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This coming Saturday LA duo Automatic — comprised of Izzy Glaudini and Halle Saxon — kick off a month-and-a-half-long North American tour at Levitation 2026, where they’ll appear alongside PHILTHY phavorites Peter Hook & The Light, SINE, and Pearl & The Oysters.  And September 22nd they’ll play their biggest...

I’m not gonna lie, we’re still pretty bummed that Philadelphia missed out on Kacey Musgraves’ Deeper Well World Tour, the 2024 jaunt behind her eponymously named sixth studio album, making it nearly five years since we’ve seen the eight-time GRAMMY-winning musician who manages to merge the best aspects of...

It’s been less than a year since we’ve seen Jo Passed — the indie rock/experimental pop band of Toronto-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Jo Hirabayashi — in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection, with their last local show at West Philly DIY venue The Pouch in...

“I try to connect on a human level while performing.  Some artists I like put on more of a show, and I think about how I could incorporate some more showy elements, but I really just wanna connect, to have a human-to-human connection,” says PINKNOISE, aka Kacey Foxx, an...

Last month LA-based, Paris-bred lounge pop duo Pearl & The Oysters – comprised of Juliette Pearl Davis (Juju) and Joachim Polack (Jojo) – released Monkey Mind, their sixth full-length and third for Stones Throw (also home to our phriend Sofie Royer).  The album, easily one of the year’s best,...

Tonight is the July edition of Philthy Radio (9-11pm ET on Y-Not Radio), which will feature a block of some of my favorite music of the first half of 2026, including the most poignant and potent track off of Empty Hands, the seventh full-length from Poppy and best metal...

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...

This Friday, June 26th, Montreal duo Born At Midnite — comprised of visual artist and pop musician Amery Sandford (whose solo project, Amery, you may have seen supporting Molly Nilsson last September at Johnny Brenda’s) and David Carriere, producer, songwriter, and guitarist in TOPS (who you may have seen...

Earlier this month English singer/songwriter and Polydor recording artist Holly Humberstone sold out her fifth consecutive show in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection when she returned to Theatre of Living Arts on June 9th.  (Her first area appearance was supporting girl in red at Union Transfer...