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  • Snail Mail: “I love hearing Nirvana comparisons.” (4/5 and 4/6 at UT)

    March 31, 2022
    Last week Lindsey Jordan, better known as Snail Mail, played her first post-lockdown show at Idaho’s Treefort Music Festival.  The performance was the first since Snail Mail’s critically acclaimed sophomore LP, Valentine, and since Lindsey had surgery to correct vocal cord polyps, which delayed the tour.  However, the album,...

  • Madi Diaz: “This hasn’t been like crazy, Miley Cyrus success, but still…” (4/10 and 4/11 at UT w/ Waxahatchee)

    March 28, 2022
    “Fucking Kathleen Hanna Tweeted about my record and I literally shat my pants!  I’m literally thinking of getting that Tweet printed on a fucking shirt!” Madi Diaz tells me during a recent phone chat.  The last time I talked to the Nashville-based artist was last August, just prior to...

  • UPSAHL: “Everyone should be ready to rage!” (1/15 at The Foundry)

    January 11, 2022
    2021 produced a plethora of noteworthy releases, but I haven’t found myself namedropping any as “album of the year” as much as UPSAHL’s Lady Jesus.  The debut LP from the Phoenix-based singer/songwriter is a raunchy, alt. pop wet-dream-come-true of party-playlist-perfected bangers… quite a feat, considering that the last time...

  • Indigo De Souza: “Things always have been changing and always are changing.” (1/30 at UT)

    January 10, 2022
    Last September Asheville-based indie rock singer/songwriter Indigo De Souza played a sold-out show at Eraserhood’s exceptionally intimate PhilaMOCA.  However, she’s already returning to David Lynch’s former neighborhood, this time to play across the street, at the much larger Union Transfer on Sunday, January 30th.  But, during a recent phone...

  • Welcome Back Live Music w/ Japanese Breakfast and UT

    August 3, 2021
    Although there have been a small handful of live concerts throughout Philadelphia over the course of the summer, The City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection will have its unofficial welcome back to live music with Japanese Breakfast, who will be headlining a record five sold out nights at...

  • Checking in with Pure Bathing Culture

    March 30, 2016
    This Saturday, April 2nd, Philly is hosting a lot of PHILTHY’s favorite musical friends, including Worriers at Boot & Saddle and Sleepy Kitty at MilkBoy, but there’s nothing we’re more excited about than our good buddies Pure Bathing Culture, the Portland-based ethereal pop duo, who will be playing a...