On their new album Visitor, the Philly noise-pop band Empath make the leap from homemade, self-recorded music to making a record with a real producer in a real studio. It’s a tricky maneuver for any ...

Early in 2020, Catherine Elicson had a realization: She didn’t care about sounding cool. “I was like, ‘I want to write songs that are catchy, and that maybe aren’t as punk,’ ” says Elicson, who sings ...

No one makes noise quite like Empath. On Liberating Guilt and Fear, the excellent four-song EP they released this spring, the Philadelphia quartet whirl psychedelic guitar, found sounds, New Age ...

When Catherine Elicson from the band Empath listens to Psychocandy, she’s taken straight to her adolescence in the Midwest. “I’m brought back to my mini-van, driving in the backwoods to my friends ...