Hollis Brown fans were unexpectedly greeted by a large line wrapped around Brooklyn Bowl for the band's record release show last Saturday night. Inside, the crowd was full of eager listeners ready to hear songs from their new EP "When The Weather's Warm," as well as old favorites. The New York City rock quartet impressed from beginning to end with southern rock n' roll heavily tinged with blues elements. Each of Hollis Brown's members (consisting of three Mikes and a Jon) gave solid performances on their dedicated instruments. From the soulful and [...]
Clusterfunk is an event that's been going down every so often at a little spot in Williamsburg called Cameo. It's always headlined by Turkuaz (on whom we've previously reported) and features other local purveyors of the various flavors of funk. This Friday it graduates to the Knitting Factory, where the headliner will actually be Deitch, Hall, Lockhart & Loftin, a group comprising some of the
I had the great fortune to stumble across a Turkuaz show a couple of months ago. I was leaving another, frankly disappointing show and had my spirits lifted when I stepped on the street and heard some glorious funk coming from the bar a few doors down. These folks know how to start a party:Mostly (if not all) Berklee alumni (now relocated to Brooklyn), they've got serious musical chops all
By P. Elizabeth Cawein Imagine a web where every point connects to every other point. It becomes so entangled that as you try to follow one connection, you end up somewhere else and can't quite remember where it was you came from in the first place. Now imagine at each of those points a person, a musician, an instrument and a musical style. It's an interconnected web of sorts. An inter-web? Taylor Shell from Turkuaz calls it a "cluster fuck." However you describe it, it's this music school phenomenon - or more specifically, [...]
We saw 137 bands , but it is our journalistic duty to narrow them down into a small, opinionated list that you will undoubtedly disagree with. So for our final 2008 CMJ Music Marathon post, we asked our five correspondents to give us their top five bands from this year's festivities. To jump to a specific writers picks: Derek Evers , Zach Timm , Elizabeth Cawein , Will Suter , Jenn Misko . Editor Derek Evers' best of the [...]
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