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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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: “We didn’t expect anything to happen with this band, so everything new is a highlight.”
If you’re currently navigating your way through Austin, attempting to spot the next super cool indie pop artist among the ineffably profound plethora of…
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Get to Know King Woman, March 15th at Underground Arts
Although ultra-doomy rockers King Woman are still in the early stages of their career, they’ve already achieved some of their most significant and specific…
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Vanessa Carlton, Moving on From her “dirty past of being a pop star”
Although Vanessa Carlton is still perhaps best known for her 2002 pop mega-hit “A Thousand Miles,” her musical identity has taken a major turn…
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PARTYBABY and Potty Mouth, Bringing Their Party Month to Boot & Saddle Tonight
Tonight our very favorite punky power-poppers, Potty Mouth, return to The City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection for the first time since the…
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Jesca Hoop, at Her Most Minimal and Intimate
The last time Philthy saw Jesca Hoop was from the mega-stage of Union Transfer (surrounded by an overwhelming onslaught of lamps), when she and…
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Slothrust’s Leah Wellbaum: “It makes me happy when people say that our records make them feel less alone.”
The last time I saw Brooklyn trio Slothrust was two-and-a-half years ago, noteworthy for being my very first show as a “thirtysomething.” The band…
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Escape Valentine’s Day and This World in General with Ninet, Tonight at Voltage Lounge
It’s not every day that an international pop star graces the stage of the charmingly grimy and endearingly divey Voltage Lounge. However, this Valentine’s…
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Talking Live Music and the Tragedies of the Postmodern with July Talk
While Atari Teenage Riot and Refused share the title for the most impressively progressive live acts of the 1990s and the live music champions…
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Get to Know LÉON This Thursday at Boot & Saddle
Although Swedish singer/songwriter LÉON is still a relative mystery in our neck of the woods, based on what we know of the postmodern chanteuse,…
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Cate Le Bon, Bringing Her Latest Sounds Back to Philthy This Friday
After providing us with possibly 2016’s best album, Crab Day, and one of Philthy’s most enchanting shows of the year at Johnny Brenda’s, Welsh-born/LA-residing…
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Cuddle Magic and “The sound of loving something you didn’t know you loved until you heard it for the first time.”
This Friday, 1/27, Cuddle Magic will be dropping their latest LP, Axis/Ashes, courtesy of Northern Spy Records, and tonight they kick off a round…
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A Return to the Bash and Pop of… Bash & Pop
Well, it turns out 2017’s first great record was 24 years in the making… sort of. This Friday, January 20th, Fat Possum Records is…
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Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg: “I feel like I’m slowly getting better at this record-making thing.”
Although the concert season is beginning to wind down, making way for the holidays, and weather is finally giving us fewer and fewer reasons…
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American Wrestlers: “High energy, loud, guitar music” Tonight at Boot & Saddle
Like so many of indie rock’s most intriguing artists of recent years, American Wrestlers’ sophomore record sees the project evolving from a solo project…
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Yael Naim, Tonight at World Café Live, Wrapping Up a Chapter
French-Israeli folk pop songstress Yael Naim is currently wrapping up nearly two years of touring and is kicking off a very short string of…
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CRX and Streets of Laredo Doing the Alt Rock Thing at Coda This Saturday
Although it’s hard to imagine Philthy’s bastion of EDM, Rittenhouse’s Coda, garnering more excitement for an event of the non-white-DJ variety than Stevie Wonder’s…
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Introducing… Vanishing Life
Although Vanishing Life are about to embark on their very first tour, I would hope that PHILTHY readers are familiar with a few of…
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FIDLAR, Ready to Bring a “Sick Lineup” Back to Philly
As a rule, I’m not generally a fan of bro bands… However, years ago I made an exception for LA skate punks FIDLAR… largely…
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Pre-Vote Party with Dilly Dally This Monday at Boot & Saddle
I’m not sure what’s the best way to get you in the mood for voting or [for those of my mindset] not voting, but…
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“Pretty much the greatest Rock’N’Roll show you’ll ever see…”
So I realize it’s fun (and easy) to make fun of Motley Crue, but I think they just might be the greatest “hard rock,”…
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Vancouver Sleep Clinic, a Valid Reason to Spend All Night at the Factory
Any of us who have been in the 215 for more than a couple weeks know that it takes something quite noteworthy to get…
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Catching Up With Dan Croll, Live Tonight at Union Transfer
It’s been a while since we’ve heard much from Dan Croll here in Philly (or the states in general). The Liverpool-based songwriter’s last (and…
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Icon For Hire’s You Can’t Kill Us: “It was a liberating experience to create the album just for us and our fans”
Illinois duo Icon For Hire have been around for the better part of a decade now, kicking out jams that blend turn of the…
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In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up to the Opera… Iggy Pop’s Post Pop Depression Live at the Royal Albert Hall
I’ve been onstage with Iggy Pop four times [If you are at an Iggy Pop show (Stooges or otherwise), it only counts as half…
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Miniature Tigers: “I feel like we’ve attracted people that were just like us in highschool.”
It’s been a few years since we’ve heard from indie poppers Miniature Tigers… However, next week, October 28th, to be specific, sees the release…
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The Pack A.D. on “Writing music we would like, instead of music that we thought other people would like.”
It’s been a while since we’ve seen delightfully raucous garage rock duo The Pack A.D. here in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly…
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Allison Iraheta + Halo Circus: “We’re extremely proud of our journey.”
Fans of American Idol (or televised vocal spectacles in general) likely remember Allison Iraheta from the show’s 2009 season, when she appeared alongside Adam…
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Getting to Know Margaret Glaspy
New York-based singer/songwriter Margaret Glaspy recently got confirmed as the opening act for The Lumineers’ “mega” January arena tour (also featuring Andrew Bird). In…
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Lissie, at Her Most “raw and intimate” at World Café Live This Monday
This Monday, October 10th, singer/songwriter Lissie will play both her biggest and most intimate Philly date yet, when she will be headlining a sold…
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Welcoming Back The Bird and The Bee
About a decade ago The Bird and The Bee were pretty much my favorite band. The product of singer/songwriter Inara George and multi-instrumentalist and…
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Tacocat Talks Touring, Seattle, and Pop Music
Sadly, Tacocat’s last Philthy show, this April at Everybody Hits, got cut short due to a delayed start and early curfew, leaving the self-described…
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Julia Jacklin: “I guess I’m working it all out as I go.”
Julia Jacklin is certainly the coolest musician I’ve ever met who cites Britney Spears as her initial inspiration. Australian singer/songwriter swears that her first…
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Getting to Know The Peach Kings
Last month Philly got to experience an uncharacteristically hip evening upstairs at World Café Live, when LA rock noir duo The Peach Kings put…
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Arc Iris: “Even in the silly moments we try to maintain our grace”
Last month Arc Iris put out what is undoubtedly the best sophomore album of the year, if not the year’s full-out best record. August…
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