Depending on how you feel about massive crowds, loud, pop music and ultra-heightened security, the weekend of August 31st though September 1st will either be a blessed end-of-summer celebration or a nightmarish hellstorm of incessant inconvenience. As expected, Jay-Z is returning to the Parkway for the second installment of the Budweiser Made in America Festival. Continue reading »
It’s been a while since we last heard from our favorite local 8-Bit-ster, Chipocrite. Since then, the consummate Game Boy musician has relocated to Charlottesville, Virginia, but he recently checked in with us to tell us about his newest EP, which, consequently, gave us a major pleasure overload, man. The EP, Continue reading »
This Friday is Houndstooth Entertainment‘s official launch party featuring performances from Norwegian Arms and Scott Churchman at everyone’s favorite mausoleum of contemporary art, PhilaMOCA (531 N. 12th Street). Tickets are $10 at the door and $8 presale. Philly-based Laser Background and Circadian Rhythms will also be playing, so this means you should probably RSVP Continue reading »
In 2006 Jordan Jeffares’ acclaimed post-punk pop project, Snowden, released its first album, Anti-Anti. The band’s second album, No One In Control, will be released on May 14th and is currently being crusaded by its first single, “The Beat Comes.” The video for the song is more like a short Continue reading »
Legendary comedian Jerry Seinfeld recently took a trip to Philadelphia to record “something” for Wale’s new album. Yes, that’s a real sentence grounded in fact. Apparently Seinfeld’s wife is huge fan of the rapper, and when Wale finally met the King of Nothing, he asked him to appear on his Continue reading »
Turns out our report that Live Nation still owed the city around half a million bucks was pretty ill-timed, as promoters apparently settled up yesterday afternoon, right around the time we published the story. Hey, shit happens. Today brings even better news on the MIA front, as Mayor Nutter has Continue reading »
Philly’s own Beanie Sigel was sentenced to two years in prison this week for neglecting to file numerous federal income tax returns. Beanie apparently decided that from 2003 to 2005, he wasn’t going to pay some $340,000 he owed the government. Prosectors also claim that, from 1999 t0 2002, Beanie Continue reading »
