Deep Sleep is a dope new clothing spot in the popular bohemian hangout of Old City. It is run by

The John Curtis Parliament formed in 1996 with the goal of being a completely ridiculous one off. In one day they wrote and recorded a demo and played their one and only show in Washington DC with Atom and His Package and I HATE YOU.

when i was flying back to LA from new york over MLK day, i saw tre cool at the airport.
aka the drummer for green day. he was not wearing eye make up. he was on his way to oakland, and i did not stop him to tell him how awesome i think he […]

It’s not like the Style section of the New York Times is a shining example of stellar journalism but yesterdays Jessica Pressler article just kind of made my skin crawl.
P.S. - Razzle! Dude, you will ALWAYS be Razzle to me!

This gainfully unemployed, underachiever takes you on a fantastic journey into the magical world of the shiftless twenty something slacker and fends off those that pose that pesky query, “What, exactly, do you do all day?” For the latest tales from the trenches of the jobless..oh yeah, and reviews of Pan’s Labyrinth , Children of […]

There’s nothing like living in Center City to make you hate the US Postal Service. After my local post office repeatedly failed to inform me of undelivered packages waiting for pick up (not like it was worth the trouble waiting in line for half an hour to pick up one 7″ on the rare […]

Homer is generally considered one of the greatest lyric poets of all time. But what is lyric poetry if not hip hop from the ancients? Give mankind another thousand years and Ghostface will be up there with Homer.

In what comes as more evidence of our local free weekly press observing the growing affirmative action movement and hiring the mentally handi-capable, earlier this week, the City Paper’s Will Dean (pictured to the left) set the music journalism world on fire by blasting the lid off a brand new and still-growing scene of loud, […]

Yesterday, as republicans in the Senate tacked on amendment after amendment onto the minimum wage bill, Senator Kennedy went totally ballistic on the greed mongering republicans.
Sen. Kennedy:
Do you have such disdain for hard-working Americans that you want to pile all your amendments on this? Why don’t you just hold your amendments until other pieces […]

Another Nicholas Hans installment. Click the boats to hear. More here and here.

Wanna know what cool things are happening this weeked? We are here to guide you.

photo by Adam Wallacavage.

Hollywood Josh Agran sings Old Mac Donald in his series of childrens songs.
Click the image above to hear, ya heard?

So most people know about the Terrell Owens calling Jeff Garcia gay incident. If you don’t…get your hyperlink on. Anyway, today I stumbled upon a story from Philadelphia, involving a ferocious dog that is named “Garcia” in honor of the Eagles QB who made Mama McNabb bittersweet. Continue on, to read this […]

In high school, I bought a black zip up hoodie and, like the good young punk I was, had my girlfriend sew two patches onto it for me. I chose a ridiculous looking AGENTS OF SATAN patch for the front breast, and on the back, a large backpatch of INFEST’s iconic “Mankind” 7″ cover (pictured […]

This afternoon is another installment from Nicholas Hans.
This is from a series of home recordings never intended to be heard from 2001-2006. Click the image to hear.

Seriously, people. Do we really need to read an article on Freegans? I guess it was a slow news week or something. Hopefully this week the PW has an article about some raging D-beat crust band trying to free Mumia or something. Anyway, we here at FunVampires are confused! We always thought […]

Philly punks cold getting ill. Youtube link after the jump.