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April 12, 2013 | 10:48 AM | By

Tonight’s Concert Picks: Autre Ne Veut at Voyeur for Making Time, Divers at The Fire, Janelle Monae at Penn’s Spring Fling, David Bromberg Quartet at Landis Theater, Netherfriends at Church of the Advocate

ANVAutre Ne Veut headlines tonight’s Making Time event at Voyeur Nightclub.  Based in Brooklyn, Autre Ne Veut is the electronic R&B / pop project of former jingle composer Arthur Ashin.  Anxiety, released in February, is Ashin’s second effort under the moniker, which means “I think of none other” in French.  Also performing at tonight’s party are Delorean, Jacques Greene and Doldrums.  Tickets and information can be found here. Below, watch Autre Ne Veut’s video for “Counting.”

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FILED UNDER: Artists, Concert Previews, Events, Autre Ne Veut, Brad Hinton, Church of the Advocate, David Bromberg Quartet, Delorean, Divers, Doldrums, Drunken Sufis, Girl Talk, Jacques Greene, Janelle Monae, Landis Theater, Making Time, MOSS, Netherfriends, Paper Castles, Penn Spring Fling, Rasputin's Secret Police, The Fire, Todd Henkin, tyga, Voyeur
September 26, 2011 | 4:00 PM | By

Photo Recap: Popped! Music Festival featuring The Shins, Cage The Elephant, Panda Bear, Pretty Lights, Girl Talk, + more

All photos courtesy of Kevin Kennedy over at The Swollen Fox. From The Swollen Fox’s review of Popped! Music Festival, Day One:

Even before a single band had hit the stage, this year’s Popped! Music Festival was not off to a good start. Just a few days before the festival, organizers had to make the gut-wrenching decision to move the festival indoors due to the forecasted weather. No one can blame them for the move; they can’t control the weather and it’s certainly not their fault FDR Park wouldn’t be able to survive both the rain and thousands of people pounding its grounds. Nevertheless, no one seemed to be all that happy about the unfortunate move.

For the full review of the entire festival (including a ton of additional photos of each performing act), as well as a comprehensive calendar of upcoming shows in Philadelphia, visit The Swollen Fox. (Thanks to Kevin for sharing his photos with us.)

FILED UNDER: Concert Photos + Videos, Events, Aun Airway, Cults, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Dead Confederate, Girl Talk, Kreayshawn, Miniature Tigers, Panda Bear, Popped! Music Festival, Pretty Lights, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The Shins, The Swollen Fox, Titus Andronicus
June 20, 2011 | 10:00 AM | By

Just Announced: The complete Popped! Music Festival lineup


The Popped! Music Festival lineup has been officially announced. The festival is September 23–24 at FDR Park (AKA “The Lakes”).

Friday, September 23rd
The Shins
Cage The Elephant
Elbow
Panda Bear
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
Company of Thieves

Saturday, September 24th
Pretty Lights
Girl Talk
Foster The People
Cults
Charles Bradley
The Vaccines
The Budos Band
Mates Of State
Black Landlord
Rakim
Black Thought & J. Period Mixtape
Kreayshawn
Zee Avi
Patty Crash

A limited number of Early Bird two-day passes ($90) and Early Bird two-day VIP passes ($175) are on sale now through Thursday, June 23rd, at 10 p.m. Use the code: POPPED (for two-day passes) and code: VIPPOPPED (for two-day VIP passes) at the Popped! wesbite or at Ticketmaster. VIP passes include a special viewing area near the stage, a separate entrance, bar/food/restroom areas. Regular price two-day passes ($110) and two-day VIP passes ($200) go on sale this Friday, June 24th, at 10 a.m. at the Popped! website and Ticketmaster. Charge by phone at 800-745-8000, or the Electric Factory Box Office located at 421 N. 7th Street. (No service fees for cash purchases!)

FILED UNDER: Artists, Events, News, Black Landlord, Black Thought, Charles Bradley, Company of Thieves, Cults, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., elbow, Foster The People, Girl Talk, J. Period, Mates of State, Panda Bear, Popped! Music Festival, The Budos Band, The Pains of Being, The Shins
June 17, 2011 | 10:38 AM | By

Popped! Music Festival to pop with Shins, Girl Talk, Hold Steady, Cults on September 23rd and 24th

According to Pitchfork, the Shins, Panda Bear, Girl Talk, the Hold Steady, Cults, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Rakim are just some of the bands that are playing at the Popped! Music Festival on September 23rd and 24th here in Philly at FDR Park. No official word yet from the Popped! camp on this, however.

FILED UNDER: Artists, Events, News, Cults, Girl Talk, Panda Bear, Shins, The Hold Steady
February 12, 2011 | 4:53 PM | By

Watch the entire set up, soundcheck, performance and break down of Girl Talk’s Philly show in three minutes and eight seconds

Did you miss the Girl Talk show in Philly a couple weeks ago (February 4th)? If you did (or even if you didn’t) you can watch the entire show from the Electric Factory in 3 minutes and eight seconds. The video below is a time lapse from 10:30am until 12:30am; how long it took to set up, sound check, perform, and break down the concert. Party on.

FILED UNDER: Artists, Events, Electric Factory, Girl Talk
February 4, 2011 | 2:22 PM | By

This Weekend’s Concert Picks: Girl Talk, Gang Of Four, Tapes ‘N Tapes, When I Was 12, Folkadelphia

Girl Talk

Photo by Christos Schizas

Girl Talk performs 2/4 at Electric Factory.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4
Girl Talk + Penguin Prison at Electric Factory (8:30 p.m., SOLD OUT); Sun Airway + Celebration, Golden Ages, CSLSX, Savages at The Ox (7:30 p.m., $10); Langhorne Slim + Bobby Bare Jr., Frontier Ruckus at Johnny Brenda’s (9 p.m., 21+, SOLD OUT)

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Gang Of Four + Hollerado, Moon Women, DJ Robert Drake at Theatre Of The Living Arts (8:30 p.m.); Tapes ‘N Tapes + Oberhofer, Xylos at Johnny Brenda’s (9 p.m., 21+, SOLD OUT); When I Was 12 + The Great Unknown, Conversations With Enemies, Safe Travels at The Ox (7:30 p.m., $10)

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6
How could you possibly consider leaving the house for a night of live music when you can watch The Black-Eyed Peas perform on TV from the comfort of your own living room? The performance will occur during the Halftime Spectacular Bonanza of this year’s Football MegaMatch, which features two teams who aren’t the Philadelphia Eagles. (Really, that is all you need to know about the game.) However, if you’re not too busy Sunday afternoon waiting in line at the ACME to purchase the very last package of nacho chips (likely Baked Tostitos With A Hint Of Lime) in the greater Philadelphia area, we strongly urge you to consider going to the first Folkadelphia concert at Johnny Brenda’s, which features The Spinning Leaves and Hezekiah Jones. (You can read our interview with Folkadelphia organizer Fred Knittel here.) The Spinning Leaves perform with Hezekiah Jones at 1 p.m. at Johnny Brenda’s; tickets to the show are $7.

FILED UNDER: Concert Previews, Events, Electric Factory, Folkadelphia, Girl Talk, Hezekiah Jones, Johnny Brenda's, Sun Airway, Tapes 'N Tapes, The Ox, The Spinning Leaves, When I Was 12
November 5, 2010 | 2:23 PM | By

Snooze Alarm: Your late-arriving, revolution-girl-style-now link roundup, 11/5/10

Where Is My Mind?: Girls to the Front’s Sara Marcus “Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot GRRRL Revolution is a lyrical narrative chronicling the powerful, and often misconstrued, radical ‘90s feminist era of Riot Grrrl. Written by Brooklyn writer and former Philly resident and City Paper contributor, Sara Marcus, it’s an unyielding movement, as the book suggests, ‘of pissed-off girls with no patience for sexism and no intention of keeping quiet’…The Deli had a chance to chat with Marcus, who will read and discuss the book this Saturday for this month’s Sugar Town installment at Tritone, about Girls to the Front, what Riot Grrrl means as a scene and a movement and the future of feminism here.” (The Deli)

Being Frank With Guided By Voices “When we heard the news earlier this year that legendary Ohio indie-rock/power-pop band Guided by Voices—led by the prolific Robert Pollard (pictured above)—were reuniting its mid-’90s “classic lineup” and coming to Philadelphia for a sold-out show at the Troc tomorrow night, we knew we’d need to speak to Reuben Frank. You probably know Roob as one of Philly’s pre-eminent sports journalists, a longtime WIP host, and a columnist/TV personality for Comcast SportsNet. But he’s also a Guided by Voices superfan who’s seen about a million GBV/Pollard-related shows, owns hundreds of live GBV bootlegs (and regularly listens to them), and just might know more about GBV’s sprawling songbook than ol’ Pollard himself.” (Make Major Moves)

Girl Talk announces masssive 2011 tour (playing Electric Factory) “Girl Talk’s follow up to 2008?s massive success Feed the Animals is yet to be officially announced, but it is in the works. In the meantime, an absurdly large U.S. tour has been scheduled, beginning in early January and not coming to an end until late March. The tour will hit pretty much every city you can think of, including Philly on February 4th at the Electric Factory. Ticket info for that show and most others is forthcoming.” (The Swollen Fox)

FILED UNDER: Events, News, Girl Talk, Girls To The Front, Guided By Voices, Robert Pollard, Sara Marcus