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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...
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My first encounter with David Bazan’s Pedro the Lion came in November of 2002 when he played Washington DC’s The Black Cat, which had recently relocated to a few doors down the street. Pedro the Lion were touring their third LP, Control, a concept album revolving around a businessman...
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It’s a big day for mercury, the Tennessee-based indie rock project of Maddie Kerr. This morning they released short film “Together We Are One, You And I” – a collaboration with producer Alex Farrar (Indigo De Souza, Snail Mail, Waxahatchee, Squirrel Flower, Wednesday, Plains…) and filmmaker Harrison Shook –...
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Hyper-melodic folk and shoegaze-inspired indie rock duo Babehoven, comprised of Maya Bon and Ryan Albert, found themselves in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection twice last year in very different settings… In March they opened an exceptionally quiet show for Naima Bock at The Lounge at World...
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Chicago-based Americana singer/songwriter/guitarist Elizabeth Moen seems to be familiar with a lot of friends of PHILTHY… She’s shared stages with the likes of Margaret Glaspy, Lissie, and Buck Meek, and even performed as a guitarist for Squirrel Flower in 2021… And last year Moen released Wherever You Aren’t, her...
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Polyvinyl indie folk artist Ella Williams, better known as Squirrel Flower, has the unique distinction of being the very last artist I got to see perform live before the pandemic shut down any and all legitimate forms of live musical performance for a year-and-a-half. Squirrel Flower was headlining The...
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It’s well established that an indie act has officially “made it” when no one in attendance to one of their sold-out shows seems to have ever attended a concert before… This was certainly the case for Soccer Mommy’s September 18th stop at Union Transfer, which had what appeared to...
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It’s hard to imagine a bigger change in setting than going from a DIY/BYOB batting cage in Kensington to a dinner theatre listening room on the campus of UPenn, but that just happens to be the case for folky singer/songwriter Ella O’Connor Williams — better known as Squirrel Flower...
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...
My first encounter with David Bazan’s Pedro the Lion came in November of 2002 when he played Washington DC’s The Black Cat, which had recently relocated to a few doors down the street. Pedro the Lion were touring their third LP, Control, a concept album revolving around a businessman...
