Emily Robb is a Philadelphia-based musician known for her free-form electric guitar. Her live show is a ride - a sermon in the House of Guitar - with flashes of The Velvet Underground, Henry Flynt, and Tetuzi Akiyama’s Don’t Forget To Boogie. Whilst Emily often utilizes learned scales, popularly heard-before chords and other substrata of rock, her music comes out sounding like a novel, glowing, ranting, loving rock 'n' roll poem. The Washington Post explained her set opening for Mdou Moctar as "raucous solo instrumentals [that] ranged through 20th-century guitar history from raga-rock string-bending to a Chuck Berry-style vamp that expanded into a wall of sound.”
Fall of 2023 saw Emily's second solo release, If I Am Misery Then Give Me Company, on the Petty Bunco label, as well as a split LP with Bill Nace on Open Mouth Records. Emily maintains a steady touring schedule, often with her partner Richie Charles accompanying her on electric organ and sometimes performing in collaborative duos (Bill Nace, Bill Orcutt, Anne Ishii). Stay tuned for her upcoming recordings and events...
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