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‘Parks and Recreation’ cast reuniting for charity special(0)

April 24, 2020

The gang from Pawnee, Indiana is getting back together for a special to benefit Feeding America’s Covid-19 response on April 30 at 8:30 p.m. The cast of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation are reuniting over the internet to present a new story from the Pawnee universe and raise money for charity. The story is […]

Support local business like our friends at Carnival of Collectibles

If you ever attended an event or show we used to do for Tangzine back in the days when we did that sort of thing, the first person you met was probably my friend Loreli. For the past six years, Loreli and her husband Ed have been running an antique and collectible store in Sicklerville. […]

Pizza Groundhog is the content we need right now

Things are rough right now with the pandemic and the sheer nuttiness I can’t seem to stay away from online, but fortunately a groundhog in Philadelphia is here to remind us why we used to like the internet. I find this video of this groundhog chowing down on a piece a pizza goes well with […]

Introducing the Rock n’ Roll Elementary School Podcast

It’s been a very long time since I wrote anything of substance about music or did more than obsess over my playlists in Apple Music but I’m happy to report that the passion and energy for music and content creation has been picked up by a new generation. My nephew has been taking advantage of […]

The Julies ‘Lovelife’ Gets Vinyl Release

Of all the ways I discovered bands in the mid-’90s when I started doing my own fanzine called TANG, The Julies were maybe one of the strangest. My brother came home from school one day saying he met a guy at our school who played bass in a band called The Julies and that they […]

Danielson and Steve Taylor collaboration due out in February

Dan Smith and Steve Taylor have a one-time collaboration called Steve Taylor & the Danielson Foil due out in February.

Damien Jurado debuts new single

Damien Jurado has a new 17-song record, Visions Of Us On the Land, due out on March 18.

Joey Spiotto has more fake kids book covers we wish were real

Artist Joey Spiotto has another exhibit of kids book covers modeled after Little Golden Books that are unfortunately not real – who wouldn’t want to read a book about Andrew WK or Spinal Tap to their kid? – but are still pretty awesome.