Underground Arts

This July, British indie rockers Wet Leg – founded by frontwoman Rhian Teasdale and lead guitarist Hester Chambers — dropped moisturizer, their sophomore full-length and follow-up to 2022’s charmingly crass and ineffably infectious self-titled debut (the first-ever UK number 1 album courtesy of an Isle of Wight act), both...

Last month I caught up with my phriends Tchotchke, whose 2022 self-titled debut LP proved to be the best sunshine punk record since I came up with designation to describe the sonic aesthetic of Beach Day (whose Kimmy Drake credited me with creating a genre).  However, the sounds of...

“I think we’ve had some bad luck with Philly.  It doesn’t seem like Philly likes us.  We played two basements, and one was like 10 people and an active leak, and at the other one college kids got held at gunpoint,” says a half-joking Victoria Winter, Brazilian-American bandleader of...

As all serious music fans in the Mid-Atlantic know, this week is the official/unofficial start of touring season (“Fall Edition”), so hopefully we’ve all gotten enough sleep throughout the summer to spend 4-7 nights of each of the next 12 weeks or so in the city’s nightclubs, barrooms, listening...

Regardless of what you may have heard, the best industrial show you’ll see this week (and likely this year) will take place tonight, 8/28, when Youth Code bring the Industrial Worship Tour to Underground Arts, which the LA-based EBM duo opened for their buddies (and ours) HEALTH in April...

“With this record, I was like, ‘I’m gonna make this song and I’m gonna see who’s around to help out,’” says Golden Apples’ Russell Edling of Shooting Star, the Philadelphia indie rockers’ fourth full-length, which drops September 19th on their longtime home, Lame-O Records.  The album was recorded across...

“Our live show is always very happy, even if it is a bit rowdy.  My anger that I express is cathartic, I don’t ever point it at the audience…  It’s a place to let out the anger,” says Kelli Mayo, co-founder and co-frontwoman of self-professed “ugly pop” (their own...

“I heard that it doesn’t smell like trash in Philadelphia anymore,” says Nathan Williams, vocalist, guitarist, and founder of San Diego alternative rockers Wavves, before expressing his solidarity with the until-recently-striking union: “Power to the people!”  However, I hear a collective, “Ohhhh,” from the entirety of the band when...

Experimental rock outfit Deerhoof are currently celebrating their 20th album and 31st year (That’s china and a clock, for gifting purposes.)  April 25th saw the release of Noble and Godlike in Ruin via Joyful Noise, followed by the first leg of the 31 Flavours Tour, which kicked off the...