Dan DeLuca, Inquirer Music Critic
UPDATE: As expected, Beyonce's big Super Bowl splash is being followed by a tour announcement. The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour play the Wells Fargo Center on July 25 and Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on July 26. Tickets for the Philadelphia show go on sale Feb. 15 at ComcastTix.com.
Colin Kerrigan, Colin Kerrigan
RAC, aka Remix Artist Collective, was started back in 2007 by one guy, Andre Anjos. He started producing remixes while he was in college and eventually went on to recruit a few others via the Intenet to create the collective. Fast forward to present day and Anjos has taken his college dorm room hobby to a full blown career. He has even taken his remixes and turned it into a live show with fellow RAC member, Karl Kling.
Molly Eichel, Daily News Staff Writer
Bensalem-born pop star Christina Perri and Philly-based indie band Good Old War are in the middle of lawsuit between Bill Silva Management and two former employees.
Colin Kerrigan, Colin Kerrigan
Philly's own Bleeding Rainbow, who were at one time Reading Rainbow, have a new record coming out next Tueday(01/29). It's called Yeah Right and will be the band's first album on Kanine Records. If you head over to Pitchfork, you can listen to the entire thing right now via Pitchfork Advance and you can also listen/watch the video for "Drift Away" below.
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Dan DeLuca, Inquirer Music Critic
Dave Hartley has just released his second album as Nightlands, the self-described "baroque bedroom pop" project that is the Philadelphia musician and songwriter's chief creative outlet when he's not playing bass in The War On Drugs. It's called Oak Island, and it's out on Secretly Canadian. My interview with him is in today's Inquirer and here.
Hartley is a man of many hats. Besides singing in the Silver Ages and writing a basketball column for the WXPN music blog The Key called Top Of The Key, he's also an amateur photographer. This month, after Spin magazine named both Nightlands and Philadelphia power trio Purling Hiss as among the five artists to watch for January, Harltey returned the favor by providing the Spin web site with a 25 picture photo gallery that works as a love letter of sorts to Fishtown, where the Maryland native has lived for the past seven years. Check that out here.
On Monday, I went to a Sixers game Hartley and his War on Drugs band mate Adam Granduciel, in part to watch Matt Bonner, the San Antonio Spurs three-point shooting specialist who is the inspiration for the Hartley founded online campaign #LetBonnerShoot. the Eva Longria-endorsed movement's intention is to get the unfrashionable power forward into this year's NBA All-Star Weekend three-point shooting contest.
Don't believe everything you read online. I was reminded of that after I did a quick Google search before getting on the phone with Eve, the Grammy-award winning rapper, and then congratulated her on being pregnant. She's not.
Aiden James, the openly gay Philadelphia native who is currently soaring to worldwide appear, will bring his singing and songwriting talents to the Tin Angel this Saturday, January 25th.
