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They play the Electric Factory June 19th. Tickets go on sale Saturday @ noon.

  Hey boss! Remember that time when I was your roadie? How I protected your garment bags and the Gretsch with my life? How I dutifully slept in the van in bad neighborhoods when needed to? The car chases? The porn stars and the drugs? All for the love of the experience and for no pay? I was wondering if all that was enough to try to call in a favor from you. One of my favorite bands of the last 6 or 7 years are from Doylestown. They’re called Honeychurch, and they’re criminally unknown. They have a huge following, […]

  BY MIKE WOLVERTON SPORTS GUY That game was pretty good. I was rooting for Baltimore, so I’m happy. On to the commercials. They only count if they air during the game (kickoff-to-final gun, no halftime). I’ve thrown out the car ads, movie trailers and CBS promos and rated everything else that tried to be funny or cool. With a nod to the old axiom, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” I’ve changed the grading system from a 10-point scale to letter grades. The past three years have played out thusly:

  INQUIRER: In January 2012 Alexander announced the department was instituting an asset test – making the amount of food stamps that people receive contingent on the assets they possess. It was an unexpected move that bucked national trends — favored by both Democrats and Republicans, to eliminate asset tests altogether — since they are viewed as punitive toward elderly people saving for their burials, poor people trying to save enough to get out of poverty, and working- and middle-class people who lost their jobs in the recession and would have to liquidate assets to feed their families. Alexander’s department […]

You can’t make this sh*t up. Well, you could, but, well, just watch the video… WARNING: Numerous F-bombs and reinforcement of Jam Band Nation stereotypes. RELATED: In Fresno, California, a man claiming to be Jesus Christ rammed his car into an unidentified Pacific Gas & Electric worker on Saturday. The PG&E employee was innocently standing next to his company-issued truck when the son of god — a.k.a. Jett Simmons McBride of Tacoma, Washington — broke the worker’s leg with his car, wedging the victim between McBride’s front bumper and the PG&E truck’s rear bumper. McBride got out of the car […]

Second single from the new Push Away The Sky, due out Feb. 15th.  They play The Keswick on March 19th. PREVIOUSLY: Discussing God, Stalkers, Manic Depression, Johnny Cash, Dostoyevsky, Dope, Aging, Leonard Cohen, Etc. With Nick Cave

In America females become famous for being the shallow, talent-free, attention-whore with a big ass that’s banging Kanye. Or for being her sister. In Pakistan, females become famous for getting shot in the head by the Taliban for suggesting that Muslim girls deserve the same access to education as the boys — and living to tell the tale. It’s hard to say which society is more f*cked up. NEW YORK TIMES: Speaking on camera for the first time since she survived an assassination attempt by the Pakistani Taliban last year, the young activist Malala Yousafzai began with the words, “Today […]

With Tegan & Sara. Tickets go on sale 2/16 at noon. Can 165 million YouTube viewers be wrong?

  Hat tip to Sean Agnew for sending this in. Whatever we said that got us banned? That now goes double. HUMAN RIGHTS: The Human Rights situation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) deteriorated rapidly during 2012, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2013. The government has carried out a repressive campaign that has targeted Islamists, liberals, activists, and scholars alike, Human Rights Watch said. The campaign has systematically violated UAE citizens’ rights to free expression and fair trial, and employed tactics that directly contravene the international prohibition on arbitrary detention and forced disappearance. At the same […]

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  Twenty-two years after the release of Loveless, we’d come to believe Jesus would come back before My Bloody Valentine. Never thought we would occasion to type these words: HERE is the new My Bloody Valentine album. Tourists and the broke can listen HERE. INSTA-REVIEW: Opening trio of wall-of-noise tracks are stunning and deathless (and progress-less, too) but the bottom kinda falls out midway (tracks 4-6) when they peel back the wall of noise to reveal that there ain’t that much there there. But it picks up again with a pretty fucking ass-kicking three-song homestretch. “In Another Way” and especially […]