Her Jazz

» Fellow WPRBer Julia tipped me off to a panel on the history of broadcasting in Philadelphia at the Atwater Kent Museum that was totally worth ditching my lunchtime gardening for. It was definitely more of a wax nostalgic about the glory days than anything else, but cool nonetheless. The panel (Jerry Blavat [!!!!], Karin [...]

The world is brimming with drumming news! There’s a drummer joke to be made here, but I’m too lazy to do it.
» The pride of Princeton, NJ, Home Blitz, are looking for a drummer:
Hey, the band Home Blitz is looking for a drummer so our current drummer can switch to 2nd guitar. Drummer should be [...]

OK, if I wasn’t in the throes of covering the Popped! festival, I would be totally going to this.
1915’s Birth of a Nation was the film that simultaneously launched the modern movie industry and gave the Ku Klux Klan a foothold in the 20th Century.
Friday night is the Philly premiere of Rebirth of a Nation, [...]

» I really can’t believe Rick D. is gone. Just doesn’t feel real. I dread the moment it actually sinks into my thick skull. Rick was an immense help to Plain Parade, especially after the crap we were going through at Doc Watson’s. I loved his snark, his leather vest. No amount of words can [...]

» I have a photo of Hot Chip in the current issue of SPIN, which is all sorts of cool. And they say bloggers can’t break into the print media! Har, har. I remember when Modest Mouse played Your Mother’s Birthday Party festival in Princeton’s gymnasium — a fantastic show all around, opened up by [...]

» Hurrah, my Narthex review is up! One reader loves it so much that it’s their favorite song on PTW. DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN
» There’s funny and not-so-funny. The lone comment on the latter post says it all:
As a Ph.D. candidate currently wading into the increasingly competitive job market, I find this kind of appointment reprehensible. [...]

» I use “BAAARF” to tag a lot of things these days, it seems:
“Both Ben Folds and Third Eye Blind were very popular on our Facebook searches and on our student-body survey, so we think that everybody will be really excited about them,” said Wharton senior and SPEC director Catey Mark.
Maybe it wasn’t being trapped [...]

HOLY MOTHER OF JESUS DOES THIS WEATHER SUCK. I wonder if this is payment for NOT attending SXSW this year?! My walk to work today managed to get my ipod soaked from inside my jacket and put me in a mood so foul, not even the cheery 70’s rock tropes of Sloan could bring me [...]

The Spinto Band meets No Love For Ned on Kelsey Grammar Drive!

Oh PhillyCarShare, your cars are constantly a mess and your members walking shitstacks who always screw my reservations over, but you do know how to market yourselves and throw a party, so I’ll let it slide.. Well, let’s be honest, looking at my bar tab, I could have thrown this party anywhere else. But see, [...]