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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 […]
TRIED TO MAKE ME GO TO REHAB: I Said ‘No, No, No’
THE DAILY MAIL: The fight in the early hours of yesterday left 23-year-old Miss Winehouse with blood staining her pink ballet shoes and the knees of her jeans. Purple bruises could be seen on the side of her neck and her knuckles were swollen. But her 24-year-old husband appeared to have come off a lot worse – with cuts and scratches on both cheeks and around his neck. Before the big fight, the singer had made a solo trip out of the hotel at 11pm, walking a few yards down the road to meet and hug a girl in her […]
INSTA-REVIEW: M.I.A. Kala
NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO. WHY? BECAUSE WE LIKE YOU! BY SARA SHERR As you’ve no doubt read in a million and one places already, M.I.A. was set to make her sophomore effort, Kala, with Timbaland, but then visa troubles (her father being a Tamil Tiger can’t help) kept her from working in the U.S. So she traveled the world, collecting beats, textures, and sounds. Unlike most of the acts that garner a lot of blogger hype and print-crit “me too”-ing, M.I.A. is truly worthy of your time and effort. No other record that comes out this year will sound […]
Raging Against The Right-Wing Noise Machine
[Video: rage against the machine vs fox news] “A couple of months ago, those fascist motherfuckers at the Fox News Network attempted to pin this band into a corner by suggesting that we said that the president should be assassinated. Nah, what we said was that he should be brought to trial as war criminal and hung and shot. THAT’S what we said. And we don’t back away from the position because the real assassinator is Bush and Cheney and the whole administration for the lives they have destroyed here and in Iraq. They’re the ones. And what they refused […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE I COCK N’ ROLLED: Velvet Revolver, Camden, Last Night [CLICK FOR SLIDE SHOW] BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER Velvet Revolver is where rock stars go to die. It’s not quite heaven, and it’s not quite hell, but it will do. Perched halfway between artistic rehab and commercial purgatory, and hard rock in a hard place, Velvet Revolver is where empty-nester rockers — people like Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland and pretty much everyone in Guns N Roses not named Axl Rose — go to detox from a life of chemical sin and await […]
CONFIRMED: Amy Winehouse’s U.S. Tour Cancelled
“Due to the rigors involved in touring, Amy Winehouse has been advised to postpone her upcoming September U.S. and Canadian tour dates,” Winehouse‘s publicist Tracy Miller said in a statement. “Amy’s European and U.K. tour dates in October and November remain in place. Plans are being made to reschedule her U.S. tour for early 2008. Until then, Amy has been ordered to rest and is working with medical professionals to address her health.” [NME] PREVIOUSLY: The Daisy Dukes Of Hazard PREVIOUSLY: God Save The Queen CONSOLATION PRIZE: Slide Show From May 4th, 2007 At The Electric Factory [photos by JONATHAN […]