rumpumpumpump. A quasi-metaphysical reverie of holiday music & roundup of local pop acts doing the concert with a peppermint twist.Lucky 8 ball, will this be the last time i mention clay aiken and any judd except ashley?Also: making it up to daryl hall.
Pop goes Christmas
Look who’s getting in on the holiday act
Photo providedHall & Oates return [...]
The pieces have an Edwardian (as in Gorey) macabre sensibility one could describe as recreational apocalyptic with Raymond Pettibon’s pop on top and a fat side of Francis Bacon.
Le Link.
MUSIC FEATURE
Deb, bore ya?: More than 30 years after forming Blondie, Harry still rocks.
Sound the Siren
With her first solo album in 14 years, Deborah Harry can still get it done.
by Tara Murtha
More than 30 years after forming the band that ordained the communion of New Wave and punk, Deborah Harry still rocks the same DIY [...]
Punk Rock Movie Night A-List pubbed in the Philadelphia Weekly 11.7.07.
Sigh.
Total bummer. A good local publication that never had the chance. Here’s the intro to the last column, because that kind of says it.
MIX TAPE
Tara Murtha
Contributing Writer
10/29/2007
Alexa Wilkinson’s Christopher Street Tape
Dearest Readers,
As you read in editor James Myers’ letter this week, this is the last Mixtape. (As in the column. The Mix Tape always [...]
8PM @ the Balcony. Make up for the time you wasted your money seeing Pavement there. Or was that just me?
Akschun ayds benafit, for poetry & music fans of conscience who happen to be members of the phonetic spelling movement.
I’ll be reading Blackbird.
Organized by the city-zen poet CAConrad.
Details.
Pubbed in Philadelphia Weekly Halloween07, which was on a Wednesday, sadly. I had pho soup and a few granules of Nerds.
Email interview. True story. Sarah, if you want to play FMK off the record, get in touch! I have very good ones because I think about parlor games quite often.
Link here if you’re nasty.
Pretty Vacant
Sarah [...]
