I think it’s clear that PHILTHY has a thing for postmodern electropop princesses, so it should be no surprise that we’re all about Charli XCX, the 19-year-old UK sensation that Pitchfork’s in love with and who’s spent the better part of this summer touring as support for Santigold and...

In the closing lines of her “Next Time You See Me,” Laetitia Sadier proclaims, “We know well that only art suggests there is a way out.”  My official endorsement for the most tattooable lyrics of 2012… there you go.  Laetitia Sadier might seem like a bit of a cliché…...

Like the recently Philthy-profiled Kristin Hersh, Charlotte Hatherley is another heroine of my teenage years that I have been out of touch with for quite some time.  Since her departure from Northern Ireland power poppers Ash in 2006, her solo output has remained largely alien stateside (i.e. unavailable aside from...

Kristin Hersh has the unique distinction of being the last person I ever (and will ever) asked for an autograph… hopefully she finds that something of a small honor.  Along with that, she has the honor of being my most-honored-to-interview individual for Philthy Blog all year.  I grew up...

This past Saturday I found myself in Eraserhood’s latest hotspot for the first time… Underground Arts.  The venue does, indeed, promise what it delivers.  It is an underground performance art space.  It also fits quite nicely into the hood of Eraserhead.  The room resembles a cross between a school...

A few years back I fell hard for Kate Miller-Heidke’s Curiouser.  The album, the second from the Australian songstress and first released in the US, boasts a dozen postmodern piano pop anthems… like a matured and coolly restrained Kate Nash, sprinkled with playfully sassy synths.  Some of the songs...

Like Philthy’s recently-featured husband/wife duo, Hank & Cupcakes, Oakland’s (by-way-of Massachusetts) Mornin’ Old Sport’s biggest influence would seem to be literary and not musical.  However, band member Scott Nanos (guitar, bass, keys, strings) tells me that since deciding on the band’s moniker, he has been reading less fiction and,...

“We’ve been lucky to play very cool events in Philly and we always like to rub a little Philly on us before returning to Brooklyn,” says husband/wife dance rock duo Hank & Cupcakes, who are no strangers to Philly, or Philthy, for that matter.  I first befriended them at...

The Motor City’s music scene is most regularly associated with 1960s Motown and Proto-Punk, the garage rock revival of the past two decades, and… Kiss… despite the fact that they’re not actually from Detroit.  However, the city’s also produced some of the best sounds of 2012, including the recently...