Results tagged “donnasummer”

When the clock inches towards five on a Friday, this Phillyist likes to say she'll be going down the shore. But many might say they are going "to the beach" or "to the ocean." According to Urban Dictionary, the term "down the shore" is used mostly by us Philly folks. Regardless, Phillyist believes that wherever you go this weekend—the beach, the shore, or the seaside—you should make it a great one.

Jason Forrest is pretty clearly a music junkie. He used to record, confusingly enough, under the name Donna Summer (although, don't worry, there was indeed a real Donna Summer; she wasn't just an elaborate conspiratorial creation of the record companies, so you can stop thinking that right now, you paranoid weirdo), so she may have had some influence on him, first off. (The decade of her heyday certainly did, as the website for his self-owned label, Cock Rock Disco, is smothered in '70s era photos and style.) And his latest album, Shamelessly Exciting, features samples from artists as diverse as The Ramones, Steely Dan, Yes, Genesis, and Blood Sweat & Tears - and those are just the ones we recognized. All of this wildly different music is sometimes layered over with fresh performances (the disc features collaborations with contemporary acts like Laura Cantrell), then chopped and pasted and molded into something entirely new, and incredibly rocking - an exhilarating postmodern fusion that may indeed be the future of music, or at least the music of the future.