The Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert, originally scheduled for Monday, November 26th and featuring Led Zeppelin, Bill Wyman and the Rhythm Kings, Paul Rogers, Paolo Nutini, and Foreigner has been postponed until December 10th due to Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page fracturing his finger. The injury to Page’s finger, which was sustained this past weekend, will not allow him to play guitar for 3 weeks. MORE
RIP: Porter Wagoner 1927-2007
[Illustration by ALEX FINE] It wasn’t very long ago that we saw Porter Wagoner onstage at Madison Square Garden, singing, playing guitar, sparkling like a sapphire. We feel even luckier now having made the trip to NYC, and as always, are stunned how fast cancer can take a life. [via CITIZEN MOM] LA TIMES: Porter Wagoner, 80 PREVIOUSLY: Porter Wagoner + The White Stripes, Live At Madison Square Gardens PREVIOUSLY: The Wagonmaster’s Comin’ PORTER WAGONER & THE WILLIS BROTHERS: I’ll Fly Away
INSTA-REVIEW: I’m Not There Soundtrack
NOW PLAYING: ON PHAWKER RADIO! BY ED KING ROCK SNOB You all know more about this I’m Not There pseudo-bio-flick that Todd Haynes, I believe, has had in the works for a number of years. Buskirk knows everything there is to know about this film, I’d bet. I’ve been looking forward to it. I love Dylan, I love many of Haynes’ films, and I like the concept of having various actors play Dylan at various points in his life: Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Tom Arnold, Charles Grodin…So Phawker drops this soundtrack album on us, and what’s a poor boy to […]
EARLY WORD: The Mystery Tramp
REMINDER: I’m Not There Soundtrack Now Playing On Phawker Radio!
HEAR YE: I’m Not There Soundtrack
NOW PLAYING: ON PHAWKER RADIO! Track listing after the jump…
BREAKING: Santorum Gets Inquirer Column!
EDITOR & PUBLISHER: A press conference will be held at 1:30 this afternoon at the Philadelphia Inquirer to announce that it has added former Sen. Rick Santorum to its stable of columnists. Also hired is George Curry, the former editor of Emerge magazine. They will alternate the weekly spot. The two will attend the announcement with Brian P. Tierney, publisher, and Harold Jackson, editorial page editor. Just today, Santorum is featured (and pictured) in an Inky news article on page A3 headlined, “Santorum presses his case against Islamic extremism: ‘There’s a denial of this problem,’ says the ex-senator.” Santorum, a […]