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DeLeon and Girls In Trouble took over the Apache Cafe for the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival. Footage of the ruckus filmed by me, Patrick A. (Aleph) from the dark art-punk outfit Can!!Can.

Less talk, more rock. Watch these!

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Girls in Trouble are gearing up for their “June Gemini Tour,” on which they will be playing everywhere from living rooms, to clubs, to arts & crafts stores and beyond. If they are stopping in your town or city, be sure to check them out, you won’t be disappointed.

And if you have yet to grab their self titled release, do it now from Amazon, iTunes or from the JDub Webstore.

AOL Spinner had this to say about the record,  “Quiet but often energetic, the quintet plays a sort of old-timey punk rock, complete with circus organ and upright bass.”

6/4 Columbia, SC: (House Show) @ the home of Nathan Poole 1617 Heyward St., Columbia, SC
6/5 Atlanta, GA : Atlanta Jewish Music Festival @ Apache Cafe
6/6 Chattanooga, TN: Daytime craft store show @ Leo’s Handmade
6/6 Chattanooga, TN: Nightime club show @ JJ’s Bohemia
6/8 Knoxville, TN: @ The Pilot Light
6/9 Asheville, NC: @ Bobo Gallery w/ Pilgrim and Shane Perlowin
6/10 Durham, NC: House Show - DIY Craft Fair and Zine Swap (406 Queen St., Durham)
6/12 Washington, DC @ DC Jewish Music Festival w/ Golem
6/13 Baltimore, MD @ Wind Up Space w/ Garland of Hours

The folks over at Toronto’s National Post were kind enough to invite Alicia from Girls in Trouble into their studio when the band was there on tour a couple weeks ago.  Luckily for us, they’ve just released the video!  You can catch that whole post, along with a podcast, HERE.

Girls in Trouble, led by the wonderful and talented Alicia Jo Rabins has been dubbed “Hauntingly Lovely” by LA Weekly, and thanks to some help from Tablet Magazine they might be coming to a  town near you.

Girls in Trouble Spring Tour 2010
3/28 Pittsburgh PA @ Garfield Artworks (w. the Extraordinaires)
3/30 Youngstown OH @ Lemon Grove Cafe
3/31 Columbus OH @ Rad Dog, (w. Bird and Flower, Black Love)
4/1  Bloomington IN @ The Bishop (w. Early Day Miners, Mako Sica)
4/2 St. Louis MO @ Moishe House
4/3 Chicago IL (w. Judgment Day) @ Ronny’s Bar
4/4 Evanstown IL @ BooCoo Cultural Center (w. Naomi Less, Stereo Sinai) TIX
4/6  Detroit MI @ Cafe 1923 (w. poets Matthew Olzmann, Vievee Francis)
4/7 Toronto ON @ The Boat (w. THOMAS and Cigarettes)
4/8  Rochester NY @ The Bug Jar
4/17 Hudson NY @ Spotty Dog Books & Ale
4/25 NYC @ Cake Shop (w. Cars and Trains, Eric Lindley)

PopMatters is running a great Girls in Trouble review!  You can read that HERE.  Full text below the cut.

“Girls in Trouble’s simple, folk instrumentation is ripe with influences from around the world, including Jewish and even Venetian-sounding tapestries of sonic bliss.”

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Girls in Trouble’s Alicia Jo Rabins is once again over on lit-minded blog Largehearted Boy, this time in conversation with author Sana Krasikov (One More Year).  You can find that HERE, though I have included full-text below the cut.  Enjoy!

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Well, we’re back from vacation, and it’s time to catch you all up on what you might have missed over the break.  Here ya’ go:

• The Faster Times included The Sway Machinery and Girls in Trouble in their Best of 2009 Music list.

• The Boston Survival Guide chose Girls in Trouble to include in their 2009 Band Roundup.

• Made Up Disease (MUD) posted a really nice and very thorough ode to JDub, including a whole bunch of our artists, like The Macaroons and Balkan Beat Box.

• Music magazine Blurt included Alicia of Girls in Trouble in their The Artists Have Spoken: Best of 2009 feature.

• JTA’s The Fundermentalist shed a little light on the recent Jdub/Nextbook partnership.

• The Forward listed Soulico and The Sway Machinery as picks on their 2009 Forward Fives list.

• The University of Oregon’s Oregon Voice had a great writeup on Soulico’s Exotic on the Speaker.

• DJ Anjali listed Soulico’s Exotic on the Speaker as part of his Top 5 of 2009 in the Portland Mercury.

• Digital City has a fantastic interview with Dave Schneider of The Macaroons — conducted by Corn Mo’!

• The Sway Machinery is one of LimeWire’s Best of 2009 Staff Picks!

• Jeremiah Lockwood, of The Sway Machinery, published an op-ed in The Forward about the band’s trip to Mali.

• Contrarian Media picked Golem’s Fresh Off Boat as a Best of the Waughts disc.

• Our friends over at Tablet Mag talk up The Macaroons in a podcast dedicated to the best family-friendly music of 2009.

• New York Times‘ Urban Eye listed Jewltide as one of their Christmas Eve picks.

Last but not least, I’ve posted more photos from Jewltide 7 under the cut!  All credit goes to Dan Sieradski.

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The Hanukkah videos continue this week with a rendition of ”Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah” by Girls In Trouble.

Girls In Trouble’s debut CD is available in the JDub store.

Yesterday, JDub, The Sway Machinery and Girls in Trouble all got some great mentions in The New York Times’ T Magazine blog.  You can check that entire article, “Not Your Bubby’s Hanukkah Music”, out HERE.  Full text is also included after the jump.

“Alicia Jo Rabins’s tender version of the “other” dreidel song “Sivivon Sov Sov Sov” should be a Hanukkah standard. Her plucked violin and gorgeous voice could be a Jewish “Silent Night.” “The great thing is that even Hanukkah songs are in minor keys,” says Rabins, “which makes it easy to cover them with a creepy twist.” Rabins also plays in the great klezmer punk band Golem and has her own project, Girls in Trouble, which chronicles women in the Old Testament.”

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Girls in Trouble is included in Urban Outfitter’s Best of 2009 series.  You can check that out HERE!