Every weekday of December (except for December 25, that is), Phillyist will be counting down to 2008 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! Raise your hand if you don't love YouTube/Viddler/Google Video/etc. Okay, that one guy raising your hand? You probably just want to scroll past this post, because it probably won't interest you in the......

Forgive the error in syntax for a moment, but we've been a grumpy critic lately. We've been seriously underwhelmed by the last couple concerts we've gone to. We really needed a great - not good, great - concert to get us out of this funk. So thank you thank you thank you to Eric Hutchinson and Matt Duke for giving us that show. As Editor Jill mentioned in her preview of the show, we first......

About six weeks ago, we were at the World Cafe Live for the Philly Local Lonely Hearts Club Band – and it was easily one of the best shows we've seen this year. Jim Boggia was kind enough to upload his version of "She's Leaving Home" from that evening to YouTube. It doesn't do justice to the actual performance, but it's definitely worth a viewing. Now we only need the rest of the recordings from......

Some of you may have noticed that Phillyist has a strange fondness for zombies, so it should come as no surprise that we let out a squeal of delight loud enough to raise the dead when we discovered that "Thing a Week" musician Jonathan Coulton - the artist behind "Re: Your Brains" (and, you know, some other songs) was coming to town. Coulton will be opening for Philly songster Jim Boggia at Milkboy Coffee......

This evening, local singer/songwriter Jim Boggia will be opening for Duncan Sheik at the World Cafe at 8PM. Boggia, formerly of 4 Way Street, has been travelling with Sheik's White Limousine tour since January. Why all this talk about Boggia when he's the opening act? Well, (a) he's a Philly musician, and Phillyist loves to see a local artist comes home to play, and (b) Phillyist is a fan of both headliner Duncan Sheik and......