City Winery

“I’ve been wanting to do Liberation for so long.  I knew I wanted to move further into the blues…  The music that really got me started was the blues,” says ZZ Ward, referring to her forthcoming fourth studio album, Liberation, which drops this Friday, March 14th, courtesy of the...

“I love that!  It makes me extra excited!” says Lilly Hiatt when I tell her that her show here next week will actually be in a diner that was once featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.  Next Tuesday, March 11th, the Nashville singer/songwriter will be making her Silk City...

Singer/songwriter Anya Marina has spent the past half-decade opening sold-out comedy shows for BFF and former roommate Nikki Glaser in theatres across America.  Although I’m picturing drunken bachelorette parties talking over Marina’s indie pop as they fall into their seats, she tells me during a recent phone chat that...

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...

“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...

“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...

“We kind of wanted to circle back to more of the rock venue feel.  We enjoyed the intimacy of the last one, but we got a lot of feedback from people who felt trapped in their chairs,” Cloud Cult founder and primary songwriter Craig Minowa tells me, laughing.  March...

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...

Last month, Yep Roc Records announced the April 12th release of When We Were Looking, the debut LP from Maine-based indie folk singer/songwriter Louisa Stancioff, who is about to kick off a short run of dates with equally impressive singer/songwriters Molly Parden and Eliza Edens, which will find the...