"Talking At The Diner" Podcast Ep. 49 ft. Caroline Quinn

Greetings Diner Buddies! My guest on episode 49 of TatD is a rising star in the Philly indie pop community - singer/songwriter Caroline Quinn. Caroline is a relative newcomer but has in the past year achieved impressive success on TikTok and Spotify on the strength of her cool and quirky sense of style and her super-catchy viral single “Alien On My Mind” - produced by recent TatD guest Ross Bellenoit.

Full disclosure: for this episode, I made an exception about what some might consider the very foundation of the podcast - eating in a traditional diner. You know, with vinyl booths, and off-brand ketchup, and bad fluorescent lighting. But due to the timing and circumstances of our meet-up, we ended up going to Le Bus, a longstanding upscale spot in Caroline’s neighborhood of East Falls. So, not exactly a diner but Le Bus did get its start operating out of an actual school bus in the late 70’s, so it still has cred.

I first saw Caroline perform at Iris, the all-femme music showcase curated and amplified by another previous TatD guest - Taylor Kelly. In the unusual setting of an 80-seat north Philly comedy club, I was immediately drawn in by Caroline’s fantastic singing voice and hook-laden songs. Her knack for song craft and her way of expressing herself as an artist beyond the music itself made her someone I was curious to get to know better.

Her new EP "The End of May" is out now on all streaming platforms, and she is playing her official (if belated) release party on Saturday August 16th - appropriately at the Fallser Club in East Falls, which was just named Best Small Venue in Philadelphia Magazine's 2025 Best Of Issue. You can buy tickets to the show HERE.

You can follow Caroline here:

IG - @caroline_quinn
TikTok - @caroline_quinnn (note the extra "n")

I loved our conversation and I think you will too!
~ JKF ❤️