Toronto

If you caught the latest episode of Philthy Radio (now streaming on Y-Not Radio), you heard “Robber,” the opening track and lead single of 2021’s Ignorance, the fifth studio album from The Weather Station, the indie rock/folk project of Toronto singer/songwriter Tamara Lindeman, who have become regulars on Philthy...

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...

You may have seen Toronto’s Jane Inc. opening The Foundry for Meg Remy’s U.S. Girls in spring of 2023, a tour that Carlyn Bezic tells me during a recent phone chat has proven to be a highlight of the project, allowing her to introduce her solo output to some...

Longtime PHILTHY phriends The Rural Alberta Advantage are currently a little more than halfway through a short US tour that will have them back in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection on February 18th at Johnny Brenda’s.  The Toronto band’s last (and first) show at Fishtown’s “mini...

This coming Saturday, December 13th, Toronto indie folk group Great Lake Swimmers will close out 2025 when they return to Center City’s premiere rock n’ roll barroom, MilkBoy, a venue frontman and founder Tony Dekker — during a recent chat — tells me he’s a big fan of, despite...

This Wednesday is opening night of what is likely to be the most exciting double-headlining tour of the fall, when longtime friends and collaborators PUP and Jeff Rosenstock (and openers Ekko Astral) team up to bring their no-frills DIY punk rock to massive nightclubs and ballrooms across the US. ...

This Friday, June 13th, MilkBoy will be playing host to the best double-headlining jaunt of the summer, The Go For Broke Tour, featuring Canadian punk rockers NOBRO and Bad Waitress (with our local buddies Puppy Angst opening the show for good measure!)   Montreal’s NOBRO are touring behind sophomore LP...

We first met LA/Toronto-based singer/songwriter Bria Salmena in the summer of 2021, just as live music was making a return.  Bria and longtime musical collaborator Duncan Hay Jennings – in addition to being one-half of Canadian post-punk group FRIGS, at the time the two were also members of Orville...

“I think we’re a bar band and we always kinda will be.  We’re bringing bar band energy wherever we’re playing,” says Paul Banwatt, drummer for Canadian indie rock outfit The Rural Alberta Advantage in a recent phone chat (During an interview last year, vocalist/guitarist Nils Edenloff echoed an alarmingly...