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“I think my favorite reactions are the ones that tend to be slightly confused, like, ‘This is pop punk,’ then, ‘This is totally not pop punk,’ or ‘Oh, shit, they’re heavy! I didn’t know they were that heavy,” says Ashrita Kumar, vocalist of Pinkshift, regarding the way their music...
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“The capacity to get destroyed is insane,” says John Famiglietti, bassist and electronic specialist for noisy industrial rockers HEALTH. He’s discussing the Psycho Las Vegas festival, where he recently found himself DJing cyberpunk and EBSM late into the night, alongside a plethora of PHILTHY’s favorite metal-ish acts, including Boris,...
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Yesterday Ryan Guldemond, frontman of “Canada’s biggest alternative-rock band,” Mother Mother, premiered the debut single from GLDMTH, a solo art project that combines Guldemond’s music, photography, videography, and poetry, and whose self-titled debut LP is set to drop September 24th on Warner Records. The song, “The People,” is somewhere...
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“In terms of older songs, we play mostly what our fans want to hear, which some artists may think is a bitch move, but whatever,” says Derek E. Miller, guitarist/producer and one-half of Sleigh Bells (alongside vocalist Alexis Krauss), reflecting on the band’s current live show in relation to...
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Today sees the release of Sonder, the sophomore LP from pop rock troubadours The Wrecks (along with the music video for the album’s title track) and the catchiest and most pogo-able breakup album of the year, which vocalist/producer Nick Anderson tells me is the most potent batch of songs...
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This Sunday, June 5th, the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection will have its live debut of two of 2022’s best releases when bedroom pop stars mxmtoon and Chloe Moriondo play Theatre of Living Arts. Headlining the evening is mxmtoon, who’s touring behind her second studio album, rising,...
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This Monday, March 28th, Theatre of Living Arts was at full capacity for emerging pop star Tate McRae, whose resale tickets — according to gossip heard while waiting in a line that wrapped well around the block – were apparently going for up to $800. And while the 18-year-old...
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The last time the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection saw viral-performance-artist-turned-pop-star Poppy was February of 2020, when she last appeared at Theatre of Living Arts, supporting her recently released third LP, I Disagree, which had the candy-coated cyber princess transform into a legit metal vixen (The album...
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“As a band, we’re not married to a certain kind of music, other than that sound that makes it Petite Amie. We’re really open,” says Isa Dosal, one of two vocalists in Mexico City-based indie pop outfit Petite Amie. Guitarist Carlos Medina (bassist of Little Jesus, who play the...
“I think my favorite reactions are the ones that tend to be slightly confused, like, ‘This is pop punk,’ then, ‘This is totally not pop punk,’ or ‘Oh, shit, they’re heavy! I didn’t know they were that heavy,” says Ashrita Kumar, vocalist of Pinkshift, regarding the way their music...
“The capacity to get destroyed is insane,” says John Famiglietti, bassist and electronic specialist for noisy industrial rockers HEALTH. He’s discussing the Psycho Las Vegas festival, where he recently found himself DJing cyberpunk and EBSM late into the night, alongside a plethora of PHILTHY’s favorite metal-ish acts, including Boris,...
