HAIM

“I’m excited to kick it off in Philly!  I don’t know that I’ve ever started a tour in Philly, starting where my roots are!” says ZZ Ward.  The Bucks County native – whose parents grew up in the area and who lived there herself until she was around eight,...

“It’s gonna be a banger of a night,” says JOSEPH of their current headlining tour, not quite a sentiment often associated with shows at World Café Live (They’ll be playing The Music Hall of the singer/songwriter haven on Friday, June 23rd.)  The Portland-based folksy indie pop trio of sisters...

Not many musicians are acclaimed for their ability to excel in both country and R&B… and even fewer (if any… ever) can claim to be world-class yo-yo-ers…  However, all of these things are true of Atlanta-based singer/songwriter Faye Webster, who grew up playing country in a family of Americana...

“The first album was vegetarian, this one’s an omnivore,” says SASAMI of her sophomore LP, Squeeze, which dropped last month on Domino.  The singer/songwriter (who played synths in Cherry Glazerr from 2015-2018) is chatting with me via phone during a brief break between two headlining jaunts.  Squeeze follows-up SASAMI’s...

We’ve always been big fans of “sister acts” here at PHILTHY and there’s none that we’re more excited about at the moment than World-Folk duo Rising Appalachia, led by sisters Chloe Smith and Leah Song.  The band have been making music for more than a decade and are currently...

Every time Australian indie poppers San Cisco have played the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection they’ve made quite the big splash… However, it’s now been nearly four years since we’ve seen the quartet.  The last time we caught up with them was in June of 2015, when...

Although we at PHILTHY MAG are big fans of family acts (HAIM, The Staves, The Paper Kites, The Hunts, The Last Bison, etc.), it’s been a while since we’ve come across a new one for whom we really fell hard… However, later this month, twins Daniel and David, and...