What to do on a Thursday (late edition)
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Thu, 11/03/10 – 17:04 | No Comment

So it looks like this might be your last chance to get out and enjoy the nice weather tonight until the rains come in. Tonight’s shows are loaded with up and coming artists. Catch these guys playing at these small venues while you still can. Cloud Nothings, one of my favorite new artists, is playing [...]

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Making Time gives back with Cold Cave
Wed, 16/12/09 – 12:40 | No Comment
Making Time gives back with Cold Cave

This Friday Dave P. and friends return to Voyuer (the newly redesigned and renamed Pure) for their monthly Making Time party. This month they bring dark synthpop locals Cold Cave along with all the usual resident djs. And as a little thank you to everyone who have supported Making Time over the past year, the [...]

Ghostland Observatory set to make you sweat tonight
Fri, 4/12/09 – 10:11 | Comments Off
Ghostland Observatory set to make you sweat tonight

Tonight Ghostland Observatory bring their incredible light show and electro-funk beats to the Trocadero. The Austin duo comprised of Aaron Behrens and Thomas Turner have been making their way around the country since late September, and with some interesting routing too. (In the span of three days they played LA, Chicago, and Anaheim, in that [...]

First glimpses of Time’s digital magazine
Thu, 3/12/09 – 12:06 | No Comment
First glimpses of Time’s digital magazine

It should come to no surprise that the print industry is still trying to find itself in the digital age. Many magazines have stopped issuing new physical copies and a number of newspapers have gone bankrupt. More and more readers are abandoning magazines and newspapers in favor of reading the content on the company’s websites. [...]

Live Nation, Apple team up to bring downloadable concerts to iTunes
Fri, 27/11/09 – 10:27 | No Comment
Live Nation, Apple team up to bring downloadable concerts to iTunes

Not too many positive things come to mind when thinking about Live Nation. Actually, I can’t really think of any. But that all changed Tuesday when Apple launched the “Live Nation presents” section in iTunes. Live Nation, the largest concert promotion company out there, puts on around some 22,000 concerts a year. In roughly 80 [...]

Yeah, the weather outside sucks today…
Tue, 24/11/09 – 12:08 | No Comment
Yeah, the weather outside sucks today…

Two great music videos to that will take you away from the cold, wet, dreary Philadelphia streets today.
Miami Horror - “Sometimes”

Sometimes from Miami Horror on Vimeo.
“Sometimes” is the first single off of Australia’s Miami Horror debut release, Illuminations. I first heard of these guys from their remix of Datarock’s “Fa Fa Fa” and have been [...]

Ryo Tomo
Wed, 18/11/09 – 10:13 | No Comment
Ryo Tomo

“I like to draw things”. A simple statement by a young, emerging artist who does much more than just “draw things”. Ryo Tomo is an artist that I discovered about a month or two ago. His illustrations are simple when you first look at them. But there’s a feeling of mystery, familiarity, and nostalgia that [...]

Hot Chip release tour dates + tracklist for new album
Mon, 16/11/09 – 13:05 | No Comment
Hot Chip release tour dates + tracklist for new album

Hot Chip gave us a first glance into their upcoming release last week. The band released the first song off of their upcoming  release One Life Stand. The track, entitled “Take It In” starts off with a verse that sounds a little darker than anything off of Made In The Dark, but then opens up [...]

The Motorola Droid - Verizon’s iPhone killer?
Tue, 20/10/09 – 11:42 | One Comment
The Motorola Droid - Verizon’s iPhone killer?

There’s about to be a new player in the smartphone world and it’s shaping up to be a superstar. Enter the Motorola Droid. The Droid is the first of two Android phones coming to the Verizon Network before the year’s end and it’s packing quite the punch. This phone has a very good chance of [...]

Armand Van Helden and A-Trak bring you…
Thu, 15/10/09 – 19:58 | No Comment
Armand Van Helden and A-Trak bring you…

Duck Sauce. Yes, Duck Sauce. In what might be one of the more not so great names, the duo bring you a new flavor of disco house. Their debut EP, entitled Greatest Hits, is dropping later this month. They’ve released the second video for their single, “aNYway” in as many weeks. This one comes courtesy [...]

Holy Ghost! and Mattie Safer at Snacks this month
Sat, 10/10/09 – 13:12 | No Comment
Holy Ghost! and Mattie Safer at Snacks this month

This month the people who bring you Making Time bring special guests Holy Ghost! and Mattie Safer, formly of the The Rapture, to their bimonthly parties, Snacks, at Woody’s (202 S 13th). Brooklyn’s Holy Ghost! will be making their way to Snacks this Tuesday, 10/13. Holy Ghost! are currently signed to James Murphy’s DFA Records [...]