Photo by PETE TROSHAK EDITOR’S NOTE: This concert review originally posted on March 20th, 2013 If you heard a distant rumble or saw a flash of light on the Northwest horizon last night around 9 p.m., that was Nick Cave, like a bat out of hell, smiting Glenside to a crisp as per his satanic majesty’s request. And it was good. Very good. How could it not be? Everyone knows Heaven has better weather but Hell has all the best bands. Cave looked and sounded in peak form (good hair, great suit, whipped himself about the stage like an electrocuted […]
CINEMA: I’m With Her
WONDER WOMAN (2017, directed by Patty Jenkins, 141 minutes, USA) BY RICHARD SUPLEE GEEK SPACE CORRESPONDENT Wonder Woman has a lot riding on it. It has to singlehandedly save the DC Comics’ Extended Universe from an advanced state of cinematic suckitude while simultaneously adapting DC’s third most popular superhero of all time without pissing off 75 years worth of comic book geeks, proto-feministas and latter day riot girls AND be a better female superhero film than Supergirl (1985), Tank Girl (1995), Catwoman (2004), and Elektra (2005). For years studio execs were able to say “the audience doesn’t want female superheroes, […]
BEING THERE: Real Friends & Have Mercy @ The TLA
Photo by ERIN BLEWETT “Whether you guys fuck with this or not, cheers to you guys,” Broadside frontman Ollie Baxxter purred at an utterly captivated crowd at the Theater of the Living Arts on Thursday for an epic evening of sweaty pop-punk. The crowd was raging in the pit during the Richmond, VA-based pop-punk group’s set, and it was at that moment I realized I could never be The Girl That Moshes as I ran away from the actual Girl Who Moshes, using my camera as a shield. (In retrospect, not my best idea.) Next up was Tiny Moving Parts. […]
MILESTONED: It Was 50 Years Ago Today
FRESH AIR: Giles Martin says he included outtakes and raw performances in the new box set to show “how human the making of Sgt. Pepper was.” The original album was produced by Martin’s father, George. MORE ROLLING STONE: The surviving band members and their legatees have authorized the reconsideration of a major canonical work: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, originally released 50 years ago on June 1st, 1967, in England, and the following day in the U.S. The new Pepper comes in various packages: single and double CDs, a deluxe box of four CDs and two DVDs (containing videos […]
NPR 4 THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR: Humorist David Sedaris admits that his latest work, Theft by Finding, isn’t exactly the book he set out to publish. It was originally meant to be a collection of funny diary entries, but then Sedaris’ editor had a suggestion that changed its course. “My editor said, ‘Why don’t you go back to the very beginning and find things that aren’t necessarily funny and put those in as well?’ ” Sedaris says. “Soon those [entries] outweighed the funny ones, and the funny ones seemed almost over-produced, so I got rid of a lot of them.” The result is a […]
INCOMING: Death Or Glory
The Magnificent Seven is Nixon Head’s crack-shot alter ego Clash cover band. Lower Wolves hearkens back to the kudzu-encrusted glory days of 1981-1986 when Athens, GA’s favorite sons ruled the collegiate-rock roost with the pretty persuasion of jangling ambiguities.
NPR 4 THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When U Can’t
FRESH AIR: Minnesota Sen. Al Franken has the distinction of being the only former Saturday Night Live cast member to serve in the U.S. Senate. It’s a singular career trajectory, but it’s also not particularly surprising given Franken’s deep interest in politics and comedy. It all started in high school, when Franken began writing satire with his friend (and later SNL writing partner) Tom Davis. “One of the first things we wrote was a local newscast the night of the day of World War III,” Franken says. “It was … ‘Well, it happened. World War III. The stock market […]
SIDEWALKING: Set The Twilight Reeling
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GEEK SQUAD: Riot Girls
BY RICHARD SUPLEE GEEK SPACE CORRESPONDENT After the ensuing critical shitstorms that greeted the release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad last year, Warner Bros. is trying to salvage the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) which includes the following superhero franchises: the newest Superman and Suicide Squad and upcoming Wonder Woman, along with Aquaman, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern, Shazam, and Cyborg. Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) — which includes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, plus TV and Netflix shows and too many films in development […]
A GIANT STEPS ON: RIP Mickey Roker, Jazz Legend
BY BILL HANGLEY JR. The 20th century took another blow today with the passing of a Philly jazz giant, Mickey Roker. A master of the drums and a mentor to generations, Roker was a link to an age when people paid big bucks in Tokyo or Hamburg to see what any Philloid could still see for free. His death was reported today by Temple Univerity’s WRTI, which will be featuring his music all day; no cause of death has been announced so far. He was 84. Roker was both a global ambassador and a local institution. Like countless others I […]
REAL ESTATE: Stained Glass
Real Estate have shared an immersive, first-of-its-kind new music video for “Stained Glass” – the second video to be released from their latest album In Mind, out now on Domino. Directed by Craig Allen, the interactive experience allows fans to color and share their own animated kaleidoscope-like video, creating something unique and experimental. Create your own here: stainedglassvideo.com.
SPOLIER ALERT: Look Who’s In The Black Lodge
David Lynch ratcheted up the mind-bending weirdness to 11 last night on the two-hour debut of the long-awaited third season of Twin Peaks: pie, logs, dwarves, dead blue prom queen wrapped in plastic, Dracula, bigfoot, UFOs, Trump and the Saudis in the Black Lodge doing God knows what with some kind of illuminated orb…OK, you caught me, haven’t watched it yet.