Ever want to know what it sounds like to go vintage shopping with a friend who spills all the details about their shitty ex in a distinctive mid-range vibrato?  Well this is the episode for you!Come join as we spend time with Portl...

This week we are in for a special treat as we "hop across the pond" and land in Dundee, Scotland to connect with innovative songwriter, composer and producer Theo Bleak, whose music resonates with a profound sense of place and reflection, someh...

The exciting supergroup Fantastic Cat is so great, we're featuring an episode on each one of it's members.  So with this endeavor, you get 5 nextfavbands!  You're welcome!  They are all that good - trust us.Our second Cat...

This week we jump back to the 1990s to hear the story of The JudyBats with frontman Jeff Heiskell.  This band has an incredible catalog and they reached the charts so you will probably recall a track or two of theirs if you were in your te...

I love when you discover music that just scratches that part of brain that wants to listen.  Cutting edge and fresh, but yet also calling back to that familiar sound of shoe-gazey grunge - Meg Elsier has just released some crazy great musi...

Happy New Year!  We kick off the year with The Hot Mamas - an all-female collective (coagulation?) full of depth and loaded with surprising instruments.  One member describes them as ... if you went to a junkyard and you had a...

Phillip and David tie a bow on 2024 and also look towards some exciting plans for 2025.First, they announce the line-up for Listen to the Dissonance 2025, which is hap...

Philadelphia-based radio station WXPN often asks listeners to submit top 10 lists for various types of music to be compiled, calculated, and ranked to produce a list of the 885 best, according to those that were submitted. This year, they dedic...

Tune in for our annual year-end extravaganza where we reflect back on all of the great interviews and experiences we've had during the year.In Part 2, we start with a very special premiere of music from The Christmas Sweaters: Alex Radu...

Tune in for our annual year-end extravaganza where we reflect back on all of the great interviews and experiences we've had during the year.In Part 1, Hear holiday music, performances, and messages from:- Judah Kim - "Weltanschauung...

One of the most lovely part of the holidays is traditions - and the Thanksgiving week episode is becoming one of our favs.  We will once again gather 'round the fire for some gratitude banter, this year with Cass Noelle.Cass Noelle...

The exciting supergroup Fantastic Cat is so great, we're featuring an episode on each one of it's members.  So with this endeavor, you get 5 nextfavbands!  You're welcome!  They are all that good - trust us.First up is th...

It's no secret how big a fan we are of Dirty Dollhouse - from Chelsea Mitchell's angelic, ethereal vocals, to her songwriting that is as clever as it is catchy - it hard to not be a card-carrying member of the Dirty Dollhouse fan club.T...

Get ready to for some swagger-injected bluesy rock!DUSTIN DOUGLAS & THE ELECTRIC GENTLEMEN’s dynamic, heavy, sexy & dirty, blues-influenced rock n’ roll bring vintage sound and vibe to modern ears.Fronted by the transcen...

Trick or Treat!!!  We had so much fun spending time with Drew & the Blue in their spooky garage, and we ask them to treat us to a 3 song set of their surf-punk rock-n-roll madness for a special exclusive performance to broadcast on Hal...

Get ready to Oogie Boogie!  We've been invited to join Drew & the Blue in their garage studio to take in some of their garage-kept surf-punk rock-n-roll madness, where they've recorded a bunch of their tracks, like their latest single ...

Born in West Philadelphia, Reef the Lost Cauze came up in hip-hop as a lethal battle-rap MC. He defeated opponents in all types of venues, from school grounds to grimy back alleys to professional competitions. His first two albums,...

As Dan Drago puts it - "there's no other festival quite like Philly Music Fest in any other city".  Started by Greg Seltzer and his wife Jenn back in 2017, Philly Music Fest has set out t...

Katie Feeney, the lead vocalist and songwriter for the Philly-based Outlaw Americana band Roberta Faceplant, is a honky tonk hurricane with a voice that blends the raw, rock n’ roll grit of Janis Joplin with the whimsical, western smoothness of...

Concerts for Democracy is a live concert and non-partisan workshop series focused on helping audience members find and use their voice towards positive change.  Headlined by world-renowned "art-ivist" Eljuri, this event brings the communit...

Join Phillip & David as they play catch-up - they'll recap everything that has happened since Musikfest, while trying not to reference the festival by name.  They'll touch on shows they've seen, concerts and festivals coming up in Oct,...

Approaching the release of their third album, we sit down with all 5 members of We're From Antarctica: Paco Brown, Jessie Rae, Jon Blanco, Mac Kressley, and Chris Rauch - who are all...in the band.We discuss their Antarctican origin sto...

Even when you hear the description "genre-defying electro-acoustic duo" that does not even begin to describe the brilliance that is ARKAI.  Jonathan Miron and Philip Sheegog are Julliard trained, but not limited by the constraints that cla...

What an incredible 10 days!  We can't wait to share all of the special moments we captured during Musikfest 2024.  Some really amazing performances.We also found several nextfavbands that we'll share who we're coordinating wit...

Musikfest 2024!  Our fav 10 days of the year are back and we return to providing daily guidance on what bands to see each day along with bringing on a guest or two.In this episode, we share the entire conversation with members of T...