Pitchfork and Sub Pop Records released two songs off of Mister Heavenly’s new album. With a kind exchange of your email address, they will email you the songs, which include self-referential “Mister Heavenly” and “Pineapple Girl”.  The band, which we’ve mentioned before, consists of Nick Diamonds (of Islands), Honus Honus (from Man Man) and Joe [...]

We’re not sure if they’ve exhausted every joke they could about Portland already in the first episode, which includes an appearance by (YES!) Steve Buscemi, but Portlandia looks hilarious. You can now watch the first episode here, but the show premiers on IFC on January 21st. We have a feeling the show might prove to [...]

Wow! We don’t know how many of you pitched in yesterday after we posted this story about Sailor. But it was quickly picked up by our media friends at Newsworks, and the little guy was also on CBS 3 last night. This is an amazing act of love for one small puppy soul in South [...]

This is Vandaveer, and they’ll be opening for Chris Pureka on Sunday at Johnny Brenda’s. This beautiful song, A Mighty Leviathan Of Old, is off of their album Divide & Conquer which came out this past summer. Their new-ish EP, called A Minor Spell, came out in October. You can listen to all five of [...]

What better to do with your Friday evening than start it off hanging out with yours truly. Join us for the Philebrity Field Trip to the PMA to see the Michelangelo Pistoletto exhibit before it ends on Monday. See you at 6pm! In other happenings… FRIDAY: Music>>> Tyvek, Moon Women, Eternal Summers @ Cha-cha’razzi (8pm). [...]

We love this t-shirt! And so should you. Our bud, Julie wrote about this awesome print on a basic whitey, that’s a quirky cartoon of one of our faves, whom Jackie Barry, Printmaking Major at UArts, dubs Ernie Hemmingway. Cute! Get it today for 20 buckaroos at Trickgo Gallery & Boutique. Check out Jackie’s Tumblr [...]

Over the past few days, we’ve been noticing peoples’ status updates on Facebook mentioning that their zodiac signs have changed. It got so annoying after seeing about a dozen posts about this, that we had to look into it. NBC reports that “due to gradual changes in the Earth’s alignment the dates of many zodiac [...]

We don’t care if you’re not a dog person, this pup is too cute to not fall immediately in love with. We’re calling on you, Philadelphia, to help this poor little guy out. A friend of ours found him in some garbage by the side of the street in South Philly, in a pile of [...]

Got a doozy for ya today, folks.

DUE TO OVERWHELMING RESPONSE, our big local band MP3 blowout is going to have to wait a few days! We’re still sifting through the more than 50 bands that have submitted music — THANK YOU! — and it’s going to take a little while longer to pull it all together. SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED, but [...]

We know that some of you were asking, so please check out this post on West Philly Local for a thorough list of ways to help those affected by this week’s fire at 48th and Walnut.

Terror has a new name, Philadelphia, and that name is “contact voltage.” Contact voltage, according to Streetzaps.com, a site dedicated to raising awareness to the problem, “is a chronic hidden hazard that can readily victimize an unsuspecting dog, walker, or both. No dog lover could possibly observe a more horrifying scene than witnessing his beloved [...]

In what will end up being one of literally hundreds of fare-thee-well-from-PA-politics pieces about Gov. Ed Rendell, this piece from the Metro winds up spilling Ed’s secret to success. After succinctly laying out Fast Eddie’s dubious achievements — “If you buy liquor on a Sunday, work in green industries, gamble locally, or can’t smoke in [...]

Which is to say, they saw somebody getting by/over, and said, “Fuck that, here’s my jiveass throwup. WHAT UP, WORLD? Y’ALL KNOW HOW I DO! I GOT ONE LEG, BITCH!” Uhhh… Good morning, everybody! Gonna be a fun day on the ol’ Philebs. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Can we just geek out with you for a second? Above is The Outlaws’ “Crazy Drums,” produced in 1961 by legendary early rock ‘n’ roll impresario Joe Meek. And damned if the first few bars don’t sound exactly like “She’s Lost Control” by Joy Division. Crazy. PS. On a related music nerd note: Attn. Bands: [...]

This just in: Confirming an earlier report, Larry Platt will indeed become Editor at the Philadelphia Daily News. Meanwhile, present DN editor Michael Days will migrate to the Inquirer, where he will serve as managing editor. UPDATE: Official announcement here. UPDATE 2: Memo from PMN Publisher/CEO Greg Osberg to staff after the jump.

Make no mistake: Seeing “Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956–1974″ at the Philadelphia Museum of Art this fall was easily one of the best things we got to do in all of 2010. So when we noticed that the show was set to close in just a few days (Jan. 17th, to be exact), [...]

Bow wow… wow. Yippee, yo. Yippee. Yay. As part of a general plan to redevelop parts of North Chinatown, the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation has just put the finishing touches on a nice little new plaza on N. 10th Tenth Street, on the overpass above the Vine Street expressway. Amidst benches and an overhang, two [...]

All over the country right now, people are wondering, “Why did that man in the hideous goatee just blow me a kiss?”

One of our regular readers just created this and sent it to us: At the risk of seeming insensitive, it was just too fucked up not to share with you. Holy moly.