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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

Lawrence Dugan Sr. left Delaware County Court yesterday a free man, having already served the one-month sentence he received for nearly stabbing his heroin-addicted son to death…”I went nuts. I started hacking at him and screaming, ‘You ruined my life!’ ” Dugan told Daily News columnist Jill Porter when she visited him at the Delaware […]

San Francisco fun vampires, you need to check out an art exhibit for us. Our Irak-y pal Tim Artz dropped us a line to let us know that he and the rest of the Dustward have an art show opening TONIGHT at San Francisco’s Hamburger Eyes Epicenter.

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 […]

John Redden (and some silent partners) bought the Barbary in Fishtown and it just re-opened the other night. For what we’ve heard, the place is going to be really sweet and the DJ booth/soundsystem are going to be next level. 
The whole deal’s got me wondering if other bars/clubs/lounges are a bit worried, since John’s Socket and Hands & Knees […]

I’m sure everyone has had a situation in his/her life that, in some way, seemed like a scene out of the movie Clerks. “Oh man that’s like when Dante blah blah blah!” “Dude!” Well I can’t recall ever having a moment like that until this past weekend and I’m glad 1) it made me chuckle […]

In the spirit of shit we already done told you is worth your time I feel like I need to mention that Matthew Schnipper has launched a digital-only record label called Friends. The label pretty much puts out worthwhile jams by Schnipper’s friends - duh.
One person that is Matt Schnipper’s friend is Maxmillion Dunbar. His […]

HBO’s series The Wire really is the best show on television. The final episode of season four was absolutely heart breaking. I can’t wait for the last season to start. This week the New Yorker has a great profile on the producer, writer and creator of the show, David Simon.
Check it:  Stealing Life

MishkaNYC is a streetwear company. Dave Elliot and Ron Morelli are DJs. Ron lived in Philly for a while and he had two different nights that i loved: Reagan Diskow Headache and the super awesome Paradise At Key West. Then he left Philly to attend Handsome Boy Modelling School. He and Dave formed like Voltron and became the […]

I won’t front. Mike Quinn is one of my favorite people in all of Philadelphia.
I was pretty excited when I saw this article about him and his excellent No Quarter record label in the City Paper. The article is pretty dead on - the guy works A LOT of hours carting around Penn students in order to be […]

Barry Bonds’ home-run record breaking baseball was purchased at auction by Hip Hop Clothing mogul Mark Ecko, a fact confirmed by the auction house it was sold in, SCP Auctions. Details after the jump.

The internet has been boiling over with poop excitement since the free diy record label poibella released its debut album, compoi0. The album is free to download and contains 29 banging and semi-banging tracks from a variety of “artists.” Poibella plans to release several solo albums this year (also free) and then compoi1 next summer. […]

Here’s some more self-promotion with three new episodes on Lebanon, via VBS. This three-part series is about drugs and Hezbollah, with some gypsies, a disgusting camel (seriously one of the more traumatizing things I’ve ever had to edit) and a blown up bridge for good measure.

… then I have something which will surely make you feel more depressed. I’ve been working hard editing a documentary series for VBS.tv (you know, Vice Magazine’s online video project) about the war last summer between Hezbollah and Israel. This project is epic– I’m cutting about 20 episodes (not to mention editing Israel’s side of […]

Oh shit! This weekend is gonna be WILD!

Back with a bang (yeah, yeah)! I’m no longer slacking at the beach and I’m here to give you some info on what to do in Philly on this fine Labor Day weekend.

Fun Vampires Sure Shot Jumpoff Alert!

Andrew Mackie tipped us that the website The Daily Swarm is reporting about a possible My Bloody Valentine reunion for next years Coachella music festival with a tour following the fest. Wait, did they ever actually break up? I think that they just went on hiatus for a million years. For some […]