At the risk of having spent almost the entire morning indulging a wave of 1990s nostalgia, let us just say this: Though, as a rule, we disapprove of indie bands kickstarting their records, we came across this little video and came to the sudden realization that, if the 2010s are the new aimless 1990s, Fishtown [...]

Bands In The Backyard — aka BITBY – is a new local music blog whose premise is what it sounds like: They make videos of bands playing in backyards. The blog was started by Kyle Costill (ex-Trouble Everyday), and after a few run-thoughs (like the one above, featuring Ages), BITBY will premiere its first new [...]

Dirty Water EP by Royal Shoals Oh, there is a lot to love about Dirty Water, the debut EP by Philly’s Royal Shoals. Boasting exes from The Ropers, Saturday People, and Public Record, the Shoals dive deep into a pool of post-punk influences that we wish more bands would feel comfortable in — we’re talking [...]

Far-Out Fangtooth – What I Have Hurts (Music Video) from Far-Out Fangtooth on Vimeo. “What I Have Hurts” is two minutes and twenty-three seconds of totally satisfying crunch from locals Far Out Fangtooth. It’s the lead “single” off their upcoming debut LP, Pure and Disinterested, which drops (quite appropriately, we may add) on Siltbreeze Records [...]

1st & 15th Mixcast Vol 32 – Bo Bliz – Too Close Volume 3 by Crossfadedbacon on Mixcloud So just say thanks to Bo Bliz — his next gig is Saturday July 30th at Johnny Brenda’s, btw — and pick up some of them Pottery Barn candles on the way home from work. There’s only [...]

FUCKIN’ UP YOUNG by The Dirty Nil We like fuzz, pizza, vinyl, bad habits, beer, power chords, stompin’ tom, feedback, fuzz, anything with big knobs and blinking lights, dogs (fuck cats/fuzz cats), coffee, haters, beer, fuzz bass, the replacements, not remembering the night before, quentin tarantino, tube amps, waffles, analog, swearing, distorted anything, willie nelson, [...]

>>> Color us stoked to dig into the new one from Philly’s own Nikki Jean, whose new Pennies In A Jar sees her pulling a sweet throwback move and going all Dusty In Memphis with producer Sam Hollander. The result, from the few tracks we’ve scoped so far, sounds like the middle point between Mark [...]

What You Mean To We by Black Landlord Black Landlord, Philly’s resident drunk-ass party band featuring Maxx Stoyanoff-Williams from the legendary Goats, just put their new EP, What You Mean To We up on Bandcamp, complete with cover art so ridiculous it’s worth it just have that image somewhere, anywhere, on your computer. The party-funk [...]

You know us: We generally go for the, uh, what would be called in less genteel circles, er, “pussy music.” But even us art fags like to rock out once in a while. And though it’s true that seeing Dinosaur Jr. perform the Bug album in its entirety is plenty to get excited about — [...]

The fourth annual Popped! Festival is set to announce its full lineup on Monday, but this morning Pitchfork reported some of the artists you’ll see there. The Shins, The Hold Steady, Panda Bear, Girl Talk, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Cults, YouTube favorite Kreayshawn, and rap legend Rakim will all be playing at [...]

We could get into a big long thing about how Guided By Voices was one of the top five rock and roll things we’ve ever seen (cemented at the secret Khyber show they played under the moniker “Burning Assholes” sometime in the mid-1990s and never, ever forgotten), but if you’ve read this far, you must [...]

“Baby Missles” is the first MP3 to surface from the new War On Drugs album, Slave Ambient, which is out Aug. 16 on Secretly Canadian and is already being said to be the best WOD record ever. Seriously. Right-click here to download it. Vibes.

Everything I know about being a man, I learned from Lloyd Cole. Alright, that is a ridiculous thing to say, but consider it this way: In my mid-1980s high school musical diet of Lloyd, Morrissey and Robert Smith, Lloyd was really the only one in any kind of position to speak to The Big Important [...]

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Phosphorescent – Hey That’s No Way To Say Goodbye by DOJAGSC Roll the credits on everything that’s not this epic new summer. Previously: Real Talk: Phosphorescent Was One Of The Best Bands We Have Seen In Years. YEARS.

“Old-School” R&B singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Raphael Saadiq is playing tomorrow night at the Electric Factory, and we want to give you some tickets. Supporting his newest record, Stone Rollin’, Saadiq is sure to put on a great show. To enter to win tickets, email ihopeiwin[at]philebrity[dot]com with “STONE ROLLIN” in the subject header. You’ll automatically [...]

Philebrity has learned that the artist and Philly punk legend Mikey Wild passed away around 8:30AM this morning. Like many of you, we first encountered Mikey on South Street in the 1980s, where he was the Street’s de facto Mayor and bard. Mikey could be funny, Mikey could be perverse, but no matter what, he [...]

>>> Every couple of years, filmmaker/musician/Philebrity commenter Shawn Kilroy comes at us with a new record or band, each more elusively vibe-y than the one before. This week, he unveils his newest creation, Weird Hot, a seven-piece band playing its debut album, Casimir, on Thursday, at Johnny Brenda’s with like-minded locals Gemini Wolf. We’ve cued [...]

The Kimmel Center is calling for local singers, bands, and musicians to partake in that most modern of dues-paying efforts: A YouTube talent search. The winning act (which will be voted on by the public on Facebook) will perform at The Kimmel’s Summer Solstice Celebration on June 18th. Voting on the top 5 finalists will [...]

MOOMBAHTON by T&ARecords What is Moombahton? If you haven’t heard of it yet, soon you will. It has gone from being a weird experiment — a record played at the wrong speed by the right DJ — to a global movement of Latin electronic dance music that has piqued the interest of the BBC and [...]