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“Whenever you do something really specific and personal you don’t know if people will be able to relate to it, so to see it resonate with people is so great,” says Charlie Martin of True Love, the latest LP from Texas indie pop duo Hovvdy. The album dropped last...
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Last Fall Chicago-based musician Lala Lala (Lillie West) released one of our very favorite pandemic albums, I Want The Door to Open, via Hardly Art. The album, the artist’s third, has already received a plethora of critical acclaim. Pitchfork said, “I Want the Door to Open slips into new...
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“I love Philly so much… It feels like an extension of New York or something, even though they’re so different,” singer/songwriter Margaret Glaspy tells me during a recent phone chat. Just last November the New York-based, folk-leaning musician opened Theatre of Living Arts for Ruston Kelly with a solo...
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I imagine than Toronto-based quartet Valley make the kind of pop that Butch Walker would love: vulgar, yet completely inoffensive. They know how to put on a helluva party, but a party which your parents are well aware of and hope is enjoyed by all of those who attend. ...
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Although she’s currently in the middle of her first-ever headlining tour, there’s a good chance that country music fans of Philadelphia are already familiar with Hailey Whitters. 2019 saw the Iowa-born, Nashville-based singer/songwriter supporting Maren Morris at The Met and just last November she opened for Midland at the...
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The last time I spoke to Mica Tenenbaum, one-half of electro-based, experimental indie-pop duo Magdalena Bay (whose biggest influences include Gwen Stefani, Britney Spears, Charli XCX, and Grimes), was in March of 2020, when the band was just about to kick off sold-out tours supporting Yumi Zouma and Kero...
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Last week UK pop phenom Griff and Norwegian electropop chanteuse Sigrid released the most uplifting jam 2022 has had yet, “Head on Fire.” The collaboration began when the two shared a pizza at the Reuben Selby show at Fashion Week in London and quickly started bonding over life as...
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2021 produced a plethora of noteworthy releases, but I haven’t found myself namedropping any as “album of the year” as much as UPSAHL’s Lady Jesus. The debut LP from the Phoenix-based singer/songwriter is a raunchy, alt. pop wet-dream-come-true of party-playlist-perfected bangers… quite a feat, considering that the last time...
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Fans of Provo, Utah-based indie rockers The Backseat Lovers are likely beyond excited that the band has currently lapped themselves, tour-wise, with two legs of their current tour already on the books, including more than one stop in a handful of markets, and Philadelphia just happens to be one...
“Whenever you do something really specific and personal you don’t know if people will be able to relate to it, so to see it resonate with people is so great,” says Charlie Martin of True Love, the latest LP from Texas indie pop duo Hovvdy. The album dropped last...
Last Fall Chicago-based musician Lala Lala (Lillie West) released one of our very favorite pandemic albums, I Want The Door to Open, via Hardly Art. The album, the artist’s third, has already received a plethora of critical acclaim. Pitchfork said, “I Want the Door to Open slips into new...
