Brooklyn

“There’s like a punk element, a big ‘fuck you’ element in a really light and fun way,” Liz Cooper proclaims of her It’s A New Day Tour, which resumes tonight in her current home state of Vermont (where she moved last July after about half a decade in Brooklyn)...

This Wednesday, April 22nd, The Antlers will play their most intimate local show in well over a decade when they come to Johnny Brenda’s on the final night of headlining dates behind 2025’s Blight, the seventh full-length from Peter Silberman’s indie rock project.  The North American dates — which...

You may have seen Brooklyn art rock duo Sex Week – comprised of partners Richard Orofino and Pearl Amanda Dickson – open The Foundry for chloe moriondo last May (They’ve also played PhilaMOCA with our buddies Golden Apples.)  Last week the band — who are signed to Grand Jury,...

The last time Brooklyn indie pop duo (and phriends of PHILTHY) Daisy the Great were in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was March of last year, when they were opening The Fillmore’s 2,500-capacity main room for The Kooks and The Vaccines (Their recent history has also...

“You can expect a trio of clam aliens screaming about butter,” says Tea Eater songwriter and frontperson Tarra Thiessen (also of Gustaf, Sharkmuffin, and MamajoeVramajoe) when I ask what’s in store for those who come out to the self-assessed “weirdo art punk” band’s show tomorrow, August 13th, at Nikki...

“We’re really gonna try to muss up City Winery,” laughs Adrian Blake Enscoe, one-third of Brooklyn indie-folk-pop-Americana outfit Bandits on the Run, before Sydney Shepherd (his partner in life and music) proclaims, “We’ve performed everywhere from Broadway to the subway.”  That is actually true…  Adrian, Sydney, and Regina Strayhorn...

Brooklyn indie rockers Phoneboy – who we saw last year supporting our phriends Beach Weather at The Foundry and playing The Fillmore’s big room with Grayscale – have officially been on the road for more than a month now, touring behind the release of their third full-length, Heartbreak Designer,...

“I absolutely adore it!  It sounds like two people slipping on a banana peel and accidentally catching lightning in a bottle.  To me, Treats is this little freakshow island of a record,” says Derek Miller, producer, guitarist, and one-half of Sleigh Bells, whose debut LP, Treats, which dropped on...

“I think headlining shows are, above all, most fun.  You can fuck up and you kind of laugh along with your fans,” says Momma’s Allegra Weingarten, before Etta Friedman – Momma’s other co-founder, singer, songwriter, and guitarist – adds, “I think that those moments are very endearing.  We never...