hip-hop

  • Kim Gordon, Back in Eraserhood

    While 2024 has already given us opportunities to see “classic albums” by Ride, The Charlatans, and Deap Vally in their entirety (the first two on the same night), I was equally entranced by Kim Gordon’s front-to-back performance of her 2024 LP, The Collective, this past Friday (6/14) at Union...
  • ZZ Ward: “My main inspiration at this point in my career is to just keep putting out music that moves me.” (9/6 at WCL)

    “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,...
  • Have a “SO SEXY” Saturday at The Foundry with Coco & Clair Clair (4/8)

    “I feel like we’ve been playing shows since we had like one song.  And we were playing shows, and we would do cover songs to fill up the time.  I feel like the shows came first, and then really diving into the music making process has been a slow...
  • Meet BAYLI, 11/13 at UT (w/ Magdalena Bay)

    BAYLI is currently our favorite alt-pop-phenom-on-the-rise to emerge from the confines of lockdown-inspired internet fandom.  “She makes bops for the it-girl that resides in all of us,” says The Face.  The queer, Black singer/songwriter first made a major splash on her own with 2021’s stories from new york EP,...
  • Purity Ring Returns to The Road (6/27 at UT)

    Having released their third LP, WOMB, in April of 2020, “future pop” connoisseurs Purity Ring never got a chance to properly tour the album’s songs, which each serve as a coming-of-age tale of a female protagonist as they are forced to face the deepest-cutting traumas of modernism, which Pitchfork...
  • Philthy Gets a Preview of Baby Tate’s Upcoming Single at a Sold-Out Fillmore

    This coming Friday, April 29th, Baby Tate (formerly known as Yung Baby Tate) is set to drop dual single “Dancing Queen”/“Yasss Queen,” also known as The Queen Pack.  However, the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was treated to live renditions of the two tracks last Monday, April...
  • BLACKSTARKIDS: “It’s the three of us just bonding.” (11/2 at UT w/ beabadoobee)

    Upon asking them if they’ve noticed patterns amongst their fans and earliest supporters, BLACKSTARKIDS tell me, “They’re always really cool every time.  There must be a correlation .”  The band, that oozes early 2000s nostalgia, kick out a brand of jams that Alternative Press characterized as a “sunny version...
  • Breland Talks Cross Country (9/22 at MilkBoy)

    “I’m in service to the songs.  And what I mean when I say that is songs kind of have a life of their own.  There’s an energy when creating a song where I want the song to do what the song wants to do and not necessarily what I...
  • New Years Day, “Still Heavy” (Saturday at Franklin Music Hall, w/ In This Moment)

    I can’t think of a better way to start getting amped for Halloween than to join female-fronted, horror-inspired, alternative metalheads In This Moment and New Years Day this Saturday, October 19th, at Franklin Music Hall.  Headliners...