New York

“I’m excited to go on tour with Built to Spill!” says Kassie Carlson, front person of New York art rockers – and longtime PHILTHY phriends – Guerilla Toss, who played their umpteenth show at Johnny Brenda’s less than two months ago, a venue Carlson tells me she’s a big...

You may have seen Long Island-based melodic metalcore outfit Deadlands opening our very own Brooklyn Bowl for “bimbocore” originator Scene Queen and sapphic pop star girli (who you may have heard on Philthy Radio) this July.  However, this Tuesday, December 16th, the band — comprised of singer Kasey Karlsen...

*Unfortunately, Jenna Nicholls’ 11/30 show at City Winery has been cancelled. “This is definitely the most fully-realized album that I’ve done in terms of sonic professionalism.  It’s definitely more sophisticated musicianship… The writing is the strongest that I’ve done so far,” says singer/songwriter Jenna Nicholls of her recently released...

Shoegaze/noise rock quartet Laveda firmly cemented their status as a NYC band with the September 12th release of LP #3, Love, Darla (which dropped via Bar/None Records), an album both sonically and thematically inspired by frontwoman Ali Genevich and guitarist Jake Brooks’ 2023 move from Albany to Queens.  However,...

The last time Brooklyn indie pop duo (and phriends of PHILTHY) Daisy the Great were in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was March of last year, when they were opening The Fillmore’s 2,500-capacity main room for The Kooks and The Vaccines (Their recent history has also...

“I think we’ve had some bad luck with Philly.  It doesn’t seem like Philly likes us.  We played two basements, and one was like 10 people and an active leak, and at the other one college kids got held at gunpoint,” says a half-joking Victoria Winter, Brazilian-American bandleader of...

As all serious music fans in the Mid-Atlantic know, this week is the official/unofficial start of touring season (“Fall Edition”), so hopefully we’ve all gotten enough sleep throughout the summer to spend 4-7 nights of each of the next 12 weeks or so in the city’s nightclubs, barrooms, listening...

“You can expect a trio of clam aliens screaming about butter,” says Tea Eater songwriter and frontperson Tarra Thiessen (also of Gustaf, Sharkmuffin, and MamajoeVramajoe) when I ask what’s in store for those who come out to the self-assessed “weirdo art punk” band’s show tomorrow, August 13th, at Nikki...

“This feels the most like me, in this moment, sonically and lyrically.  I spoke more on how I thought the songs should go, giving myself permission to take up space and reflect how I feel and own that, and advocate for myself in small ways…  I think there’s a...