When we last left The Asteroids Galaxy Tour they were sounding along the lines of a space age cabaret, churning out postmodern lounge music.  Since then, their aesthetic seems to have erupted in several dozen directions.  While the horns found on Fruit (their 2009 debut LP) tended to take...

Prinzhorn Dance School are often compared to Post-Punk groups… but I find them far more Postmodern than that.  It’s minimalistic, dark even in its most optimistic moments, and existentially cold.  It’s the kind of thing that soundtracks your imagination when you’re walking through back alleys on a rainy night. ...

Courtney Taylor-Taylor recently Tweeted “Wow I’ve bann swamped. Didn’t think I’d do a lot of interviews for a band that ended in ’78.”  The Dandy Warhols frontman recently “resurrected” the work of One Model Nation, a band that existed between the years 1969 and 1977… or really more like...

Johnny Brenda’s has had a pretty impressive string of shows early in 2012… like really impressive… Amanda Jo Williams… Madi Diaz… Twin Sister and, this Tuesday (1/24), He’s My Brother She’s My Sister, for what will likely be the most “performative” of the performances.  Echo Park’s He’s My Brother...

Philthy readers have likely come across Twin Sister at least a time or two in the past couple of years.  The quite-hard-to-pin-down Long Island indie outfit has been more or less perpetually on the road since 2010 and they recorded their latest in the City of Brotherly Love and...

Madi Diaz’s Plastic Moon is semi-officially my first favorite album of 2012.  The album is out January 24th on Small Horse Records, and Madi herself will be previewing the new material this coming Thursday, January 19th, at Johnny Brenda’s.  I recently chatted with the singer/songwriter about what she was...

It’s been a while since Philthy’s seen a new edition of “Do it For the Kids,” my weekly roundup of the city’s best all ages shows.  The reason?  Well, it’s just that time of year that tends to induce hibernation in most artists (Although Johnny Brenda’s does have an...

The last time I talked to Alyssa Graham, she had just gotten back from walking her dog and told me she’d heard that Radiohead was about to do a free concert for a Wall Street protest… That was September 30th… I’m pretty sure neither of us had the sense...

For the better part of a decade my family and my students have continuously asked me (a UArts grad., who cites The Smiths and Belle & Sebastian as his two favorite bands, and who says things like “In film, there was before Breathless and there was after Breathless.”) “What...