We have two pairs of tickets to giveaway to see The Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Penn’s Landing on Tuesday September 17th! To qualify, all you have to do is sign up for our mailing list (see right, below the masthead). Trust us, this is something you want to do. In addition to breaking news alerts and Phawker updates, you also get advanced warning about groovy concert ticket giveaways and other free swag opportunities like this one! After signing up, send us an email at FEED@PHAWKER.COM telling us a much, with the words HELLS YEAH YEAH YEAH! in the subject […]
Win Tix To See Peter Hook Perform New Order’s Movement & Power, Corruption & Lies @ The Troc
We have a pair of tix to see Joy Division/New Order bassist/songwriter peform New Order’s post-punk classics, Movement and Power Corruption & Lies at the Trocadero on Saturday! To qualify, all you have to do is sign up for our mailing list (see right, below the masthead). Trust us, this is something you want to do. In addition to breaking news alerts and Phawker updates, you also get advanced warning about groovy concert ticket giveaways and other free swag opportunities like this one! After signing up, send us an email at FEED@PHAWKER.COM telling us a much, with the words […]
Win Tix To See The Avett Brothers @ The Mann
Illustration by ZEB LOVE We have a pair of tix to see The Avett Brothers and Trombone Shorty at the Mann on Saturday! We have a pair of tix to give away to see psych-rock avatars Spirtualized tonight at Union Transfer! To qualify, all you have to do is sign up for our mailing list (see right, below the masthead). Trust us, this is something you want to do. In addition to breaking news alerts and Phawker updates, you also get advanced warning about groovy concert ticket giveaways and other free swag opportunities like this one! After signing up, send […]
Win Tix To See Spirtualized @ Union Transfer
We have a pair of tix to give away to see psych-rock avatars Spirtualized tonight at Union Transfer! To qualify, all you have to do is sign up for our mailing list (see right, below the masthead). Trust us, this is something you want to do. In addition to breaking news alerts and Phawker updates, you also get advanced warning about groovy concert ticket giveaways and other free swag opportunities like this one! After signing up, send us an email at FEED@PHAWKER.COM telling us a much, with the words HEY JANE in the subject line. If you are already […]
BEING THERE: No Age @ PhilaMOCA
Photo by SEAN CALDWELL Los Angeles art-punk duo No Age played a sold out show last night at PhilaMOCA in support of their new album, An Object. “We love this town,” declared vocalist/drummer Dean Spunt a few songs into their set, drawing a voluble audience response. “It’s been a while.” Spunt and guitarist/singer Randy Randall had bodies in motion — and often in collision with other bodies — from the get go, but things went full-tilt during “Glitter” (from 2010’s Everything In Between) and “Teen Creeps” (from 2008’s Nouns). New songs like “C’mon, Stimmung” and “No Ground” resonated as well […]
WORTH REPEATING: Dream Weaver
EIGHT MILES HIGH IN THE LAND DOWN UNDER In the last year Tame Impala auteur Kevin Parker has gone from trippy bedroom Lonerist to beloved global psych savant. MAGNET journeys to the Land of Oz to press an ear up to his inner speaker. By Jonathan Valania Kevin Parker, the one-man-band psych-rock wunderkind who records under the name Tame Impala, lives across the street from a professional magician (and sword swallower) in a quaint cul-de-sac of houses ringed with lemon trees in Freemantle, a charming seaside town of 25,000 in Western Australia. He shares a granny flat with Melody Prochet, […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See No Age @ PhilaMOCA
We have a pair of tix to give away to see dynamic punk duo No Age perform at @PhilaMOCA on Saturday in support of the just released An Object! To qualify, all you have to do is sign up for our mailing list (see right, below the masthead). Trust us, this is something you want to do. In addition to breaking news alerts and Phawker updates, you also get advanced warning about groovy concert ticket giveaways and other free swag opportunities like this one! After signing up, send us an email at FEED@PHAWKER.COM telling us a much, with the […]
BEING THERE: Made In America
Photo by PETE TROSHAK Made In America, the two day music festival organized by Jay-Z, returned to Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway over Labor Day Weekend. Early in day one, much-buzzed-about sister act Haim impressed the crowd with their unique percussion-heavy mix of 80’s pop and jam band-ian hippie-rock. Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Flava Flav performed their politically charged rap backed by a sizzling live band and delivered one of the best sets of the fest. Public Enemy put their money where their mouth is, announcing that they were donating their payment for the show to the embattled and underfunded […]
BEING THERE: Wassup Doc?
Moby’s house, Hollywood hills, Tuesday 1:46 PM by JONATHAN VALANIA MOBY: A few weeks ago Wayne [Coyne] and I spent the day making a video for ‘The Perfect Life’. then at the end of the day we broke out an acoustic guitar and gathered all of the extras on a rooftop overlooking L.A and sang an unrehearsed, impromptu version of the song. Please keep in mind we had no idea what we were doing. Wayne Coyne and I ended up doing a duet on ‘The Perfect Life’: we sing the choruses together, and then go back and forth on the […]
BEING THERE: Richard Thompson @ PFF
Richard Thompson, Philadelphia Folk Festival, last night by PETE TROSHAK The Philadelphia Folk Fest is a music institution now in its fifty-second year. The Fest is held on an idyllic patch of moonlight farmland, with a stage housed in a barn-like structure at the bottom of a steep, crowd-filled hill. The fest is a four day event complete with campgrounds and a variety of musical acts, kind of like a mini-Woodstock with less mud and no bad brown acid. Friday night at the Philadelphia Folk Festival was headlined by British guitar and songwriting legend Richard Thompson — a veteran of […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: Ty Segall, Sleeper
NPR: It’s hard to keep up with Ty Segall. The garage-rock revivalist is just 26, but has already released more than a dozen full-length albums, either under his own name or with the eight or nine (we’ve lost track) other bands with which he plays. (Sic Alps, White Fence and Epsilon are just a few of them.) Last year alone, he put out three stellar albums, then promptly kicked off 2013 by announcing in January that he’d formed yet another new band called . A lot of musicians might be ready for a break, but Segall is back again this […]
Q&A: Richard Thompson, The Gandalf Of Folk Rock
EDITOR’S NOTE: To celebrate the auspicious return of Richard Thompson, with a full band, to the Philadelphia Folk Festival on Friday we are re-running this interview we did with him back in 2010. BY ARTHUR SHKOLNIK Cobalt-eyed six-string sensei Richard Thompson has been pushing the boundaries of finger-style guitar since the mid-sixties, when he founded Fairport Convention as a teenager. Five decades and over 40 albums later, Thompson is consistently ranked as one of the top five living guitarists and one of the greatest songwriters in recent memory. Or as Anchorage Daily News cartoonist Peter Dunlop Shoal puts it so […]
Win Tix To See The Black Crowes @ The Mann
When the Black Crowes broke big in 1990, I wrote them off as derivative cock rockers. When Southern Harmony And Musical Companion came out in 1992, I realized I was wrong. Dead wrong. Take, for instance the song posted below, “Sometimes Salvation.” I dare you to find me a more soulful, primal and convincing rock n’ roll song about the pitiless intersections of love and addiction, transcendence and destruction. Don’t bother, you can’t. And yes, that’s Sophia Coppola as the druggy ingenue. Their trajectory since has zigged and zagged all over the place as they morphed from Rolling Stones […]