COMING SOON: Spring 2013 Issue Featuring Joe Hardcore.
The spring issue of JUMP is at the printer now. We’ll get copies and start distributing them this weekend.
This may be our best issue yet. It features the other side of Philly musicians and music-connected folks. So, we hung out with Joe McKay, aka Joe Hardcore, performing his duties as a medieval squire (and kicking ass).
We also rode the bus with the guys from Southwork. And we learned about Yusuf Muhammad, the young man booking a lot of the major hip-hop and R&B shows in Philly.
You’ll meet Steph Pockets – who is huge in Japan, the DJs from Illvibe Collective, super-producers Jonathan Low and Kyle “Slick” Johnson, 21-year-old rapper Ryshon Jones, jazz vocalist Laurin Talese, Heyward Howkins (who edits e-bibles) and so much more.
Stay tuned for updates when we make mag drops.
Text by Naveed Ahsan. Images by Rachel Barrish.
Friday night at PhilaMOCA was many things – the official launch party of music publishing company Houndstooth Entertainment, the album release of Scott Churchman’s evocative yet joyous Ignore That Noise, and the goodbye party for headliner’s Norwegian Arms before they make the trek down south to North Carolina and then SXSW.
As the raucous revelry began to unfold the lights quietly dimmed and a disco ball loomed over the throng of men and women waiting in anticipation for the show’s conception. And as an added touch, the film Back to the Future II was projected in the background forthwith.
Text and images by Chad Sims.
Nile played a massive two-set show Thursday at The Troc. The two sets allowed them to play songs that are often left out including their epic masterpiece, the near 12 minute long, “Unas Slayer of the Gods.”
Gloominous Doom, Sapremia and Curser opened the show.
Before the show I spoke with Nile founding member and guitarist Karl Sanders. Sanders is universally recognized as one of the greatest death metal guitarists of all time. He is also a really humble, nice, funny and sincere guy who was a pleasure to talk to.
How has the tour been going?
So far so good!
What is the fan reaction to the new album (Gate of Sethu)?
We have been touring it overseas. The European responses have been incredible. In fact, after we played “Enduring the Eternal Molestation of the Flame” in Moscow they actually gave us the most incredible applause. We were like, wow!
This tour you are doing two sets. Why is that?
For a lot of years due to time restrictions inherent in multi-band packages there have been a lot of older songs we haven’t got to play. There are songs that fans have been asking for. For the last eight or nine years, there has been this guy in Finland who has been asking for “The Howling of the Jinn,” and after about five years of asking for it he said, “If you don’t play it on this next tour; I am going to break your knee caps.” The next couple times coming through Finland we still hadn’t played it and he didn’t break my knee caps, but he did express his sincere wish to please, please play it one day. People have been begging us for “Unas Slayer of the Gods” for a long time which we haven’t played in seven or eight years.
That is the one I am waiting for.
That is quite an undertaking to play that song. It is twelve minutes long. If you are playing the Eagles type of music, who cares, or Lynyrd Skynyrd, who cares, that’s not hard to play. But if you are playing 250 beats per minute, it’s an endurance war. I still don’t know how George (Kollias, Nile’s drummer) does it.
Two Shows You Need To See This Weekend: Norwegian Arms and Blayer Pointdujour & The Rockers Galore.
We’re massively busy wrapping up the spring issue of JUMP, which will start to hit the streets in less than two weeks. But you’ll likely see us out and about a bit this weekend … most likely at these two great shows, for sure (and probably elsewhere …).
FRIDAY
Norwegian Arms, Scott Churchman, Laser Background and Circadian Rhythms at PhilaMOCA
There are pockets of music subsets throughout the city, where groups of musicians hang out, inspire one another, experiment with sounds and then work together. The group of friends in this show are among the most spirited and active subsets in the city, and they make wonderful music. This will be a great show and a world of Philly music talent will likely be there to celebrate and support. (Photo of Norwegian Arms by Brandee Nichols).
SATURDAY
Blayer Pointdujour (above) is a Haitian dude from New Jersey who was educated in the Philly suburbs and played in punk bands when he came to the city. With his current band, he brings together a world of influences to their music, creating an infectious blend of punk, hip-hop, reggae and Haitian Kompa music. The lineup for this show is full of Philly talent. (Photo of Blayer Pointdujour by G.W. Miller III).
The Shakedown crew are celebrating their 11th year of monthly dance parties with a massive bash at The Trocadero Saturday. In addition to their regular, Philly-based crew spinning deep tech dub house music (like above), they’re also featuring two world-traveling DJs – Mark Farina and Doc Martin.
You never know who else might show up to spin as well. The Shakedown guys are Philly legends and friends with all the local talent.
Like us on facebook (if you don’t already) and email us at FreeJumpStuff@gmail.com to enter to win a pair of tickets (give us your name and put “Shakedown” in the subject line). They are $25 at the door, so this is a great deal.
If you want to play it safe and get your own tickets, find details for the show here.
Text and image by Bree Wood.
If you didn’t attend Tuesday’s night’s show at Kung Fu Necktie, you missed out on some quality music.
The show opened with Philly band Sore Saints, a relatively new post-hardcore band that has gathered a decent following in a short amount of time. If you are into Hot Snakes, Drive like Jehu and Fugazi, give them a listen. They recently put up a single Slow that they recorded last year with Jeff Barrow.
Second up was another Philly band, Quiet Arcs. They are a hardcore punk band with a heavy influence from the 80’s and 90’s era. This is a band that deserves more attention than it gets. If you get a chance, listen to their new seven-inch “I’ve Been Feeling Kind of Temporary” on Long in the Tooth Records.
“Good to know punk isn’t dead, well at least in Philadelphia,” slurred the obviously drunk Andrew Thomson (above), the front man of Single Mothers. “I love Philly.”
Single Mothers, from London Ontario, put on a great show. The crowd couldn’t decide if they wanted to sing along or laugh at the singer’s drunken rambling. Single Mothers definitely had the crowd’s attention. And was a great way to end the night.
Man Man @ Union Transfer.
Text by Dana Ricci. Images by Hillary Petrozziello.
Some came wearing white face paint. Others had masks resting atop their heads, waiting to be pulled over their faces. Some even wore costumes of sorts that they waited to flaunt as they stood in the crowd anticipating the band’s entrance.
“You might not want to stand in the front,” my friend warned me as we made our way through the crowd. “It’s going to get pretty crazy.”
And crazy it got, when Philly’s own Man Man played for a sold-out crowd at Union Transfer on Saturday. The band is currently co-headlining a U.S. tour with Indiana indie-rock group Murder by Death and the stop in Philly was bound to be one hell of a show.
DeVotchKa makes inspirational, orchestral rock music that will give you goosebumps. Not sure how else to describe their sound. Singer Nick Urata has a haunting voice that is perfect for movie soundtracks and indeed, you’ll find DeVotchKa’s music all over big screens.
DeVotchKa will play The Troc on Friday and we’re giving away tickets. Opening will be folk popsters Pearl and The Beard. Check out their Will Smith tribute below.
Like us on facebook and email us at FreeJumpStuff@gmail.com to enter to win a pair of tickets (give us your name and put “DeVotchKa” in the subject line).
If you want to play it safe and get your own tickets, find details for the show here.
This Is What a Philadelphia Magazine Looks Like.
Our first issue of JUMP launched two years ago. It featured Sun Airway on the front cover and Freeway on the back.
Above, you can see all the covers from the eight issues we’ve printed.
Our spring issue will drop in two weeks and we’ll begin our third year of celebrating Philadelphia music from all corners of the city, from all genres and from people from all sorts of backgrounds.
And FYI: we are just a bunch of folks who love Philly and music. We do this website and print this magazine for free – and sometimes at our own cost – because we care about Philly, and we want the music scene(s) to thrive.
Brooklyn-based Sub Pop band Obits will be here Thursday at Underground Arts and it should be a great show. They are loud, fun and full of attitude – more aggressive than indie rock but not quite as raw as garage rock.
The two opening acts – both Philly bands – could be headliners themselves: Creepoid (below) and LE Yikes (Surf Club).
Like us on facebook and email us at FreeJumpStuff@gmail.com to enter to win a pair of tickets (give us your name and put “Obits” in the subject line).
If you want to play it safe and get your own tickets, find details for the show here.
JUMP: The Philly Music Project 