On sale Saturday. Tickets available at Ticketmaster.com, 800.745.3000, AEGLive.com, MannCenter.org, TicketPhiladelphia.org, 215-893-1999 or The Mann box office. ROLLING STONE: In newly released audio from a March 1966 interview, Bob Dylan claims he kicked a heroin habit after moving to New York City. “I got very, very strung out for a while,” he says in excerpts released by the BBC. “I kicked the habit. I had a $25 a day habit and I kicked it.” He was speaking to New York Times writer Robert Shelton on a plane from Lincoln, Nebraska to Denver while on his legendary 1966 electric tour. This […]
EARLY WORD: The Roots Of The Matter
Click HERE for tickets. You know you wanna! PREVIOUSLY: Like France, the picnic remains proof positive that, despite wild-eyed Tea Party protests to the contrary, socialism actually can work. Everyone brings something, we all share, and everyone lives relatively happily ever after — sometimes anyway. Such was the case at Saturday’s third annual Roots Picnic at the Festival Pier in Philadelphia. Senegal’s horn-y, percussion-heavy Baja and the Dry Eye Crew brought the world beats. Face-painted, ukulele-strumming one-gal-band TuneYards brought the weirdness. New Orleans rapper Jay Electronica brought the conspiracy theories (specifically the damning federal indictment of “Candyman”). Detroit’s Mayer Hawthorne, […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See Bell X1
We have two pairs of tickets to see Talking Heads-ian Irish alt-rockers Bell X1 tomorrow night at First Unitarian for the first two readers that email us at FEED@PHAWKER.COM with the answer to this trivia question: What is the name of the Bell X1 song that plays in the background of the infamous lesbian kiss scene on the O.C.? Good luck and godspeed! RELATED: Bloodless Coup is the fifth album from the Irish band Bell X1. And similar to their previous works, listening to these songs only makes one wonder what the larger scale American audience is missing. If you […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
Willie Nelson, Mann Music Center, 10:09 PM by JONATHAN VALANIA
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
Raphael Saadiq, Electric Factory, last night by JONATHAN VALANIA BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER If there is anything that Raphael Saadiq can’t do, it is only a slight exaggeration to say that scientists have yet to discover it. Sing? Check. Pipes of gold. Write songs? Check. Everything from classic old-school soul readymades to new-school R&B bump-and-grind. Play guitar? Check. He shreds like Ike Turner minus the coke and violence. Produce? Check. In addition to giving his own records a vintage Motown flavor, he’s twiddled the knobs for everyone from D’Angelo and Joss Stone to Macy Gray and Mary J. […]
BREAKING: Bob Dylan May Or May Not Have Used Drugs In The 60’s; Regardless He Turns 70 Tomorrow
ROLLING STONE: In newly released audio from a March 1966 interview, Bob Dylan claims he kicked a heroin habit after moving to New York City. “I got very, very strung out for a while,” he says in excerpts released by the BBC. “I kicked the habit. I had a $25 a day habit and I kicked it.” He was speaking to New York Times writer Robert Shelton on a plane from Lincoln, Nebraska to Denver while on his legendary 1966 electric tour. This may sound like a huge revelation, but Dylan has been telling journalists wild lies about his past […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See Willie Nelson At The Mann
[Illustration by ALEX FINE] A man who needs no last name, Willie is to Country what Neil is to rock: the Buddha, bestowing laid-back grace on all those who bask in his benevolent THC-tinged glow. Born April 30, 1933, in Abbott, Texas, Nelson begins writing songs at age seven. After serving briefly in the Air Force during the Korean War and studying agriculture at Baylor University, Nelson moves through a series of luckless, low-paying career changes–disc jockey; door-to-door vacuum and encyclopedia salesman. By 1958, in dire financial straits and married with children, Nelson is forced to sell his songs for […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
Misstallica, Johnny Brendas, 10:32 PM last night BY JONATHAN VALANIA
‘I ALMOST DIED A HUNDRED TIMES’: Q&A With Marwan Riyadh, Drummer For Acrassicauda
BY JONATHAN VALANIA Baghdad metallurgists ACRASSICAUDA have survived Saddam’s thugs, al Qaeda goon squads and assorted jihadist jerks — all of whom tried to silence them, under threat of death or imprisonment — but can they survive Fish Town? Find out tonight when they rock Johnny Brendas, along with all-girl Metallica tribute band Misstallica. On the eve of a U.S. tour, we got Acrassicauda drummer Marwan Riyadh on the line to talk about life in a war zone when you’re young, Iraqi and just wanna rock the fuck out — which is easier said than done, because if American bombs […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See The Submarines At JBs
[Photo by Autumn De Wilde] We have a pair of tickets to see everyone’s favorite boy-meets-girl-they-start-a-band-together-fall-in-love-break-up-write-catchy-songs-about-how-much-they-miss-each-other-get-back-together-get-married-live-happily-ever-after-on-their-Apple-commercial-money indie-pop band from LA. Well, almost everyone — some people like the Ting Tings better. The Submarines are currently on a tour in support of their third album, Love Notes/Letter Bombs, which brings them to Johnny Brendas tomorrow night. First Phawker reader to email us at FEED@PHAWKER.COM with the correct answer to the following question wins: What Submarines song was used in Apple’s commercial for the iPhone 3G? Note, we are NOT talking about the Submarines song that was used for Apple’s commercial for […]
REVIEW: Elucid’s Super Chocolate Black Simian
BY MATTHEW HENGEVELD Much like jazz music, hip-hop is a pliable and elastic form. From the Beastie Boys’ meshing of punk and hip-hop to Gansta Grass’ awkward bluegrass/hip-hop fuckcluster; rappin’ has found a method of adapting to just about any genre, for better or worse. So, with the recent rise in aggressive hip-hop, characterized by the sudden uber-popularity of Odd Future, it seems natural that hip-hop should crossover to one of the most bone-crushing genres of all time, drum and bass. The precursor of modern dubstep, DNB might be the most ‘social’ music since the Jazz Age, but like a […]
INFINITE JEST: You Are Missing Almost Everything
[Artwork via BATTLEROYALEWITHCHEEZE] NPR/MONKEY SEE BLOG: The vast majority of the world’s books, music, films, television and art, you will never see. It’s just numbers. Consider books alone. Let’s say you read two a week, and sometimes you take on a long one that takes you a whole week. That’s quite a brisk pace for the average person. That lets you finish, let’s say, 100 books a year. If we assume you start now, and you’re 15, and you are willing to continue at this pace until you’re 80. That’s 6,500 books, which really sounds like a lot. […] Of […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
HIGH BEAM: Iron & Wine, Electric Factory, last night by JONATHAN VALANIA