William J. Hayes

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• Posted Countdown to 2009: Top Ten Rejected Names for Adolf Hitler Campbell (aka Get Thee to a Foster Home) to Phillyist
  Every weekday of December (except for December 25, that is), Phillyist will be counting down to 2009 with our highlights from the past year and our predictions for the next. If you have a list you'd like to submit, let us know! Surely by now you have all read (perhaps on this very site?) the story about the Campbell family in Holland Township, who gave their kids such pleasant (and oddly verbose) monikers as JoyceLynn...
• Posted Countdown to 2009: Bill's Top Ten Albums of 2008 to Phillyist
  Every weekday of December (except for December 25, that is), Phillyist will be counting down to 2009 with our highlights from the past year and our predictions for the next. If you have a list you'd like to submit, let us know! 10. Oracular Spectacular – MGMT The debut album from two pseudo-hippies from Brooklyn, New York—singer/guitarist Andrew VanWyngarden and multi-instrumentalist Ben Goldwasser—blends crunching guitars, soaring synthesizers, and a speaker-tweaking production technique (courtesy of Flaming...
• Posted A Dressing Down for Saladworks to Phillyist
  Damn you, Liberty Place Saladworks, how you vex me so! Here is my problem: These mofos make one hell of a salad. The lettuce is green, the tomatoes succulent, the bacon bits crisp, and the cheese as fresh as if it had earlier emerged whole from a magic cow’s utters. Heck, you can even get a special one devised by some fancy chef who you've never heard of for less than $20! What's not...
• Posted Duffy: Totally Cooler Than That MTV One to Phillyist
  When I entered the TLA on Wednesday night, I experienced a slight feeling of déjà vu. And it wasn’t even just that I had been there the night before to see Bloc Party. No, it was because I was there to see British retro-soul singer Duffy, whose sound harkens back to Dionne Warwick during the Burt Bacharach years, or Dusty Springfield, if you need me to compare her to a white person to restore the...
• Posted Bloc Party Does Not Offend at TLA to Phillyist
  At the TLA on Tuesday night, the assembled crowd witnessed a band at the peak of their powers. Bloc Party, the British foursome with two solid albums to their credit (2005’s superior Silent Alarm and 2007’s solid A Weekend in the City) gave a transcendent, 16-song performance that earned the crowd’s raucous reaction and made their two encores totally acceptable (a bit ostentatious for a mid-weekend if you ask me, but what the heck?). They...