FRESH AIR TERRY GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. When Donald Trump announced his candidacy, my guest, [New Yorker staff writer] Evan Osnos, was reporting on extremist white rights groups. What he quickly discovered was that Trump’s anti-immigration message was resonating with these groups. In current issue of the New Yew Yorker Osnos writes, quote, “ever since the Tea Party’s peak in 2010 and its fade, citizens on the American far-right – patriot militias, border vigilantes, white supremacists – have searched for a standard-bearer, and now they’d found him. In the past, white nationalists, as they call […]
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats: S.O.B.
Maximum R&B that shakes, sweats and ripples with echoes of Sam Cooke, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and Bang Records-era Van Morrison. What’s not to love with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns? The new album has not escaped the notice of, like, anyone. Their show at Johnny Brenda’s overran the venue’s 200 person capacity in, like, seven minutes and the show got bumped up to the TLA (capacity 1,000,000), which they promptly sold out. Sometimes the good guys win. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS PLAY THE TLA ON NOVEMBER 7TH
INCOMING: Win Tix To Making Time’s RAD-B-Q
On Sunday Making Time is hosting their annual Making Time Rad-B-Q thingee at “the magical tiki oasis that is Bamboo Bar” at The Roxxy. We have a pair of tickets to give away to some lucky reader, all you have to do is A) follow us on Twitter B) send us an email at FEED@PHAWKER.COM telling us you have done so as well as the answer to this trivia question C) Name the song and the band who wrote and recorded it that gave Making Time it’s name. Include your full name and a mobile number for confirmation. Put […]
CORRUPTION WRECKED MY LIFE: The Rise And Fall And Slight Return Of Kurt Heasley & The Lilys
From Tell All Your Friends: Kurt Heasley, frontman, founder, and sole constant member of the highly influential indie rock band the Lilys announces official, one-time-only, “big band” Lilys shows for Saturday, October 10th at the Lithuanian Music Hall in Philadelphia and Friday, October 9th & Sunday, October 11th at Baby’s All Right in NYC . The show is called “Corruption Wrecked My Life”, and features never before or rarely performed early material by the Lilys spanning 1990 to 1995 and will primarily cover material from 1992’s In The Presence of Nothing, 1993’s A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns and 1994’s Ecssame The Photon Band. While the Lily’s musical style and […]
THE NATURAL: Q&A With Bhi Bhiman
BY TOM BECK Ever since Bhi Bhiman’s youth, he showed great potential. From age seven onwards, he would practice his craft constantly, usually playing for hours a day, perfecting his skills in effort to one day make it big time — except on a diamond rather than a stage. Bhiman was an elite baseball player at young age, before a freak hip injury took him out of the lineup and into the hospital. But it was the ultimate blessing in disguise. Bhiman’s time away from the baseball field allowed him to hone his guitar playing to freaky-good levels, and […]
NIRVANA: All Apologies
The cradle will rock. As heard in Montage Of Heck. There is a whole album of eerie/sad lullabye renditions of Nirvana songs HERE. Because it’s never too soon for your baby to learn the noble suffering of being alive.
WORTH REPEATING: My Little Brony
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: On East Somerset Street, in a clean and roomy paddock next to a tire shop, in the shade of a giant weeping willow, lives a fat and contented pony – the Pony of Port Richmond. His name is Albert, but everyone calls him Coco. Coco does not bite or kick. He is patient and gentle with the neighborhood children and the many passersby who stop to gawk, who abide by the sign on the tire shop’s gate: “Please, do not feed the animal (Horse). Thank You.” He does not flinch even when the cargo trains rumble past, […]
BOOKS: The Day The Clown Cried
Artwork by CHLOE CUSHMAN NATIONAL POST: Jonathan Franzen is the punchline to an ongoing joke. Please forgive me for being the boorish person who attempts to explain the gag. Franzen, with his noted self-seriousness, his ambivalence about modernity, his anger at the world for turning, always turning, stands in for a character type, one frequently dismissed on Twitter with the ironic (but dead serious) nouning of “old.” Franzen, at 56, is an Old. He is chagrined and scandalized by kids today, with our student debt and our start-ups, with our selfies and our Snapchat. In the media, Franzen is all […]
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE: Did You See The Words
Animal Collective have announced their first live album of a single show, Live at 9:30, taken from their June 12, 2013 show of a sold-out three night run (June 10-12, 2013) at the historic Washington DC venue, 9:30. The release sees them play highlights such as ‘My Girls’, ‘What Would I Want? Sky’, and ‘The Purple Bottle’ from their decade-plus career. Their previous live release, 2002’s Hollinndagain, was a compilation of live recordings from 2001. Geologist of Animal Collective had the following to say about the shows: “Growing up in Baltimore, we’ve been seeing shows at 9:30 for over 20 […]
CAR SEAT HEADREST: Something Soon
Via Matador Records: Matador Records is thrilled to announce that it has signed Car Seat Headrest and will release Teens of Style on October 30, with Teens of Denial to follow soon after in 2016. This prolific artist (né Will Toledo) comes to Matador having already crafted an 11-album catalog of staggering depth, all self-released on Bandcamp, which has gained him an obsessive following and over 25,000 downloads – all without the muscle of a manager, label, agent, or publicist – until now. Car Seat Headrest began in 2010 in Will Toledo’s hometown of Leesburg, Virginia. Needing a place of […]
EARLY WORD: When The Levee Breaks
This week, Levee Drivers frontman August John Lutz II released his swell solo debut, an EP called My Foolish Heart. He plays a CD release @ Bourbon & Branch on Saturday September 5th with Song Dogs, New Sweden and Haint Blue. More info HERE.
NPR 4 THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When U Can’t
FRESH AIR Neurologist Oliver Sacks, who died Sunday, once described himself as an “old Jewish atheist,” but during the decades he spent studying the human brain, he sometimes found himself recording experiences that he likened to a godly cosmic force. Such was the case once when Sacks tried marijuana in the 1960s: He was looking at his hand, and it appeared to be retreating from him, yet getting larger and larger. “I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling,” Sacks told Fresh […]
TRAILER: The Will Smith Movie That Could Spell The End Of The NFL As We Curently Know It
Due out in December, this movie will do for the NFL/concussions what 1999’s The Insider did for Big Tobacco/addiction: Let the genie out of the bottle and throw away the cap. Put on your seat belts, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride. SB NATION: Traumatic brain injury is the skeleton that the NFL has tried to keep in its closet for far too long. Now that’s coming to light on the brightest stage possible. Will Smith’s new movie Concussion will expose people who don’t care about football to the plights of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Smith plays Dr. Bennet […]