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“I’ve always loved dark clothes and leather and harnesses and stuff like that. My dream wardrobe could double as an assassin’s outfit,” says Chrissy Costanza, who does often look as though she could be a comic book anti-heroine… However, the primary reason we love her is because she’s the...
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“A lot of reviewers in the UK seem to really get what I’m going for, to move out of the female singer/songwriter thing and more into the Joy Division/Velvet Underground thing,” says Sub Pop recording artist Lael Neale during a recent phone chat. For instance, The Guardian says, “Half...
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“We love Philly!” says Kelley Nicole Dugan and Mina Walker, better known as Daisy the Great, who played the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection twice last year, with a March Date opening for half•alive at Union Transfer and a December date supporting The Happy Fits at Theatre...
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“We’re going on before Ministry, so we won’t be doing any ballads. We’re gonna keep it as hard as we can,” gothic/industrial/dark wave legend Gary Numan (who is far more light-hearted than you’d imagine) tells me during a recent phone chat. Numan is currently on a tour that has...
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This February New York indie pop duo Overcoats (JJ Mitchell and Hana Elion) brought a preview of their third LP, Winner, to The Music Hall at World Café Live for a WXPN Free at Noon Concert. Well, the album officially dropped April 7th, and Mitchell and Elion are already...
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This Monday, April 24th, Sacred Bones recording artist and friend of PHILTHY MAG, Marissa Nadler, will be in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection for a particularly intimate evening of music, when she kicks off her solo headlining tour at our very own MilkBoy. I recently got...
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“It feels like a reclaiming of self, or an assertion of self. Releasing music under a moniker was always a way to distance myself,” says Kristine Leschper, previously known as the person behind Mothers, but who last year released her official solo debut, The Opening, Or Closing Of A...
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Chicago-based Americana singer/songwriter/guitarist Elizabeth Moen seems to be familiar with a lot of friends of PHILTHY… She’s shared stages with the likes of Margaret Glaspy, Lissie, and Buck Meek, and even performed as a guitarist for Squirrel Flower in 2021… And last year Moen released Wherever You Aren’t, her...
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“We’re adapting to a sort of different energy just because we’re older , and things that we’ve had to do because of the pandemic. We’re trying to be a little less crazy and a little more musical,” says Mike Haliechuk, guitarist, songwriter, and producer for Canadian hardcore punk legends...