Are The Dirty Projectors next-up on The Most Hyped Bands Of ’09 list, right after you all get sick of Grizzly Bear? We’ve heard both bands’ new records, and we gotta say, the DP’s new one, Bitte Orca, does a far better job of not making us go to sleep. Bitte Orca is a high-concept [...]

Something tells us that The Amazing People Of Philadelphia Past probably really dug Cheap Trick circa ’79, you know, before the Great Hamburger Rock Wars of The 1980s set in.

Philadelphia TV Viewers Flummoxed by Digital Transition Over the weekend, Philly was fourth highest in the country for calls to the federal hot line from people confused about the nationwide move last Friday to drop analog TV signals and to broadcast only in digital. In related news, the lady in the picture at right still [...]

For weeks now, we’ve been hearing tell of a very well-executed signage prank, laid all over, deep within the byways of SEPTA that, once and for all, aiming to tell the truth about what is perhaps the nation’s most inefficient (and certainly the most surly) public transit system. This weekend, a reader finally got a [...]

Last Friday, when we’d finally taken a respite from our blitzkreig of reader-submitted It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia coverage and were already drunk in an alley off Rittenhouse Square (more about this in a moment), our buddy Anthony Gargano revealed on 610 WIP that he’d be featured in a cameo on the show this season. [...]

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FRIDAY: >>> We’re just gonna come right out and say it: The concert/DJ lineups for this weekend are, for the most part, unimpressive. So we just rooted through all of our friends’ friends’ event listings on Facebook, and picked out some stuff that we don’t know dick about, but appealed to us on a gut [...]

RECOMMENDED: We know what you’re thinking: Based on preview and gut instincts alone, director Sam Mendes‘ Away We Go might send you into a spiral of aging hipster self-loathing, perhaps even prompting you to dig up that old NY Mag piece about “Grups”, grumbling and groaning about how you are not like that, will never [...]

The new, utterly mind-bending clip for Animal Collective‘s “Summertime Clothes” has Philly all over it: Directed by Danny Perez, and choreographed by Kate Watson-Wallace, with costumes by Kim Passidomo, all Philly artists. And the dancers are Philly peeps, too; Besides Kate, keep your eyes peeled for Nichole Canuso, Sara Yasskey and John Luna.

Editor’s Note: We first met Brian Hickey in the go-go ’90s, when the Internet was young, print media was very much alive, and so were we. Since then, our paths have diverged — Hickey’s moved on to become a balls-to-the-wall true school journalism gun for hire, and we’re doing, well, whatever this bullshit is — [...]

Who could have known, after however many years of an often tepid garage-rock revival, that what these bands really needed was a little slice of Mary J. Blige? That’s all we could think when watching The Detroit Cobras charm the crowd from one lovingly chosen cover to another on Wednesday night at JB’s. Musically, the [...]

It’s true. All y’all are so fixated on Green Man, you didn’t even notice that Neil Patrick Harris (pictured at right in the weirdest three-way ever) is boppin’ all over town. The Doog is apparently here shooting a movie called The Best & The Brightest, which is, according to IMDB: Set in the world of [...]

5:52PM, Thursday: “I was just standing outside my apartment talking to my boyfriend on the phone when I thought I spotted the Always Sunny crew. He insisted that I take a photo and send it to Philebrity, and then promptly hung up the phone to ensure my immediacy. Is this what I’m supposed to do? [...]

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Sisterhood implies a very special relationship. When two cities enter into a sister city arrangement, they enter into a sacred bond: Sisters are forever. Philadelphia shares that bond with ten cities worldwide, as shown on the International Visitors Council of Philadelphia’s website. One of those cities is Kobe, Japan, known for its pampered beef cattle, [...]

We cannot tell a lie: We were initially asked to be interviewed on camera for this CBS3 piece on Arthur Kade, but we kinda blew it off, due to things like living actual lives that do not involve “The Journey.” Part of why we didn’t quite follow through on setting up an interview time was [...]

In the newest in a popular series of Pennsylvania Lottery commercials to hit the airwaves, Gus (the second most famous groundhog in Pennsylvania) promotes a new heat-themed lottery game by entering a hot wing competition, prompting a highbrow joke about him “winging” the recipe. Disturbingly, Gus’s heartfelt advice/advertising slogan/post-hypnotic suggestion, “Keep on scratchin’,” has been [...]

Yeowwwwwe! Boy, did you guys ever come through when we asked for any and all It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia pics or shoot info. Today, the crew is shooting at Broad & Walnut, and we have another tip saying that they’ll be filming a Green Man scene outside Citizen’s Bank Park around 4PM (crew setup [...]