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(11/16/06 5:00am)
Manya Scheps can't stand the rain. By 8 p.m. over two inches have drenched the city and begun to leak through the walls of her basement. It's brought traffic to a standstill on the Jersey Turnpike, where tonight's headliner, Josephine Foster, is stalled in her van. And the lighting above the wooden stage won't turn on. "What the fuck is going on with the damn Christmas lights!" Manya cries as she checks extension chords in the dark. "Maybe I'll run to CVS." Manya turns and scurries upstairs but pauses halfway to take a breath. "I've been praying for this show since August."
(11/09/06 5:00am)
Brita Filter
(11/02/06 5:00am)
It's close to midnight at the Rotunda on 40th and Walnut. On the steps outside, a cypher of about 20 hip-hop heads huddle in close as a ghetto blaster thumps old school loops and two emcees in the middle face-off: "Common nigga, you don't think that's a lie / That's like saying when I spit it I don't spit fly / That's like saying you ain't you and I ain't I / Like this ain't the Gathering it's a street word fight." The crowd goes nuts, leaning back like witnesses of a car wreck to reward the verbal beating. A few campus security guards stand watch over the group, but they seem more interested in the freestyles than concerned about things getting out of hand.
(10/26/06 4:00am)
If there is a white picket fence along the rock-star trajectory, Chris Funk has likely found it. The Decemberists' jack-of-all-instruments (guitarists first and foremost; banjo, mandolin, bouzouki, pedal steel, glockenspiel, and hammered dulcimer follow suit) has a few weeks to spend with his family in Portland, Oregon before casting off on full tours of the U.S. and Europe. His group's fifth album, The Crane Wife, has coveted celebratory reviews since its October 3 release, and defied the myth that going corporate is the ultimate indie death-sentence. (The Crane Wife marks the group's first release on Capital Records, formerly releasing on the independent Kill Rock Stars label.) Funk recently caught up with Street over the phone as he and his four-month-old daughter were out enjoying the changing leaves in the City of Roses.
(10/26/06 4:00am)
Lady Sovereign is a girl who knows how to take her criticisms with a healthy grain of salt. "They can fuck off," said the 20-year-old British rapper of her detractors. "I don't give a shit. People are gonna have things to say but I don't care, it's just peoples' opinions. Blah. They can kiss my butt."
(10/05/06 4:00am)
It's a brave new world for Decemberists fans. The release of their new album, The Crane Wife, marks the group's shift to Capitol Records from indie Kill Rock Stars. Violinist and co-singer Petra Haden has left the group, and singer/songwriter Colin Meloy now finds inspiration from an ancient Japanese folk-tale. But if you're worried that The Crane Wife spells the end of the Decemberists as you know it, well, don't be.
(09/21/06 4:00am)
The second coming of 2005's indie darlings Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is upon us. And while the alt-rock prophets will wait with baited blogs until the January 30 release date, don't expect lead singer and Philadelphia native Alec Ounsworth to indulge their rapture. Ounsworth spoke to Street about ignoring the hype and trips to the zoo while driving home to Philly after five long weeks of recording in Cascadia, NY.
(09/14/06 4:00am)
Scott Ansill remembers selling 120 copies of Radiohead's Kid A at midnight the night it was released. "You don't see the same excitement of the music industry in early 2000 now," Ansill, the owner of South Street's Spaceboy Music record store, reminisced. "Who would line up today for a CD?"
(04/06/06 4:00am)
Heather Douglas left Penn in 1995 with a degree in English and dreams of one day becoming an actress. She will return next week for the world premiere of her film, Two Days, at the Philadelphia Film Festival.