>>> It’s astounding to us that some people still don’t know that Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are playing a big Hurricane Katrina benefit tonight at The TLA. Tickets are $15, and as of this writing, there are actually some still left. (Look at us! Checking facts! Somebody cue up that Pavement song.) Openers? Dr. [...]

>>> Make A Rising racks up a 7.9 in the ‘Fork. And they said no good would ever come of the Fishtown Parade. Oh, wait, no: We said that. Our bad! [Pitchfork]
>>> Attention band dudes with ambivalent feelings towards their bandmates: Attn. all band dudes: It’s National Solo Album Month! Please do us all a [...]

Steven Wells, Philadelphia Weekly’s all-time leader in Had-Us-Lost-Us, apparently frustrated Q reader and current Philebrity whipping boy, enjoys his first cover story over at PW today. And oh, look, it’s about zombies! How timely. Actually, we scanned the story and it was too tie-in to really enjoy, but fear not, as Wells also undergoes another [...]

Phew! And not a moment too soon.

From today’s Dan Gross:
INK & DAGGER liked to dress up as vampires while playing live.
Now, the band’s former drummer, Ryan McLaughlin, says it’s computer giant Microsoft that is doing the bloodsucking.
McLaughlin, 28, of Bensalem, filed suit in federal court Monday, alleging copyright infringement. He claims Bill Gates’ corporation used three songs from the band’s 1998 [...]

If convicted, Mariano faces 398 years in jail and over $6 million in fines.
And it’s a good thing, too.
DN: Little Ricky’s Sack-o-Woe
NBC10: “I can’t answer. I’m not intelligent enough to know.”

>>> You all bitched about how yesterday’s million dollar Fishtown home wasn’t really in Fishtown. (Port Richmond, tomato, tohmahtoe.) But only one of you sent in an actual Fishtown home for $1.3 mil. Jesus Christ. [Realtor.com]
>>> No idea how we missed this, but Byko is tying the knot again. [NeverWinAgain]
>>> And lastly, because every horndog [...]

My Fellow Stay-Loosians,
What with all the screenings, and the changing of seasons, it’s been a while since we had a proper Tuesday night STAY LOOSE. Tonight, however the spell will be broken as Secretly Canadian recording artists Windsor For The Derby share the decks with yer old pal Jojo McSweeney. WFTD are recent Philly transplants [...]

Here at Philebrity, we genuinely love us some Nick Sylvester. No, really. Yes, it’s all Bangsian, I-was-there-honest-I-was, and sometimes it’s in such deep Sylvester-ese that the language is, yes, fucking impenetrable. We don’t care. We can relate. Take a look at his wild Philly weekend in yesterday’s RiffRaff. He hangs out with Man Man, goes [...]

Now that the rains seem to have settled in permanently and Philadelphia has once again morphed back into
Sheffield, it seems appropriate that we should all start getting back into body scarification, the Human League, and clove cigarettes. You don’t want to live, you only *just* don’t want to die, and perhaps the only thing that [...]

Note: Mummy Stripper applications are still being accepted. But competition is getting pretty tough.

Over the transom comes the news that 94 WYSP ó long the home for outmoded date-rape rock that even your little brother got over in 1999 ó is switching its format to something called “Free FM.” But wait. We know that sounds cool ó images of Rick Flom mooning over an Emerson, Lake & Palmer [...]

You’ve got to love DN blogger Will Bunch. He’s kind of like that guy in the old sci-fi movie that gets innoculated with the monster juice so he can research just what makes these crazy monsters tick. But then his paws get all hairy, his girlfriend freaks out, his best friend tries to pop some [...]

As Halloween looms and the prospect of a SEPTA strike grows real-life fangs, it’s hard not to be infuriated. So let’s just run with it. SEPTA is one of the nation’s most expensive ó and somehow, most routinely fucked ó†public transit operations, and yet, its employees generally hate the air you breathe, shit never runs [...]

“The ultimate in respiratory protection, of course, is SCUBA gear,” wrote Fisman, who helped advise the Canadian government during the SARS outbreak, “but that is a toughy for large numbers of healthcare and public health providers.”
Inky: Bird Is The Word

>>> Geez, now that it’s fall and the scarf is back up in the scene, it’s kind of hard not to get all kinds of Garden State and be super psyched to go see Broken Social Scene at The TLA. Plus, Feist is opening? Oh shit. Like that other version of “Lover’s Spit” that’s on [...]

Sue us if this has been happening for a while already, but you know, sometimes it takes a while for these things to sink in. And true, it has a lot of stuff attached, but still. One million dollars. Fishtown. Think about that. [Click on photo to enlarge.]

From: Jessica Pressler
Date: Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:28:18 PM US/Eastern
To: tips@philebrity.com
Subject: the fact that Matt Pond PA
is being touted as a “Brooklyn band” in New York magazine SERIOUSLY
makes my ass bleed.
http://www.nymetro.com/nymetro/arts/music/pop/14839/index.html
Too many meta levels of irony to compute. Philebrity Supercomputers currently screeching to a halt.

Click here (or on the big page) for the next installment of Erik Bader’s True Jersey.
Related: True Jersey Vol. I

>>> “Rocky’s a heavyweight, you idiot. Heavyweight’s don’t gotta worry about their weight. You f—ing idiot.” Sarcone’s makes the national press. [700Level]
>>> “Damn, that is one small ass phone for a nigger without a job.” [OverheardInPhilly]
>>> “Based on the results of the poll, I guess that at age 45 I skew to the younger [...]