This past Saturday Icelandic six-piece indie pop outfit Of Monsters and Men graced Philthy with an epically-received, sold out, post-Thanksgiving show at the Tower Theater.    I’ll admit, I was hesitant to get on board with their supposed “brilliance”… and the fact that their audience resembled the next-generation of Rusted...

In 28 years and more than a thousand concerts, I’m not sure that I’ve ever been as excited for a venue-change as I am for …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead’s local appearance this Sunday, November 18th, getting moved from the First Unitarian Church to...

You may be familiar with Asy and Chloe Saavedra from Smoosh.  The two Seattle-born-and-raised sisters (still short of drinking age) have spent much of their youth and childhood producing painfully infectious indie pop.  The band began in 2000 and, throughout the course of the last 12 years, they’ve released...

Ineffably haunting multi-instrumentalist Sondra Sun-Odeon recently took a step away from her duties of being one-half of NYC psych-rockers Silver Summit and into a spotlight of her own.  She released her solo debut, Aetherea, last week.  The album has the singer/songwriter displaying a far more intimate side of her...

San Francisco trio Grass Widow are often described as a “post-punk” band, but the sounds of their third LP, Internal Logic (released on May 29th), ring far more of the hippest, most avant-garde bands to grace the stages of the first five Lollapalooza’s, and also the first wave of...

If you ever find yourself thinking, “Whatever happened to Ken Stringfellow?” it’s likely because you’re looking in the wrong places… places from which Ken has currently moved on from, or yet to return to.  He’s been on the music scene for more than two decades now, most famously fronting...

Young Prisms’ latest musical output is said to have been inspired by time they spent stoned in Heathrow Airport.  The outcome can be found on In Between, the sophomore LP from the San Francisco five- piece (although not the same five who found themselves on their debut, Friends for Now),...

So I rarely get excited to do interviews, and have gained a reputation for being  jaded to the concept of being a “music journalist.”  However, I was quite excited to get a call last week from Chris Vrenna, drummer/keyboardist from the golden years of Nine Inch Nails.  However, he...

Savoir Adore are Deidre Muro and Paul Hammer.  They compose and perform ineffably whimsical fantasy pop.  They began as the result of a dare that had them leave Brooklyn for the country to record for 48 hours with no acoustic guitars.  They’ve been sorts of indie darlings ever since. ...