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Purling Hiss celebrating the release of Water on Mars at Johnny Brenda’s on 4/5

Philly fuzz-rockers Purling Hiss have good reason to celebrate this spring – and it has to do with a little bit more than the photographic possibilities of foliage. The band’s brand new LP Water on...

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Stream “Mercury Retrograde” from the new Purling Hiss LP (playing Johnny...

Local scuzzy, blown-out noise thrashers super-polished, hard-rocking outfit Purling Hiss have shared a track from their upcoming major label debut Water On Mars and it’s a brand new look for them.  On...

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Listen to Tin Horses’ new album A Life of Trouble

Local band Tin Horses released their second LP, A Life Of Trouble, last Friday as a free stream on their Bandcamp page. The group is led by singer/guitarist Kiel Everett, who founded it as an outlet...

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Introducing: The Hot Philly 15

The Hot Philly 15 is a completely subjective list of Philly-made and Philly Local music happenings we love this week. It’s somewhat informed by what we’re playing on the radio, what we’re blogging...

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Unlocked: Download “Mercury Retrograde” from Water on Mars by Purling Hiss

Tomorrow will bring Water on Mars, the new album by Fishtown fuzz grunge rockers Purling Hiss. And it is not like any of their releases to date. Each of their albums up to this point has been recorded...

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Unlocked: Read The Key’s review of Water on Mars by Purling Hiss

The power trio is probably the most revealing lineup for a rock band. None of its members are able to hide behind warbling synths or extra layers of buzzing guitar. This type of lineup says, “We’re...

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Unlocked: Fly through space with Purling Hiss in the video for “Mercury...

Mercury retrograde is when the planet Mercury slows down in its orbit and from our perspective here on Earth appears to move backward. It happens three or four times each year and the first retrograde...

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The Week So Far: 11 must-read stories on The Key (incl. Amos Lee, SXSW and...

Dave Grohl gave an inspiring and insightful Keynote Speech at last week’s SXSW [link] Cursive and The Good Life frontman Tim Kasher came to Folkadelphia in his solo acoustic capacity for this week’s...

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Unlocked: Interactive music-making proves positive for Purling Hiss

Purling Hiss is not, in some ways, the same band it was its infancy. There have been adjustments, changes to the way they’re writing nowadays. And the result is a refined sound on Water on Mars. Every...

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Unlocked: A look at the extracurricular activites of Purling Hiss

Mike Polizze cut his teeth on stage with his local guitar assault act Birds of Maya before Purling Hiss came to fruition. But Polizze’s bandmates are also active outside of their collective power trio,...

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Tonight’s Concert Picks: Purling Hiss with Spacin’ at Johnny Brenda’s,...

Local rockers Purling Hiss celebrate the release of Water On Mars at Johnny Brenda’s tonight.  The new LP is the trio’s major label debut (through Drag City) and presents the bristly lo-fi guitar rock...

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Listen to new Purling Hiss, and turn this up to 11. Oh wait, it’s already on 11.

We love these guys. Check out this new Purling Hiss song “Midnight Man” from the Purling Hiss Lounge Lizards EP, now available on Mexican Summer records.

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Download a live Purling Hiss show via NYC Taper

Scott Troyan http://www.flickr.com/photos/sxt/ Philly psychedelic rockers Purling Hiss played a show on Friday, November 18th at the Cameo Gallery, a music and art space in Brooklyn. NYCTaper was...

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Philly Local Philes: Purling Hiss’“Run From the City”

Don’t adjust your speakers, as the saying goes: Purling Hiss is supposed to sound like that. Across the better part of its recorded output, the Philly shred-core trio offsets hooky, timeless rock and...

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Preview the next Shaking Through with Purling Hiss; curated and produced by...

Next Wednesday, May 16th is the release of the next episode of Shaking Through. It features the three piece Purling Hiss and was curated and produced by Adam Granduciel of War On Drugs. Judging by...

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Watch the May episode of Shaking Through featuring Purling Hiss

This month’s episode of Shaking Through—the online audio and video collaboration between Weathervane Music and WXPN—features a song by Purling Hiss called “Lolita.” This month’s episode was recorded...

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Tonight’s Concert Picks: Dave Matthews Band, Purling Hiss, Exitmusic, and Oh!...

Tonight there are some excellent shows going on in the city of Brotherly Love. Although not quite in Philly, not too far away is the annual Dave Matthews Band concert series. There is no way to...

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Watch a new Purling Hiss video, “The Hoodoo”

Purling Hiss have released a new video for “The Hoodoo” from its Lounge Lizards EP. Watch it below.

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Tonight’s Concert Picks: Purling Hiss at Morgan’s Pier, Meek Mill at TLA, and...

Gritty lo-fi garage rock band Purling Hiss are playing a free hometown show tonight at Morgan’s Pier with Bandname as part of R5′s Free Saturday Summer Concert Series. The show starts at 6 p.m. and...

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Gritty garage rockers Purling Hiss to release live cassette on 10/30

Local psych rockers Purling Hiss will be releasing a distortion-heavy WFMU in-studio performance on cassette through Fan Death Records on October 30th.  The tape, called A Little Off Center, will...

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