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Summer festivals are upon us. Many festivals. Kind of watered down, no? So it’s time to take a look at the beasts of the east: All Points West, and Download Festival. OK, no, The Download Festival is nowhere near the project All Points West is. I mean, Radiohead, Underworld, The Roots, Girl Talk, and Animal Collective could all take the cake as a headliner, and you would have a great time. But Saturday brings......

You know those days where it seems that there are like four good bands playing on one night? And they’re all really good? Saturday, June 7, is that day. Personally, this brings to mind one of the few concepts that I learned in my macroeconomics class – opportunity cost. Even if you go to one of these shows and plan your day carefully, you can’t see it all! The Roots, Gnarls Barkley, Sharon Jones and......

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with......

Haven't heard of it? From the same form of racial profiling that results in people getting pulled over for Driving While Black, basically, if you're black and travelling by plane, the odds of having your luggage (or self) searched are significantly higher than the odds white travellers operate with. In 1999, Mos Def rapped about it on his album Black on Both Sides: Some folks get on a plane, go where they please, but......

Last night, Ropeadope Digital celebrated its launch at the World Cafe Live. The evening was made up of performances by BurnDown All Stars, Electric City, and Aunt Jessica. And a duo of painters who kinda hung out in the corner of the stage for most of the evening with some canvas. I didn't quite get it, but, nonetheless, there were painters in the corner. Yeah. Aunt Jessica, an electronica-influenced hip hop group, started off the......

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we'll be posting events that are going on sale during the current week. This Tuesday post only collects the early announcements, so definitely check back on Thursday for the latest ticket news. COMEDY Ron White Mark G. Etess Arena, Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City Fri, 4/20/07, 8PM On sale: Sat, 10AM, Live Nation Janeane Garofalo The TLA Sun, 3/11/07, 9PM $25 On sale: Sat, 12PM, Live Nation MUSIC Buddy Guy House......

While everyone else was writing about this yesterday, I was too busy working [read: getting a tattoo of Barbaro on my shoulder while listening to Bad Brains]. What does one think when one sits down to write a piece of garbage like this? “Hmm. You know, I was at a [fill in latest indie band] show the other day, and I saw two black people! They were dressed like me and seemed to be really......

Most of the time, these columns are intended to just remind you to be better, more polite people. Sometimes, we're downright Twenty-First Century or liberated and progressive. Once in a while, though, we get a little old-fashioned. Most of my manners hang-up comes from my dad. One thing he'd always make sure of was that, if we were walking down the street (I say "if" because in El Paso, Texas, you do a lot......

by Neil McGarry Dominiquinn Supastar, founder of Dreality TV, is filmmaker, musician and artist, has worked on the music scene for years, and is now preparing to release the short film, Victim. In an Old City coffee shop, we took a few minutes to explore the creative world of this Philadelphian artist. What is Dreality? It’s a concept I came up with in 1998 when I decided to stop working a regular job. I was......

The Roots brought down the house at the Kimmel Center on Friday night, bringing a rather stagnant crowd to its feet for a two-and-a-half hour set that spanned the entire Roots discography. As fans of all ages and dress entered the Kimmel, they sat on their hands for most of the show, which included solid if unspectacular sets from Deerhoof and TV on the Radio. The Roots, however, amazed the sell-out crowd from the......

Will Smith probably earns the title of "Most Popular Philadelphian Recording Artist." But when it comes to the title of "Most Popular Philadelphia Recording Artist We're Proud To Admit Is Our Own," well, The Roots own that title. Tonight, The Roots bring their amazing live show to the beautiful Kimmel Center, in a night that promises to be a great fish out of water experience. You know, sort of like Splash but with a concert......

By now you’ve probably heard of Nouvelle Vague, the French band covering songs of the English new wave in the loungey style of Brazilian bossanova. They’re on the stereo at your hipster friends’ parties, they’re showing up on every list as one of the best breakout albums of the summer, and most recently, they’re on the soundtrack for a T-Mobile commercial. And now the band is bound for World Café Live, the Philadelphia stop on......

Fat Joe is coming to Philadelphia to play a free concert. If you're a fan, we're sure you're excited. We're excited over anything that's free. But we're not going to tell you when or where this free concert is. Why? Well, not because we're assholes. Well, of course we're assholes, but that's not why we're holding the information back. See, we don't actually know when or where the concert is. The concert is a part......