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“It’s been such an insane whirlwind of a year. I’ve hardly had a second to catch my breath… When you’re swept up in it, it’s hard to reflect and put a bow on it,” says singer, songwriter, bassist extraordinaire, and phriend of PHILTHY Karina Rykman when I ask about...
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This summer LA’s Cryogeyser dropped their first new music in almost three years, with a trio of singles (“Sorry,” “Blue Light,” and “Fortress”) that dropped in July, September, and October, respectively. The singles are the first music to feature the band’s current lineup, which has guitarist/vocalist/mainperson Shawn Marom joined...
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Last March Alisa Amador graced the stage of The Lounge at World Café Live alongside Emily Scott Robinson and Violet Bell, who were touring behind Robinson’s 2022 Built on Bones EP, a collection of songs written for the Witches of Shakespeare’s Macbeth which features Amador and Violet Bell on...
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The last time we saw Chelsea Wolfe at the First Unitarian Church was in 2013, when the singer/songwriter played two beautifully haunting acoustic shows in one night at the ultra-intimate Chapel of the historic church and venue. However, this coming Saturday (12/7) and Monday (12/9) Wolfe will return to...
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Rachel Bochner is currently our phavorite burgeoning queer pop icon in the making. We’ve been Twitter mutuals for a little while and I found out recently that she’s besties with likeminded queer pop phenom Xana, who we got to know earlier this year. The two actually played Philthy mini...
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“I remember playing Stalag 13 in 1998 felt like playing Madison Square Garden, and there were probably 10 people at the show,” says a laughing Michael Berdan, vocalist for NYC noise outfit Uniform (whose demeanor is far more lighthearted than Uniform’s sounds would suggest). For those unfamiliar, Stalag 13...
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“I’m most definitely really excited to play in the middle of the desert in Joshua Tree, California,” says Liz Wendelbo, one-half of synth-pop duo Xeno & Oaklander, who kicked off a tour mid-November, which on December 10th will have them playing Landers, California’s Retreat Center, to which she refers. ...
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“I’m not gonna play another show for 11 months, which is awesome for me… and my nervous system… but it’s bittersweet,” says Adrianne Lenker two songs into her second sold-out performance at Union Transfer in as many nights. The vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of indie folk icons Big...
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Last year masked and anonymous Portuguese extreme metal outfit GAEREA played two packed shows in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. And this Saturday, 11/23, they’ll be playing their biggest local date yet at Union Transfer, with opening night of avant-garde metal band Zeal & Ardor’s North...
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“I know we can kind of have a sweet sound to a passerby, but it’s got some hurt, too, much like Philly has,” says Laura Colwell, frontwoman of Austin, Texas-born (but currently spread out) outfit Sun June, whose sound the group have long referred to as “regret pop.” Despite...
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This August, Canadian composer and musician Caribou performed a free pop-up DJ set at our very own Bok Bar Rooftop, prior to the October release of his Honey LP (via Merge Records and City Slang) and his subsequent headlining tour, which kicked off earlier this month and will find...
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Johnny Brenda’s has hosted several exceptionally quick sell-outs of soon-to-be superstars this year, notably hyperpop chanteuse Hannah Diamond and queer country icon CMAT. However, none have seemed to be quite as destined for superstardom as Dublin-born, London-based singer/songwriter Orla Gartland, who played an immediately sold-out show on her immediately...
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Last week Midwife (moniker of Madeline Johnston), purveyor of what she describes as “Heaven Metal,” hit the road for a month of dates supporting Denver death metal outfit Blood Incantation. Johnston is touring behind Midwife’s fourth studio album, No Depression In Heaven, which dropped in September courtesy of longtime...
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Australian psych rockers Pond have had quite the busy 2024, dropping their first-ever double album (Stung!) this summer and releasing a full concert video (Live at the Lodge Room) last month, chronicling the conclusion of the band’s tour of the US this May. (Although, releasing 10 studio albums in...
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“Hausu and Japanese horror were really big inspirations for Squeeze, whereas for the new one it was Thelma & Louise, denim, and big ‘80s hair,” Sasami Ashworth, better known mononymously as SASAMI, tells me of her upcoming third solo LP (She’s a former member of Cherry Glazerr.), Blood on...
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“I’m not really a concert person. I honestly usually find it boring,” confesses Odie Leigh during a recent phone chat. However, the Louisiana-born, Detroit-based singer/songwriter has been on the road pretty steadily for about a year and a half now, and has been touring behind her debut LP —...
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This past Friday and Saturday Clairo put on her biggest shows ever in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection, with two sold-out nights that filled the cavernous (almost Factory-like…) Franklin Music Hall with fans whose adoration of the bedroom-pop-icon-turned-her-generation’s-foremost-purveyor-of-soft-rock bordered on Beatlemania. The performances had the 26-year-old...
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The last time we saw Coco & Clair Clair in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was April of last year, when the Atlanta rap duo headlined the 450-capacity Foundry. However, this Thursday, November 7th, they’ll be headlining Theatre of Living Arts, the legendary South Street venue...
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“There’s choreography, I have a lot of crowd work, I love feeling like I’m the vibe captain, bringing people together and facilitating energy,” says burgeoning queer pop star MARIS, who’s currently nearing the end of a tour supporting NYC indie-soul group Melt, which will have her at our very...
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PHILTHY MAG has gotten to know Yep Roc recording artist Louisa Stancioff pretty well throughout the course of 2024. We first chatted with the Maine-based indie folk singer/songwriter in April, prior to the release of debut LP When We Were Looking, and we last spoke to her just last...
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Atta Boy took eight long years between their first and second LP… so it’s not entirely surprising that it was more than a decade into their career before the Americana-tinged indie pop outfit embarked on their first proper tour… The L.A.-born quartet formed in high school and released their...
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“Personally, I haven’t celebrated Halloween in quite a while… because I’m, you know, considered witchy and gothy. I always get associated with Halloween,” says Allie X during a recent Zoom chat, laughing. However, this Thursday, October 31st, is a big occasion for the Canadian synth-pop savant, who will be...
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It’s been more than six years since we’ve seen Spanish alt-rockers Hinds in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection… But this Friday, October 25th, you’ll have two chances to see the Madrid-based duo in the 215, when they’ll be playing a midday set at World Café Live...
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“I feel like every time I come to Philly now is a full circle moment,” says indie-pop singer/songwriter Anna Shoemaker, who is currently New York-based, but hails from the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. The last time we spoke — in celebration of her last official stop...
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For the second year in a row, Boris are giving us a massive Fall “classic album” tour!! Last year we saw the Japanese experimental metal legends doing Heavy Rocks (2002), alongside Melvins, who were doing 1991’s Bullhead, featuring Boris’ namesake. And this year the Tokyo band are taking it...
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“I’ve been transitioning into maybe an indie shift in the singer/songwriter genre. I mean, a blonde woman playing acoustic guitar doesn’t really resonate like it once did . Not that there’s anything wrong with that,” says blonde singer/songwriter Lauren Calve, laughing. Calve admits to growing up listening to a...
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The last time we spoke with Daffo was just six months ago, when the Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter (who resided in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection not so long ago) was on their very first tour, supporting alt-rockers Sir Chloe, which included a stop at The Foundry. However,...
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“You can expect lots of harmonies, lots of silly stage banter, and lots of fun arrangements of sad songs,” says Maine-based indie folk singer/songwriter Louisa Stancioff of her first of two upcoming appearances in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. On October 16th Stancioff, Molly Parden, and...
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Last month, Canadian indie-rock icons Stars celebrated the 20th anniversary of their breakthrough album, Set Yourself on Fire, by playing the entire record in full at Union Transfer. It was an amazing night – the band sounded as tight as ever, adoring fans sang along to every song. The...
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Last month, English post-punks The Sisters of Mercy played their second show in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection is as many years, after a 14-year gap. This time around they found themselves at The Met, which felt significantly more like a casual goth/industrial dance party than...
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Tonight, Portland metalcore outfit Dying Wish kick off a nearly monthlong double-headlining jaunt with Long Island, New York hardcore band Pain of Truth (where they’ll be joined by support acts Outta Pocket and Balmora), which will feature Dying Wish’s third show at First Unitarian Church on October 28th. In...
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Just last month Johnny Marr released Boomslang (2024 Deluxe Edition), a reissue of the long-out-of-print 2003 album from Johnny Marr + the Healers, the (sort of) solo debut of the legendary Smiths guitarist (and the album and special edition, which includes 7 bonus tracks, fucking rule). The re-release coincides...
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It’s been more than six years since English singer/songwriter Kate Nash has been in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. But next Thursday, October 10th, the MySpace-era artist kicks off her North America Fall 2024 tour at the Music Hall at World Café Live, her first appearance...
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Last week Austin, Texas-based electronic outfit SINE – the brainchild of drummer and multi-instrumentalist Rona Rougeheart, whose sonic aesthetic she has dubbed “electronic boom” – released their latest single and music video, “Trauma Bondage,” their debut for Metropolis Records, which serves as a preview of a forthcoming 2025 full-length. ...
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“It was two totally different gigs and crowds. It was like a rap event going on downstairs and my audience was all confused,” says Jazmin Bean, laughing, of their most recent show in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection, which had the genderless British alt-pop artist headlining...
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“I thought I would be sort of done with this touring cycle by now, but then I got offered this insane tour with The Jesus And Mary Chain and The Psychedelic Furs… This is probably about to be the coolest thing I’ve ever done in my entire life,” says...
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Asheville, North Carolina’s The Dead Tongues, moniker of folk singer/songwriter Ryan Gustafson, is no stranger to our neck of the woods. He’s played 118 North in Wayne numerous times, last year he headlined MilkBoy [with our buddy Louisa Stancioff, with whom I recently spoke (keep checking the site) and...
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“We’re gonna have a big old fat party!” says Serra Petale, songwriter and guitarist of London-based quartet Los Bitchos, who kicked off a seven-date North American tour last night in DC and will be headlining our very own Underground Arts tonight, 9/23 (And Petale admits to being a big...
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Last Sunday, country singer-songwriter and former Philthy resident Waxahatchee finished off her tour in support of her critically acclaimed 2024 album Tiger’s Blood with two nights at The Fillmore in Philadelphia....
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“I’ve been surprised by how much the fans agree with what we want to play,” laughs Zach Williams, guitarist and lead vocalist of The Lone Bellow. The Brooklyn-based Americana trio – who just this June played WXPN’s Concerts Under The Stars concert series in King Of Prussia and just...
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“Like everyone else, I’m a big MJ Lenderman fan. And I’m a pop girlie, so I’m loving the Sabrina Carpenter album… I’m trying to get into more ambient music and just relax for once in my life,” jokes Blair Howerton, frontwoman of Why Bonnie, who released their sophomore LP,...
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Tomorrow night Montreal indie pop outfit Stars kick off the Set Yourself On Fire 20th Anniversary Tour in Asbury Park. And this Saturday, September 21st, they’ll be bringing the show — which celebrates two decades of their 2004 breakthrough LP (which received a 20th anniversary vinyl reissue this July...
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Lucky for us, our new favorite bubblegrunge outfit (Apparently our favorite genre, according to Spotify.) is based right out of Fishtown! The band, who’ve already released two singles and are preparing to put out their debut EP at the end of the month, are comprised of five Millennials with...
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Last week Chanel Beads – the experimental project of New York musician Shane Lavers – kicked off their first-ever North American headlining tour, which has Lavers joined by collaborator, songwriter, and producer Maya McGroery and instrumentalist Zachary Paul. The dates follow the April release of Chanel Beads’ debut album,...
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The last time we saw burgeoning pop icon Griff in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was in January of 2022, amidst another wave of COVID and a massive snowstorm. The show was at The Foundry (and technically sold-out) and was actually great, despite the icy circumstances...
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“I’ll be singing about freedom and how to be alive together and create a safe world where everyone can be in it and have freedom to have safety… I want nothing less than world peace,” proclaims singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Shara Nova, better known as My Brightest Diamond. ...
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“I think Philly is such a hub for interesting, smart, unique individuals who are into culture, and they’re the smartest people,” says LA-based indie folk singer/songwriter Lily Kershaw during a recent phone interview which evolved into a nearly-three-hour chat about slightly obscure classic cocktails (Are there any places in...
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Bay Area slowcore outfit Sour Widows – comprised of guitarists/vocalists Susanna Thomson and Maia Sinaiko, drummer Max Edelman, and bassist Timmy Stabler – just released their debut LP, Revival Of A Friend (the follow-up to 2021’s sophomore EP, Crossing Over), this June on Exploding In Sound Records, but they...
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Vocalist Veronica Swift is gearing up to play her fourth area show this year when she’ll be headlining the Music Hall at World Café Live on September 12th. Swift sold out Longwood Gardens this March, before making special appearances at The Dresden Dolls’ June shows at Union Transfer, which...
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US audiences have now been patiently waiting for almost nine months for London singer/songwriter Marika Hackman’s first North American tour in more than five years, announced late this January, shortly after the release of her self-produced (along with Sam Petts-Davies and longtime collaborator Charlie Andrew) fourth LP, Big Sigh,...
“It’s been such an insane whirlwind of a year. I’ve hardly had a second to catch my breath… When you’re swept up in it, it’s hard to reflect and put a bow on it,” says singer, songwriter, bassist extraordinaire, and phriend of PHILTHY Karina Rykman when I ask about...
This summer LA’s Cryogeyser dropped their first new music in almost three years, with a trio of singles (“Sorry,” “Blue Light,” and “Fortress”) that dropped in July, September, and October, respectively. The singles are the first music to feature the band’s current lineup, which has guitarist/vocalist/mainperson Shawn Marom joined...
