Boot & Saddle

“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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

“I think, at a certain age, coming back around to all the different music you made in your life becomes important,” says Scott McCloud, guitarist of DC post-hardcore legends Soulside and Girls Against Boys (for whom he’s also the vocalist), whose New Wet Kojak just played their first proper...

“I imagine we’ll be almost sort of delirious from all of time we’ve spent on the road…  We’ll be delightfully unhinged,” jokes Libby Rodenbough of Mipso’s upcoming, November 19th show at Johnny Brenda’s.  The show is not only the North Carolina-based, indie-Americana folk quartet’s last show of their current...

Last month Los Angeles-based punky indie rockers Worriers — the project of songwriter Lauren Denitzio, who is currently joined by band members Atom Willard (Against Me!, Social Distortion), Franz Nicolay (The Hold Steady), Frank Piegaro, and Cayetana’s Allegra Anka — released Trust Your Gut, their second full-length of the...