RELATED: Flaunt Magazine is pleased to announce the release of The Context Issue: Sing Us a Song (Issue 128). Within, we stab a tuning fork in the eardrum of the music world, with content ranging from DJs to drone rock to sexy summer pop, as well as acoustic architecture and the elusive nature of sound. One special contribution we are particularly stoked about—because we love a little experiment now and again—comes from multimedia artist David Lynch. In time for the July 16 release of his new album, The Big Dream, Lynch wrote us an exclusive song recipe with experimental […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See She & Him @ The Mann!
She & Him, the he-and-her duo of quirky-girl-from-the-kooky-house-next-door movie star/songstress Zoey Deschanel and Portlandian-indie-folk-rock-savant M. Ward, play The Mann on Tuesday in support of the just-released Vol. 3 and we have a pair of tickets to give away to some lucky duck Phawker reader. Why? BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU! 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 […]
RAWK TAWK: Life According To Brother JT
BY JONATHAN VALANIA Garage-punk savant, drone-rock wizard, acid-dazed psychonaut, human ouija board, holy fool of the Internet — Brother JT is a man of many hats. He’s been a puppet, a poet, a pirate, a pawn and king. He’s been up and down and over and out — and he still really likes the LSD thing. (SEE Trippin’ Balls With Brother JT, his lysergic talk show on Scrapple TV) He’s come to tell us all that the emperor has no clothes, the sky is falling, God is great, we’re already dead, and yet despite all that life is beautiful. He’s […]
BREAKING: Win Tix To See Belle & Sebastian!
It’s official: The Mann’s Skyline Stage is now the go-to concert venue when the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars and you and 5,000 of your closest friends want to see/hear widescreen, state-of-the-art indie-rock on the grass, under the stars, with yummy food trucks and ice-cold craft beers and a panoramic view of the emerald city skyline over your shoulder. That Belle & Sebastian should break the seal on the second season for this newly-minted venue is kinda like a teenage boy losing his virginity to a super model. Because sometimes — not often, […]
BEING THERE: Seven Score and Ten Years Ago
Public domain/Library Of Congress THE GUARDIAN: July 1-3 marks the 150th anniversary of Gettysburg, the battle that many historians cite as a key turning point in the US civil war, which left 50,000 Union and Confederate soldiers dead on Pennsylvania farmland. In 1913, on the 50th anniversary of the battle, the same fields played host to the largest ever gathering of civil war veterans, where former soldiers from both sides – many in their 70s – returned to commemorate the war. MORE NEW YORK TIMES: It took no more than a few days after the Battle of Gettysburg for the […]
WANTED: The SEPTA Bus Beatdown Triplets
Do you recognize these strapping young go-getters? If so please call Philadelphia Police Department Northwest Detectives Division at 215-686-3353. Or make an anonymous tip at Phillypolice.com.
CONTEST: Win Tix To See Cirque Du Soleil
We have a pair of tickets to Cirque Du Soleil‘s AMAZING Totem under the Ben Franklin in Camden on June 27th. Forget Ringling Bros. THIS is the greatest show on earth. To qualify, you need to sign up for our mailing list (see right, below the masthead), trust us you want to do this. You get first dibs on concert ticket giveaways, breaking news alerts and other assorted be-the-first-on-your-block type shit. After you sign up, send us an email at FEED@PHAWKER.COM with the words CIRQUE in the subject line. Please include your full name and a mobile number for […]
BEING THERE: It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But I Like It
The Rolling Stones, Wells Fargo Center, last night 9:05 pm by VIC SUEDE EDITOR’S NOTE: Powerful east coast storms that grounded us for 12 hours at Atlanta International yesterday put the kibosh on our Rolling Stones concert coverage plans. Our apologies. RELATED: About to turn 70 next month, the impossibly fit and thin Jagger not only strutted from the opening chords of “Get Off of My Cloud,” but at the very end of the show still was running and dancing along a long tongue-shaped walkway into the audience. He not only sang sharp and high from the start, but through […]
BEING THERE: Hallelujah
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes, Bonnaroo, 6:33 pm Sunday by JONATHAN VALANIA EDITOR’S NOTE: Out on the road with these guys for a few days, so posting will be light but stay tuned for a must-read post from Uncle Bill about Snowden/NSA spying on Americans.
CONTEST: Win Tix To See The Postal Service
Artwork by SEAN LEWIS If you’ve just thawed out from the deep freeze of a cryogenic pod, having spent the last eon rocketing to the far reaches of Alpha Centuri, welcome back spaceboy. Let us get you up to speed. Really all you need to know about the last 10 years is that Ben Gibbard from Death Cab For Cutie teamed up with producer Jimmy Tamborello on an electro side project called The Postal Service. The resulting album, Give Up, is the biggest selling Sub Pop album since Nirvana’s Bleach. (NOTE: Nirvana was a very popular boy band with great […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See The National @ The Mann
If Joy Division had a horn section and grew up in Ohio instead of Manchester, they would have been called The National and Ian Curtis would still be dead. Speaking of which, we have a pair of tix to see The National perform in support of the just released Trouble Will Find Me tomorrow night at The Mann Music Center! To qualify, you need to sign up for our mailing list (see right, below the masthead), trust us you want to do this. You get first dibs on concert ticket giveaways, breaking news alerts and other assorted be-the-first-on-your-block type […]
BEING THERE: This Machine Kills Fascists
Gary Clark Jr., Festival Pier, Roots Picnic, Saturday 7:07 pm by JEFF FUSCO PREVIOUSLY: Pete Troshak’s photos and review The Roots Picnic 2013
ARTSY: Win Tix To See The Excellent Outsider Art Exhibit At The Philadelphia Museum Of Art
Outsider Art describes the DIY folk-art of artists with no formal academic training, connection to the artworld/gallery scene or expectation of fame or fortune. Often naive, crude and profoundly inspired, Outsider Art is invariably the provenance of the terminally-obsessive, the clinically-insane or the feverishly religious — or some combination of all three. GREAT AND MIGHTY THINGS, now in its final week at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, is a great introduction to the genre and we three pairs of tickets to give away to the lucky Phawker readers that can answer this question. Howard Finster is the most high-profile […]