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 […]

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 […]

This weekend is the 5th annual Bent Festival in NYC. May 1st it’s in Minneapolis. I wish I could go to this, but I’m going LARPing out of town instead (for serious).
The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and circuit bending. Each year we invite artists […]

There’s a ton of graffiti by my office (I work in industrial north Williamsburg, Brooklyn), but this is the coolest piece I have seen. I did some googling and it turns out, there’s more!

WFMU is one of the best radio stations on the air today and the Best Show is, uh, one of the best shows on the station. On April 1st, the show got even better for Herbie Shellenberger (the guy with the V-neck sweater on) of the excellent Philly indie-pop group Brown Recluse Sings - Tom […]

There was a time when the Manayunk neighborhood in Philadelphia was actually tolerable. Main Street had a really sweet farmers market that was sort of like Reading Terminal West or something. Those days are long gone - the farmers market was knocked down to make room for bougie crap like Restoration Hardware which was in […]

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, […]

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 […]

The writers strike is over. They kinda settled for a deal that isn’t so great. Whatevs. I’m just glad that the strike’s over so we can get back to hilarious new episodes of our favorite television shows.

It’s fashion week in New York. I was shocked to read on fashionindie that, in a baffling display of crass co-option, fashion label DKNY have been locking these bright orange bikes to poles at various locations in Manhattan. That would be a great way of getting peoples attention except

Calling all twee kittens - this Saturday night, me and Mike McKee are doing our monthly England Belongs To Twee night at The Khyber.
Featuring your humble narrator, that is me, Labuda. And, my pal Mr. Mckee. We bring you the absolute finest in pop and oi! and every so often we throw in some punk […]

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.

Time Machine time: It’s back in they day and you are hanging out in Trenton at City Gardens wating for Quicksand to play. How do you kill that time in between bands? You could play pinball or try to scam on chicks. Nah! That’s stuff too jock-ish. You need something to read and Norm Arenas’ […]

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 […]

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 […]

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!

CITY HALL RALLY CAPS ON! Field reporters without cameras update on the Phillies’ mega-rally at City Hall.
Former HxC contributor and wrestling aficionado OB reports –
The rally is crazy. There are like 10,000 people there. The plaza on the west side of City Hall is completely full and people will spilling into the street. Across the […]

Sent in by Christiaan Rule, aka GA7CA.
It was just after 5 pm and the hype train had been running through my head all day. In less then an hour I would be at Microsoft’s New York offices playing halo3 with countless other gaming nerds. I had scored this rare and prized opportunity through a friend […]

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 […]