The record industry is crumbling. The RIAA is sueing people for illegally downloading music. College kids don’t care about things like that, though. They just wanna be able to excercise their god-given right to download illegal Dave Matthews Band cds in peace.
At Villanova University, students illegally downloading stuff has gotten so out of hand that […]

Hey, so there’s this awesome thing called Rockbox. It’s open-source firmware for your mp3 player. They support Apple, Archos, Cowon, iriver, Olympus, SanDisk, and Toshiba mp3 players. And they are AWESOME. I bought an iAudio x5 a while back and while I was really happy with the hardware, I wasn’t happy with the firmware. I […]

More than enough has been written about Diplo, and if I have to ever read another interview where he talks about moving to North Philly, starting Hollertronix, breaking up with MIA, or popularizing Crunk, I may have to start poppin’ glocks down at the local alt weekly offices.But with amidst all the furious typing, one […]

Normally we’re not in the practice of freaking out about a show but every once in a while the approaching weekend contains a show so completely off the chain that we can’t help ourselves. This Saturday, Obits make their Philadelphia debut at Johnny Brenda’s. We try to make it a practice to not get too jazzed over […]

We’re really psyched that Andy Pry has moved back from New York to Philly. Andy’s a great guy and all but he never really struck us as a Brooklyn-type. Now he’s back in the Illadelph and his new party, Excess, at Medusa Lounge looks like it’s going to be great. He’s talking “BIG tunes, […]

Like a lot of punk rockers, cassette tapes ruled my life in the 80’s and early 90’s. I didn’t have a record player and I didn’t get a cd player until a while after they were readily available. I relied on cassettes - be they legitimate releases or dubs of vinyl records or mixtapes or, […]

It’s no secret that I have serious respect for The Rub DJs. Those dudes are pals with A-Trak and Catchdubs.
A-trak is a super sick DJ who happens to spin for someone famous. Catchdubs is also a talented DJ and a writer and a graphic designer (I think…) and he has a really deece blog. A-Trak and […]

Lil Wayne’s been fucking shit up lately. Since his last “official” release “Tha Carter II”, dude’s dropped an insane number of mixtapes: freestyles, remixes, live tracks and collabs. Many are available for free on the interweb but sometimes they have ads edited over the music, “YOU JUST GOT HIT IN THE HEAD BY AN […]

Jesus the Christ!  Rocktits DJ collective main man Russell Alexander presents a completely devastating brand new mixtape consisting of a 70 minute 60 song all beat matched and blended heavy psyche mix. I gotta be honest, I am usually pretty skeptical of computer assisted mixtapes but this mix is the absolute truth. These guys are […]

Radiohead is one of my very favorite bands of all time, if not my favorite. Now they have ditched their label(s) and are currently offering their new album “in rainbows” for pre-order at radiohead.com. You can either preorder the actual physical disk and box art for a whopping 40 pound sterling or pay whatever you […]