The Short Version: Basically, this guy Christian Pedone runs an after-school rock music program at the Academy at Palumbo and needs money to help the students put on shows and buy equipment.  The Long Version:  For the past three years,…

British rocker Wreckless Eric is not a household name but he oughtta be. His stuff on Stiff Records in the ’70s should grant him lifetime power pop/garage royalty status. He plays Ortlieb’s on Saturday with The Improbables and AM Mills. …

Phil Sharp Dads | B Wordy but blunt, vicious but earnest, bitter but raging against cynicism, John Bradley is a complicated dude. Singer-drummers always are. On the new I’ll Be the Tornado (6131 Records), his Jersey pop-punk duo churns out…

Found these stuffed in various newspaper boxes. They took our jobs and gave us germs! Thanks Obama!

Rickett & Sones BUSINESS HUG: The Tim and Eric aesthetic has been embraced by advertisers. (That’s Tim Heidecker on the left and Eric Wareheim on the right.) Fox News. Katy Perry. The person who keeps recommending The Big Bang Theory.…

Maria Pouchnikova Maria Pouchnikova Maria Pouchnikova Maria Pouchnikova Maria Pouchnikova Underdogs  |  132 S. 17th St., 215-665-8080, underdogsphilly.com. All chefs must feel some pangs of existential despair at the daily rigors of creating works of culinary architecture only to see…

In case you don’t follow Questlove on Instagram (h/t Consequence of Sound): Man. The smallest gesture can mean the world to you. Robin Williams made such an impact on me and didn’t even know it. He name checked all of…

When we put Meg Remy on the cover of City Paper back in 2010, it was kind of a curious move. The Roots and Kurt Vile and various Espers have graced page one plenty, but Remy was different. Under the…

UPDATE: Now I’m being told by my friend who was with me at the show that none of the following happened like I remember it. That there was no old man, and the concert was not interrupted at any point.…