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NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs
LOLLAPALOOKAVILLE: Texans Bail On Belmont, Please Touch Say ‘Please Don’t’ The Austin, Texas, outfit that proposed a three-day pop festival for Belmont Plateau in August has withdrawn the bid and is pursuing alternative plans, park officials said today. A competing proposal from Larry Magid’s Electric Factory Concerts has not been withdrawn, Magid said late today, although he added that he had strong reservations about the site. Magid said today that a scaled-down, two-day event in and around the Mann Music Center might be more appropriate. And in a letter to the park last week, he suggested that June might be […]
THE VELS: Look My Way
Chris Larkin played keyboards for the most prominent line-up of Kenn Kweder’s Secret Kidds in the late 1970s (the one that recorded the “Man on the Moon” 45), was in a short-lived jazz fusion group called Snow, played in a duo with Kweder as “Tom & Jim,” did some producing (including Kweder’s 2nd 7″, and some tracks by The Impossible Years), was a keyboardist, singer and songwriter for electropop trio The Vels, who recorded for Mercury Records, and in the late 1980s played bass for Mikey Wild and the Mess. Chris passed away due to complications from pneumonia & liver […]
WE KNOW IT’S ONLY ROCK N’ ROLL BUT WE LIKE IT
GOD + WEEN + SATAN = THE ONENESS: Ween, Tower Theater, Last Night BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER They say actors are the ultimate existential heroes because they get to live multiple lives, while the rest of us have to settle for just one. Similarly, there is something heroic about Ween’s 23-year quest for the ultimate buzz, musical or otherwise, and their Zelig-like ability to utterly inhabit any genre they choose — shit-kicker country, dirtball metal, gold chain disco, hobbit-hole psychedelia, even fern-bar kool jazz — while simultaneously satirizing it for your protection. The new La Cucaracha, the 11th […]
HEAR YE: Tegan & Sara The Con
NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO 5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TEGAN & SARA AT THE C.B.A.C. 1. The Commerce Bank Arts Center is actually a really rich-looking high school with a fancy auditorium in Sewell, New Jersey — run entirely by soccer moms who have trouble calculating seat numbers with their rows. 2. Tegan and Sara do not really have the same hair cut and even though they are lesbians identical twins, they don’t really look that lesbian alike, or for that matter, like they are trying to look lesbian alike. And while we’re still on hair, if you […]
NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs
Supreme Court Rules Against Foxwoods, Casino Construction Delayed Indefinitely Back in May, Philadelphia City Council voted to overturn a Mayor Street veto of its anti-casino bill. The bill would reverse the zoning status of the proposed Foxwoods site, delaying the beginning of construction indefinitely. In June, Foxwoods filed an emergency petition with the PA Supreme Court. In Count I of the petition, Foxwoods asked the state’s highest court to overturn the anti-casino bill on the grounds that it is somehow “unconstitutional.” Today the high court ruled against Foxwoods, calling the matter “not ripe for adjudication” and dismissed the casino’s request […]
TRENT REZNOR: Warning
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Hyski O’Rooney McVoutie O’Zoot Has Left The Building
Hy Lit, 73, one of Philadelphia’s pioneer disc jockeys, died yesterday at Paoli Memorial Hospital of what his son termed “bizarre complications” after a knee injury. Mr. Lit was on hand for much rock-and-roll history as it played out in Philadelphia. He played Rolling Stones music early on and accompanied the Beatles to the city in 1964. A dashing figure with a face for television, he also hosted dance shows on WKBS in Philadelphia and a New York station. Another longtime fixture in local radio, disc jockey Jerry Blavat, last night called Mr. Lit’s death “the end of the era […]
SAD: Kanye’s Mother Dies After Tummy Tuck; Kanye Breaks Down Onstage In Paris During “Hey Momma”
LOS ANGELES — A judge has quashed the arrest warrant for a plastic surgeon who operated on the mother of Kanye West. The warrant was issued Friday morning when Dr. Jan Adams did not show up for a hearing in a civil case unrelated to the death of West’s mother, Donda West. Courtroom assistant Becky Liu says Adams showed up later in the morning and Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Tracy Grant canceled the warrant. Adams has said little publicly since the death of Donda West. She died Nov. 10, a day after Adams performed a tummy tuck and breast […]
WE KNOW IT’S ONLY ROCK N’ ROLL BUT WE LIKE IT
STRIPED WHITE JETS: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Starlight Ballroom, Last Night BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER First, a bite of crow: in the interest of full disclosure, I must confess to being among the few critics that did not clap my hands or say ‘Yeah’ when CYHSY first blazed across the night sky of the blogosphere two years ago, leaving behind of phosphorous tail of spent Pitchfork hype and Brooklyn hipster cachet. But it would seem that either they have changed or I have, or perhaps a little of both. Judging from CYHSY’s taut, expansive and altogether persuasive […]
WORTH REPEATING: How To Sell The City
Just stumbled upon this on UWISHUNU, which, it is no secret, is “created and fully moderated by the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation.” When the city’s marketers are using MIA as tourist-bait, truly a “new day” has dawned in Philadelphia. Update: The VIP package is SOLD OUT! ***You can still purchase MIA tickets from Live Nation. You should also check out Philly Like a Local for another cool way to stay in Philadelphia. Sri Lankan-British rapper/singer/songwriter Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam, better known as MIA, is coming to Philadelphia’s Electric Factory on Saturday, December 1 to support her new album, Kala. It’s […]