Band Interviews

This Friday, February 27th, will see the release of the deluxe edition of Staring at the Sun, the 2024 sophomore full-length from Hotel Fiction, the Athens, GA-based duo of best friends Jade Long (piano, vocals) and Jess Thompson (guitar, vocals), who first met as students at the University of...

“It’s been a lot of touring in the past year.  I’ve never toured that much in a year before.  I’ve learned a lot about the logistics of touring and getting a band around the country,” laughs singer/songwriter Cornelia Murr, who serves as her own tour manager and has been...

“I was crossing the street last week and I passed by some girl in her car who yelled, ‘Syd Taylor!  I love your album!’  That’s never happened to me before , so I’m really enjoying meeting people out in the wild,” Syd Taylor herself tells me during a recent...

Alt-pop singer/songwriter Maggie Lindemann first came into PHILTHY’s world in 2021…  She was about halfway in between her debut EP (2021’s PARANOIA) and debut LP (2022’s SUCKERPUNCH) and currently on the road as direct support for Madison Beer’s The Life Support Tour, where her nine-song set proved to be...

You may have seen Toronto’s Jane Inc. opening The Foundry for Meg Remy’s U.S. Girls in spring of 2023, a tour that Carlyn Bezic tells me during a recent phone chat has proven to be a highlight of the project, allowing her to introduce her solo output to some...

Longtime PHILTHY phriends The Rural Alberta Advantage are currently a little more than halfway through a short US tour that will have them back in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection on February 18th at Johnny Brenda’s.  The Toronto band’s last (and first) show at Fishtown’s “mini...

As I’m sure you’re aware, this Saturday the majority of the currently partnered portion of the population will be celebrating Valentine’s Day…  However, our dear phriend Al Olender – who we first met in May of 2022, when she dropped her debut LP, Easy Crier – is far more...

This Tuesday Chicago post-country quartet Ratboys released “Penny in the Lake,” the fifth and final single ahead of their sixth studio album, Singin’ to an Empty Chair, which drops today courtesy of the band’s new home, New West Records (also home to PHILTHY phriends Emily Nenni, Esther Rose, Jaime...

“I’m really working on getting free on stage.  I’m normally quiet, being on stage isn’t my natural state, so I’ve been really loving this last year of playing shows, getting a new taste of being a bit more comfortable,” says Portland, Oregon-based singer/songwriter Anna Tivel, reflecting on her most...