If you’ve been keeping up with Philthy, you know that this week is a particularly busy week for good music… especially in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection.  Brilliant new album’s drop today from semiotically-inspired songstress Emily Jane White and Detroit supergroup FAWN, both of whom I’ve...

After a few bouts of phone tag, I recently got a chance to chat with Theresa Andersson. Andersson, a multi-instrumentalist, released her eighth solo recording, Street Parade, this past April and next Friday, June 15th, her current tour will find itself at Olde City’s Tin Angel, alongside Lucius, some...

I would like to sincerely thank Ms. Emily Jane White for the best interview I’ve conducted all year… not that I should be surprised (based on the title of her latest).  The Oakland-based “Gothic-Folk” singer/songstress’ third fell-length, Ode to Sentience, is about to drop stateside June 12th on Antenna...

YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN have been described as “A psychedelic noh-wave opera group fusing noise, metal, pop and folk music into a multidisciplinary hyper-orientalist cesspool of ‘eastern’ culture in giant monochrome paper sets.” The Canadian group, which maintains an ever-changing cast (with backgrounds such as painting, philosophy, theatre, social sciences,...

FAWN are a Motor City supergroup of sorts, comprised of previous members of the likes of Thunderbirds are Now!, the Von Bondies, Javelins, Child Bite, and Those Transatlantic, among others.  Their debut album, Coastlines, drops next week on Quite Scientific Records.  The band spawned from the simultaneous heartbreaks of...

Last Wednesday the Dandy Warhols played one of the best shows Philadelphia’s seen all year at the Trocadero.  The show also holds quite a bit of sentimental significance for me.  The last time the band played that particular venue was nearly nine years ago.  It was the first concert...

Next week The Spring Standards kick off a US tour supporting Rhett Miller & the Serial Lady Killers, including a June 5th stop in Philadelphia at World Café Live.  Earlier this month the Brooklyn-based (Delaware/PA-bred) three-piece put out their third release, yellow//gold.  I recently got a chance to chat...

“Some of the words we were throwing around were ‘warm’ and ‘dirty’… not in a pornish way,” says Lucy Michelle of Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles, when describing the concept behind the band’s upcoming album, which they finally decided to call “Heat.”  As someone who is yet to...

So I have been known to mock the musical tastes of my students.  However, that’s only because, in most cases, it deserves mocking.  But I hope they know I do it all with love (Well… you know what I mean.)  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve received...