Cold War Kids , another one of the blogger-love bands, played a free show at the Apple store mid afternoon. If you haven't seen a free show at the Apple Store, I recommend it, it's got great sound and comfortable seating, and for a grand price of zero dollars you can't complain. It was the Cold War Kids' first performance ever with a sitting down audience, but they still got the mac-geeks grooving in their seats to a powerful soul-rock performance of songs off their 2006 album "Robbers & Cowards". Lead singer Nathan Willett (who totally has [...]
The bruises are fading and the cuts are healing. Two weeks ago The Fest V swallowed the streets of downtown Gainesville. For three days, disciples of all the indie subcultures gathered to praise and sing. About 70 percent of the attendees came from out of town to witness their share of the 200 bands performing. Stopping first at Wayward Council, we were branded with grey, pink or green wristbands and given a schedule and a map. We drew out our separate plans and scattered across the eight venues. Warming Up Friday [...]
What: loudQUIETloud: The Pixies 2004 Reunion Tour ( Official Flyer ) When: Thursday November 9th @ 9pm Where: The Glass Lands Gallery (289 Kent Ave, Brooklyn) How Much: Only $2 The behind the scenes documentary of The Pixies 2004 reunion tour. Apparently it has gotten some bad reviews from the Pixies themselves because it portrays them in a negative light, but maybe that means it'll be brutally honest? Trailer: [...]
My evening began at Chinatown's (if it wasn't in Chinatown they should rename that part of town then) Fontana's. It had an exclusive/snobby feel to it because you walked into the bar area with no signs hinting that there is a stage anywhere. You continue walking through and hiding behind a pool table, there is a door that leads you to the basement. An uncrowded paradise with a life size beach sunset photo on the wall and cshiny cursive letters that read the venue's name (to reassure you that it's the right spot). [...]
YouTube Video Preview of LVHRD CLLPHNLCKN tonight @ MoMA LVHRD Event in NYC tonight @ MoMA w/ Les Savy Fav I'll be there! Rainer Maria Break Up Which makes sense, because I swear I saw their guitarist selling merch for The Blow all week Pitchfork's CMJ Report Wrap-up Tags:
"Don't beat your kids, they might turn out like me." And with that fine advice from an outspoken man on the subway, my second day of CMJ goodness began. For you out-of-towners, the 7-day unlimited-ride subway pass for $24 is a necessity. CMJ is not only about the nightly showcases by signed and unsigned bands in venues across the city, but also the free day shows throughout, in places ranging from record shops to retail stores or art spaces. One such unique venue is the lovably cramped (or shall I [...]
The concert photographs we're highlighting this week were all taken at this year's CMJ Music Marathon. For more, browse Flickr's cmj2006 tag listing. We Are Wolves by f.trainer on Flickr. The Grates by Nevoreiel on Flickr. Cloud Cult by jen c on Flickr. Hot Chip by thatgreenplant [...]
CMJ is over and we barely survived. It was amazing. But don't be too sad, we have the set of 7 CDs from CMJ perfoming bands Autodrone, Locksley, Scanners, Silent Years, Twilight Sad, Bojones, and The Horrors to give away today! And the winner is Cheryl who was looking forward to Autodrone the most. It was also the band that the most people replied about, so if you haven't already go listen to their myspace to see why. Thanks for playing everyone and keep an eye out for continuing CMJ [...]
Taylor sat down with all six members of Annuals after their Gainesville, FL performance last week. They talked about blogs, discovering new music, CMJ and more. Listen to highlights from the interview in an audio slideshow with photos from the concert. Then download the entire interview to hear what else they had to say. Download the full interview (5.5 MB, 8 min 13 sec) Upcoming Performances [...]
What's The Download is a "comprehensive, research-based public education campaign designed by The Recording Academy (GRAMMYs) that recognizes the lack of dialogue between the music industry and the music fan." With a board of 12 in-the-know kids ranging from 20-26 years old, they aim to create coversations and offer insight among music creators and consumers through websites, K-12 lesson plans, PSAs and more. After two years of research, The Board revealed their research and recommendations in a 70+ page report titled "WTD Music Survival Guide" ( Full Report (PDF) ). Thankfully for you (and [...]
The CMJ Film Festival had a showing of "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" at the Walter Reader Theatre last night. It started about half an hour late; rough estimate since my phone, as well as everyone else's, were put in a "coat check" to thwart pirates who planned on taking grainy quality screen shots or 30 second movie clips, a real threat to future ticket sales, I'm sure. It was all worth it as suddenly Borat made his way from the back of the room, kissing every man (and man) [...]
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. We've got 7 CDs to giveaway to one lucky winner. Here's the bands you should go catch this week (and CD's you'll be hooked on way after CMJ passes). I plan on catching Autodrone, Twilight Sad & The Horrors. Want To Win? Just email contests@podbop.org with your name, and which of these 7 bands you are looking forward to the most. If we haven't died from exhaustion, we'll pick one lucky winner to get all 7 CDs on Sunday November 5th. Here are the bands playing [...]
Saturday's skies promised much clearer weather. Just after dusk, I caught a mostly unannounced set at American Apparel's "Grand Opening". Despite the new downtown light fixture (they have like 100 light bulbs on 24/7 in that store, I swear) being open for over a month, it was a good excuse to shove a band in a corner and play some free music. It was also a good place to for the Ceramic Cat's to test out their band with it's debut performance. With a backdrop of bright, sweatshop-free cotton, this fivesome (including Cory M. on laptop and Alex, singer from [...]
Taylor's Custom CMJ Marathon 2006 Schedule (stalk me) Productshop NYC has a big listing of official and non official CMJ shows Apple's Soho Store has a slew of free CMJ shows Like CSS, Cold War Kids & The Decemberists Other Music has two free shows with Tapes N Tapes & Annuals this week Tags:
The Fest was planned beautifully this year to coordinate with the annual weekend where most of the city takes off to Jacksonville for the UF vs UGA football game. This left downtown mostly abandoned by the usual sprawl of clubbers and greeks and paved way for the influx of grungy, drunk and ready-to-rock kids (and kids at heart) for this years festivities. Past attendees will notice that with more bands than ever, even more venues had been recruited to participate leaving badge holders with eight venues and practically no downtime over the three day weekend. [...]
Music lovers may soon have to emigrate en masse from MySpace. That's because the site has agreed to start blocking copyrighted music from users' pages . Everyone--well, at least everyone except the farts in charge of labels who probably think MySpace is at the end of one of those Internet "tubes"--knows how silly this is. After all, by posting music they like, users are promoting a song or an act. For free. It's called viral marketing. But here's something I haven't seen addressed: The individual musician's rights. [...]
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