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Last August, Denmark-based Wall of Sound punk outfit The Courettes – who blend loves of ‘60s girl groups and garage rock — put on one of the purest rock n’ roll experiences we saw all year in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection when they headlined Kung...

This Wednesday is opening night of what is likely to be the most exciting double-headlining tour of the fall, when longtime friends and collaborators PUP and Jeff Rosenstock (and openers Ekko Astral) team up to bring their no-frills DIY punk rock to massive nightclubs and ballrooms across the US. ...

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...

“I think we’ve had some bad luck with Philly.  It doesn’t seem like Philly likes us.  We played two basements, and one was like 10 people and an active leak, and at the other one college kids got held at gunpoint,” says a half-joking Victoria Winter, Brazilian-American bandleader of...

The next two Fridays have big things going on for Belgian shoegaze quartet Slow Crush…  Well, the second is primarily for those of us in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection…  Next Friday, August 29th, the band will drop third full-length (and first for Pure Noise Records)...

There are still currently tickets available for Spacey Jane’s September 6th show at The Fillmore Philadelphia… which cannot be said of the Aussie indie rockers’ show the following night at Paradise Rock Club in Boston, or their following show, 9/9 at 9:30 Club in DC… or 9/14 at Studio...

“With this record, I was like, ‘I’m gonna make this song and I’m gonna see who’s around to help out,’” says Golden Apples’ Russell Edling of Shooting Star, the Philadelphia indie rockers’ fourth full-length, which drops September 19th on their longtime home, Lame-O Records.  The album was recorded across...

The last time we saw Choctaw singer/songwriter Samantha Crain in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was August of 2022, when she opened Union Transfer for Murder By Death.  And while Adam Turla’s indie rock outfit are preparing to return to the Eraserhood venue for their last-ever...

“Going into that first record, I was kind of in disbelief it was happening at all, and didn’t know if it would ever come out.  For this one, I was dying to put something out…  I’m 35 now, and I was in my twenties for the first one,” says...