Kim Gordon

  • Pure Bathing Culture: “We’ve never tried to recreate our records track for track in a live context…” (8/22 at MilkBoy)

    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...
  • 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...
  • The Breeders Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Last Splash, Live at The Fillmore (9/20)

    This past Wednesday, August 30th, was the official Pearl Anniversary of The Breeders’ Last Splash, the sophomore LP from the alternative rock legends, featuring ‘90s classics like “Saints,” “No Aloha,” and “Cannonball,” the ineffably anthemic track inspired (at least in part) by the Marquis de Sade, whose Kim-Gordon-and-Spike-Jonze-directed music...
  • Lucy Dacus’ Home Video and 10 More Gems from Matador Records

    This Friday, June 25th, sees the release of Lucy Dacus’ third LP, Home Video, courtesy of Matador.  The album chronicles the existential ins and outs of Dacus’ formative years in Richmond, VA.  Her fourth and latest single, “Brando,” tells the tale of a high school friend obsessed with Old...