On the day of Spacin’s respectable 7.8 review from Pitchfork, we present “Sunshine, No Shoes” from the full-length Deep Thud. Spacin’ is the project of Jason Killinger (formerly forever of Birds of Maya), along with Sean Hamilton, Paul Sukeena, and Killinger’s wife Eva. They have presented us with some straight-forward summertime rock ‘n’ roll, and [...]

The Tumbler (Christopher Nolan’s version of the Batmobile) is making its way across the nation in anticipation of the release of The Dark Knight Rises on July 20th, and next week it will be making a stop at the Wal-Mart at 2200 Wheatsheaf Lane. The vehicle (which, come to think of it, doesn’t look unlike [...]

Although we have a weird history with HotMovies here (and thank God they survived that earthquake) we have to say, copyright infringin’ ain’t right. Though we thought adult film companies gave up on fighting piracy since the internet happened, it turns out Command Cinema has filed suit against two websites for illegally hosting their videos. [...]

More details were announced today about the forthcoming mural of The Roots coming to 6th and South. While the mural will focus on the history of ?uestlove and Black Thought‘s career as The Roots, you can get yourself involved with painting the mural. On July 3rd, the Mural Arts Program will be hosting a community [...]

From The New York Times It seems we can’t escape Skrillex. First it was Hunter Pence‘s walkout music (though he has since switched to songs from Top Gun) and now this. Hey, Grey Lady: Really? There’s a big music festival, featuring Pearl Jam, Jay-Z, and D’Angelo coming out of hiding, and you run a close [...]

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, who have themselves a serious Maurice Sendak collection, will be showing it off in Maurice Sendak: A Legacy from June 10, 2012 to May 26, 2013. The show will feature more than 65 drawings from Sendak’s 65-year career, “refreshed with new material every four months,” to include work from each [...]

Left to right: Kerry Murdoch and Matthew Costello, Brooklyn, New York, 2007. Samantha Monte and Khalil Samad, Staten Island, New York, 2006. Mary Ellen Mark (American b. 1940). Polaroid. 20 x 24 inches (61 x 50.8 cm). Images courtesy of the artist and © Mary Ellen Mark Remember your prom? It probably seemed very magical [...]

Perpetual bearers of good news The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance conducted a survey of cultural organizations this spring. And what does the survey show? Since the last survey in 2010, “more organizations reported higher income, both contributed and earned … [and] four out of five groups also reported expansions in programming or plans to increase [...]

The Association of Alternative Newsmedia have announced the nominees for their 2012 AltWeekly Awards, and we have some local greats in the running. Philadelphia Weekly‘s Tara Murtha earned herself a nomination for Arts Feature (circulation 50,000 and over) for Made To Change, a profile on the singer of Stargazer Lily’s transition into becoming a man. [...]

When a Bensalem man found an extra $69,000 or so in his bank account, he did what many rational people would do with the money: He bought some shit. It’s like that age-old question of what would you do if you found a briefcase full of money, except it’s totally traceable and spending the money [...]

It’s not often that a band can perform the theme song to a TV show, have an award-winning documentary about their career, and still remain under the radar. But that’s what The Dandy Warhols have been doing since the early 90s. And now, touring behind this year’s This Machine, they are playing the Troc with [...]