>>> We really like the idea for Miro Dance Theatre’s MASH UP Series, which the Miro company pairs up with a band for a few days, and at the end of four days, the pair perform what they’ve come up with. This time around, it’s the band Toy Soldiers and composer Craig Van Hise. Best [...]

Fastest Philebrity party to Letterman conversion ever! Sweet!

Like many others around the world last night, we were saddened to learn that Alex Chilton, who sang in The Box Tops and co-founded Big Star before embarking on a fairly wild solo career, has passed away. Chilton wrote some of our favorite songs — and sang a bunch of other favorites in his later [...]

>>> A protegé of the Outkast crew, Janelle Monáe comes off like some kind of crazy hybrid of “Hey Ya”-era Outkast, Grace Jones, and Jerry Lee Lewis. We’ll take it! Monáe begins a two-night stretch at Johnny Brenda’s tonight.
>>> And also, Kiss Me, I’m Irish And Gay!

Ever since we started doing the Philebrity Salon nights last summer — whereupon we were shocked to find out that it was the city’s only DJ night devoted to jazz records — we became tangentially aware of how simultaneously difficult and rewarding it must be to have anything to do with producing jazz and avant [...]

To celebrate the benevolent St. Patrick today, loyal reader Brendan O’Riordan decided to pick ten clips to some good authentic Irish songs/videos. Thanks, Brendan! Everybody else — enjoy! And ERIN GO BRAGH!

Thin Lizzy, “Whiskey In the Jar,” Top of the Pops (1973). Like the Norman invaders, Phil Lynott was “more Irish than the Irish.” [...]

Wow. In about 24 hours, we received submissions from over 50 local acts, all of whom wanted to share their tunes with you, the good music lovers of Philadelphia (and beyond). Some were from acts we knew, and lots were from people we’d never heard of at all before. And if this shock-sampling was anything [...]

It’s been a while since we heard from Dr. Dog, Philly’s own emissaries of good vibes for the world over. Turns out, they’ve been really busy (as usual). Their new album, Shame, Shame, will be out on April 6th (their first record for Anti-, home to Alec Ounsworth, Man Man and some guy named Tom [...]

FRIDAY:
>>> HOLY CRAP! THE SUN IS OUT! AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN WEEKS, I DON’T WANT TO DIE! Is this some kind of Psychic Spring Preview? So far, we like. It’s First Friday, so leave work and start drinking now. Then pay visits to present-day Philly music royalty: Either Man Man at The Trocadero, [...]

Sondre Lerche: It’s Norse for “swoon.” We can’t front — we kind of love almost everything about this guy, from his indie-pop debut to his soundtrack work to his jazz album to this almost Broadway-esque thing he’s been doing lately. There is no denying it — the man is talented. And having seen him live, [...]

Philly’s own The AKA’s latest clip, directed by Doug Sakmann. RIYL: Chain wallets, goth strippers, chain wallets and goth strippers.

>>> Those of you getting ready for Tim Burton’s (reportedly horrible) Alice In Wonderland might do well to check out “A Mad Tea Party at the Rosenbach Museum” wherein first editions of Lewis Carroll’s classic will be on view, along with Carroll experts laying down knowledge. If you wanna go, click on that link and [...]

Sure, we’ve re-ran this a bunch of times, but it’s one of our favorite videos we ever did. And as it happens, The Tough Shits play Kung Fu Necktie with Philebrity Label’s own Blood Feathers tonight. See you there.

Sorry, everybody, but the only thing allowing us to claw and scrape through these last three weeks of winter is any and all music that sounds like The Jesus & Mary Chain and The Ronettes put together. So yesterday, it was Best Coast; today, it’s Philly’s own Party Photographers. This is real primitive Velvets-styled screeching [...]

What in the Sam Hill has Man Man been up to lately? We have no idea: Singer Honus Honus hasn’t been on IM all day (obsessing over ChatRoulette, we bet), so we can only speculate. This photo suggests that a new Man Man record might not be too far off, and a string of dates [...]

>>> They just really don’t make movie posters like they used to. Tonight here at 2424 Studios is the twice-rescheduled-due-to-snow screening of The Panic In Needle Park starring Al Pacino, plus the world premiere of the AKA’s music video for “Get It Together,” directed by Doug Sakmann, as well as the short “Cocktails on Canal [...]

?uestlove talks up legendary Afrobeat pioneer Fela, whose catalog is about to be reissued. If you’re not already, get familiar.

Sure they hailed from NYC — though Doodlebug grew up here — but didn’t it feel like Digable Planets really meant something here?

Does anybody know anything about this cat? Says here he was a Philly native, did the whole Laurel Canyon folk thing in the late ’60s, and then… we don’t know. And yes, he does remind us a little of the “I gave my love a cherry” scene in Animal House, but you know, that is [...]

We have loved The Clientele dearly, ever since we heard their first damp, weird 45s and saw them in the student union at Bryn Mawr College at the ass end of the 1990s. Why? Oh, a hundred reasons: They are the definition of gentility and taste. They make psychedelia literate and intelligent, which can be [...]