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 […]

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 […]

Who cares about a little rain when there’s a million great events going on in the city of Philadelphia? Spingtime rules…

Not a lot of rocking and/or rolling this weekend but there is plenty of killer events to shake those hips at…

I hate snow so much. It’s cold and miserable out.  I decided to keep it brief this weekend. I’ve only listed a few things. They are all well worth your time and money.

Yeah, I know that there is a writers strike going on and all that but the kids need their mathed out tech metal-hardcore fix.
Crazily, Conan O’Brien is happy to oblige the metalcore masses - New Jersey’s Dillinger Escape Plan are slated to be the musical guest on tonights Late Night with Conan O’Brien.  Is this the first […]

I’ve stated on here in that past that when I was growing up all South Jersey in the ’80’s I was a dorky thrash metal dirtbag. Somehow, thrash (and skateboarding) led me to punk rock and hardcore and, once I discovered that stuff, I quickly dismissed all things metal as stupid and all things punk […]

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 […]

This weekend pretty much has something for everyone. You’ve got your indie-rock nerd shows, your dance-til-you-puke DJ events, your Mexican wrestling, your eternal salvation and enlightenment…you get the idea.

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 […]

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. […]

Clockcleaner are maybe going to be working at coffeeshops five years from now (jokes!) but for right now they are on fire and are easily one of the most exciting bands in the city. They’ve got a new record coming out on Load later this month called Babylon Rules. Next Thursday […]

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 […]

In continuation of my slacking I have to confess that I am leaving on a 10 hour car drive in less than 24 hours.  Even so, I got those picks for ya…

For the past few Fridays I’ve been slacking on these chilling at the beach.  Today I am still slacking chilling at the beach but Pie brought her komputer and we’re somehow accessing the interweb.  I’m gonna keep these picks short and sweet because it’s almost two pm and I already have a few beers in me and now […]

So I’ve been searching the web for awhile now for footage of Straight Edge in the news media. I’m specifically looking for the 48 Hours and 20/20 reports from the mid 90’s and the local Philly news affiliate coverage (I remember they were in the now long gone C.I. Records store off
South Street) that […]

 Now that I am an old man, I usually only go to shows to see one band and then head back home.  However, sometimes I luck into a show that is so epic that I will show up early and sit through every band playing.  For Philadelphia, tonight at is one of those kinda nights!