On Sunday Making Time is hosting their annual Making Time Rad-B-Q thingee at “the magical tiki oasis that is Bamboo Bar” at The Roxxy. We have a pair of tickets to give away to some lucky reader, all you have to do is A) follow us on Twitter B) send us an email at FEED@PHAWKER.COM telling us you have done so as well as the answer to this trivia question C) Name the song and the band who wrote and recorded it that gave Making Time it’s name. Include your full name and a mobile number for confirmation. Put […]
Win Tix To See The Devil’s Backbone Midnight Sat.
In the run up to the August 21st theatrical release of SINISTER 2, the much-anticipated sequel to 2012’s SINISTER, the people that hype these things are holding special “SINISTER SATURDAYS” midnight screenings at the PFS Roxy Theater of the films that inspired SINISTER 2. This weekend’s midnight offering is a special screening of 2001’s THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE directed by the impish master of creepy Guillermo del Toro, and Saturday, 8/15’s feature presentation will be the original SINISTER. Each screening will feature exclusive content from the makers of SINISTER 2. Sounds like a perfect date movie for people who think […]
ARTSY: The Greatest ‘Pope Francis In Philly’ Commemorative Memorabilia Story Ever Told
Artwork by FRED LAMMERS EDITOR’S NOTE: Todd Kimmel’s legend looms large in the annals of proto-bohemian Philadelphia. He was cool before it was even possible. TODD KIMMEL: We’ve created a series of large format prints featuring Pope Francis in general, and his visit to Philly in particular. I dreamed up this project, and now these prints are selling like crazy to Catholic and utterly non Catholic people alike. I like the guy, and what he represents to all the entrenched, doomed naysayers who are now being dragged into the light as just that. Francis throws down this love bomb thing, […]
BEING THERE: Weird Al Yankovic @ The Mann
Photo by DAVID BECKER I’ve never fully understood traffic, but I knew that it always came at the wrong time and that the great city of Philadelphia is FULL of it. I mean, what the heck is the person in front doing that makes us miss the first song of a Weird Al concert? Well, it was partly my fault, because if you decide to leave a half hour before because you ever so wanted a plate of wings, you are going to miss a thing and a thang. So the duration of the car ride was mainly for feeling […]
Win Tix To See Killers Frontman Brandon Flowers
We have a coupla pair of tix to see The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers perform at the Electric Factory tomorrow night in support of his just-released sophomore solo album, The Desired Effect. To qualify to win, all you have to do is sign up for our mailing list (see right, below the masthead). Trust us, this is something you want to do. In addition to breaking news alerts and Phawker updates, you also get advanced warning about groovy concert ticket giveaways and other free swag opportunities like this one! After signing up, send us an email at FEED@PHAWKER.COM telling […]
Win Tix To See Jason Isbell @ Electric Factory Wed.
We are very honored and excited to announce that we have a pair of tickets to give away to some lucky Phawker reader to see Jason Isbell — whose new album Something More Than Free just debuted the Billboard country charts at NUMBER ONE– perform at the Electric Factory tomorrow night, Wednesday July 29th! (NOTE: The show was moved from the Mann’s Skyline Stage to the Electric Factory.) What’s that you say? ‘Who is Jason Tinkerbell?’ We’re gonna forget you said that and meet you on the other side of this New York Times profile from 2013: He found […]
BEING THERE: Saturday @ XPoNential Fest
St. Vincent, Susquehanna Bank Center last night by PETE TROSHAK WXPN’s XPoNential Festival is one of the yearly highlights of the Philly summer concert calendar, and the 2015 edition was no exception. The festival draws over 25,000 fans, spans three days and this year included over 30 performances. If you were only going to make it to one day of the festival this year Saturday was the one to choose with a stellar lineup of fiercely talented lesser known musicians on outdoor stages during the day and the dynamic one-two punch of St. Vincent and My Morning Jacket closing the […]
Win Tix To See The End Of The Tour @ The Prince
Time is short, so I will cut to the chase: we have a handful of tix to see a special VIP screening of THE END OF THE TOUR, starring Jason Segel as novelist David Foster Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as the magazine writer guy that followed him around on the book tour for Infinite Jest for an article that never published and then turned it into a book/movie after the author’s suicide in 2008 and thereby incurred the wrath of DFW disciples from here to Pluto. The screening is at 7:30 Wednesday night at The Prince Theater. To qualify […]
BEING THERE: The Foo Fighters In Camden
Photo by DYLAN LONG Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters have had a hectic last couple of weeks, to say the very least. Dave experienced a tumble for the ages in Sweden resulting in a majorly broken leg, forcing the cancellation of many upcoming gigs, including two shows at the prestigious Wembley Stadium. In the hospital, Dave conceptualized an innovative and kickass throne prototype to support him on stage, which his crew wasted no time in bringing to life. The Foos were quickly back in action playing a grandiose 4th Of July throwdown at the RFK Stadium in DC celebrating […]
Win Tix To A Special VIP Screening Of Trainwreck
If, like Esquire, we had an annual WOMEN WE LOVE issue, Amy Schumer would be at the top, the bottom and everywhere in between. But we don’t. Instead, we just hire women we love — women who rock, women who rant, women who make us wonder, women who make us worry, women who make milk shoot out our nose on a good day — which, to our mind, is progress. Anyway, let us get down off my Alan Alda soapbox and tell you what I came here to tell you: That we have 20 pairs of tickets to a […]
REWIND: John Oliver Watch
Good Ol’ Johnny Boy, without you I would have to suffer through the second season of True Detectives. I wouldn’t wish that on Justin Bieber, and there isn’t much I wouldn’t wish on Justin Bieber. For all of the common folk out there, yes you, the individual not suckling at the teet of HBO, I will breakdown the major issue John Oliver tackles, as he most commonly does, in his sprightly, rosey posey-cheeked, British manner. This week? Stadiums. Now before the masses of cheese steak-chomping, gold chain-slinging, beer-smuggling 700 Level fight clubbers that Philadelphia has (in)bred for going on countless […]
FROM THE VAULT: Touch Me I’m Dick
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mudhoney plays Union Transfer on Thursday with Pissed Jeans. To mark their impressive 27 years of service, I’ve dug deep into the archives to retrieve the article I wrote for the September 1998 issue of MAGNET about going on tour with Pearl Jam and Mudhoney for three days. The story was titled WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD TIMES GONE, and, if memory serves, was a little more honest than the band and the label were expecting. It wouldn’t be the first time. Enjoy. __________ In the decade that’s passed since Mudhoney emerged as the Seattle beer barons of […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To A Special Advance Screening Of The New Amy Winehouse Documentary
Amy Winehouse was a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. We all know the power and the grace of Back To Black and we all know about her harrowing decline and premature death. The new and rightfully acclaimed documentary Amy, which opens Friday at the Ritz, reveals the back story behind the music and the actual person behind the grotesque, strobe-flashed caricature the media depicted. The film makes the case that the very factors that fueled her bottomless ambition and stratospheric rise — the psychic wounds incurred in adolescence, the debilitating insecurity and self-loathing that triggered her bulimia and a […]