Oh man. Things have been so hectic around here. Me and Hans got all dramatical for a minute just added to the stress. I can’t wait to just take a few hours to depressurize and chillax. That said, there’s a million things to do this weekend. Get out there…

Amazon Indians from one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes have been photographed from the air
Read the story Here.

Age of Conan went live last week, and I couldn’t help but see how it compared to Funcom’s last MMORPG offering: Anarchy Online. I just got it yesterday; follow the jump to read my impressions.

Three day weekend edition! Yes…

One of the things I love about Philadelphia so much is that most of the time hype doesn’t matter here. Image and hype bullshit doesn’t necessarily work here - you have to rock shit to get people to respect you. And, Philly is a crabs-in-a-barrel kind of town - jealously runs rampant and haters are […]

Last Wednesday, Philadelphia heavy hitters Clockcleaner played a show in Brooklyn with The Dustheads and the reunited Midwest hardcore legends Negative Approach. I missed the show but word is that it was pretty epic. The ‘Cleaner are no strangers when it comes to pulling epic pranks but it’s pretty safe to say that Negative Approach […]

Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer has this weird interesting story about Chase Utley and his batting-practice bat. A bat he had used for every batting-practice session that he had taken since the start of the 2007 season.
“The bat handle was covered by layers of gummed-up pine tar that made it look like a cross between a half-eaten […]

When’s it actually going to be like nice weather Spring-time? I’m getting sick of all this rain…

Lately, Philadelphia bands have been scoring fairly high on the indie-rock tastemaker site Pitchforkmedia.com.
Today finds Pattern Is Movement scoring a not too shabby 7.9. Earlier this month, the ‘Fork gave Philly by way of Brooklyn singer SantoGold a respectable 7.1 and the debut album of West Philly weirdness from Tickley Feather rated a 6.7 on […]

Sometimes it’s impossible to coordinate things correctly. I’ve got some family stuff that I need to attend to and McKee is on tour with the loveable Limey skinhead rogues Hard Skin. That means that England Belongs To Twee is not happening this month. However, I am leaving you all in the able and capable hands […]

The 2006 documentary film American Hardcore does a decent job of telling the story of the rise and fall of the first wave of hardcore bands. One interesting segment in the movie occurs when the film makers gets all the original members from the Boston hardcore band Society System Decontrol back in the same room together. […]

of hair?  Found on WFMU.

Natalie Portman (who FV nerd-types may know from her role as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequels Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith) has always been an advocate of environmental causes. We’ve been slacking a bit on the style info here at FV. Anyway, I just found out that Ms. […]

I think it’s supposed to rain all weekend. Sucky! luckily, there are lots of fun things to check out

Sami hooked me up with this kid. He can speak for himself.

The Calvary Church on Baltimore Avenue in West Philly was the first place in Philly that I went to see an actual no-frills basement punk show. I’d been to other shows in the area but they’d all been in clubs. This was just a bunch of kids and a church basement. Shows were booked at […]

I just got back from seeing Tragedy at the First Unitarian Church. I’m covered in sweat and crust-punk neu-smell. I’m tired/ I want some pizza. Yet still I give you the weekend picks…

Just watch it. Props to Drydizzle for sending it in.

I saw Iron Man last night and i must say it was everything i wanted it to be and left very satisfied. I’m not going to spoil anything for you but i will tell you this. Robert Downey Jr. is awesome as Tony Stark Just as was expected. The gadgetry is dope, the action […]

Happy May Day. Go out and celebrate the workers of the world (if you’re really into Propaghandi) or Walpurgisnacht (if you prefer Sabbath). Either way, drink a Maibock.
Think of Maibock as sort of the traditional German equivalent of malt liquor. It’s light in color and body, sweet and dangerously high in alcohol. Unlike malt liquor, […]