(February 22, 2013) – With more than 23 Grammy Awards, 67 million albums sold and two Emmys combined, music icons JAY Z and Justin Timberlake announce 12 once-in-a-lifetime stadium performances.  The LEGENDS OF THE SUMMER tour will begin on July 17th in Toronto at the Roger’s Centre and continue through August 16th in Miami Sun Life Stadium. The tour also includes two Pennsylvania performances – Sunday, August 4 at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey and Tuesday, August 13 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.  Tickets go on sale for Philadelphia and Hershey events on Thursday, February 28 at 10am at […]

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.” — GEORGE ORWELL

  WIRED: Before smartphones and iPads, before the internet or the personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system. The following is an excerpt from the new book Exploding the Phone written by Phil Lapsley and published by Grove/Atlantic, which tells the story of the “phone phreaks.” There it was again. Jake Locke set down his cup and looked more closely at the classified ad. It was early afternoon on a clear spring day in Cambridge in 1967. Locke, an undergrad at Harvard University, […]

Intro to Mad Men retrofitted with POTUS. Very cool.

  DENVER POST: Members of a task force proposing regulations for recreational marijuana in Colorado approved recommendations Tuesday that would allow for marijuana tourism but block out-of-state pot shop owners. The Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force voted to allow people from outside of Colorado to shop in forthcoming retail marijuana stores, although the amount they could purchase at any one store would be limited. The goal is to prevent “smurfing,” which would occur when one person goes from store-to-store accumulating marijuana to then sell into the black market. The thinking is that lowering the amount of marijuana an out-of-stater could […]

Funny stuff. If you don’t know who @RobDelaney is, well, then you just don’t know who @RobDelaney is then, do you? RELATED: Idiot’s Guide To Who The Hell Rob Delaney Is

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Photo by PETE TROSHAK. Spiritual conversion can be kick-started by many things. A burning bush, a tab of acid, getting struck by lightning or falling off a stage while you are playing a rock concert and getting seriously injured. The latter happened to My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James back in 2008. While he was recovering from his injuries, a friend gave him a graphic novel made out of wood published back in 1929 that told the story of a man falling from grace and making a Faustian pact that enabled him to make great art at the price of […]

As we all learned in the wake of last week’s meteorite apocaplypse, every Russian car is equipped with dashboard cams because accidents are so common — along with drunken road rage rumbles and insurance scammers that run into oncoming cars in the hopes of getting paid — and neither judges nor insurance companies will take anyone at their word without photographic proof. Here’s a must-see compendium of the every day insanity unleashed every day on Russian roads: Flipped cars, jack-knifed tractor trailers, T-boned trucks and highways buzzed by low-flying Russian MIGs. This is funnier than all three Jackasses combined in […]

  Recorded live at the Michigan Theater, this heartfelt tribute/celebration of Stooge guitarist Ron Asheton’s life and music featured Iggy and the Stooges, Henry Rollins, and guest guitarist Deniz Tek (Radio Birdman). Includes a string section on a few Stooges classics! All profits from the sale of the DVD go to the Ron Asheton Foundation which supports animal welfare and music. BILLBOARD: Ron Asheton was not around to see the Stooges inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. But the group’s late co-founder was saluted on Tuesday in his hometown of Ann Arbor, Mich., with what […]