Blank Realm | B This new one by Australia garage-blues quartet Blank Realm will give you flashbacks. But you won’t flash too far back. We’re talking summer 2013, when the living was easy. Back to the backyard, with the smell…

AFTER LIFE: Slumville is a land-of-the-dead version of Philadelphia, a frequent setting in Rob Woods’ 36 Lessons in Self-Destruction. A penis-shaped being named Danny tries to kill himself in Rob Woods’ new comic book, 36 Lessons in Self-Destruction (The Depressed Punx…

VAN CHAMPIONS: Members of Little Big League previously played in Post Post, Strand of Oaks and Titus Andronicus. When Michelle Zauner of Philadelphia band Little Big League answers her cellphone, it’s obvious she’s been rudely awoken. “Oh, hey. We’re doing…

Emily Robb and Zachary Fairbrother of Philly band Lantern are lounging in a shadowy booth at Oscar’s Tavern, downing lagers and explaining why they named their first LP Rock ’N’ Roll Rorschach. “We’d both just read Watchmen,” says Robb, referring…

Guitarist Chris Forsyth and I have a mutual friend on Facebook. The friend recently posted this obscure quote from an old album review penned by critic Robert Christgau: “Contains the finest rock improvisation ever recorded.” Forsyth was the first commenter…

Demian Fenton and Don Argott met one of their heroes a few years ago. The two local filmmakers were hired to shoot a promotional video for a music-industry client’s new album.  The client? Ozzy freaking Osbourne.  “We rolled up and…

“I’m a big fan of misdirection,” says Chris Grigg. The 28-year-old vocalist-guitarist of black metallers Woe is talking about the title of his band’s second album, Quietly, Undramatically (2010). It’s not quiet; it’s not undramatic. Listening to it feels like…

You know Christopher Powell as “Pow Pow,” the drummer/percussionist for Philadelphia band Man Man. But Powell has recently started two new, wildly unique music projects. First, he sits at the helm of Adventuredrum, a nearly all-percussion large ensemble with a…

“Everyone has someone they really despise,” surmises Matt Korvette between bites of a vegan sloppy-joe sandwich at the Royal Tavern. “I’ll never stab anyone in the face, but I’ll be happy when someone I hate dies from cancer. I just…