Dan DeLuca is an Inquirer pop music critic. But his "In the Mix" column in the Weekend section ventures further afield, into books, movies, TV, the Internet, graphic novels and anything you might call "popular culture."
Inquirer critic Dan DeLuca writes about pop music and culture at http://go.philly.com/inthemix.
- Will Get Fooled Again
When Bruce, Bono, and Billy were celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York a couple of weeks back, there was another big-name B who couldn't be bothered to take part in celebrating either his or anybody else's illustrious past.
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Call them The Very Brief. There was some question as to whether the Tuesday night performance at Johnny Brenda's by The Very Best, the winning African electro-pop collaboration between Malawi-born singer Esau Mwamwaya and Euro DJ duo Radioclit, was ever going to take place.
- A friendship 'fantasy'Touring with Jim James, M. Ward, and Mike Mogis in the indie super group Monsters of Folk has been like "a fantasy, an erotic dream" for Conor Oberst.
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Inquirer critic Dan DeLuca writes about pop music and culture at http://go.philly.com/inthemix.
- Hall and Oates have gained fans across generations and genres, from old-school R&B to new-cool soul and pop.NEW YORK - The booklet that accompanies Do What You Want, Be Who You Are, the new four-CD boxed set devoted to the music of Daryl Hall and John Oates, is full of testimonials to the Philadelphia-bred soul-pop tandem, who headline a sold-out triple bill at the Spectrum tomorrow with Todd Rundgren and the Hooters.
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'Man, I ain't gettin' nowhere," Bruce Springsteen sang in "Dancing in the Dark" on Tuesday night, near the end of a marathon South Philadelphia show that was equal parts exhausting and exhilarating, even by his standards. "I'm just living in a dump like this."
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On each of the four nights that Bruce Springsteen plays the Spectrum over the next two weeks, he and the E Street Band will uncork one of his landmark albums from start to finish.
- The decades-old venue where headliners performed and memories were created will itself be just a memory come month's end.So what's so special about the Spectrum, anyway? To Bruce Springsteen, it has to do with the musical history of the place where rock and roll came of age in Philadelphia - the first arena he ever played, anywhere, opening for Chicago in 1973.
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Inquirer critic Dan DeLuca writes about pop music and culture at http://go.philly.com/inthemix.
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Count yourselves among the fortunate, Philadelphians. Celebrated songwriter Sufjan Stevens is playing only 14 shows on his tour that launched at a sold-out Johnny Brenda's on Monday, and with a repeat performance scheduled last night, two of the indie auteur's dates were set at the cozy Fishtown club.
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From Bob Dylan's "Catfish" to Don DeLillo's Underworld to John Fogerty's "Centerfield," American writers and rockers have long been lured to the baseball diamond in search of metaphorical grist for the artistic mill.
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