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“I don’t care about surprising people.  I don’t care about anything other than having a song in me and getting it out that day,” says Harry Springer, the composer, producer, and performer behind Brooklyn-based Moon Walker, his alter-ego, who has already released two full-lengths since the start of the...

“We don’t have a label.  It’s like our fans are our record label!” says Addie Nicole Amick, vocalist for metalcore trio Halocene, alongside husband and guitarist Bradley Amick and drummer Joseph Polizzi.  The band, whose Maleficent EP drops this Friday, May 19th, have been making music since 2008, but...

Taleen Kali and I have been Twitter buddies for a few years now, so I was super bummed to have to miss her debut performance in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection when she played Ortlieb’s last October…  However, she and her band will be back in...

“We love Philly!” says Kelley Nicole Dugan and Mina Walker, better known as Daisy the Great, who played the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection twice last year, with a March Date opening for half•alive at Union Transfer and a December date supporting The Happy Fits at Theatre...

This February New York indie pop duo Overcoats (JJ Mitchell and Hana Elion) brought a preview of their third LP, Winner, to The Music Hall at World Café Live for a WXPN Free at Noon Concert.  Well, the album officially dropped April 7th, and Mitchell and Elion are already...

“It feels like a reclaiming of self, or an assertion of self.  Releasing music under a moniker was always a way to distance myself,” says Kristine Leschper, previously known as the person behind Mothers, but who last year released her official solo debut, The Opening, Or Closing Of A...

“We’re adapting to a sort of different energy just because we’re older , and things that we’ve had to do because of the pandemic.  We’re trying to be a little less crazy and a little more musical,” says Mike Haliechuk, guitarist, songwriter, and producer for Canadian hardcore punk legends...

This Friday, April 7th, will see the release of Warm Blanket, the fourth full-length from Worriers, the musical outlet of LA-based punk rock singer/songwriter and visual artist Lauren Denitzio, who recorded and mixed the record entirely on their own, despite no proper training in audio recording.  The album, which...

Here at PHILTHY MAG, we’re big fans of Saddle Creek Records, home to Ada Lea, Big Thief, Indigo De Souza, Land of Talk, and The Rural Alberta Advantage.  And last month I got a chance to get to know Katherine Paul (or KP), better known as Black Belt Eagle...