We don’t usually do giveaways for stuff outside of Philly but there are three reasons we’re giving away a pair of tickets to see Christina Perri at Revel in Atlantic City on Friday:
1. She’s a local girl, hailing from Bensalem. She graduated from Archbishop Ryan. And she has the Philly skyline tattooed on her arm.
2. The Revel may soon close, so you should go see it before it does.
3. You were probably going down the shore anyway.
Oh, and the video above? It’s been viewed 30 million time.
So, if you want the tickets, email us freeJUMPstuff@gmail.com (put “Perri” in the subject line and your full name in the content box). If you don’t want to take a chance, you can purchase tickets online here.
Lantern: Rituals of Rock.
Text by Brittany Thomas. Images by Michael Bucher.
While speaking of songs with references to black leather and conjuring spirits, Emily Robb and Zachary Devereux Fairbrother sip tea in a sunny South Philly rowhome adorned in earthy tones, rustic wood and sleepy cats napping. It is an unexpectedly soothing home environment for the couple, better known as the songwriting duo behind local psych rock band Lantern.
“Losing yourself in the music and maybe borrowing from the magical and mystical language that the blues and rock ‘n‘ roll took on,” says Fairbrother of the lyrical inspiration for their most recent album, Rock ‘N’ Roll Rorschach. “Rock ‘n’ roll as a ritualistic thing – costumes, leather, the ecstatic, lose yourself kind of experience.”
Images by Michael Bucher, Teresa McCullough and G.W. Miller III.
Big thanks to all who came out to party with us on Saturday at Underground Arts for the Red Bull Sound Select show featuring Spank Rock with Prowler, Mumblr and DJ SYLO.
It was a super fun night, capped off by Amanda Blank joining Spank on stage for a few songs and SYLO spinning late into the night with everyone jumping on stage to dance.
We’ll have another big event on September 27, with details coming soon. Find pics from our first Sound Select show with Plastic Little here.
Text and images by Brianna Spause.
It was a pizza lover’s dream.
In celebration of the August 8 release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Awesome Fest threw a huge Pizza Party on the Parkway and they made sure they did it right.
In 15 minutes, the free slices Pizza Hut handed out to the first 200 guests were gone but the party had just begun. More than 1,000 people gathered at The Oval, the newly renovated space out front of the Art Museum, late Friday afternoon for the free all-age event.
Local bands Modern Colour and Ang & the Damn Band created a bluesy atmosphere on stage in the back of the park as people spread out in the eight-acre space that artist Candy Coated turned into a Magic Carpet.
What was a not-so-special asphalt parking lot a month ago is now a pedestrian hotspot with a fresh coat of fluorescent pinks and greens. It’s a chessboard, a summer stage, a hub for food tricks and a tastefully lit beer garden. It was finished just in time to host Awesome Fest’s pizza party.
With the sun hanging low in the sky, a man appeared on stage. The not-quite Andy Warhol doppelganger strutted up to the microphone, his brown hair peeking out of the bottom of a disheveled blonde wig.
“Untie your garlic knots, open up your oven doors of perception. It’s Pizza Underground,” he said as the five members appeared.
Child actor Macaulay Culkin (above, left) and his band mates dressed in black and wore sunglasses as they powered through eight super cheesy songs about pizza in the style of the Velvet Underground, including “All the Pizza Parties” and “Take a Bite of the Wild Side.” The background melody? Well that was made up by Culkin on the kazoo, Deena Vollmer on the pizza box, Pheobe Kreutz on the glockenspiel, Matt Colbourn on the guitar and Austin Kilham on the keyboard/tambourine.
Glass Cloud and Scale the Summit @ The Barbary.
Text and images by Chad Sims.
Last Wednesday at The Barbary, Glass Cloud and Scale the Summit co-headlined an amazing all ages metal show. Luckily, someone was smart enough to have the show start early so that most of the younger crowd actually got to see the headliners. However, the audience was fortunate that all of the bands made it.
Early in their set, bearded Glass Cloud front-man Jerry Roush (above) explained that one of the band members had been arrested the day before while driving their tour van, which was stolen. Or so the rental company had thought after mixing up their van with another. Before making it from DC to Philly, the band had to drive back to their hometown of Hampton, VA to sort out the mess but they made it to the show with little time to spare.
It was a blessing that the band was able to make it to town just before the end of the show because they were incredible. Roush held nothing back in his performance and had the crowd going nuts including a guy who was allowing people to jump off his back onto other audience members.
Ma Jolie: Vibrating Your Butt.
Text by Derrick Krom. Images by Jessica Flynn.
It’s not very often you come across a burly, no-nonsense punk band citing Disney tunes as a major influence on its sound. But when it comes to Philadelphia punk trio Ma Jolie, influences can stem from anywhere.
On a crisp and sunny spring evening, the members of Ma Jolie – vocalist and guitarist Mike Stoloski, bassist Frank Abruzzo and drummer Jeff Meyers – sit outside a South Philadelphia coffee shop and reflect back on how they achieved their unique blend of raw and melodic punk.
“I would say how we got here is sort of just by trial and error,” Stoloski says. “When we started, we would just write and whatever came out came out. I listen to Disney music in my car so I love melody. But then I also grew up listening to Snapcase. So, I have those two polar opposite vibes contributing to what I do.”
“Our influences are just so different from each other,” Meyers adds. “We can definitely agree on certain things but for the most part, how we interpret each other’s writing is so different. But it works because we sort of challenge each other.”
We’re working with the folks at one of our favorite joints, Underground Arts, and we’ll be giving away a ton of tickets to their shows in the coming weeks.
On Friday, Royal Blood will perform in the Black Box with Bad Seed Rising.
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 “Royal Blood” in the subject line).
If you want to play it safe and get your own tickets, find details for the show here.
Bondage & Discipline: From Guns To Porn.
Text and image by Rachel Barrish.
The National Rifle was a band for seven years but this past January, they announced they were turning over a new leaf.
Bondage & Discipline is the new moniker for Lynna Stancato, Hugh Moretta, Buddy Mazzenga and bassist Alex Baranowski. With an advanced, revamped sound that began creeping into their songwriting last year after releasing their last album as TNR, the band decided to make a big change. The departure of previous bassist Jeremiah Sweeney last August solidified the transition.
“Some people were starting to say, ‘You should change your name because you’re not the same band anymore,’” recalls vocalist and keyboard player Stancato. “With new sound and losing our bass player, it was best to start clean and leave TNR behind us.”
And they’re doing it in an awesome way. The new sound from B&D is reminiscent of CHVRCHES or Phantogram, using samplers and more electronic melodies to create a dark, romantic sound. The band released its first single, “Only Your Love,” in March and is planning to release another this summer. A full-length album is in the works for 2015.
Ang Bocca: Wanna Be In a Band?
Text by Brianna Spause. Images by Marie Alyse Rodriguez.
She’s been gluing a different pile of musicians together on any given night since 2009. Ang Bocca is Ang & the Damn Band – everyone else just shares the stage.
“‘Hey, do you want to hang out in my band for a little while? You can leave whenever you want.’ That is the Damn Band motto,” Bocca says. “To just do the damn thing.”
The singer/songwriter from South Philadelphia is the full package. She’s got the voice and the crowd appeal and the don’t-care-attitude to match. In fact, Bocca didn’t care too much for the tumble that the economy took in 2008, which cost her a record deal. She created a pop star agenda all her own.
DJ SYLO: “All People Just Want to Feel Alive.”
Here’s the latest installment of our monthly mixtape series, which is curated by GUN$ Garcia. Today she brings us Spank Rock and DJ SYLO. Spank will perform at the Red Bull Sound Select at Underground Arts on Saturday, with SYLO spinning throughout the night. Tickets to the party are only $3 if you RSVP here.
Our Teresa McCullough spoke with SYLO about his fashion sensibilities and musical tastes.
What kind of parties are you throwing down these days?
Parties are crazy! All people just want to feel alive, you know? Our parties feel alive to me. It’s cool because when a party is really rocking, the whole dance floor looks like one sole being. I’m proud of our parties. We’re giving our community something fresh and it’s growing.
So yeah, it’s a few different joints I wanna tell you about: STUNTLOCO at the 700 Club every Thursday (more and more forward thinking dance music), The Saint every Friday (the dependable turn up), and Pizza Parties (if you know, then you know).
Tell me a little bit about your inspiration behind your mix SPARK MY SOUL.
Love, loss and London. I lived in London for four months and SMS was the result. Here’s one cool thing: I was obsessed with this Two Inch Punch remix. I had it playing in my headphones when I left my job one night. It was Guy Fawkes Day, so when I stepped outside, there were fireworks going off everywhere in the sky. I could hear them through my headphones and it sounded, looked and felt beautiful. I just stood there till the song ended. When it came down to making SMS, I made that song the ender and added firework noises to recreate the moment for everybody.
Who are some of your favorite DJ’s to perform with and why?
First, I gotta big up my brother Matt Ford. An amazing artist – new music coming soon – and also my MC. He rocks the mic during our parties and it’s amazing. DJ wise, I love spinning with my brothers Jansen, Sammy Slice and MistaSelecta. It just works you know? The vibe is there. I admire all those dudes in different ways.
I see you’re pretty original in wardrobe choices. What are you currently wearing?
Silk shirt and MC Hammer pants. Janowskis on my feet. These cool sunglasses I got thrifting with my lil’ sis.
If you could create any new genre of music, what would it be and what would you name it?
Haha. Bobby McFerrin club music. It’s like any dirty hardcore club but made with only sounds from your voice/body. Then you can perform it live with a loop pedal thingy and destroy the dance floor!
What can we expect from your mixtape with Spank?
You know that scene from Star Wars in the cantina? Like that but 30 times more clubby and dirty. People from all galaxies on the dance floor getting it OD poppin’.
What is your favorite Pokemon and why?
Incredibly hard question and you suck for asking me this. Abra.
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