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Photo by William Heinemann for Wired FRESH AIR There’s a side to the Internet most people have never visited. Tor Hidden Services, or the Tor Network, is an encrypted, hidden network of about 50,000 websites that can’t be accessed with a traditional browser like Chrome or Firefox. Its users include criminals, trolls and extremists. Author Jamie Bartlett (pictured, above), who chronicles the secret corners of the Internet in his book The Dark Net, likens it to the “wild West.” “You have anonymous users visiting sites that can’t be censored. So anybody with something to hide, whether it’s for good reasons […]

A remarkable side project analog to Tara Murtha’s recently-published 33 & 1/3 treatise on the still-unsolved southern gothic murder mystery at the center of Bobbie Gentry’s eerie, Rosebud-like 1967 AM radio hit and the concert — an impeccable track by track live recreation of the album, with uncanny fidelity to the original recording — that celebrated the book’s publication at Underground Arts back in December. We’re gonna go out on a limb here and say this is not just worthy of the original, it’s actually BETTER — thicker, rounder, grittier, more here and now. The video, which documents the live-in-the-studio […]

  Hall & Oates — famed Philly blue-eyed soul stirrers turned MTV hit machine videodrones turned Where Are They Now? file habitues turned resurrected object of semi-ironic hipster fascination — will christen The Fillmore, Live Nation’s new mid-size/all-purpose Fishtown entertainment complex (it’s a music venue! it’s a comedy club! it’s a 24-lane bowling alley! it’s a distillery! it’s an Italian restaurant! it’s all those things as once!)  on October 1st. You can check out a complete list of confirmed bookings HERE.

Flying Saucer Attack release Instrumentals 2015, their first album in 15 years on Friday the 17th of July 2015. Comprised of 15 fresh David Pearce solo performances recorded in characteristically lo-fi manner at home, using guitars only on tape and CD-R, Instrumentals 2015 is an album that will appeal both to FSA diehards and those wholly unfamiliar with the outfit’s recorded output. The 15 tracks on Instrumentals 2015 present an impressionistic narrative which transports the listener through the excoriating dronescapes and rueful introspection of the album’s early pieces to the more redemptive cadences of its closing half. Given its sense […]

  NAACP TO HOST 106TH ANNUAL NATIONAL CONVENTION IN PHILADELPHIA JULY 11th -15th Convention to Unite Thousands of Social Justice Activists Around Voting Rights, Criminal Justice Reform, Economic Opportunity, Health Equity and Education Equality (BALTIMORE, MD) – From July 11th to the 15th, the NAACP will host its 106th Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA.  This year’s convention theme is “Pursuing Liberty In the Face of Injustice.” In the wake of the social and economic unrest across the country, the NAACP will focus on building a broad based agenda around voting rights, criminal justice reform, health equity, economic opportunity and education equality […]

DAILY BEAST: “The problem is all the arrests in the world are going to change nothing if Blatter’s still there, because to truly kill a snake you must cut off its head—or in this case, its asshole,” he continued. “But if America keeps driving this investigation and actually finds something to indict him, I don’t think you would understand how much that would mean to every person on earth. The whole world’s opinion of America would change overnight. Let me put this in terms you might understand: If the Dutch somehow found a reason to extradite and lock up Donald […]