johnny brenda’s

“I think Philly is such a hub for interesting, smart, unique individuals who are into culture, and they’re the smartest people,” says LA-based indie folk singer/songwriter Lily Kershaw during a recent phone interview which evolved into a nearly-three-hour chat about slightly obscure classic cocktails (Are there any places in...

Bay Area slowcore outfit Sour Widows – comprised of guitarists/vocalists Susanna Thomson and Maia Sinaiko, drummer Max Edelman, and bassist Timmy Stabler – just released their debut LP, Revival Of A Friend (the follow-up to 2021’s sophomore EP, Crossing Over), this June on Exploding In Sound Records, but they...

US audiences have now been patiently waiting for almost nine months for London singer/songwriter Marika Hackman’s first North American tour in more than five years, announced late this January, shortly after the release of her self-produced (along with Sam Petts-Davies and longtime collaborator Charlie Andrew) fourth LP, Big Sigh,...

Portland, Oregon’s Pure Bathing Culture are longtime phriends of PHILTHY (We first met them in September of 2014, while they were on tour with Tennis.), but I’m pretty sure they haven’t headlined the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection in close to a decade… and I haven’t gotten...

“It was the first song we wrote that felt like it was part of the Macro world, and we wrote the initial version with only guitar and voice which was a new process for us,” said Brijean Murphy – percussionist/singer/songwriter and one-half of Oakland-based psychedelic pop outfit Brijean, alongside multi-instrumentalist/producer...

“Something crazy always happens in Philly!  Not in like a bad way, but the last time at Johnny Brenda’s our drummer’s brother got really drunk and jumped up onstage with us, and then someone stole my chains off the stage,” says Angela Gail Mattson – one-half of Grand Rapids-based...

The last time we caught up with Washington DC-based indie pop trio SHAED – comprised of multi-instrumentalist twin brothers Spencer and Max Ernst, along with lead vocalist Chelsea Lee, Spencer’s wife – was in February of 2019, when the family band was about to embark on their first-ever headlining...

Just last March we saw Quasi – Janet Weiss and Sam Coomes – return to Johnny Brenda’s in support of Breaking the Balls of History, both their tenth studio LP and their first studio LP in ten years, in addition to their first for Sub Pop.  However, the Portland...

Earlier this month Nate Amos (of Water From Your Eyes) released Box for Buddy, Box for Star, the first “official” album from This Is Lorelei (which dropped courtesy of Double Double Whammy), a solo project whose music he’s been self-releasing online since 2014.  The album — whose origins date...