Sure, it’s one thing to bitch about Live 8 being a giant tub of suck, but you gotta give the African-American Chamber of Commerce props for going straight-up bijonkers and demanding free spaces to sell their wares on the Parkway.
So wearing shirts that read “If Blacks Can’t Participate, Stop Live 8,” the crowd chanted [...]

You know, for a little while back there, we thought we were the only folks who had mad, mad love in their hearts for Naked Zorro, but boy, were we wrong. Seems like someone in the brain trust at Philly1.com saw their moment and grabbed it, quickly putting up a whole range of fetching Naked [...]

Just A quick note to the heavens to take extra special care of Philly broadcasting legend Georgie Woods, who along with Jerry Blavat, Butterball, Hy Lit and the rest of those guys, made Philly an early rock ‘n’ soul wonderland. Oh, and Georgie Woods also invented rappin’.
Funky 16 Corners: Potato Salad
NBC10: AP Obit

Peep the PW and CP reviews.

Click on the dudes, and pop some ‘ludes. This thing is like one of those Robert Bly spread-mud-on-yourself-and-howl-to-the-great-dude retreats. Like wow.

Friday:
>>> Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name, your last 4 significant others, your bandmates, who you went to high school and college with, and also the random dark secret: Audible, National Eye, American Altitude and Matt Future Tips at the Khyber.
>>> Not to be outdone, there’s The Bigger Lovers with Doug Gillard [...]

To be read in the voice of Beyonce’s mom: “Mm-hmm, that’s right, sugar. Because they know ain’t gonna be a soul left in town to read all this fussin’ and fidgetin’ by the time we come in with all our nonsense. Beyonce, get back here! I’m tryin’ to finish these Africa-shaped gold lamÈ bikinis in [...]

Tell you people what: Good old fashioned freaks are hard to find these days. Everybody’s got a reality show, or a podcast, or a book or album to peddle. Remember when there were just dudes who, just because they didn’t know what else to do, would just like throw on a Superman cape, tie a [...]

Perhaps you like a cup of Starbucks and some NPR with your Philebrity. Well, while we have no idea what’s wrong with that (but we know something is), it kind of doesn’t matter because today is your lucky day. Tune into WHYY at 10am today to hear our esteemed editor-in-cheif on Radio Times with Marty [...]

No real reason to print this, really. But we saw this crazy list of guitar effects pedals that Rocco Elevator Parade put up on Myspace, and frankly, the names of his shit just made us smile. PRESCRIPTION ELECTRONICS “EXPERIENCE”? What? What does that even do? No idea, dude. No idea.
A TOP TEN FOR THE GUITAR [...]

>>> The punks want to be skins and the skins want to be punks. Or so says the Sound Salvation manifesto. DJs Rachel, Sir Tedford and Lauren lay down all the music that once made you adopt an English accent for the two most poseur-y weeks of your life, way back in the wayback. Free, [...]

Click on the dudes right there for today’s episode of our new favorite podcast, Today’s Vibe. To send the dudes a note, holler at todaysvibe@hotmail.com. Dude? Dude.

A few kind readers wrote in yesterday regarding our incredulous reaction to the idea that the original “I’d Like To Buy The World A Coke” commercial was shot here. Turns out, it wasn’t. The original was shot in Rome. All we got, as a city, was the crappy new version, shot in Philly, with the [...]

It has been an issue of consternation for weeks now in the Philebrity offices: Why do all concerned with the dead/dying Zipperhead store keep changing or modifying their answers as to whether or not the new store soon-t0-be opened by manager Rob Windfelder will actually be called Zipperhead? First it wasn’t, then, it was, and [...]

The shooting schedule for “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” ó a film based on the life of the artist formerly known as Curtis Jackson ó recently changed and will now conflict with the July 2 show on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, publicist Yvette Gail said.
Yahoo: “All The Kevlar In The World Couldn’t Keep Me From… [...]

NBC10: Sweetest. Slideshow. Ever.

DN: Perhaps With An Army Of Hoarse Kenzos?

Steven Wells! Steven writes for the Philadelphia Weekly, and somehow, some way, he was able to place a piece about how indie rock is, like, wimpy and stuff. Shocking, we know, but here you go, Stevers. Just one question: Are you and Daniel Rubin smokin’ the same Captain Obvious sherm? It seems verrrrrry strong.
PW: Wait: [...]

Wait, how did we not know this? The Coca-Cola hilltop is in Philadelphia. Along with never being breastfed, or read to as children, it’s just turning our entire lives into a sham.
Ad Rants: Replace The Word “Coke” With “Muzzle,” And We’ll Be Getting Somewhere, Ad Wizards