Long overdue: rap anthem for discount department store Ross.
I can only hope this will be stuck in my head all day.
via Vulture (have I mentioned how much I love Vulture?).
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got it at ross
Posted in music on 06.25.2010| Leave a Comment »
sipple out there
Posted in music on 06.21.2010| Leave a Comment »
via my sister.
Did I mention that my earliest memory is dancing with her in a crib to “Chant Down Babylon”?
spontaneous bhangra
Posted in about town, music on 06.20.2010| Leave a Comment »
via Vulture.
gil scott-heron
Posted in music on 06.8.2010| Leave a Comment »
Legendary spoken-word artist, jazz musician, rap prototyper.
Really mythic. Nick took me to see him at the Blue Note last year, and I know it’s one of those stories I’ll recount to my grandkids one day. Listen to his music if you don’t know it. It’s usually pretty perfect.
Stream his new album here.
songs of summer
Posted in music on 06.6.2010| Leave a Comment »
Summer is officially here in Philadelphia. Heat so oppressive I almost fainted in Rittenhouse Square. Humidity like a swamp. Shopping just for the sake of air conditioning. Bike rides and backyard beer drinking. Kiddie pools. And that can only mean one thing: time to crank up the stereo and get your jamz on, because it’s the only way to stay sane!
Buzzfeed has posted an amazing compilation of all the Songs of Summer since 1940, and it’s amazingly fascinating. Rock out, people!
What will the song of this summer be?
download the dirty projectors singing “i dreamed i saw st. augustine”
Posted in music on 06.3.2010| Leave a Comment »
It is so good. Two of my favorite things together at last: “John Wesley Harding” and the Dirty P’s.
Download here. Now.
You can hear a few more tantalizing tidbits:
new blitzen trapper album drops tuesday
Posted in music on 06.2.2010| Leave a Comment »
weekend plans: pants yell! + tender trap + scott churchman
Posted in music, tagged concert, indie music, pants yell, philadelphia, philly, scott churchman, tender trap on 05.21.2010| Leave a Comment »
Must-see concert in Philly tomorrow: Pants Yell!‘s last concert ever, indiepop group Tender Trap playing one of two u.s. tour dates, and my favorite, Scott Churchman: dark + gloomy + thoroughly catchy.
See them all (+ me) at Pilam, 3914 Spruce St., Philadelphia. 8:00. $7. Yeah!
the very busy spider 