We’re just digging in ourselves presently so we can offer no analysis other than “WE WILL LOVE PATTI SMITH FOREVER NO MATTER WHAT,” but yes, Patti Smith‘s Banga came out yesterday and is here on Spotify. (7.1 on the ‘Fork, doncha know.) Patti will also open for Neil Young at the Wells Fargo Center on [...]

We’ve hipped you previously to Down The Show — the locally produced web comedy show thing run by lady about town Abigail Bruley. It’s completely legit. The newest episode, featuring bits from Kids In The Hall‘s Kevin McDonald and Plastic Little’s Kurt Hunte, dropped recently, but for sure one of the more hilarious bits is [...]

We know that you already know about this Friday’s BEER WEEK POOL PARTY that we’re throwing at North Shore Beach Club. But we figured that we’d pass along some fun facts to get you guys in the mood for what is shaping up to be an epic hang this week. So let’s go: · For [...]

Over the least few months, it seems like we’ve received word of 100 different festivals going down in the next year. It’s like Oprah came around was was like, “You get a festival! You get a festival! And you get a festival! And you get a festival!” But while those fests are all set and [...]

This morning, the Wawa America–er, we mean Welcome America–celebration kicked off its three-week countdown with a few more announcements. Thankfully, The Roots somehow managed to catch a break, or found a disguise for ?uestlove’s hair, because it didn’t look like either ?uestlove or Black Thought made an appearance. (Frankly, we were kind of relieved.) A [...]

Much like they did at the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, here is The Roots (from this past weekend’s Roots Picnic) performing The Beastie Boys‘ “Paul Revere.”

Next Saturday, PhilaMOCA will be presenting the Mausoleum Horror Convention, “a one-day celebration of the wild and weird,” presented by Cinedelphia. There will be vendors, puppets and more, but what you really need to know about are the two film screenings. PhilaMOCA’s Horror Con double feature (presented by The Awesome Fest) will feature Comforting Skin, [...]

You know what they say, when sass and a papier mache head fail, take ‘em to court: The American Civil Liberties Union and the law firm Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Feinberg, have filed a federal lawsuit, “seeking to block new city rules that prohibit groups from feeding large numbers of homeless people in city parks.” [...]

This past Saturday, local country music station XTU held their annual anniversary concert. Some of country’s biggest acts played, apparently, but all anyone can seem to remember is the 191 arrests. You see, there were a bunch of fights (what mathematicians would probably calculate to equal a “shit ton”), egged on by beers, songs about [...]

We totally acknowledge that the executive director of Seth Williams‘ campaign emailing his office’s employees, on their city emailed addresses, to urge them to attend his fundraiser was not a good look. At all. But you know what else isn’t a good look? Calling the fundraiser “Seth In The City,” (although that is solid pun-manship) [...]

In all of the hubbub around our maybe, maybe not dig at Billy Joel (Billy, we kid), it was pretty easy to forget that this whole University City District Heart & Soul project is unbelievably awesome. Above, you can see proof of that in artist Thom Lessner‘s piano for the project. It’s like something you [...]

They’re legends. They’re on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. They’re the most successful R&B group of all time, and now they’re playing Valley Forge Casino Resort. It seemed only yesterday that Boyz II Men reminded everyone at Welcome America how things should be done. They were way past their prime when they played that show, [...]