It doesn’t pay, but on the other hand, it can’t be any worse than this.

So, Los Angeles’ Spindrift (pictured) have this new track out called “Indian Run” (right click to download) that could just single-handedly revive that great (and very possibly totally offensive to Native Americans) 50s/60s trend of putting “Indian sounds” into otherwise instrumental rock and roll tracks. (And it’s released on a label called TeePee Records, no [...]

Hey, remember last week, when Mayor Michael Nutter (sometimes we swear he’s the only person who actually works around here) revealed the scary-as-fuck details of the “Plan C”/Doomsday Budget, which, if enacted, would result in 3,000 layoffs and be possibly the single darkest day in our entire history as a City? Well, City Council won’t [...]

Lots of people use Twitter. In fact, too damned many people use Twitter. People who have nothing whatsoever to say. People who think Twitter is an Instant Messenger service, a diet-diary, or other things that are just not that interesting. But not @AvagraceSwanhil, the Twitter account of a local six-year-old girl who uses her 144 [...]

Just a few weeks ago, local film crew types — the band of local sound/lighting/set pros who, in recent years, have been able to eke out a decent living thanks to Philly’s presently-endangered film tax credit, which has wooed scores of movie productions to Philly since its inception — were getting ready to go to [...]

We have no idea how the humble charms of The Vivian Girls — borrowed from ancestry spanning The Shangri-La’s to Black Tambourine — suddenly made them one of the most buzzed-about bands in the world right now, but whatever this strange magic is, we approve. On their seemingly endless tour of America and beyond over [...]

One, two, three; this one’s outside the Barbary. Something tells me we’ve only scratched the surface. Of Hammertime. Hammertime in the city. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

You all know Darren Finizio, right? Sure you do. A few weeks ago, Darren sent us his new YouTube single, “Fucking Is Fun.” As you can guess from the title, its lyrics are not work safe. But whatever. You can see why we might have paused before posting it. (On the other hand, in the [...]

Do us a favor: Read this New York Times article about “a moving company [...] that employs, exclusively, artists, musicians, writers and other creative types whose passions seem similarly incongruous with the hard, sweat-inducing labor associated with moving furniture around” and tell us how it’s not about Philly’s beloved Mambo Movers. We’ll tell you how: [...]

Jobs: There is a more than average likelihood that you, or someone you know, is looking for one right now. And while it’s usually our policy to allow people to do what they will on the Craigslist help wanted ads, we felt like this ad on Craigslist deserved some kind of special mention, both for [...]

About 45 minutes ago, Mayor Michael Nutter got in front of a podium and declared that Philadelphia is a “ONE” city, meaning that now, “Philadelphia joins more than 130 cities across the nation working to mobilize public support behind initiatives to fight poverty, combat diseases like AIDS and malaria, put children in school and increase [...]

Way up yonder where the Gosselin Hair does grow, people are stopping. Because it’s hammertime. No word yet on whether they’ll be collaborating, or listening. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

So let it begin! As the summer washes away — good riddance, you old fool — like a groundhog in reverse, so let us herald fall’s intent by the first of what we can only assume will be many, many Tony Danza sightings. Seeing as how Tony is residing in the Piazza At Schmidt’s while [...]

>>> Sure, we razz the undead vampire known as A.D. Amorosi a lot, but don’t let that fool you: The man has more scene points in his little finger than you have in your entire… little finger. His latest achievement? Being the first person to sneak in live music to National Mechanics under the umbrella [...]

Ye Old Rohm & Haas plant in Bridesburg (it’s like Fishtown but with a more abiding sense of humility) is going to be shut down, it would seem. Weirder still: This, apparently, would only put 25 people out of work, which is a bummer, but more importantly, it only takes 25 people to make Bridesburg [...]

Answer: No one is. No one.

The lesson of non-stop, round the clock Woodstock 40th Anniversary media coverage has been this: This summer has been pretty vicious, and now that we’ve officially reached late-August, when the heat and humidit get extra brutal, the streets become eerily ghost-town-ish, and the term “staycation” really loses its last bit of charm, we now more than understand [...]

Apparently not a PA-based marijuana advocacy group, rather, The Keystoners are Philly doo wop legends. And we wish people still did things like this on street corners.

>>> In baseball, an unassisted triple play occurs when a defensive player makes all three putouts by himself in one continuous play, without any teammates touching the ball (assist). In Major League Baseball, it is the rarest of individual feats, along with hitting four home runs in one game. There have been more perfect games [...]