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 […]
INSTA-REVIEW: Five Things You Should Know About Art Brut + The Hold Steady At The Fillmore, Last Night
HAIL, HAIL ROCK N’ ROLL: The Hold Steady at The Fillmore, last night. 1. Eddie Argos reminds me of a guy I once dated, whose nickname was Eddie the Fish Man. (He ran a fish store in the long-gone Manayunk Farmer’s Market. Of course.) And speaking of fish, there was definitely something “off” about the fish taco I ate before the show, which explains why this review wasn’t written directly after. Retch! 2. Argos’ hyper-articulate English frat boy thing usually gets all the attention — and not without reason, ’cause dude’s a party mammal, whether he’s onstage baring his beer […]
MAILBAG: The Devil And Thom Yorke
Hey Jonathan, My mom (bless her) sends me all the articles she sees in the inquirer regarding radiohead. I’m a member of a small community devoted to archiving high quality (non-mp3) radiohead concert audio and video. As such, I’ve known most of the songs on in rainbows for quite some time (with the exception of faust arp). Anyhow, great review, but you got the points of some of the songs wrong, notably videotape. Thom’s at the pearly gates. Mephistopheles is just beneath, reaching up to grab him (The name is associated with the Faust legend of a scholar who wagered […]
COMING ATTRACTION: I Survived The ’80s One Time Already, And I Don’t Recall It All That Fondly
Tune in late-night tonight for INSTA-REVIEW: Five Things You Should Know About Art Brut vs. The Hold Steady @ The Fillmore/TLA, plus pics.
INSTA-REVIEW: Ween La Cucaracha
HEAR YE: NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO! Fiesta: aka Herb Albert & His Tijuana Grass Play Cheez Whiz and Other Delights Blue Balloon: Take the Cyrkle’s “Red Rubber Ball” fill with nitrous oxide, huff liberally. Friends: Sounds like the theme song for some really grating ’80s sitcom where the entire cast wears too much mousse in their hair and many wind up with felony records after cancellation.* Object: Possibly their prettiest song and cruelest lyric. Learnin’ To Love: Corn pone singalong wherein, for reasons of which I remain blissfully unaware, the Solid Gold dancers show up in the middle eight […]
CONCERT REVIEW: Power 99’s Powerhouse 2007
THE ONE: Ne-Yo all up in the matrix, Powerhouse 2007, Wachovia Center. BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER ‘Nothing succeeds like success’ may well be a cliche but that doesn’t make it any less true, especially in the hip-hop world where sales is artistry. And that’s pretty much how things went down Friday night at the Wachovia Center when radio station Power 99 hosted Powerhouse 2007, a nearly six-hour revue-style parade of major hip-hop artists — some on their way up, others on their way back down. Kanye West, currently the king of the hip-hop hill, headlined with great artistic […]