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Mike Polizze from Purling Hiss talks guitars and gear with Village Voice
Hondo 876. Sunburst Stratocaster. If you know what those words mean, you’ll be into this gear-head video from The Village Voice featuring Mike Polizze of Purling Hiss. The Philadelphia musician gets...
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Purling Hiss enter a whole new weird (playing Johnny Brenda’s on Thursday)
Photo by Philippe Midy When Mike Polizze started recording the songs he’d eventually release under the name Purling Hiss, Purling Hiss did not exist. Recording just for kicks with a four-track in his...
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Tonight’s Concert Picks: Grace Potter & The Nocturnals at The Electric...
XPN welcomes Grace Potter & The Nocturnals back to Philadelphia for a show at The Electric Factory. The Vermont-based rock band wowed audiences at Coachella and XPN’s Non-COMMvention earlier this...
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Purling Hiss announce new album Water on Mars (playing Johnny Brenda’s on New...
Philly fuzz-rockers Purling Hiss have announced that their fourth record Water on Mars will be released on March 19th through Drag City. We heard a new release from the Mike Polizze-led trio a few...
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The Key’s Year-End Mania: Nikki Volpicelli’s top five local songs that made...
For The Key’s year-in-review, we asked our trusted sources – our writers and photographers, XPN’s on-air staff, fellow bloggers in the Philly scene and even a few musicians – to send us their Top Five...
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What Are YOU Doing New Year’s Eve?
Photo by G. Widman | GPTMC With 2012 wrapping to a close, there aren’t many more questions that have to be answered this year. One that you should definitely think about, though, is which concert you...
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15 reasons why Philly’s music scene will go from 10 to 11 in 2013
DRGN KNG Photo by Nicky DevineAs far as the local music scene goes, we thought 2012 was an excellent year. Our hats go off to the dozens of bands across an impressive, diverse range of genres for...
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Photo Recap: The Hold Steady and Purling Hiss at Musikfest Cafe
All photos by Jeff Levy | www.jefflevyphoto.com Last night The Hold Steady brought its trademark rambunctious and animated live show to Bethlehem’s Musikfest Cafe as its winter tour moves onward....
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The War on Drugs ring in the new year at Johnny Brenda’s (photos, review,...
“I’m not going to stand here and tell you when it’s midnight,” Adam Granduciel told the New Year’s Eve crowd at Johnny Brenda’s. “You can work that out amongst yourselves.” If he was attempting to...
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Purling Hiss, Nightlands make Spin Magazine’s 5 Best New Artist lists
Purling Hiss | Photo by John Vettese Big congrats to a couple of our Philly scene favorites, Purling Hiss and Nightlands, who both made Spin Magazine’s 5 Best New Artists list for the month of January....
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Purling Hiss celebrating the release of Water on Mars at Johnny Brenda’s on 4/5
Photo by Peter English for Shaking Through | shakingthrough.com Philly fuzz-rockers Purling Hiss have good reason to celebrate this spring – and it has to do with a little bit more than the...
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The Men touring with Purling Hiss; playing Johnny Brenda’s on 10/22
With a new album in tow, The Men will make a stop at Johnny Brenda’s on October 22nd for a show with Purling Hiss. New Moon is the Brooklyn band’s fourth full-length, and like the album’s title...
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Purling Hiss is releasing a new LP on Richie Records and its promo video will...
It seems like just yesterday that Philly power trio Purling Hiss released its rager of an full-length, Water on Mars, via Drag City Records. After a couple years of limited-run and lo-fi releases on...
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The Week So Far: 11 must-read stories on The Key (incl. Elvis Costello,...
Listen to new local music from Family Vacation, Purling Hiss, The Lawsuits and more [link] Light Heat, Bardo Pond and Chris Forsyth will play August’s installment of the Race Street Pier free music...
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Just Announced: Pissed Jeans, Purling Hiss and Trophy Wife will play Union...
Pissed Jeans | Photo by Abi Reimold | abireimoldphoto.com Why not start the year off on the heaviest foot possible with Pissed Jeans, Purling Hiss and Trophy Wife at Union Transfer on February 8th?...
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Tonight’s Concert Picks: XPN Welcomes a Tribute to The Last Waltz at The...
Garth Hudson Philly musicians from Andrew Lipke to Kevin Hanson and Wesley Stace will honor and recreate The Band’s 1976 farewell show, The Last Waltz, tonight at the Trocadero. The set will include a...
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The Key’s Year-End Mania: Brian Wilensky’s Top 5 Shows I Wish I Saw in 2013
Year End Mania is the Key’s survey of the things below the surface that made 2013 awesome. In this installment, contributing writer Brian Wilensky talks about great shows he didn’t see. Those of you...
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Check out Purling Hiss’ latest release Paisley Montage (playing Union...
Photo by Peter English for Shaking Through | shakingthrough.com After the huge label debut of Purling Hiss on Drag City with Water on Mars earlier this year, the local fuzz-psych rockers quietly...
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Tonight’s Concert Picks: Restorations at Boot & Saddle, Mission of Burma /...
Restorations | Photo by John Vettese Philly punks Restorations will play tonight at Boot & Saddle. The five-piece will likely play some tunes off of its latest album, LP2, released last April, but...
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Photos: Pissed Jeans, Purling Hiss and Trophy Wife at Union Transfer
Pissed Jeans | Photo by Rachel Barrish | rachelbarrish.com It was definitely one of the harder-hitting lineups at Union Transfer in recent memory: Philly thrash four-piece Pissed Jeans, alongside...
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