Music

The last time SASAMI headlined the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was in March of 2022 at Johnny Brenda’s, which the singer/songwriter told me during a chat last November was an especially memorable experience: “That was a great show!  I think I injured my guitarist at that show…  I...

This Wednesday, Americana artist Allison Russell kicks off the U.S. leg of the All Returners Tour, a jaunt that was originally scheduled for last fall, but was postponed after Russell booked her Broadway debut as Persephone in 8 x Tony Award winning musical Hadestown, by Anaïs Mitchell.  The second...

Last May we saw queer country singer/songwriter Fancy Hagood at the Music Hall at World Café Live when he opened the No One Gets Out Alive tour for our phriend, and fellow Nashville-based Americana artist, Maggie Rose (He’s also toured with our pal Kaitlin Butts!)  However, earlier this month...

We first met LA/Toronto-based singer/songwriter Bria Salmena in the summer of 2021, just as live music was making a return.  Bria and longtime musical collaborator Duncan Hay Jennings – in addition to being one-half of Canadian post-punk group FRIGS, at the time the two were also members of Orville...

“We are a lot more open now to bringing a more raw song to the group, and knowing whatever they do with it is going to be amazing…  Earlier on, we were more ambitious with our ideas, but maybe had too many ideas, whereas now we’re more efficient,” says...

This past Wednesday, April 16th, all of the proudly “sad girls” of the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection (okay, about 3,000 of them…) were gathered at The Met Philadelphia for opening night of Lucy Dacus’ Forever Is a Feeling Tour, the former Philthy resident’s most profound local...

“I basically grew up in the First Unitarian Church basement,” says Evan Weiss, best known as the man behind Into It. Over It., whose Pet Symmetry – which also features Ratboys’ Marcus Nuccio and Dowsing’s Erik Czaja – are gearing up to release their fourth full-length, Big Symmetry, May...

“Working with a genius, you just soak everything up,” says Americana singer/songwriter Valerie June of her upcoming studio album, Owls, Omens, and Oracles, which drops this Friday, April 11th.  “Like the first record, there’s blazing electric guitar.  We’re kind of returning to it, not that I don’t have blazing...

Jazzy, folky, funky, soulful, classic rock-infused NYC indie pop outfit Sammy Rae & The Friends have been phriends of PHILTHY MAG for some time now.  I first met Sammy Rae in summer/fall of 2021, prior to a sold-out date at World Café Live; checked in with The Friends’ band...