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Photographs by Albert Yee Santa is pissed. He’s roaring abuse at the Christmas-stealing atheist grinches who’ve erected a “tree of knowledge” between the nativity scene and the Old Glory statue on the Chester County Courthouse lawn. It’s a comical sight. Pissed Santas always are. But it’s more than that. It’s symbolic. It’s...

Alvin and the Chipmunks Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Razor and Tie) Hearing imaginary chipmunks sing Daniel Powter’s power ballad “Bad Day,” complete with dramatic echoes, is creepy and quite possibly evil. It’s also a lot like those Kidz Bop versions of Top 40 hits sung by a choir of children–absurd but possibly...

I’ve never liked Morrissey. His band the Smiths all but wrecked Brit alt-music in the 1980s. And then there was his penchant for dodgy statements about race and ethnicity. “Reggae is vile,” he sniffed. “Obviously, to get on Top of the Pops these days one has to be, by law, black,” he whined. He...

I’ve never liked Morrissey. His band the Smiths all but wrecked Brit alt-music in the 1980s. And then there was his penchant for dodgy statements about race and ethnicity. “Reggae is vile,” he sniffed. “Obviously, to get on Top of the Pops these days one has to be, by law, black,” he whined. He...

Who knew Morrissey was an idiot?   I’ve never liked Morrissey. His band the Smiths all but wrecked Brit alt-music in the 1980s. And then there was his penchant for dodgy statements about race and ethnicity. “Reggae is vile,” he sniffed. “Obviously, to get on Top of the Pops these days one has to...

Who knew Morrissey was an idiot?   I’ve never liked Morrissey. His band the Smiths all but wrecked Brit alt-music in the 1980s. And then there was his penchant for dodgy statements about race and ethnicity. “Reggae is vile,” he sniffed. “Obviously, to get on Top of the Pops these days one has to...

  The release of Murdered by Mumia: A Life Sentence of Loss, Pain and Injustice was a somber affair–or as somber as it could be at a Barnes & Noble in a strip mall in Deptford, N.J. Outside, policemen lined the entrance. Inside, every seat was taken, and customers holding copies of the book–co-authored...

As a kid Vincent Pontius watched In Search of … religiously, reveling in the show’s mixture of myth and mystery. Did the lost city of Atlantis ever exist? How were the pyramids of Egypt built? Were growing reports of UFO-related abductions real? What about unknown animals, like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster? What...

Young folks in Philly have embraced Baltimore club music as their own, but they’ve had very little to do with the production end of the genre’s sound. Enter Dante “Dwizz” Winn, Philadelphia’s first bona fide party music artist and club music pioneer. Dwizz’s original tracks “Salt Pepper Ketchup & Hot Sauce” and...

Yep, it’s true. Like every other newspaper in town, we’re for Nutter too. The dude has run the media endorsement table. In our case, it wasn’t very close. Michael Nutter–aka Mixmaster Mike, to those lucky enough to have caught his DJ act at the Impulse back in the day–is the overwhelming favorite...