Puff The Magic of The LUCKY DRAGONS

NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO: Windows by The Lucky Dragons To be honest, we don’t know shit about these guys. Walk into AKA Music the other day and these sounds — sounds we had never heard before — are quietly fragmenting and recombining into new fractals in the background. It seems to be annoying most people in the store but we like it. A lot. What is this? we ask the clerk sitting at the register, poring over his Nancy comic. Without looking up, he just grunts something that later we figured out to be: “It’s Windows, the new album […]

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HOLLA: Mr. Lif Literally On Fire After Tour Bus Crash Fux His Shit Up, ‘Everybody Essentially OK’ Sez Label

THE WOOK REPORTS: In the annals of hip-hop conspiracy theories, I guarantee this brush with def will force The Coup and Fishtown’s Mr. Lif to check themselves twice before they wiggity-wreck themselves for reals. I also theorize that this was due to interference from The Man, i.e. the same dark forces that found Robert Van Winkle, killed Tupac, and made Flavor Flav a reality television star. From CMJ: About an hour after their departure from San Diego, the tour bus carrying Mr. Lif, the Coup, DJ Big Wiz, Metro and friends tumbled across the highway and burst into flames. According […]

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EARLY WORD: Neon, Manhole Steam And Big City Jazz

ARSNOVA PRESENTS: THE GOLBERG VARIATIONS Ben Goldberg, clarinet* Rob Sudduth, tenor saxophone Carla Kihlstedt, violin Trevor Dunn, bass Ches Smith, drums Wednesday, December 6 | 8pm Community Education Center 3500 Lancaster Avenue $12 General Admission *Clarinetist Ben Goldberg was a pupil of Steve Lacy‘s, and has performed with Andrew Hill, John Zorn and Roswell Rudd. He is featured on Wilco guitarist Nels Cline‘s latest recording, “New Monastary, A View into the Music of Andrew Hill.”

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THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT: South Jersey Suburban ScrEmo Band Wins GarageBand.com Contest, Does Not Fall For The BIG MUSIC Bait-and-Switch, Tells Capitol To Stuff It, Takes The Money And Runs, Plans To Buy Really Badass Matching Ballcaps And Hoodies

Jersey band 25G richer Congrats to South Jersey punks Fell Far Behind, who won $25,000 from GarageBand.com in a contest sponsored by Cingular and Capitol Records. Unsigned bands from across the country competed in an online poll. Fell Far Behind opted to take the cash and turned down a chance at a possible recording contract with Capitol. DAN GROSS: RUN, BOY, RUN! GARAGEBAND.COM: Yada, Yada MYSPACE: Fell Far Behind

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We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It

EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED: Illumina, Johnny Brendas, December 1, 2006 [FLICKR] EVA SAYS: Whenever I see Illumina, I like to imagine myself up there with them, jumping, dancing, and harmonizing all the live-long day. If only I could play an instrument, the cowbell even, maybe I could aim to be half as cool as these guys. Their whole LET’S START A BAND rockchestra steez is irresistibly fun — what with the cute Asian keyboardist, singing all cute and Asian-like, a small string section demurely rocking out and some crazy drummer in the back blowing on a whistle so sincerely you’re reminded […]

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JADED FUCKIN’ INDIE GUY: How I Learned To Love The ’80s And Still Thank God That They Are OVER

OF MONTREAL: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl) ED KING REPORTS: I’m going to be a bigger man and put aside my distaste for album titles like Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer — Let’s talk about the music. Every time I find myself looking back with more fondness than I’d ever thought I could muster on the last days of disco, the final hits by ELO, and the early days of synth-pop, something like this new Of Montreal album hits my radar. The album opens with the bracing vocals, phased guitar, and index-finger synth lines of “Suffer for […]

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HOLLA: GUNS! WEED! COPS! Say It Ain’t So, SNOOP!

THE WOOK REPORTS: Wait a second — am I to discern from yesterday’s news that Snoop Dogg’s an unrepentant and heavily-armed stoner? Exactly. That incredulous, “how far outside of the pop cultural beltway do you hover, Wook” sentiment is exactly how the LAPD must feel every time they have to do some limpin’ to the pimpin’, whether it be at LAX or outside the NBC Studios. The fact is that after a decade of extolling the virtues of the sticky icky icky clear across the commercial landscape – be it music, film, porn or kids books – “Snoop as stoner” […]

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