On Friday, the Philadelphia City Paper stumbled upon a proposed bill that could dramatically alter the city’s cultural landscape. Bill No. 100267 is no ordinary promoters ordinance. If passed into law, the ordinance has the potential to stop smaller clubs’ schedules completely and leave many local musicians without any hometown support. The City Paper broke … [Read more…]
Since The Roots’ Questlove took to Twitter with a blog post that reported Gang Starr’s Guru is in a coma, the word has begun to spread around the Internet. Here’s what the original post from the T.R.O.Y. blog/Philaflava said: If anyone has info about this please let us know. We’re told his sister Tricia said … [Read more…]
Questlove, drummer for The Roots and all-around well-respected guy, came upon something curious in the NBC cafeteria. As anyone with a camera phone and a point to make would do, he took to the Internet and posted the following photo on his twitpic account [via mediaite and Mike Riggs]: Yikes. A picture says 1,000 words, … [Read more…]
If the thought of Jimmy Fallon filling in Conan O’Brien’s shoes was… well, the last thing you would have thought, here’s something even more absurd: The Roots will be Fallon’s house band. Ummm… what? Now Carson Daly will have to one-up Fallon. But how? Fall Out Boy perhaps?
Sometimes life feels like a Kurt Vonnegut book, the way seemingly random events and lineages come together in unknown ways. It also helps when you checking out a heaping helping of Vonnegut novels from the library and his particular method of story-telling seeps into your life. Let me explain: Having recently graduated and awaiting the … [Read more…]