johnny brenda’s

Earlier this year, the founders/originators/inventors of twee (a designation that they themselves have mixed feelings about… preferring “indiepop”), Heavenly, released Highway To Heavenly, their fifth full-length and first in three decades…  The album, technically the follow-up to the UK band’s 1996 LP, Operation Heavenly, dropped on February 27th via...

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...

I’m sure you’re well aware of The Wonder Years’ upcoming six sold-out nights at Theatre of Living Arts…  However, we’re actually more excited about some of the bands they’re bringing along to handle support duties, such as Pool Kids (4/10), Future Teens (4/11), Spanish Love Songs (4/12), Queen of...

“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...

This Friday, February 27th, will see the release of the deluxe edition of Staring at the Sun, the 2024 sophomore full-length from Hotel Fiction, the Athens, GA-based duo of best friends Jade Long (piano, vocals) and Jess Thompson (guitar, vocals), who first met as students at the University of...

“It’s been a lot of touring in the past year.  I’ve never toured that much in a year before.  I’ve learned a lot about the logistics of touring and getting a band around the country,” laughs singer/songwriter Cornelia Murr, who serves as her own tour manager and has been...

Longtime PHILTHY phriends The Rural Alberta Advantage are currently a little more than halfway through a short US tour that will have them back in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection on February 18th at Johnny Brenda’s.  The Toronto band’s last (and first) show at Fishtown’s “mini...

This Tuesday Chicago post-country quartet Ratboys released “Penny in the Lake,” the fifth and final single ahead of their sixth studio album, Singin’ to an Empty Chair, which drops today courtesy of the band’s new home, New West Records (also home to PHILTHY phriends Emily Nenni, Esther Rose, Jaime...

“I’m really working on getting free on stage.  I’m normally quiet, being on stage isn’t my natural state, so I’ve been really loving this last year of playing shows, getting a new taste of being a bit more comfortable,” says Portland, Oregon-based singer/songwriter Anna Tivel, reflecting on her most...