their…
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Arc Iris Does Joni Mitchell This Saturday at Boot & Saddle
It hasn’t been long since The City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection got a chance to catch up with Arc Iris. Just last…
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Ticket Giveaway: Alex G w/ Japanese Breakfast at Union Transfer (07/08)
Local songwriter Alex G, or (Sandy) Alex G, has been kicking out lo-fi experimental pop since about 2010, but there’s a decent chance he…
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Ticket Giveaway: Mitski at Union Transfer (07/07)
For the past year+ New York-based indie singer/songwriter Mitski has been riding a wave of critical acclaim and packed shows surrounding her fourth and…
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Another Side Of The Sea The Sea, Tonight at World Café Live
Upstate New York folk poppers The Sea The Sea are currently working on a new album, with a slightly new sound… Although it’s looking…
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Welcoming Back Land of Talk, Tonight at Boot & Saddle
It’s been quite some time since we’ve heard from Elizabeth Powell and Land of Talk. Last month they released Life After Youth on Saddle…
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Bent Knee Bring Their Latest Musical Amalgam to Kung Fu Necktie This Tuesday
Bent Knee’s Land Animal may best the most accessible art rock record of the 21st century… and that’s not a bad thing… The Boston…
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Skating Polly, at Their “poppiest and slickest”
It’s hard to imagine many people are having a cooler year than step-sisters Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse, better known as Skating Polly. The…
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Valley Queen’s Natalie Carol: “It’s important for me to write from a place of enjoyment and catharsis.”
This Friday songstress/guitarist virtuoso Laura Marling returns to Philadelphia for a performance at Theatre of Living Arts. However, support act Valley Queen, who has…
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Gringo Star and Shantih Shantih, Bringing Married Life on the Road to Boot & Saddle Tonight
Although you don’t generally think of a Rock’N’Roll road show as the ideal setting for a married couple, Atlanta-based, psych-leaning, garage rockers Gringo Star…
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Top 10 of The Jesus & Mary Chain, Tonight at Union Transfer
It seems like just yesterday seminal Scottish alt rockers The Jesus & Mary Chain were taking the stage of Union Transfer in celebration of…
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Me Not You: “We turned on the fuzz pedals full force and hit the drums a lot harder this time around!”
Next week sees the live debut of our newest favorite duo… emerging from the ashes of one of our favorite trios… After the recent…
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SHAED: “Just get ready to have fun”
I’m guessing that a number of you are, at the moment, eagerly anticipating Bishop Briggs’ first ever Philthy headlining show this Friday, May 5th,…
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Blank Range: “Come and see us play at Boot & Saddle on Saturday, April 29th!”
It’s hard to imagine a more perfect lineup for an ultra-sweaty Saturday night at Philthy’s favorite former honky-tonk than The Wild Reeds and Blank…
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Moon Duo, Returning to Johnny Brenda’s: “We always try to create some kind of immersive experience.”
Psych-rocking post-punks Moon Duo are currently between the releases of the two volumes of their fourth album, Occult Architecture (on Sacred Bones Records), a…
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VÉRITÉ: “I just want people to think and feel.”
About a year ago we first met Kelsey Byrne, aka VÉRITÉ, whom I characterized as the ultimate embodiment of “alt-pop”: “A popular chanteuse (not…
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The Octopus Project, Bringing New Sounds and New Visions to Johnny Brenda’s Tonight
Last Friday hyper-quirky experimental, Austin-based, indie poppers The Octopus Project released their sixth LP, Memory Mirror. The album is the band’s first on Robot…
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Get Caught Up with Emily Wells, This Saturday at Boot & Saddle
It can be hard to assume what’s coming next from composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Emily Wells. Although the Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter was originally best known for her work…
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Grandchildren, Bringing It All Back Home, This Friday at Boot & Saddle
Philthy’s own Grandchildren (perhaps known better to some of you as the Danger Danger crew) spent the second half of March touring the sounds…
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Jay Som’s Brand of “Quiet and Loud”
Although Oakland-based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Melina Duterte – better known by her musical moniker, Jay Som – is merely 22, her young musical career could already…
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