R5 Presents: Kurt Vile Strapping Fieldhands, Home Blitz Johnny Brenda’s Fri, January 8, 2010 Doors: 8:00 PM / Show: 9:00 PM $10.00 Sold Out
EARLY WORD: Requiem For A Kensington Bluesman
[Click to enlarge] PREVIOUSLY: Jack Rose, Kensington Bluesman, Dead At 38 *
CONTEST: Win 2 Tix 4 Wilco At The Electric Factory
That’s right folks, we have two tickets to give away for Wilco at the Electric Factory on April 10th and an itchy giveaway trigger finger. Instead of the usual first-emailer-with-correct-answer-to-such-and-such-trivia question, we are gonna give you a chance to flex your creative writing skills — after all, Wilco is for lovers English majors. So send an email to feed@phawker.com with your best why-I-simply-can’t-live-without-those-Wilco-tickets sob story — make us laugh, make us cry, make us laugh AND cry — and we just might have mercy on your soul. Go ahead, try and break our heart. PREVIOUSLY: Phawker Names Yankee Hotel Foxtrot […]
KABUL ROCKS: The First And Only Afghan Rock Band
BBC: This is music from Afghanistan, of a kind seldom heard before, but now produced by a trio of young men. The band, Kabul Dreams, is made up of vocalist Sulaymon Qardash, bass player Siddique Ahmad and drummer Mujtaba Habibi, who claim to be the country’s first and only rock and roll group. “One year ago in December we decided to create this band and since it was happening in Kabul, we thought Kabul Dreams is a good name,” says the 19-year-old vocalist, who bears a distinct resemblance to Liam Gallagher of the British band Oasis. “It’s a real dream […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR For the last three years, comedian John Oliver has been telling some serious jokes as “Senior British Correspondent” on The Daily Show With John Stewart. He won an Emmy for his work on the show in 2009, but his comedic career is not confined to the fake newsroom. Also last year, Oliver wrote and starred in his own stand-up special, John Oliver: Terrifying Times and appeared in the Mike Myer comedy flop The Love Guru. When he’s not on the screen, you can hear Oliver on the airwaves as the host of the TimesOnline weekly satirical news podcast […]
UPCOMING: Exit Interview With Dave Davies
Coming soon to a Phawker near you. Check local listings. PREVIOUSLY: Kinks Guitarist* Ditches DN For WHYY * The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset
PLOT THICKENS: CIA Bomber Was Double Agent
ASSOCIATED PRESS: The suicide bomber who killed eight people inside a CIA base in Afghanistan was a Jordan-born terrorist double agent who was invited to the base because he claimed to have information targeting Osama bin Laden’s second-in-command, a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a foreign government official confirmed MondayThe bombing killed seven CIA employees – four officers and three contracted security guards – and a Jordanian intelligence officer, Ali bin Zaid, according to a second former U.S. intelligence official. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the incident. The former senior […]
THIS JUST IN: Wilco At The Electric Factory 4/10/10
Wilco will play a run of 16 concerts in Eastern U.S. cities beginning in Miami, FL on March 22 and culminating in Pittsburgh, PA on April 11. One stop along the way will be in Philadelphia at Electric Factory on Saturday, April 10. The concerts are presented as “An Evening with Wilco” and will feature extended, varied sets exploring material from each of the accomplished Chicago sextet’s seven studio albums. Tickets for this show go on sale Saturday, January 9 at 10am and will be available at all Ticketmaster locations, Electric Factory Box Office, Ticketmaster.com and charge-by-phone at 215-336-2000 / […]
BEST OF: Our Favorite Albums Of 2009
LA ROUX — s/t The only reason I came to know of La Roux is because my disgruntled friend, Sam of Manchester, England, wouldn’t stop going on about how much he hated the album. We were going over sets for our next DJ event in Tokyo, discussing what kind of music to scrap and what to keep. “I can’t stand them,” he said of the British duo, “but Tokyoites eat it up. Throw it on, and they go nuts.” His eyebrows were furrowed, as always, forming a permanent scowl. “More proof that Japanese people have the shittiest taste in music,” […]
RIP: Vic Chesnutt Killed By Death
EW: A statement on Constellation Records’ official site reads in full: “Surrounded by family and friends, Vic Chesnutt died in Athens Georgia this afternoon, Friday 25 December at 14:59. In the few short years that we knew him personally, Vic transformed our sense of what true character, grace and determination are all about. Our grief is inexpressible and Vic’s absence unfathomable. We will make more information available according to the wishes of Vic’s family and friends.” It’s an unspeakably tragic end to Chesnutt’s story. Left in a wheelchair by a car accident at age 18, Chesnutt went on to build […]
TONITE: Kilroy Waz Herre
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RATM Busts Up Simon Cowell’s X-Mas Monopoly
THE INDEPENDENT: Rock band Rage Against the Machine ended Simon Cowell’s four year domination of the Christmas charts tonight after a hugely popular Facebook campaign helped the Los Angeles nu-metallers snatch the Christmas number one slot from X-factor’s Joe McEdlerry. More than half a million people downloaded the band’s famously anti-authoritarian and expletive laden track “Killing in the Name” in what was seen as a broad protest against the increasing influence of manufactured pop music. It is the first time a non-X-Factor song has made it to Christmas number one for four years and represents a major snub to the […]
REPORT: Phila. Drinking Water Contains Contaminants At Levels Above The Legal Limit
[Click image to enlarge] FRESH AIR: In part because of overwhelmed sewer systems, human excrement and dangerous chemicals are making their way into our waterways and drinking water. New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg returns to Fresh Air to talk about chemicals in our drinking water, and how the nation’s sewer systems are desperately in need of infrastructure repairs — even if the fix is not exactly politically attractive. An estimated one out of ten Americans is exposed to this unsafe drinking water. Duhigg reports on the “worsening pollution in American waters” — and regulators’ responses to the problem — […]