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“The first time I visited Philly I just remember there was a huge Carvana!” laughs Margaret Sohn, the New York-based, Korean-American electronic musician behind Miss Grit, referencing their first trip to Fishtown, which had Miss Grit opening The Fillmore for indie rock veterans Metric in October of 2022. The...
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The City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection just saw Oklahoma indie rockers BRONCHO this past July when they played a sold-out Friday night show at Johnny Brenda’s amidst a tour supporting the quartet’s fifth full-length, Natural Pleasure, which dropped earlier that year. However, BRONCHO are already set to...
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“I love going to Philly! I’m really a Philly head. I’m wearing a full body 2 shirt right now! That’s my favorite band,” says Uriel Avila, vocalist of Fort Worth shoegazers trauma ray, who are hitting the road for a double-headlining tour with Glixen whose first 15 dates will...
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Lindsey Jordan and Snail Mail hold an extra special place in my heart… not just because they’re phucking great, but because we hail from the same hometown of Ellicott City, Maryland (Also home of the nightclub scene in John Waters’ Female Trouble). The last time Snail Mail headlined the...
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This coming Wednesday, April 15th, delightfully theatrical London five-piece The Last Dinner Party will be returning to the 215 to headline Franklin Music Hall, a room 12 times the size of the venue they played the last time they were in town. However, we’re just as excited about Irish...
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You may have recently heard Yumi Zouma’s Charlie Ryder on Y-Not Radio, the home of Philthy Radio. Earlier this month, the guitarist/bassist/keyboardist of the New Zealand indie-rockers did a Y-Not Radio Takeover (now streaming) where he took some time to discuss and spin tracks from the band’s fifth LP,...
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“Hell yeah, we really love Philadelphia! Philadelphia’s one of our very favorite cities and we don’t think it gets enough love,” says an exceptionally enthusiastic Joseph Settine, frontman and co-founder of Nashville-based indie rockers The Brook & The Bluff. He mentions a show at Johnny Brenda’s as being one...
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“We’ll be mostly just trying our best to bring these songs to life in a live setting,” says Minneapolis-based indie rock singer/songwriter runo plum, who is about to hit the road for a North American headlining tour behind her debut full-length, patching, which dropped last November via Winspear (home...
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This October, the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection got a live preview of, what is thus far, our favorite album of 2026, when Ailbhe Reddy opened MilkBoy for Will Varley, her final show of 2025. The performance featured solo acoustic renditions of a handful of tracks from...