ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Asher, Diplo, The Geator, the Witch and some Gods and Queens who could use your help

Care to celebrate the maximum sentence given to Conrad Murray for killing Michael Jackson? Buy the straight-outta-Philly Mad Decent label Moombahton Remixes EP complete with a new "Thriller" remix courtesy DJ Sabo as well a few fresh mixes on Jay-Z & Kanye West, Dev and Adele. The boss of Mad Decent, Wes "Diplo" Pentz isn't just letting his crew have all the fun. Dip and Dutch producer Oliver Twizt dropped a new digital EP GO with plenty of remixes from the likes of Swarms and PeaceTreaty. Here.

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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Asher, Diplo, The Geator, the Witch and some Gods and Queens who could use your help

POSTED: Thursday, December 1, 2011, 1:00 PM

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Care to celebrate the maximum sentence given to Conrad Murray for killing Michael Jackson? Buy the straight-outta-Philly Mad Decent label Moombahton Remixes EP complete with a new “Thriller” remix courtesy DJ Sabo as well a few fresh mixes on Jay-Z & Kanye West, Dev and Adele. The boss of Mad Decent, Wes “Diplo” Pentz isn’t just letting his crew have all the fun. Dip and Dutch producer Oliver Twizt dropped a new digital EP GO with plenty of remixes from the likes of Swarms and PeaceTreaty. Here.

Did you know that National Mechanics has been around for five years? Did you send co-owner/manager Paul Brown a card? I stopped in at its anniversary celebration — so packed I couldn’t hardly make my way to fake fire place. Kisses.

By now you know that Jerry Blavat’s autobiography You Only Rock Once has gone into its second pressing. Help the Geator sell even more copies of his book when he shows up at Black Tie Formal Wear (11th and Walnut) on Tue., Dec. 6, mere doors from the Forrest Theatre, where Jersey Boys (about the life of his bud Frankie Valli, the original Jersey Boy) opens that night. No doubt the new faux Four Seasons crew, led by Philly-area native Brandon Andrus (“Nick Massi”) will stop and see the Geator before their 8 p.m. show start.

R5 Productions needs your help. Not with selling tix to Dec. 3’s Spinto Band gig (congrats to them for releasing the soundtrack to Biba Democracy this week with a new band CD, Shy Pursuit, to follow early 2012). R5 staffers Jamie Getz and Jeff Ziga in their guise of punk rockers Gods and Queens were minding their own business, driving through a self-booked tour of Eastern Europe, when the band’s van got into an accident between Graz, Austria and Dresden, Germany. Getz was cut up badly while Ziga suffered the worst of it with a broken collarbone. “So here it is, 3 grown adult males in our 30s who play in a punk band,” writes Getz in a note to R5 subscribers. “We are all stage hands at R5 Productions in Philly. That´s what we do to enable us to be here in Europe doing this. Never in our lives have we needed help like we do now. If you want to help us, please go to godsandqueens.bandcamp.com and purchase a record for $1.99. If you ever laughed at one of my awful jokes, or spend hours talking with us after a show, and you would like to help, please do. I always thought our band would have too much pride to ask for help, but I am pretty sure we all agree that this time we need it. If you would like to help in any form please do. jamiegetz@gmail.com is the paypal address if you are inclined to do so.” Please do so.

The Witch on E. Moyamensing and Reed in my neighboring Pennsport used to have a scary good brunch and a hell-of-a Tuesday night dinner special. That is until earlier this year when it shuttered. Boo. Now there’s a liquor application that points to the peeps from S. 15th Street’s Good Dog, an ale-ry with a chef (Jessica O’Donnell) who does wonders with lamb dishes and Po’Boys. Stay tuned.

Philly tenor sax legend Benny Golson, 82 years young, get a tribute at the Kimmel this weekend, on the hard bop tip, Dec 3 with Philly’s own Robin Eubanks amongst the players.

Caught up with my old friend Michele Seidman last week at N. Third Street’s Jonathan Adler housewear boutique where she was hosting a holiday-themed event. The lovely Mrs. Seidman has, throughout her time in Philly, done everything from swank event promotions, designed her own tony line of pregnancy wear and children’s finery and hosted local foodie television programs. Now, though she’s set for her greatest adventure as interior event design consultant. Can’t say much yet about what her next probable design gig is, but its large and focused in the downtown area.

Draya Michele, a native of Eastern Pennsylvania, the toast of VH-1’s Basketball Wives LA and a Chris Brown paramour (duck, Draya) will appear at G Lounge on Dec. 4, hosting a birthday party for besieged Eagles brat DeSean Jackson.

The end of February 2012 is going to be a good and busy month for new local hip-hop. Suburban stoner MC Asher Roth’s sophomore CD comes out then on Def Jam, his new label. Yay that. Check out his Pabst & Jazz Sessions with The Cool Kids’ Chuck Inglish, and Blended Babies at iTunes Dec. 20 with Asher’s proceeds going to The Philadelphia Hunger Coalition.

Meanwhile the inner city collegiates of Chiddy Bang finally drop their hotly anticipated EMI label joint Breakfast on Feb. 28. Yum.

Rittenhouse Tavern is the not-so-glorious name of the restaubar opening inside the glorious Art Alliance Building at Rittenhouse Square. We miss you Bryan Marton and Opus 251. No matter. Chef Ed Brown will surely bring something to the Square between January and February 2012.

The multi-ethnic percussive jazz ensemble Sonic Liberation Front and its new new new tiny offshoot, Sonic Sphere, will open for the Fulminate Trio Dec. 3 at Highwire Gallery in the greater NoLibs.

City Council’s committee on Licenses and Inspections just approved a bill on Tuesday — introduced earlier in 2011 by Councilman Bill Greenlee, up for a vote before year’s end — that will require bouncers at clubs and messy bars to undergo training and register with the city. Be extra nice to your bouncers. They’re gonna be extra-stressed until they know what end is up with this bill.

World Cafe host David Dye and WXPN have a new series, Sense of Place — a quarterly segment on Dye’s weekday program — that offers what they’re calling an “interactive digital experience” on XPN’s website with maps and videos of crucial music and cultural locations http://xpn.org/sense-of-place wherever the series travels as seen through the eyes and voice of its areas’ finest musicians — or at least the ones that sat still for Dye. The first installment is Dublin, Ireland and contains chats with Swell Season’s Glen Hansard and Villagers’ Conor O’Brien. Next stop: N’Orleans and Portland, Oregon.

Philadelphia’s queen of the pin-up, Celeste Giuliano brings her Pin-Up Peep Show to the Balcony at the Troc on Dec. 4. Very appropriate setting, that. Giuliano is a smashing photographer and her event is meant to present and celebrate her very own edition of Retro Lovely magazine and her 88 pages of her classic pin-up photography. Some of her photographic subjects from The Hellcats, Little Darling of Pin-ups for Pitbulls and the infamous Miss Mae will be there along with Dr. Sketchy Philadelphia’s slate of artists and every burlesque queen’s drink of choice Sailor Jerry’s rum.

WHOWHATWHERE: Jerry Jerry Jerry. I know we mentioned the Geator earlier but Blavat was part of a group of local comics hanging with Philly-raised Dom Irrera, Big Daddy Graham, Joe Conklin, John Kensil, the Legendary Wid and Barney Weiss (the pop of Billy and Michael Weiss of Woody’s/Voyeur fame) at Chickie’s & Pete’s on Packer Ave on the night before Thanksgiving. The Mayor missed the event (probably gearing up for the great Occupy Philly purge of Dilworth Plaza) but Marita Osborne (from The Wanamaker Building), Deidre Hardister (VP of Behringer Harvard) and Stephen J. Gleason (wxecutive vice president of Amerimar Enterprises) were on hand to give Paul Levy, president and CEO of Center City District the Wanamaker Building Award for Civic Leadership at the Crystal Tea Room’s 100th anniversary celebration. Right before their little brother came in second during ABC’s Dancing with The Stars, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian showed up at a book signing for Dollhouse at Bookends in Ridgewood, NJ. Mary J. Blige held her CD release jam for her new album, My Life II… The Journey Continues Act I at the Pool at Harrahs in Atlantic City. The Soup Nazi (Larry Thomas) stopped by Darrell OConnor’s Doc’s Gourmet Cafe & Soup Bar in Port Fishington just to yell at the broth boite’s loyal followers. Ex-Phillies baller Pete Rose hung at Dave & Busters last week where he regaled the assembled with funny stories about Joe DiMaggio (he called Joltin’ Joe a big prick with a body attached to it) and humorous disses for our photog Scott Weiner. Lastly, at last weekend’s SPCA dog runway fashion show at Loew’s Hotel on Market Street, not only did I run into some of the well dressed pooches in all their sartorial splendor, I had a rare sighting of one of this city’s most renowned event lighting designers, David Buckley, one of my oldest and dearest friends who I hadn’t seen in a dog’s age. Woof.

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