May 2- 8, 2002

music

icepack

by A.D. Amorosi

A column’s like a closet: never enough space to get all you want in it. Some junk’s cluttering up my Icechest. So.… Gotta see

, Leslie Goldman (Carbon 14) and freelance writer doll Alex Richmond’s very cool, ribald life/music/sex/advice site. Not dirty -- just naughty. Get with that. Then there’s King Honey’s single “Monday Night at Fluid” (about DJ Cosmo), starring M.F. Doom and Kurious that’ll appear too on Sound-Ink’s comp Colapsus. Nothing naughty -- just dirty. Then, if you’re curious about what your fave hip-soul-hop locals are up to for summer: Kindred has a date for Surrender to Love (July 30), Floetry’s hooked up Floetic (Aug. 13), ?uestlove’s BBE remix CD Babies Making Babies is due in July. If creation’s about getting close to God for Clutch Cargo’s percussive-third George Manney, the eerie electro-Bacharachanalia of Wide Open (with Rocco Notte and Su Teears) is its own book of the Bible. It’s that good. If we’re talking babies and gods, there’s Float Away With the Friday Night Gods (Artemis), Marah’s Wales-recorded, new no-No Depression CD, that, despite rumored Philly-dissing, doesn’t travel far from M-trademark rock. Just a lil’ Oasis/T. Rex pop-crunch. The record’s not due till July, but two key tracks, “Float Away” and “Soul” (the best tune), hit triple-A radio (especially WXPN) way big with a coterie of fan -- not friends nor relatives -- phone-ins. (How do the phone-ops know? Training?!?) This should give WXPN’s Bruce Warren -- Billboard mag’s 2002 triple-A program/operations director of the year -- reason to smile. In unofficial consultant/scout/cheerleading capacities for Warner and DreamWorks for the last many years, Warren generously made Marah-signing a concern; hawking them when WB thought Marah was lazy (too few songs?), hosting dinners for DreamWorks execs, all to no avail. A hit-hip-hurrah for Marah could be Warren’s “I told you so” to big labels. Congrats.… Jeff and Thom (Magnetique), Dave P (Making Time) and Jugo host Mask & Wig’s official Belle & Sebastian after-party with B&S’s Chris Geddes spinning nice and slow May 3.… Though Jamaican Dave’s got hands in a dozen reggae hot pots, sadly his Caribbean Rhythm party at 8th Street ceased.… Despite springing a handsome Anjou on Old City with no warning (I knew, but…), they got a plan: Brandon Olkus spins rock on Fridays; DJ Lucas hits it house-wise on Saturdays.… Ex-Helena’s guy Larry Giglio opened an 1102 Frankford Ave. bo&#8206te, The Handle Bar, last week with a nightlong block party.… Mr. Liberty Music, Scott Bicksler is booking wackrock into Ulana’s Fridays, starting May 3 with Pepper’s Ghost/Capitol Years and May 10’s LaGuardia and Tela, with acoustic sets in the bar before the big show.… We love Philly’s Lynn Grossman (manager) and singer/dancer/harmonium playa Donna De Lory. You may not know Donna from Madonna, but she’s got a bunch of solo stuff that knocks the bush off Kate Bush. She’s writing with Eric Bazilian, and both will show at the Point on May 2. Bazilian is producing aggro-chamber art-poppers The Rosenbergs, who’ll play The Fire on May 3 and 4.… After hooking Synergy Fridays with former Gatecrasher resident Joshua Ryan, Transit welcomes DJ Michael Myers to its already Mike Kling-clung bosom.… Talking synergy, Philly’s Andy Hurwitz, owner of Ropeadope Records, heads home for the clothing branch of his NYC label. “With me being a Philly homie residing in NYC, I’m always looking to keep my roots rooted,” says AH, who has his pal David (a.k.a. Words) operating out of Media Bureau’s Spring Garden digs with newly configured tenants Big Rich Medina and King Britt. (The latter finished curating the label’s Philadelphia Experiment remix CD for August.) “This showroom/office equals synergy; parties/experiments where Ropeadope provided gear and music, King and Rich spin, and Media Bureau broadcasts it to the world.” Hurwitz also signed Vikter Duplaix pals Jazzanova (In Between due) and Roots soloist Scratch’s CD is out in June.… Where does Robert Goulet hang after some enchanted evening of South Pacific? Avenue B.… Where’m I at? A.D. spins his Vegas-happening happy hour at 32° May 3. G’head and ask me to spin Dino, I dare you.… Yum: Robin Parry’s Nostradamus starts Sunday dusk jazz dinners, May 5, with Father John D’Amico and Jim Dofton.… Let’s Get Butt Naked ’n’ Fuck DJ Low Budget is having a “Meeting in the Ladies Room” with a boogie-party mix CD. Want it? E-mail lowbudget@hotmail.com.… KatManDu kicks it alt-rock every Wednesday as ex-Flip Like Wilson guitarist Zack Harting books crunchers Gypsy Sullivan, Chelsea in Orbit and Love Syndicate.… Local-casted commercials with directors Spike Lee (Sprite) and Tony Kaye (Verizon) celebrate Philly Casting Co.’s ninth anniversary and a new move to 114 Chestnut.… Sad stuff: respect to just-passed nationals who had Philly ties. Like beloved jazzman Weldon Irving, whose stuff’s been sampled tons by the likes of A Tribe Called Quest and Philly’s Rich Medina; to TLC’s Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, who did some growing up in Philly and just recently worked with producers Andre & Vidal; and to Linda Lovelace, who spent time here (at the Locust Street Theater) with her Moe Septee-produced theatricale Pajama Tops. Y’all are missed.

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