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CONTEST: Write A Clever Caption And…
…Win Tix To See Son Volt! The City of Philadelphia’s photo archive contains over 2 million images that date back as far as the late 1800s, i.e. the last time a Republican won in this town. In all seriousness, this is an INCREDIBLE visual record of the city’s evolution and a relatively new web site, PhillyHistory.org, is making it available for online consumption and purchase. To date, some 27,000 BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of images have been digitally scanned, at a rate of roughly 2,000 images a month. So, if you’ve been wondering why the line at Kinko’s is so goddamned […]
FUJIYA & MIYAGI: Ankle Injuries
Hat tip to Citizen Mom.
EARLY WORD: Badmotorfinger
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NATASHA: Hey, Hey, Hey
A year ago, Natasha was working at the Subway in Atlantic City. This year? She’s just plain workin’ it!
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
SEXY BOY: Air‘s Jean-Benoit Dunckel, The Fillmore, Last Night BY SIMONE SECCI FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT Air are one of those bands that have this precious ability to relax you like nothing else does. Personally I find this amazing and besides any consideration about the nature of the music, which draws heavily and equally from seventies prog, sixties extravaganza and eighties pop. But even though — doesn’t this mix sound perfect? And it does, it really does! The live show is just great, the duo of Jean-Benoit and Nicolas have this amazing back up band that recreate live every single sound from […]
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
DAISY DUKES OF HAZARD: Amy Winehouse, Electric Factory, Last Night [FLICKR] BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER Elizabeth II might have been at the Kentucky Derby, but the real queen of England was at the Electric Factory Saturday night. Her name is Amy Winehouse, and she is nothing short of a nouveau soul sensation. Her breakthrough album, Back To Black, with its clever post-modern amalgam of ’60s soul, Motown and Spectorian girl groups, is currently blowing up in all formats. While royalty watchers wondered aloud which hat Elizabeth would deign to wear to the Churchill Downs, the sold out crowd […]
All Of This Happened While You Were Sleeping
GROUND CONROL TO MAJOR TOM: Arcade Fire, Tower Theater, Last Night EVA SAYS: The Arcade Fire is currently Canada’s most exciting export, which in another time would have been damning them with faint praise. These days it’s praise of the highest order, especially if you are an indie-rock band. After only two albums, the seven-member collective has positioned itself as a trans-national sensation with their solemn lyrics, bombastic instrumentation and passionate melodies. And still, nobody seems more surprised than the band members themselves. This is true especially of the band-leading songwriting couple Win Butler and Regine Chassagne, who still appear […]
Gilmore Girl Namedrops First Unitarian, Millions To Regard Church As Ground Zero Of Indie Rock
DAN GROSS REPORTS: R5 Productions’ Sean Agnew was at First Unitarian Church Tuesday, when Andrew W.K. was doing a spoken-word event, when the text messages began pouring into his cell phone. The church, where he books indie rock, punk and hip-hop shows, had just been name-dropped on “Gilmore Girls.” Agnew said he thought it was all a big mistake until he downloaded the episode yesterday and saw for himself. Agnew was surprised, and points out that Tokyo Police Club [pictured], a real band with whom a “Gilmore Girls” character was to tour, actually played the First Unitarian several weeks ago. […]