REMINDER: Still playing on Phawker Radio! Why? Because The Dude Abides. BY ED KING, ROCK EXPERT Hey, I remember reading about this band! This was Tom Petty‘s Gainesville, FL band before he was signed as a solo artist, putting Mudcrutch bandmates Mike Campbell (guitar) and Benmont Tench (keyboards) on the payroll. Last month saw the release of an honest-to-goodness Mudcrutch album, with guitarist Tom Leadon and drummer Randall Marsh easing back into what must have been a 32-year interrupted dream. Meanwhile, the three who carried over to the Heartbreakers get a chance to cultivate their beards, get their garage band improv […]
THE NOMINEE: He Is The One
NEW YORK TIMES: Senator Barack Obama secured the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday evening, prevailing through an epic battle with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in a primary campaign that inspired millions of voters from every corner of America to demand change in Washington. YES. WE. CAN. Congratulations, Mr. President. -Lyrics- It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers […]
LIVE & DIRECT: IMing Hillary’s Non-Concession Speech
9:32 PM Amy: HEY I’m twittering hillary’s speech if you want to take it 9:33 PM me: SURE link me Amy: ok she’s starting to speak now twitter.com/amyzquinn 9:34 PM me: mention this http://www.phawker.com/2008/06/03/how-hillary-becomes-chief-justice-of-scotus/ I figured out how to do it 9:35 PM Amy: shh listening me: dick Amy: <3 9:36 PM me: sho shtupid don’t brag about WVA and Kentucky Lord Amy: no you! right because even when she wins it doesn’t count me: blame Harold Ickes 9:37 PM he’s on the rules committee Amy: oh i know me: he’s a dick shtupid primary schedule but Obama’s peeps outhunk […]
PARTY’S OVER: Super Delegates Stampede To Obama
ASSOCIATED PRESS: ATLANTA — Former President Carter said Tuesday he will endorse Democrat Barack Obama after the last two states vote. “The fact is the Obama people already know they have my vote when the polls close tonight,” Carter told The Associated Press after speaking at the Georgia World Congress Center Tuesday afternoon. His comments came as Obama clinched the nomination, according to a tally of convention delegates by The Associated Press. Carter, a superdelegate, has remained officially neutral in the race but has offered strong hints that he would end up in Obama’s corner. He has noted that his […]
SCARFACE: Amy Winehouse Remains The Most Persuasive Anti-Drug Ad We Have Ever Seen
DAILY MAIL: Amy Winehouse today spent more than an hour in court supporting her husband who faces charges of assault and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. The troubled star sat in the front row of the public gallery as Snaresbrook Crown Court, east London, and smiled lovingly at Blake Fielder-Civil, who smiled back at her from the dock. Winehouse wore a short blue spotted dress in a clear effort to look smart for her husband’s trial, but the classy clothes failed to hide her alarmingly bad skin. The singer’s ragged appearance shocked onlookers as she arrived at court. […]
JUST ANNOUNCED: The Roots Picnic Appetizer
THE ROOTS PRESENT HORS D’OEUVRES Pre-Picnic Jam Session Featuring SANTOGOLD THE RANDY WATSON EXPERIENCE (?UESTLOVE, BILAL, ROBERT GLASPAR, & JAMES POYSER) JANELLE MONAE THE ROOTS Friday, June 6 at 11pm TLA 334 South St Tickets go on sale Wednesday June 4 at noon
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW: Amber & Cambria
[Photos by JUSTIN ROMAN] BY JEFF DEENEY The intersection of Cambria and Amber streets is a good six blocks away from the endemic drug violence of the Badlands — sometimes that seems like six miles, and sometimes like six inches. It sits east of Frankford Avenue and a full five blocks from the El, far enough away that you can’t even see the hulking steel skeleton that straddles Kensington Avenue from here. Crime and violence has seeped north and east from West Kensington over the years, slowly and steadily creeping further and further into the surrounding neighborhoods of the Lower […]
DIPLO & M.I.A.: Making ‘Paper Planes’
PREVIOUSLY: Third World Party People HEAR YE: M.I.A.’s Kala INSTA-REVIEW: M.I.A.’s Kala PREVIOUSLY: 10 Things You Should Know About M.I.A. At The Electric Factory
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Scott McClellan, a former spokesman for the Bush White House rocked the capital last week with a provocative memoir. He joins Terry Gross to talk about the book — titled What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception — about what prompted him to go public, and about the torrent of response from both sides of the partisan aisle. Also: Excerpts from some of the more contentious press conferences from McClellan’s days as White House press secretary. Listen Now ALSO, Jenna Fischer is probably best known for her role on NBC’s comedy series The […]
KILLADELPHIA: 4 More Dead Since U Went To Bed
INQUIRER: A pregnant Germantown woman who was shot in the head Sunday night died early this morning at Albert Einstein Medical Center, police said. Bobbi Booker, 26, was shot in her left temple as her live-in boyfriend exchanged gunfire with another man outside the couple’s Queen Lane apartment in Germantown. Booker, who was four-months pregnant, had been on life-support since the shooting. Doctors were not able to save her four-month old unborn child, police said. Booker had two other young children. Police charged her boyfriend, Michael Thomas, 26, and Lamar Johnson, 22, with two counts each of attempted murder, aggravated […]
BUBBA AGONISTES: Vanity (Un)Fair?
VANITY FAIR: Bill Clinton’s relevance—and his presence in public life—is as close to permanent as any politician’s can be. Before touching off a string of controversies in his wife’s campaign this year, he was among the most popular figures on the planet, one of only three Democratic presidents in the 20th century to serve two full terms. His looming presence will make him a factor in the Democratic vice-presidential sweepstakes, the fall campaign, and every future presidential election of his lifetime, whatever his wife’s fate. I have covered Clinton on and off for 16 years, since his 1992 presidential campaign. […]
MEOW MIX: Mendte, Mendte, Mendte!
My sainted mother, who is an enthusiastic conspiracy theorist, is actually pissed off at Alycia Lane for “having the FBI investigate her email,” thus persecuting poor Larry Mendte for (allegedly) checking her email “hundreds of times” then blabbing her business to the tabs? Hell, if anything, this might be the one thing that will make me actually like Lane, at long last! Because if Mendte was sitting next to Lane on the anchor desk at the same time he was hacking into her email, then he’s a dirtball who deserves what he gets and she goes from bimbo to woman […]
BO DIDDLEY: RIP
NEW YORK TIMES: Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock ‘n’ roll whose distinctive ”shave and a haircut, two bits” rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79. Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan Clary said. He had suffered a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa. Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation. The legendary singer and performer, known for his homemade […]