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CLARIFICATION: Adolf Hitler NOT ‘Good,’ Says Will Smith LOS ANGELES — Will Smith is angry over celebrity gossip Web site articles that he said misinterpreted a recent remark he made in a Scottish newspaper about Adolf Hitler. In a story published Saturday in the Daily Record, Smith was quoted saying: “Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today.’ I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good.’” The quote was preceded by the writer’s observation: “Remarkably, […]
5 Things U Should Know About Brown Recluse Sings
SUNSHINE SUPERMAN: Brown Recluse Sings (pictured above), The Neighborhood Choir, Surefire Broadcast, & Hermit Thrushes play Friday at Johnny Brenda’s. 1. Brown Recluse Sings is quite possibly the second or third worst band name EVER. 2. They are also the greatest band we have ever heard. This week. What do they sound like, you ask? Krautrock-ish. Or “pretty, drawn-out, simple” as the band says. 3. Hard to say if they are a band first and a DJ collective second or vice versa. Patrick Todd is the drummer. He is 1/3 of the SuperTodd Brothers, along with Ryan and Jesse Todd. […]
GRATEFUL DEAD: Ripple
DOWNLOAD: Grateful Dead – November 5, 1979 – The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA
Amy Winehouse Arrested For Perverting Justice
LONDON (Reuters) – Troubled soul singer Amy Winehouse was arrested on Tuesday as part of an investigation into perverting the course of justice, London police and her publicist said. The 24-year-old, whose husband Blake Fielder-Civil is being held on remand accused of inflicting grievous bodily harm and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, went to a London police station to be arrested in agreement with police. “It was voluntary and pre-arranged,” a representative at her publicity agency said, asking not to be quoted by name. In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: “A 24-year-old woman has been arrested by […]
RIP: Producer Joel Dorn Dead At 65
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Veteran record producer Joel Dorn, who worked with such artists as Roberta Flack, Max Roach and the Neville Brothers, died of a heart attack on Monday in New York. He was 65. Dorn, a one-time disc-jockey at a Philadelphia jazz radio station, was perhaps best known for his work with Atlantic Records’ prestigious jazz stable between 1967 and 1974. Working alongside the label’s jazz chief, Nesuhi Ertegun, he brought a pop sensibility to works by musicians such as Roach, Herbie Mann, Les McCann and Eddie Harris, Mose Allison and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.Dorn once said his two […]
DAN FOGELBERG: Longer Than
Soporific sire of soft-rock, dead at 56.
HEAR YE: Now Playing On Phawker Radio
Awesome in its hilarity. Hilarious in its awesome-ness. NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO! WHY BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU!
WE KNOW IT’S ONLY ROCK N’ SOUL BUT WE LIKE IT
PROUD MARY KEEP ON BURNIN’: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, The Fillmore, Friday BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER There was a prevailing mood of giddiness in the air Friday night at the Fillmore, a palpable sense that we were lucky enough to attend a very auspicious occasion, one above and beyond the usual concert experience. A sense that we were all active participants in poetic justice, and by ponying up for a ticket and selling out the joint, a long-neglected talent was finally getting her turn in the sun. As Sharon Jones will be the first to tell […]
THIS JUST IN: Leonard Cohen Makes The Cut
Madonna and John Mellencamp will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year, alongside Leonard Cohen, the Ventures and the Dave Clark Five. Philly Soul songwriter/producer team Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff will be presented the Ahmet Ertegun Award (previously known as the non-performer category) and blues harmonica player Little Walter will be inducted in the sideman category. This is Madonna’s first year of eligibility; her debut single, “Everybody,” was released twenty-five years ago in 1982. The induction ceremony will take place on March 10th, 2008 at New York’s Waldorf Astoria. MORE
5 Things You Really Oughta Know Before You Go See Papertrigger At The Fire Tonight
1.) The five members of Papertrigger all live together in a house in Roxborough, “up on Ridge” as the locals say. This makes me imagine all of my nephews shacked up together, which in turn kind of makes me want to stop over with a tray of ziti and, like, fold their laundry or something. Actually, they all have day jobs and “it’s less like the Monkees crazy happy funtime house you imagine it to be and more like a really long, heavy episode of ‘Full House,’” says singer/drummer Brian Dwyer. 2.) Vital stats on Papertrigger: Guitarist/sax player Joshua Taylor, […]