KILLADELPHIA: 9 More Since U Were Down The Shore

BY MENSAH M. DEAN & REGINA MEDINA As block parties and barbecues reverberated across Philadelphia over Labor Day weekend, so did something that is growing just as common in many neighborhoods: homicide. [wow, embarrassingly bad lede.] Eight people were slain from Friday through yesterday, while the death of a ninth person, whose remains were found stuffed in a duffel bag in her home, was being investigated, police said yesterday. A 20-year-old man was shot in the head yesterday morning in an alley adjacent to the M. Hall Stanton Elementary School in North Philadelphia. The man, whose identity was being withheld […]

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VIET NOW: Cowboys In The Sand

They detained one man who identified himself with a name that didn’t match his government-issued ID, earning him a noisy, expletive-laden interrogation that was easily overheard in the next room. “Keep your head down! Keep your (expletive) head down!” the interrogator yelled in English as an interpreter translated. “Why are you speaking if you’re lying? You better think about what you’re saying before you talk to me, son. I’ve got a real short temper tonight!” Another Iraqi man who lived in the house also was questioned, though he wasn’t detained. What did he know about Sunni insurgents living in the […]

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EXPLAINER: How To Use Phawker Radio

The beauty of this modern world is that you no longer have to be just a newspaper or just a TV channel or just a radio station. You can be all three! For the audio part of our hat trick, we will now pull a radio station out of our asses! Don’t worry, we washed it off. It’s located UPPER LEFT. Yeah, there…where it says PHAWKER RADIO. Just click on the icon that looks like a little antenna with the radio waves beaming out of it (innit that just cutest thing?)…go on, we’ll wait…YOU DID IT! We are so proud […]

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HEAR YE: Oh You Pretty Things!

NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO: S.F. Sorrow By The Pretty Things By 1967, Swingin’ London had gone mad — bathed in strobing mod Technicolor, drunk on the Day-Glo ambrosia of psychedelia and frugging to the blare of maximum R&B. Rock ‘n’ roll was reaching critical mass, outgrowing the three-chord friction of teen angst and expanding into the realm of art and religiosity. Pop stars, the newly minted aristocracy of turned-on English youth, were now expected to be poets and seers, and the race was on to find strange new sounds to telegraph this strange new state of mind. — The […]

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HEAR YE: The Son Of Dave

Dear Audience, I’m obliged to do the rounds again in the form of a U.K. tour, and between you and me, my back hurts and I will need many helpers to move things from dressing room to stage, stage to strange woman’s afterparty, party to hotel room and hotel room to train station. I will carry the vodka and portable gramaphone, you can carry the ice and blankets. Its going to be a nasty autumn. Don’t sit and wait for the bomb to go off, people. Get out and raise Hell for God’s sake. Let’s celebrate the separation of church […]

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HEAR YE: Arthur & Yu In Camera

“I ran into an old acquaintance (well, “old”) at SXSW this year, and she had some good news — she just got a new gig as the general manager for a new label which has some ties to Sub Pop but not really. It wasn’t really a stretch because Sarah had worked for Sub Pop before this, but I was still intrigued because I hadn’t heard of the label, Hardly Art. To make it clear, it’s NOT an imprint label and it’s technically a separate enterprise (I think), but, well, it is still connected to Sub Pop. “Hardly Art was […]

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