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“I love going to Philly!  I’m really a Philly head.  I’m wearing a full body 2 shirt right now!  That’s my favorite band,” says Uriel Avila, vocalist of Fort Worth shoegazers trauma ray, who are hitting the road for a double-headlining tour with Glixen whose first 15 dates will...

Yesterday, British singer/songwriter Billie Marten kicked off her current Stateside run with a late-afternoon set at this year’s edition of Treefort Music Fest in Boise. And tonight she officially commences a three-week solo headlining run of the US, which will conclude with an April 18th stop at The Sanctuary...

“I was crossing the street last week and I passed by some girl in her car who yelled, ‘Syd Taylor!  I love your album!’  That’s never happened to me before , so I’m really enjoying meeting people out in the wild,” Syd Taylor herself tells me during a recent...

The time of year for live music is nearly gone, but there are still a handful of great shows coming to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection before 2024 calls it quits…  Tomorrow, December 14th, Irish brother/sister emo duo Greywind will make their Philthy debut when they...

This summer LA’s Cryogeyser dropped their first new music in almost three years, with a trio of singles (“Sorry,” “Blue Light,” and “Fortress”) that dropped in July, September, and October, respectively.  The singles are the first music to feature the band’s current lineup, which has guitarist/vocalist/mainperson Shawn Marom joined...

“I’m not really a concert person.  I honestly usually find it boring,” confesses Odie Leigh during a recent phone chat.  However, the Louisiana-born, Detroit-based singer/songwriter has been on the road pretty steadily for about a year and a half now, and has been touring behind her debut LP —...

This Friday, July 29th, gothic Western outfit Murder by Death will be releasing their ninth studio LP, Spell/Bound, which frontman Adam Turla tells me he is exceptionally excited about, during a recent phone chat: “I am really proud of this one.”  Like most albums being released these days, Turla...

South London-based quartet Dry Cleaning are likely the most qualified band of their generation to bring the “post-punk” tradition to moody, morose, and musically nerdy teens and twentysomethings that can’t find a feel for contemporary fads.  While their music is far from any sort of overpowering nod to the...

Grungy, garage-y alternative rockers Slothrust have been playing the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection for about a decade now, from house shows to the mega-stage of The Fillmore, where they opened for Manchester Orchestra last October.  Last September the Boston band released their fifth full-length, Parallel Timeline,...