Union Transfer

This Wednesday, April 22nd, The Antlers will play their most intimate local show in well over a decade when they come to Johnny Brenda’s on the final night of headlining dates behind 2025’s Blight, the seventh full-length from Peter Silberman’s indie rock project.  The North American dates — which...

Philly’s own heavy shoegaze band, Nothing, headlined at Union Transfer last Saturday, completing the US leg of their spring tour. Their fifth studio album, a short history of decay, was released in February with Run For Cover Records. With supporting acts like Violent Magic Orchestra, Cryogeyser, and Full Body...

“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...

Lindsey Jordan and Snail Mail hold an extra special place in my heart… not just because they’re phucking great, but because we hail from the same hometown of Ellicott City, Maryland (Also home of the nightclub scene in John Waters’ Female Trouble).  The last time Snail Mail headlined the...

This past Friday, April 3rd, experimental metal band Sunn O))) dropped their self-titled album, their 10th full-length and first for Sub Pop.  The LP was recorded at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington in January 2025 and co-produced by Brad Wood, best known for his work with Liz Phair,...

Last week alternative/electro-pop trio Cannons kicked off the Afterglow Tour, a co-headlining jaunt with electronic duo Bob Moses, whose opening duties are being handled by Oxis, the marine electronica artist who you may have seen opening The Fillmore for Magdalena Bay last October (captured by our live photographer, Morgan...

“Bewitched was the first album when we were really a proper band, that we’d done as a quartet; we did Lunapark as a trio.  Bewitched is the first record that really felt like Luna to me,” says Dean Wareham, founder and frontman of the legendary NYC band, who will...

You may have recently heard Yumi Zouma’s Charlie Ryder on Y-Not Radio, the home of Philthy Radio.  Earlier this month, the guitarist/bassist/keyboardist of the New Zealand indie-rockers did a Y-Not Radio Takeover (now streaming) where he took some time to discuss and spin tracks from the band’s fifth LP,...

“Hell yeah, we really love Philadelphia!  Philadelphia’s one of our very favorite cities and we don’t think it gets enough love,” says an exceptionally enthusiastic Joseph Settine, frontman and co-founder of Nashville-based indie rockers The Brook & The Bluff.  He mentions a show at Johnny Brenda’s as being one...