By Ziggy Merritt On January 25th, ThatMag starts off the year with our annual music series. Previewing their upcoming show at the Tusk, I had a chance to hear from brother and sister Julio and Melissa Ossa and Max Barruzza of headliners Yeah Son! who join Added Color and Harlowe Read More

By Mandy McGee (Photo by Luca Venter) Seattle’s Hibou (pronounced eee-boo) aka Peter Michel is preparing to release his second album, Something Familiar, in March on Barsuk Records and has just dropped the first video for it. “Fall Into” has a 70’s vibe to Read More

By Ziggy Merritt The Cleaners from Venus – Living with Victoria Grey (1986) 1981 saw the release of the first proper Cleaners of Venus album from the multi-talented auteur, Martin Newell. Since then and even before, his career has continued unabated with success and failure Read More

By Dan Williams There was an Eagles playoff game happening Saturday night.  Everyone was either at the game or glued to a TV at home or at their favorite watering hole.  The town looked so empty, even the Schuylkill looked like Armageddon had hit. The crowd filed in and once Read More

By Geno Thackara It’s a familiar scene. The trendy place is packed with people drinking and dancing, you can hardly see a thing amid the black light and DJ strobes, and some piece of slick pop is thumping loudly enough to make your eardrums ache. It doesn’t really Read More

By Ziggy Merritt For a few years now the voice of Felicia Lobo has led the Brooklyn-based four-piece QWAM in shouting their way through waves of self-important hipsters, all the while, soundtracked by the hiss of amplified feedback. On their latest effort, Feed Me, they tap into Read More