WIN FREE TICKETS! The Wonder Years and Modern Baseball @ The Electric Factory in April!
Tickets to see The Wonder Years at the Electric Factory on April 12 go on sale tomorrow at 10 am but we’re giving away tickets now!
They’ll perform with support from Defeater, Real Friends, Citizen and Philly’s own Modern Baseball.
Like JUMP on facebook and email us at FreeJumpStuff@gmail.com to enter you to win a pair of tickets (give us your name and put “Wonder Years” in the subject line). Winners will be announced at 9:30 am Friday. Read more…
Cookie Rabinowitz: Success In The Making.
Text by Christopher Malo. Image by G.W. Miller III.
The studio inside of Cookie Rabinowitz’s home is filled. Filled with studio equipment, filled with music, filled with crap. A blanket hanging from the ceiling cuts the room in two. One side has freshly-painted orange walls, sound-dampening foam nailed to the ceiling, a workstation with a computer and a huge monitor attached to the wall. Who knows what lays on the other side of the curtain?
Cookie puffs on an e-cig obsessively and a non-stop plume of smoke wafts from his mouth, past his oversized glasses and over his head.
“I tell rappers that come in here you can smoke your weed,” he says, laying out the parameters for imbibing. “If you have to do a bump, that’s cool. No needles. That’s my only ground rule.”
He continues, recalling the time he let a rapper do some mixes here while he wasn’t in the studio, only to come back to find a crack bag on the floor. He did what anyone under 40 would do in 2013. He promptly posted a pic of it to Instagram.
Cookie’s music is self-described as “indie alternative rock” despite the fact some of his biggest breaks have not come from that genre.
Sure, he licensed some of his music to be used on ABC’s “Men in Trees” and CBS’s “Ghost Whisperer,” although he wasn’t mentioned in the credits. There was a cartoon pilot he did with Orlando Jones that they pitched to the Cartoon Network (which was rejected), which led to Jones covering Cookie’s music in his “Tainted Love” series on Machinima, the video game resource.
Connecting with Philadelphia rap legend Schoolly D has given Cookie opportunities he would not have been able to manufacture on his own. For one, he was afforded a chance to play on and record the theme song for Adult Swim’s “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” with Schoolly in his studio. While his name does not appear in the closing credits for this either, Schoolly provided the bridge leading to Cookie playing bass guitar on the HipHopGods tour with Schoolly, Public Enemy and X-Clan.
Win a Free JUMP T-shirt!
JUMP T-shirts make for great presents, especially when they are free!
We’re down to our last few shirts so we’re giving them away. We have three women’s smalls, three women’s mediums, one women’s large and two men’s large.
Like us on facebook and email us at FreeJumpStuff@gmail.com to enter to win a shirt (give us your name and put “shirt” in the subject line … also give us a land address where we should send the stuff).
Win The Brand New Mick Jagger Photo Book!
Want a free hardback copy of the brand new Mick Jagger photo book? It’s 200 pages of amazing images that span 50 years of music
Like us on facebook and email us at FreeJumpStuff@gmail.com to enter to win the book (give us your name and put “MICK” in the subject line).
We’ll announce the winner on Friday and have the book in the mail that day.
WIN FREE TICKETS: See YACHT @ Underground Arts Friday!
We’re working with the folks at one of our favorite joints, Underground Arts, and we’ll be giving away a bunch of tickets to shows in the coming weeks.
On Friday, Portland’s dance-pop/art duo YACHT will perform, with DJ sets from Vacationer, Locals+Only (JaYo, below), Les Professionnels, Janse and Baby Eagle.
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 “YACHT” in the subject line).
If you want to play it safe and get your own tickets, find details for the show here.
WIN FREE TICKETS: See !!! and Vacationer @ Underground Arts Thursday!
We’re working with the folks at one of our favorite joints, Underground Arts, and we’ll be giving away a bunch of tickets to shows in the coming weeks.
On Thursday, !!! will have everyone dancing. Should be an awesome night as Vacationer (below) will also perform – and they are always good fun.
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 “!!!” in the subject line).
If you want to play it safe and get your own tickets, find details for the show here.
King Krule @ Johnny Brenda’s.
Text by Andrew Brown. Images by Michael Bucher.
Archy “King Krule” Marshall looks every bit of his 19 years on Earth. The lanky Ron Weasley-lookalike seems to still be learning how to cope with his wiry limbs. You’d be forgiven for walking past him on the street without thinking much.
But the South London native opens his mouth and starts to sing with THAT voice. That pummeling Cockney croon makes no sense when it comes out of his slight body. That’s when you realize that you’re dealing with something special.
Phantogram @ Union Transfer.
Text and images by Grace Dickinson.
On tour in preface to their soon-to-be-released sophomore album, Phantogram sold out Union Transfer on Saturday.
“We’re not supposed to sing this one but fuck it,” said singer Sarah Barthel before moving into one of that album’s tracks, “Howl at the Moon.” “It’s about singing to the moon in the desert.”
Whether truly off limits to the public or not, the novelty felt real as the New York duo, along with two touring members, played through several yet-to-be-released songs. They also moved through older hits, like “Don’t Move” and “When I’m Small,” all set to the backdrop of a crazy electric light show.
Classically Trained But Now Rocking Out.
Text by Beth Ann Downey. Top image by Rachel Barrish. Middle image by Doug Seymour. Bottom image by Rick Kauffman.
Giuseppe DiCristino remembers being enthralled by Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons as a child.
“Especially the ‘Winter’ movement, a very famous movement because it’s really, really fast,” DiCristino recalls as he sits on the porch of The Barnes Foundation, where he is a member, before taking a late-night pass through the museum’s collection. “So, it was very cool to hear that as a child and be like ‘Woah, that’s amazing.’”
By the time he heard The Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, DiCristino knew he wanted to play a classical instrument. He picked up viola and starting taking free lessons at his “rough” middle school in South Philly, and went on to attend Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts as well as Temple Music Prep at Boyer College of Music and Dance.
“I really, really loved playing and I practiced every single day,” DiCristino says of growing up playing viola. “I didn’t have technique or anything because I didn’t have strict private lessons but I just had the passion.”
That passion led him to study music further at The Boston Conservatory, but while working catering jobs to support himself between sporadic gigs, DiCristino started fiddling around with piano, bass and Pro Tools. He began to branch off from the classical music he grew up on.
“I started to get really into listening to everything, listening to electronica, hearing the sounds and the tones that they create,” DiCristino says. “You can create the tonality with just gear instead of using your fingers.”
He gave the $20,000 borrowed viola back to his Boston teacher, permanently stripping away the instrument that had rested beneath his chin for more than a decade. Now he cites bands like Daft Punk and Boys Noize for the music he makes as part of Man Like Machine, the Philly-based electro-rock band DiCristino started with his brother Joshua Bright and drummer Wesley Paul. He and his brother also run their own label, Collapsible Empire, through rented studio space at Aurum Recording in Manayunk.
“I don’t need an orchestra, I have that with synthesizers, you know, and pedals,” DiCristino says of his foray into keyboard playing and songwriting.
Slayer, Gojira and 4arm @ Susquehanna Bank Center.
Text by Gabi Chepurny. Images by Jesse Marass.
Heavy metal, the color black and weekends are three things that should never be without each other, so it makes sense that thrash metal legends Slayer would headline a show at the Susquehanna Bank Center on Black Friday, with Gojira and Australian-born 4arm in support.
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