Music

Today NYC femme punk trio Sorry Mom dropped “Teeth,” the third single from their debut LP, babyface, out next Friday, May 12th.  The band kick off a US tour in a few weeks, with a headlining show Friday May 19th at our very own MilkBoy and a super huge...

I can’t remember the last time I had a lineup make me prouder to reside in the 215 than this Saturday’s (5/6) show at MilkBoy, featuring the “shoegazey/dreamy fuzz pop” of Puppy Angst (whose Alyssa Milman we chatted with this February), the “Rain Boot Core Twee” of Grocer, and...

Caroline Rose has been a favorite musician of mine for a few years after I first heard their third album, LONER. Their synthy and punchy instrumentals alongside their funny, sardonic, and sometimes heartbreakingly honest lyrics have always inspired me. But their most recent album release, The Art of Forgetting,...

“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...

“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...

“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...

“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...

Beloved 90s Riot Grrrl band, Bikini Kill, first announced their comeback US tour in 2019, with the Philly show originally scheduled for May of 2020. But due to the pandemic, all shows were postponed not once, but three times over the last three years. I was afraid the show...

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...