As more and more details about the upcoming Treyarch game, CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR, emerge, a number of fans are left wondering what those crazy devs are thinking. Since the Great War that gave us the Greatest Generation keeps trying again and again to give us a Great Game AND to […]

Or do we?
I don’t know anymore, mang. My brain is so fried and we’ve been totally slacking on updating you on all the cool and exciting things going on in our worlds. Hopefully sometime soon we’ll get out act together a bit more and re-focus on posting more dumb awesome interviews and other crazy/stupid/weird […]

Too much is never enough. It’s going to be close to 100 degrees outside this weekend and there’s literally too many things going on. I love it…

Three day weekend edition! Yes…

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 […]

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

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. […]

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 […]

There’s a lot going on and the weather is properly spring-like.  Too bad I’ll be in Washington D.C. Anyway, on to the fun stuff…

Remember last week when we told you about how seriously out-of-control fun the outdoor Paint It Black show was at Sailor Jerry in Philly? Remember the pics and video of kids doing full on dives out of a tree into the crowd? Well, wouldn’t you know that the Mosh Tree has a myspace profile.

Holy geez! OK, the newest Paint It Black record is ripping and everything but when those guys play live it’s pretty much a given that the kids will go buckwild. Having said that, I’m betting that the people of 13th Street in Philly had no idea what they were in for when P.I.B. played out […]

I’ve heard some people complain that the indie tastemaker site Pitchfork.com has no love for bands from the City of Brotherly Love. I don’t know how true that is but today is a decent day for the Philly indie scene to shine in front of a larger audience. Not one but two bands from the […]

Let’s play good news/bad news: The good news is that I’m not puking my face off this week. The bad news is that you are potentially not puking your face off this weekend because there’s not a whole lot to choose from. I mean, if you wanna puke, you got choices…

It’s so nice when you stumble upon a sweet zipfile of music. Seeing Red blog has a posting on Philly hardcore and punk bands from 1980-1989. It misses some bands and lists some bands as from Philly when they were actually from outside the area but let’s not quibble - it’s got tons of great old music - […]

Check out this really weird, really short documentary on New York Hardcore.

I saw some noisey fucked up rock + roll bands this past weekend. One of those bands, we’ll call them ****** Jeans, would have probably been my bet for Least Likely Philly* Band to be Featured in the New York Times. I think they got at least one thing wrong in the article […]

See, this is what I’ve been talking about.  There are soooooo many things to do this weekend that it’s going to be really hard to pick where you wanna go. Friday night alone is enough to my my head explode.

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 […]

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, […]

OK, there’s a lot to cover and not a lot of time to cover it in so I’m just going to recommend the stuff that I’m really feeling for your weekend fun times.