The Official Blog of WKDU Philadelphia 91.7 FM
By Gabby McIlhinney – Host of Fish Food
DJ Gabby Mack, host of Fish Food, sat down with rock duo Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg from Lowertown.
After nearly three years in the making, Lowertown’s new album Ugly Duckling Union comes out May 22, and if you ask them, it’s more than ready to exist outside of their heads.
Continue reading “Lowertown Are Ready to Let “Ugly Duckling Union” Go”By Gabby McIlhinney – Host of Fish Food
If you were tuned into WKDU recently, or packed into the studio, you may have caught DJ Meow’s boiler room-style set. Which, for the blog’s record, we do not usually do here at WKDU, though maybe we should start…
“I only prepared half of that,” she told me right after, also visibly overheating. “The other half was just vibes.”
With only about a year into DJing, DJ Meow, aka Jess Urwiler, is weirdly natural on the decks. Originally, Jess was supposed to come in for an acoustic Fish Food set to spotlight her debut EP Roots, which dropped back on September 26 (and is available on all streaming platforms, nudge, nudge). That project lives firmly in the singer-songwriter world, with acoustic guitar and intimate lyrics from songs she’s been sitting on since high school.
Continue reading “DJ Meow On Next Eras”By Gabby McIlhinney – Host of Fish Food
Cassie Ramone is a songwriter, musician, and visual artist who first came onto a lot of people’s radars as a founding member of Vivian Girls, starting in the late 2000s, and later with The Babies, as well as through her solo work. She grew up in New Jersey, moved to Brooklyn in the early 2000s, and has spent years moving between different scenes, projects, and ways of making music.
Her most recent record, Sweetheart, has felt like a really reflective moment in that long arc. Cassie was able to stop by WKDU ahead of her show at Philly Style Pizza with Colleen Green and Jess Urwiler, so we caught her for a quick in-studio and interview!
Continue reading “Interview with Cassie Ramone”By Gabby McIlhinney – Host of Fish Food
Shallow Alcove
Fresh off of their in-studio performance at WKDU presented by Fish Food, the indie folk darlings from Shallow Alcove joined us for a conversation about sleepovers, nostalgia, and various tour tales in promotion for their upcoming EP Doggy Paddle out May 21st. Currently on their “Slumber Party Tour,” the band has been embracing comfort on stage, performing in pajamas and encouraging that same sleepover intimacy among fans.
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