PEOPLE: But Extra reports that Wilson attempted suicide over the weekend after being depressed for several months, and that it was his brother Luke Andrew who found him.
THE BREAKDOWN: The Clash Of Civilizations
BY M. EMANUEL For the sake of hip hop, on Sept. 11, make tracks to your local music spot, your iTunes, your friendly neighborhood Target store, or wherever you legally buy music and purchase two copies of Kanye West’s eagerly anticipated Graduation. Why two? Well, the extra copy will go a long way in assuring that Kanye wins round one of his faux-WWE Smackdown-esque showdown with Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. The infamous date and ensuing hype surrounding the respective releases is to be expected, as West and 50 are considered in most circles as the two biggest rap stars in […]
THE POSTMEN: The Bag
The Japanese Fountains Of Wayne?
GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK: ‘Baby This Town Rips The Bones From Your Back, It’s A Death Trap’
BY DAN DELUCA OF THE INQUIRER For me, growing up an hour down the Garden State Parkway in Ventnor, Asbury Park was a place to escape to, a destination where there was a music scene, unlike the rest of the culturally barren Jersey Shore. We made pilgrimages to the still-active Stone Pony in hopes of catching a Springsteen pop-in. Sometimes, we hit the jackpot. Others, all we got was Gary U.S. Bonds. But when I drove there on a hot Sunday afternoon in July — stopping on the way into town at what seemed like the loneliest Starbucks in the […]
TONIGHT: Transparent Radiation
Woo-Hoo!
HOT DOCUMENT: New Sigur Ros Movie, Double CD
Sigur Ros Heima DVD Hvarf / Heim Double CD Out November 6 Exclusive Advance Screening September 14 in Akureyri, Iceland
RIP: Hilly Crystal, CBGB Founder, Dead At 75
BY SEWELL CHAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Hilly Kristal, who founded the punk-rock club CBGB and ran the legendary Bowery institution for nearly 33 years until it closed its doors last October, died on Tuesday at Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 75. The Associated Press, citing Mr. Kristal’s son, Mark Dana Kristal, reported that the cause was lung cancer. “The club — its initials mean Country Bluegrass Blues and Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers — was a hangout in a dire location,” Jon Pareles, The Times’s pop-music critic, wrote in October, when the Lower East Side club […]
INSTA-REVIEW: Meet The New Boss!
BY CITIZEN MOM I used to live on 10th Avenue in Belmar, NJ, a few blocks away from the house on E Street that served as the band’s namesake and first rehearsal space, which of course makes me eminently qualified to render an instant-opinion on the first single from the Boss’s forthcoming album, Magic, which drops Oct. 2. The single, “Radio Nowhere,” is NOW PLAYING on Phawker Radio and for this week only is available as a free iTunes download. Ahem. First listen: Hmmm. Kinda familiar four-note guitar riff, though I can’t quite figure out what it reminds me of. […]
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE: Peace Bone
From the new Strawberry Jam, due September 10th. Standby for Phawker Foreign Correspondent SIMONE SECCI’s interview with Panda Bear. Dateline: Rome.
MILESTONE: The Young Ones At 25
BY CITIZEN MOM It took a good five years after its debut on BBC2 for “The Young Ones” to make it all the way across the pond, to where a kid in Philly could finally watch. And even then, it was work — these were the days before the city had cable, necessitating a VCR deal with the kid who sat next to me in homeroom and got MTV at his house in Lafayette Hill. But dammit, I’d been reading about the British comedy series for years in the import Smash Hits magazines I bought on South Street, and it […]
YEAR OF THE DAWG: Sheriff Seizes 12 Pit Bulls From DMX’s House, Find The Remains Of 3 Buried In Back
PHOENIX Sheriff’s deputies raided the home of rapper DMX on Friday, seizing several pit bulls and finding the remains of three other dogs but making no arrests. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office received a tip more than a week ago about dogs being kept in inhumane conditions at the Phoenix-area home, said Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Detectives visited the home and then called one of the rapper’s lawyers and told him that the conditions for the animals at the property needed to be improved or deputies would take action, Arpaio said. The dogs were not being fed or given water. Authorities […]