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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...

“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...

Yesterday, British singer/songwriter Billie Marten kicked off her current Stateside run with a late-afternoon set at this year’s edition of Treefort Music Fest in Boise. And tonight she officially commences a three-week solo headlining run of the US, which will conclude with an April 18th stop at The Sanctuary...

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,...

“It’ll be a really intimate night for people who love songwriting and hearing the stories behind the songs,” says Emily Scott Robinson of the ESR Made Me Cry 2026 Tour, the trek behind Appalachia, the Colorado-based singer/songwriter’s fifth LP and third for John Prine’s Oh Boy Records, which dropped...

The City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection has grown accustomed to NYC gypsy punks Gogol Bordello (and their Casa Gogol labelmates) bringing their annual year-end holiday shows to our own Brooklyn Bowl.  So, we were a bit bummed that the closest their 2025 holiday jaunt came to the...

This Friday, March 13th, will see the release of Still There’s A Glow, the sophomore full-length from local icons Sweet Pill…  In the years since the release of 2022 debut LP Where the Heart Is, Sweet Pill has toured alongside the likes of La Dispute and The Wonder Years,...

Those who caught the latest edition of Philthy Radio (now streaming), my monthly radio show for Y-Not Radio, have heard “Lapdog,” a brand-new track courtesy of Indonesian trio Grrrl Gang, whose sounds are exactly what their name suggests in the best possible way.  The song is the final track...

“I was crossing the street last week and I passed by some girl in her car who yelled, ‘Syd Taylor!  I love your album!’  That’s never happened to me before , so I’m really enjoying meeting people out in the wild,” Syd Taylor herself tells me during a recent...