Sigur Ros’ never-ending, globe-trotting tour began at the Mann almost exactly one year ago, trailing the release of the band’s sixth studio album, the ambient mellowness that is Valtari, and carries on in the wake of the release of its harsher, more rockist successor, Kveikur back in June. We have a pair of tickets for tomorrow night’s show at the Mann with the mesmerizing Julianna Barwick. To qualify, 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 […]
BEING THERE: Arctic Monkeys @ The Mann
Photo by ALEX BISIGNARO In 2006, a young group of Brits exploded out of England’s underground music scene with the bratty petulance and raw crunch of a proper British punk band, and the style and showmanship of a proper British rock n’ roll band. This band was of course the Arctic Monkeys who have managed to pump out five solid albums in only seven years. While their debut album, Whatever People Say About Me is Exactly What I’m Not, remains their most critically acclaimed, the band’s other four albums, including the just-released AM, are nothing to sneeze at, which is […]
BEING THERE: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Penn’s Landing
Photo by PETE TROSHAK The Yeah Yeah Yeahs blitzed the stage at the Plaza at Penn’s Landing and took no prisoners during an energetic fifteen song set last night. Lead singer Karen O was a red and yellow blur in a yellow shirt bearing Keith Richards’ face and a Opry-ish sequined red pants and frilly jacket combo. She hopped like an 80’s aerobics instructor, bounding from one end of the stage to the other dispensing high fives to the front row and smiling from ear to ear the whole set. Occasionally she would stomp a trigger on the stage and […]
Win Tix To See The Arctic Monkeys @ The Mann!
We have a pair of tickets to giveaway to see The Arctic Monkeys and The Walkmen @ The Mann’s Skyline Stage tomorrow night! To qualify, 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 us a much, with the words YOU’D LOOK GOOD ON THE […]
BEING THERE: Jake Bugg @ World Cafe Live
Photo by PETE TROSHAK Sleepy-eyed 19-year-old Brit-folk troubadour turned in a convincing, believe-the-hype Philly debut at a packed World Café Live last night. The buzz of excitement and high expectations in the room was palpable. The crowd ranged from age 15 to 60 and many of them lined up hours in advance to get a good spot. Bugg, a dead ringer for a young George Harrison, wore a grey tracksuit and swapped guitars almost every song. He was aided by a tight rhythm section for a 16-song run, including three new songs and one ballsy cover song. He wooed the […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
We have two pairs of tickets to giveaway to see The Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Penn’s Landing on Tuesday September 17th! To qualify, 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 us a much, with the words HELLS YEAH YEAH YEAH! in the subject […]
BEING THERE: Exile On South Street
South Street, 5:31 pm yesterday, by Dave Brown PREVIOUSLY: Forty years ago, South Street was doomed, left for dead by city planners who had scheduled the street for demolition to make way for a proposed Crosstown Expressway that would connect I-95 to I-76. South Street then was nothing like South Street now — a funky post-hippie/post-punk/post-cool amalgam of shops, bars and fooderies, aka Philly’s Haight-Ashbury, a land-locked asphalt boardwalk where teenagers from across the tri-state area flock to see and be seen (and stage the occasional flash mob). Back then, South Street was hardly a jewel in the city’s crown; […]
Win Tix To See Peter Hook Perform New Order’s Movement & Power, Corruption & Lies @ The Troc
We have a pair of tix to see Joy Division/New Order bassist/songwriter peform New Order’s post-punk classics, Movement and Power Corruption & Lies at the Trocadero on Saturday! To qualify, 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 us a much, with the words […]
BEING THERE: Hillary, Now More Than Ever
Photo by RORY MCGLASSON BY AMY Z. QUINN For the record: At no time during Tuesday night’s Liberty Medal festivities did Hillary Clinton announce, or even mention, running for or even wanting to be president. Actually, there was no need, since longtime pals and political boosters Mayor Michael Nutter and Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania and honorary rich white dude, did plenty of that for her. Even Jeb Bush, son of current Bill Clinton BFF George H.W. Bush, said he figured Hillary was headed for Des Moines next week. For her part, Clinton was doing that “I’m […]
BEING THERE: The Last Of The Mohicans
National Constitution Center, 6:32 pm by RORY MCGLASSON
Win Tix To See The Avett Brothers @ The Mann
Illustration by ZEB LOVE We have a pair of tix to see The Avett Brothers and Trombone Shorty at the Mann on Saturday! We have a pair of tix to give away to see psych-rock avatars Spirtualized tonight at Union Transfer! To qualify, 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 […]
Win Tix To See Spirtualized @ Union Transfer
We have a pair of tix to give away to see psych-rock avatars Spirtualized tonight at Union Transfer! To qualify, 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 us a much, with the words HEY JANE in the subject line. If you are already […]
BEING THERE: No Age @ PhilaMOCA
Photo by SEAN CALDWELL Los Angeles art-punk duo No Age played a sold out show last night at PhilaMOCA in support of their new album, An Object. “We love this town,” declared vocalist/drummer Dean Spunt a few songs into their set, drawing a voluble audience response. “It’s been a while.” Spunt and guitarist/singer Randy Randall had bodies in motion — and often in collision with other bodies — from the get go, but things went full-tilt during “Glitter” (from 2010’s Everything In Between) and “Teen Creeps” (from 2008’s Nouns). New songs like “C’mon, Stimmung” and “No Ground” resonated as well […]