WORST HARVEY WALLBANGER EVER The trial of a 57-year-old Burlington County, NJ woman charged with murdering her brother-in-law by serving him a concoction of fruit juice laced with antifreeze is underway in Mt. Holly. The Shamong Township woman is charged with preparing a fatal cocktail of fruit juice and antifreeze that resulted in the death, three years ago this week, of 58-year-old Jonathan Neabor of Old Bridge, NJ. During one of two of her taped confessions, she told a state trooper that she wanted only to sicken Jonathan so he would come and live with the family to provide financial […]
INSTA-REVIEW: Interpol’s Our Love To Admire
NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO BY ED KING ROCK SNOB I must apologize for buying into the whole Joy Division comparison thing with this band. There were a dozen lesser gloom bands around the time of Joy Division who hit on similar notes. Interpol has more in common with those bands; they’re a pop band dressed in black, not some awkward punk beast like early Joy Division, which was perversely tamed by gifted producer Martin Hannett before their untimely end. That’s OK, and seeing Interpol in this light makes them “Pretty good for this kind of music” rather than a […]
LOVIN’ SPOONFUL: Summer In The City
For those keeping score: Hollywood Palace, September 24th, 1966. A very good year.
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
SHOCK OF THE NEU: Fujiya & Miyagi, Johnny Brenda’s, Last Night BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER Melody, lyrics, chord patterns — these building blocks of pop music composition are constantly being updated, re-invented or re-contextualized. Great leaps forward in rhythm, however, are fewer and farther between. The Bo Diddly beat and, say, the collected R&B works of James Brown, and for that matter, the entire genre of hip-hop, are prime examples of giant steps in rhythmic innovation. In the early ’70s a group of experimental German musicians, the so-called “Kraut-rockers,” which includes the bands Neu and Kraftwerk, moved beat […]
FORECAST: Hot In The City Tonight!
With The Mooney Suzuki Tonight At The Khyber
HEAR YE: Can’t Tell Me Nothing Mixtape
BY JASON FLEURANT Kanye West‘s abiding belief in himself is often misconstrued as arrogance. So it’s only fitting that the never-could-hold-his-tongue MC would drop a mixtape/single called “Can’t Tell Me Nothing.” After all it was that same motto that fueled the Chi-Town native to reach for his dreams and become such a success, while the world stood against him. Mixed by A&R Plain Pat, the mixtape features numerous G.O.O.D artist and affiliates. Getting fans excited for the forth coming LP is three cuts from Common’s “Finding Forever.” His official single “The Game” which has legendary DJ Premier doing cuts […]
DANDI WIND: Flooded Grass
Tonight at JBs.
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
ON MAGNOLIA MOUNTAIN: Ryan Adams, Fillmore at the TLA, Last Night BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER For all intents and purposes, Ryan Adams is the Paris Hilton of indie rock — you just can’t bring yourself to not look, or more accurately, listen. As such, the messy-haired alt-country heartthrob has become a polarizing figure. THE CASE AGAINST: Hoo-boy. Adams came to fame, or some variation of it, on the heels of the messy collapse of his first band, the insurgent country pioneers Whiskeytown. With the exception of his breakthrough solo debut, Heartbreaker, Adams? recorded output has been both maddeningly […]