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“With this album, I have a team in the States for the first time in like 15 years…  Rough Trade dropped me in 2012, and I haven’t really had support in the States since then, so with this tour, it really feels like, ‘Okay, we’re giving it another shot!’...

You may have already heard earlier today that October 2nd is the official release date for when no one’s watching, the debut full-length from Los Angeles alternative rockers wilt… who you may have seen opening The Foundry for Remo Drive in 2024… or maybe you caught them at Kung...

At the top of the month, Emmy-nominated duo VOILÀ – comprised of Luke Eisner and Gus Ross – announced the Moonbloom tour, which will have the fully independent band (best known for 2020 single “Figure You Out”) bringing their love for pop rock and magic to mega stages of...

Tomorrow, June 17th, KELS — an Atlanta-based artist who’s made a name for herself blending jazz, pop, and soul in a manner that has earned the attention of Big Boi and Timbaland — will be performing a long-sold-out show at Kung Fu Necktie.  However, we’re just as excited about...

We last saw NYC indie-poppers (and dear phriends of PHILTHY) Daisy the Great this past September when the duo headlined the 140-capacity Kung Fu Necktie — their most intimate stop in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection in more than half a decade — on their first...

Those who’ve had the reissue of Flipper’s Generic Flipper — the debut LP from the legendary San Francisco punks — in heavy rotation since it was made available for the first time in a decade last month, via San Francisco label Superior Viaduct, will be excited to know that...

Ugly Duckling Union, the third full-length from New York-based duo Lowertown, Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg, is set to drop May 22nd via Summer Shade, but it’s already produced a handful of our phavorite songs of 2026. This includes lead single “I Like You A Lot,” a ‘90s-alt-rocky love...

The last time we saw Latin alternative pop singer/songwriter VALÉ in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was October of last year when she opened a sold-out Theatre of Living Arts for alt-pop sibling duo (and America’s Got Talent quarterfinalists) BETWEEN FRIENDS.  And the time before that...

Last month, Albany-based metalcore quartet Downswing dropped “For What It’s Worth” (featuring Colorblind’s Travis Moseley), the lead single off of And Everything Was Dark, their sophomore full-length and first for MNRK, which hits shelves October 24th.  They also announced a tour with He Is Legend [celebrating (almost) 20 years...