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Just last March we saw Quasi – Janet Weiss and Sam Coomes – return to Johnny Brenda’s in support of Breaking the Balls of History, both their tenth studio LP and their first studio LP in ten years, in addition to their first for Sub Pop. However, the Portland...
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This Thursday, 6/20, folk supergroup Bonny Light Horseman are bringing their brand-new double album (and first for Jagjaguwar), Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free, to Union Transfer. While the trio – comprised of Josh Kaufman, Eric D. Johnson, and Anais Mitchell – have played the City of Brotherly...
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We’re nearly halfway through Pride Month and we’ve already attended some fabulous events. However, there are still several musical celebrations of queerness that we’re eagerly anticipating, including June 22nd at Theatre of Living Arts. The evening will be headlined by Lynn Gunn electropop outfit PVRIS, with opening duties being...
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“Christina and I are still going crazy up there! We just can’t contain ourselves! It’s true joy and we have to move our bodies! I’ve actually tried to stand still, just to see if I could do it, because I know a lot of shoegaze bands like to just...
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The last time San Fermin were in town was November of 2021, when they played City Winery Philadelphia, the city’s newest listening room. However, tomorrow night (4/3) they’ll be headlining Underground Arts, our favorite basement in the heart of David Lynch’s Eraserhood, which regularly plays host to our favorite...
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Today sees the release of Plunge, the fourth studio album from Sam Evian, known for his work producing, engineering, and mixing PHILTHY phavorites (and we like to think phriends) like Cassandra Jenkins, Kate Bollinger, Palehound, and Big Thief. The album has already produced three singles, which have received high...
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“I think we’re a bar band and we always kinda will be. We’re bringing bar band energy wherever we’re playing,” says Paul Banwatt, drummer for Canadian indie rock outfit The Rural Alberta Advantage in a recent phone chat (During an interview last year, vocalist/guitarist Nils Edenloff echoed an alarmingly...
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This coming Saturday, February 24th, Union Transfer will be hosting two amazing acts that we haven’t seen in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection for quite some time. Headlining the evening is garage rock legends The Kills, who were last in town when they played the Eraserhood...
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This Friday, January 26th, TORRES – who we’ve seen over the past ten years headlining Boot & Saddle and Johnny Brenda’s, in addition to providing support for artists like Strand of Oaks, Tegan and Sara, Frightened Rabbit, and Superchunk at Union Transfer and The Fillmore – will release her...