“there will be free drinks and music and the normal first friday crap.”
Philadelphia Legend and FunVampires Tyrant, Hans Pecans, rocks this upcoming first Friday at Reward.  Don’t sleep on this one, chumps!

And his time in Ireland. “The awards primarily go to scholars and professionals who go abroad to pursue research and teach in academic and specialized fields. Thirty-seven Fulbright winners have also received Nobel Prizes……Although a Fulbright scholar typically must have a doctorate, Mr. Powers, an art school dropout, was granted an exception because of his […]

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. […]

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

I think it’s supposed to be nice out all weekend long…is spring finaaaaaaally here? This weekend is packed - even Sunday is completely off the charts crazy.

Pi Lam’s XXX Annual Human BBQ is this Saturday in Philly. It should be a wild time. Me, MTS, Cullen Stalin and the invincible Dave Nada are DJing in the basement. As if that wasn’t enough, check out all the crazy bands that are playing…

R.I.P. - Stu Nahan

I think that it’s probably no secret that I really do think that Clockcleaner are one of (if not thee) best bands that the City of Brotherly Love has to offer. And, while I have mixed feelings about the perceived power of the Pitchforkmedia website, I was pretty excited to see Clockcleaner’s Load Records debut - Babylon […]

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 […]

Hyski O’Rooney McVoutie O’Zoot 1934-2007
Hy was a true Philadelphia legend who basically introduced rock n’ roll to the city. His weekly sock hops were very popular with teens in the 60’s. He was on several radio stations, most notably WIBG and then WOGL, during a career spanning 5-decades. He was also on syndicated television shows […]

This is kind of next level - this avant-weirdo indie noise band Z’s and their label, Planaria, sent The Howard Stern Show some music and Howard and the gang not only played the music on the air but pretty much goofed on the band the entire time! You couldn’t ask for better coverage. Supposedly, Stern […]

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 […]

Lance Hahn was a punk rocker and a writer. He played guitar and sang for the indie-punk bands Cringer and J Church. He also spent time in Beck’s backing band and in the hardcore punk band Filth and countless other musical projects. He self published a zine called Some Hope and Some Despair. He wrote […]

Whoa!  I was poking around and found out that Philadelphia hip-hop legend Lady B is back on the Philly airwaves on the WRNB 107.9 FM channel. A quick check on the stations playlist shows that they pretty much only spin R&B (crazy call letters giving it away and all that jazz) but I guess Lady B […]

Princeton University’s WPRB is one of (if not THEE) best college radio stations in the entire country. Recently, the student senior board and the station’s Board of Trustees decided that a community-based solution centering on a membership drive was needed to strengthen the station’s future. YIKES!

I think that fun vampire Hans hates graffiti but I don’t mind it that much. I especially like learning about weird Philly urban legends. Philadelphia’s Cornbread is a man of legend.  According to some graf experts, he (along with Cool Earl) was pretty much the first graffiti bomber - we’re talking late 1960’s here.  He allegedley […]

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. […]