Does our heart good to know that succeeding generations of young bucks are still grokking on dirty water garage-rock and wedding it to dirty Southern soul. Such is the sound when King Khan‘s peanut butter gets all up in Black Lips‘ chocolate, aka Almighty Defenders. You can hear a teaser track from the forthcoming Vice album below. Our verdict: The kids are alright. DOWNLOAD: Bow Down & Die [MP3 via STEREOGUM] F**k the Pain Away, Sung by Miss Piggy WARNING: NSFW
Tom Moon’s 10 Great Records from Artists You’ve Probably Never Heard Of But Should Have
1. Lo Borges: Lo Borges (world/Brazil). Singer/songwriter Lo Borges’s solo debut offers upbeat, quintessentially Brazilian melodies that soar majestically over pop and funk backbeats. With its brief songs and tremendous diversity, this album resembles George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass. 2. Vic Chesnutt: Is the Actor Happy? (rock). Vic Chesnutt’s wry, bracing songs observe life in slow motion – they’re the inner thoughts of dejected souls and social misfits. Yet somehow, even on such despairing anthems as “Free of Hope,” there are hints of the heroic peeking through. 3. Karen Dalton: It’s So Hard To Know Who’s Going To Love […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Sarah Palin’s abrupt resignation from her position as Governor of Alaska has sparked widespread speculation. Michael Carey, former editorial page editor and current columnist for the Anchorage Daily News, discusses popular reaction in the state to Palin’s announcement. RELATED: [ABC’s] Snow also asked Palin whether, if she runs for president, she could avoid the “political blood sport” she cited as among the reasons she wanted to leave office. “I don’t think it will be the day after day after day of ethics violation charges that are frivolous, that are ridiculous. I think on a national level your department […]
GET NAKED: The Flaming Lips Are Coming!
August 29th at the Festival Pier. Joy to the world! PREVIOUSLY: Having become sentient in the mid-’70s, somewhere in the middle of that that vast mountainous Pennsyltucky between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, I had a front row seat to one of the places where the ’60s went to die: the hinterlands. While more cosmopolitan zip codes were sampling disco, cocaine, Members Only jackets and punk, all I could see growing up was ex-greaser shitkickers in dirty bellbottoms, Greg Brady haircuts, faded Dark Side of The Moon T-shirts and knocked-up girlfriends in peasant dresses billowing with pre-natal pulchritude, blasting Zep, Floyd and […]
DEAD MAN TALKING: Q&A With Tom Moon, Author Of 1000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die
[Illustration by ALEX FINE] BY JONATHAN VALANIA Full disclosure: Tom Moon got me into the business, hiring me on as a freelance music writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he served as pop music critic par excellence from 1988 to 2004. During that time he was also a regular contributor to GQ, Rolling Stone, Spin, Vibe, Esquire and he is currently a music critic for NPR’s All Things Considered. Three and a half years ago he began work on a frighteningly ambitious record buyer’s guide called 1000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die, published by Workman Publishing in late 2008. […]
THE SEEDS: Can’t Seem To Make You Mine
SAN DIEGO CITYBEAT: So who will remember that on the same day Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died, Sky Saxon died, too? He was the singer and bass guitarist of the 1960s psychedelic garage-rock band The Seeds. Originally a teenage doo-wop crooner from Utah, Little Richie Marsh moved to Los Angeles, cut a few records and fell under the spell of the British Invasion like so many other young American musicians in the mid-’60s hungry to capture some of that screaming-girl glory. Renaming himself Sky Saxon, he took his cues from the gritty blues-inspired primitivism of The Stones over the […]
Deaths By Marijuana Vs. 17 FDA-Approved Drugs
[SOURCE: PROCON.ORG] PROCON.ORG: Much of the medical marijuana discussion has focused on the safety of marijuana compared to the safety of FDA-approved drugs. On June 24, 2005 ProCon.org sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to find the number of deaths caused by marijuana compared to the number of deaths caused by 17 FDA-approved drugs. Twelve of these FDA-approved drugs were chosen because they are commonly prescribed in place of medical marijuana, while the remaining five FDA-approved drugs were randomly selected because they are widely used and recognized by the general […]
THIS JUST IN: Oceanaire 86’d In Philly
Just confirmed from a freshly dis-employed wait staffer: Oceanaire, the national chain of high-gloss sea fooderies, is shuttering its Philadelphia location on Washington Square. [Photo courtesy of PhilaFoodie]
FOG OF WAR: Robert McNamara Is No More
REUTERS: Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara died on Monday aged 93. He will be remembered most as the leading architect of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. McNamara also forged brilliant careers in industry and international finance, but his painful legacy remains Vietnam. More than anyone else except possibly President Lyndon Johnson, McNamara became to anti-war critics the symbol of a failed policy that left more than 58,000 U.S. troops dead and the nation bogged down in a seemingly endless disaster in Southeast Asia. Pundits came to call the conflict “McNamara’s War.” With his slicked-back hair and rimless glasses, he […]
BRENDAN CALLING: Is That A Super-Majority In Your Pants Or Are You Just Too Much Of A Pussy To Use It?
[by THUNDERLOAF] BRENDAN SKWIRE: One would think that the Democrats, who now control both houses of Congress and the White House, would be taking the bull by the horns and ramming their agenda through despite the objections of the defeated and humiliated Republican Party. […] So you’d think the Democrats would be eager to reverse all that. You’d also think the Democrats would be eager to fulfill some of their own promises, like that universal health care thing we’ve heard so much about, or making it easier for unions to organize. Instead, we get bullshit like Chaka Fattah selling out […]
NOPE: Is That All There Is To A Maverick?
NEW YORK TIMES: Had she refused John McCain, Palin would still be a popular female governor in a Republican Party starved for future stars. Her scandals would be the stuff of local politics, her daughter’s pregnancy a minor story in the Lower 48, her son Trig’s parentage a nonissue even for conspiracy theorists. There would still be plenty of time to ease into the national spotlight, to bone up on the issues, and to craft a persona more appealing than the Mrs. Spiro Agnew role the McCain campaign assigned to her. Most important, nobody would have realized yet how much […]
HOT DOC: We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America:When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are […]
ARTSY: Hard Luck Woman
Sarah Gamble is from North Carolina. In the past year her house was struck by lightning, set aflame, and then broken into. Her car was nearly destroyed by vandals after it was involved in two separate hit and runs. She went to the hospital with bronchitis, lost her job and won the Pew. She hopes to see you at her exhibition. Opening reception Friday, July 3rd 6:00 to 10:00pm 1001-1013 N. 2nd St/Ste.7 The Piazza