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Time to Get Rad! Making Time with LITTLE BOOTS, Beach Fossils, Tiger & Woods @ Voyeur on May 4th, 2013

Exciting to hear that U.K.'s Little Boots has a new album dropping this month (Nocturnes) and that she will headline Voyeur tomorrow night at Making Time!  Double your pleasure by catching what will also surely be fantastic performances from Beach Fossils (always so fun to see live) along with openers Tiger & Woods.  It's a pre-Cinco de Mayo show, but we know that you'll all be celebrating like it's Cinco de '85, crushing those dance moves and waving at the DJ to play that song you love (and if we're being honest probably crying that you regret it in the morning but then loving it again in the afternoon)!  

The Philly stop on Little Boots tour will pre-empt her brand new album Nocturnes which is set to be released May 7th, 2013 on Victoria Hesketh's [a.k.a. Little Boots] very own independent label imprint On Repeat Records.

"The album was produced by DFA Records co-founder Tim Goldsworthy, with other key contributions from Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford and Hercules and Love Affair's Andy Butler. Nocturnes is a powerful record of irresistible hooks and stunning songwriting that celebrates 90s house, seventies disco and futuristic electronics while maintaining the magic of classic pop."

More on Little Boots latest album, and choosing to release it independently, below:

"Hesketh says that her Little Boots debut on On Repeat Records will be helped by external funding, marketing, and distribution assistance from Kobalt Label Services and Little Boots' management team at This Is Music Ltd.

"I remember what Robyn did," says Hesketh. "(She) left her label, set up her own one, and it worked out pretty well for her… in the U.K., it doesn't feel like there's a credible pop label, an interesting pop label outside the mainstream." The singer is also open to releasing other artists' albums through On Repeat, which is currently setting up a proper website so demos can be submitted." - (Billboard.com, Chris Payne, 3/8/2013)

There's a contest happening over at the Making Time Facebook page if you haven't already picked up your tickets: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Making-Time-is-Rad and Little Boots also recently released a brand remix to highlight "Broken Record" from the new album (we've included it below).  It must be true that all great events always happen on weekends further into late spring....making these longer days feel as though the nights will never end; and this is about to be one of those!  

Little Boots - band site / facebook

The Sky Drops - Let It Sound (new song)

"Every single second / I need another weapon / to keep it from coming down", Delaware's The Sky Drops have been crafting and recording new material in their spare time to follow up on their previous album full-length, "Bourgeois Beat" (2009) and "Making Mountains" EP, released in 2011. "Let It Sound" is a great song intensely framed by drummer Monika's strong beats and Rob's guitar work which twists from a high level growl to a low scream that churns into a fever pace with the duo's trademark harmonised vocal echo answers.  A great first teaser for the band who have said they may be releasing more tracks in the months to come.  Make sure you check out the duo's previous albums and singles for purchase at their bandcamp page, and hopefully further into the summer and early fall there will be more song news and material to to relay to those (including us) who are always hungry for more from this talented duo!

The Sky Drops - band site / facebook

Just In: Ladyfest Philly announces lineup for June 7-9, 2013 fest benefiting Project SAFE and Women In Transition

June 7-9, 2013 | The Rotunda, Locust Moon,
and AIRSpace Gallery

All Proceeds Benefit: 
Project SAFE and Women in Transition

BANDS:

US Girls (Toronto)
Screaming Females (New Brunswick)
Potty Mouth (Western Mass)
Parasol (Boston)
Void Vision
Aye Nako (New York)
In School (New York)
Priests (D.C.)
Peeple Watchin’ (Boston)
Black Wine (New Jersey)
Shady Hawkins (New York)
Whore Paint (Providence)
Attia Taylor (New York)
3Jane (New Brunswick)
+HIRS+
Trophy Wife
Blizzard Babies (Chicago)
Big Mouth (Baltimore)
Batty
Amanda X
Ghost Ship (Rosali Middleman and Mary Lattimore)
Kate Ferencz
Mindtroll (New York)

WORKSHOPS:

Amps, Pedals and PAs: Demystifying Electronics with Girls Rock Philly
The Stop Motion Stomp Station
Drumline with Girls Rock Philly
Urban Gardening at Plotland
Feminist Organizing Workshop with For the Birds
Sexual Communication and Consent with Dr. Justine Marie Shuey (Juicy Justine)
Drawing Autobio Comics with Liz Prince and Ramsey Beyer
Abortion, Menstrual Extraction, and the MVA
Self Defense: From Eye Contact to Eye Poking
Readings by Liz Prince, Suzy X, Annie Mok, Kerri Radley, Katie Haegele and Jes Skolnik
Queer and Trans Yoga with shay and Qui
Fix-A-Flat with the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia
Herbal Infusions and Tinctures
Victim-Blaming in the Media: What It Is & What You Can Do About It with Tara Murtha
Project SAFE: What’s It All About?
Youth, Activism and the Arts
Radical Printmaking: Pulling the Personal and the Political with Leah Girardo

Ladyfest Philly - web site / facebook

Toy Soldiers Documentary "The Maybe Trails" will debut April 19th @ Johnny Brenda's + tonight @ WCL see Ron Gallo w/ Joel Plaskett

Don't forget: tonight's show with Joel Plaskett has Ron Gallo of Toy Soldiers supporting. Joel Plaskett Emergency's current album, "Scrappy Happiness", was completed during a ten week process (one song per week in the studio).  This is Joel's eighth album, and follows his recent solo triple LP album, "Three".  Plaskett is one of many of Halifax's hardest working musicians and if you've never experienced his music live, tonight should be your night.  All we can say is that hopefully Plaskett will be playing a bit of everything: and for those that know his music well--that's quite a lot!  Check out the winning contest video entry for album track, "Tough Love":

Tuesday, March 19 - Joel Plaskett w/ Ron Gallo
World Cafe Live, Philadelphia PA
Show: 8:00 PM / Tickets: $9.00
Tickets

Friday, April 19 - The Toy Soldiers w/ Holy Ghost Tent Revival
*The Maybe Trails documentary debut*
Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia PA
Show:  8:00 PM / Tickets: $10.00
Tickets 

Joel Plaskett - band site
Toy Soldiers - band site

WFMU: Pledge Drive co-hosted by Yo La Tengo (live from Berlin) 2013 (Thursday 9 AM EDT for YLT)

There they go; proving that they are just one of the nicest groups around.  It's pledge time on WFMU, and Yo La Tengo are making a special plea to their fans, live from Berlin, that is; all the way from their European tour!  Take a second to read Ira's message (below) to fans concerning the station's yearly pledge drive; and make sure that you tune in to hear Ira (and pledge) when he co-hosts with regulars Faye and Gaylord of the station's Hello Children program at 9 a.m. (EDT) this Thursday, March 14th, 2013.

"Hi everybody,

  Do you like stories?  If not skip to the part after the line break.

  The year was 1996.  Georgia, James, and I--accompanied by our young ward, Bruce Bennett--travel to East Orange, NJ, and in return for pledges to WFMU attempt, emphasis attempt, to play your requests.  Did it go well?  Historians and grammarians have worked round the clock ever since, trying in vain to answer that question.  Meanwhile, Yo La Tengo have participated in every WFMU marathon--one year a cancelled flight stranded Bruce in Austin; another year a brutal case of the flu put Georgia on the DL.

  Cut to: present day.  Station Manager Ken Freedman inexplicably does not consult with us about our touring schedule, and consequently the 2013 WFMU Marathon is taking place in its entirety while we are touring Europe.  Unless, in fact, Ken did this explicitly to keep us from our annual appearance.  In which case, the joke's on him (not to mention the WFMU listener).

  Ladies and gentlemen, live from Berlin, Yo La Tengo and cub reporter Bruce Bennett will be taking your requests in return for your generous pledge to the Only Radio Station that Matters. Thursday at 9 a.m. EDT (or thereabouts), we will occupy the Hello Children program with your host Faye and your co-host Gaylord Fields.  Go to https://www.wfmu.org/marathon/pledge.php?pr=HC  right now and make your pledge and make your request.  Fear not, your requests will remain hermetically sealed until airtime.   Fulsome apologies in advance, and thank you for supporting WFMU!

Ira"

We'll leave you with one of our favorite tracks from their new album "Fade", with a video for "Before We Run".  We hope you'll take a few secs to make a small pledge to support independent radio!

Yo La Tengo - band site / matador