As we progress down our path of the loveliest music of the decade, we'll give you a bit more detail on the records we've chosen. While we were infatuated with numbers 31-40 (which you can read here), we're ready to go to battle over every selection from 1 to 30. Not a bad song on any of these albums, if you ask us. You can listen to the entire album of each of these by registering with Lala.com.... but you knew that, right? While we don't claim this to be a defining document of merit, we [...]
You still have all day today to listen to last week's show - at least until tonight's airs! So in case you missed last week's Halloween covers show, go ahead and: Stream the October 26 edition of Out the Other Here's the playlist, so you can follow along at home - with a few bonus mp3s of some of my favorite tracks I played during the show. 1. Candi Staton - Stand By Your Man (Tammy Wynette cover) ( Stand By Your Man ) 2. Andrew Bird - Think About [...]
So, I finally got out to see some shows last night, and while I got home way too late, it was a pretty productive evening on the whole. I started out* my CMJ at the M for Montreal showcase at Arlene's Grocery where I took in BEAST, Think About Life, and Malajube. During We Are Wolves set, I snuck over to the Mercury to catch the charming Mumford and Sons. After Malajube went off, I headed over to Cake Shop to catch CMJ buzz band, Surfer Blood and then I capped off the night at Living Room with a couple [...]
Recommended Show: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2009 SADDLE CREEK SHOWCASE @ KNITTING FACTORY 361 Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211 $12, 7PM Another night of great shows happens tonight all over the City. The choice isn't quite as obvious as last night, but Saddle Creek's showcase at the Knitting Factory is sure to be a crowd pleasure (if you want to venture off the beaten Manhattan path into Brooklyn). Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Orenda Fink, Old Canes, UUVVWWZ, Beep Beep and guest Suzannah Johannes are all on the bill there tonight. Check out a list of other shows [...]
by Andrew Frisicano DOWNLOAD: Freelance Whales - Ghosting (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Freelance Whales - Generator 2nd Floor (MP3) Who are Freelance Whales ? They're a five-piece band from Queens that started up in late 2008 and has already put out their first, self-released full-length, weathervanes , which came out in September on iTunes . The band's varied indie-pop has a humble, homespun quality to it. They lean on [...]
Here's our preview of the CMJ Festival, which begins today! We're so excited to see that so many of the bands we love and have interviewed, are appearing. Now's your chance to see what we've been ranting about. Warpaint - Interviewed here . Is this the band most likely to blow up after CMJ? An original sound with great vocal and bass melodies make them primed to climb into your veins and make you bleed Warpaint. Ambulance LTD - At some point, these [...]
photos by Chris La Putt , words by Bill Pearis Au Revoir Simone have spent the better part of 2009 working on, promoting and touring in support of their second album, Still Light, Still Night , wrapping things up -- for now, at least -- with a Brooklyn show at the Bell House on October 24 ( tickets ), which is part of the [...]
CMJ released the band schedule for its 2009 Music Marathon & Film Festival yesterday, which is about as good a sign of fall hitting New York as the return of apple cider at Greenmarket. The festival runs from Oct. 20 - Oct. 24 and includes various venues throughout the city, and the list of featured artists would probably take all four days to read through. But skimming the selection reveals a fairly equal distribution of well-known acts like Atlas Sound and Deer Tick , anonymous locals (including krautrock-y Jeff Buckley-channelers Pocketknife), twenty-two bands who [...]
The press release below doesn't actually list all the acts performing at CMJ this year, so you're probably better off checking out cmj.sched.org to get a true idea of what's happening during this year's marathon. Of course, sched.org is a little confusing too and it doesn't list unofficial events and day parties (as far as I know), so you'll have to wait a little bit longer for info to trickle out from the blogs and other unofficial sources. Lastly, even though the press release says the schedule is "final", you can pretty much bet that things will shift [...]
College FB broadcasting line of the day goes to ESPN play-by-play man Brad Nessler. Quoth Nessler after Oklahoma freshman kicker Tress Way came up short (and wide) on a potential clutch 54-yard game winner : "I think [BYU QB] Max Hall just said 'Oh my gosh...or whatever it is they say in Provo.'" Beautiful. He wasn't done: "One of the 36 married players on the BYU team, Max Hall, can go home to wife [...]
As always, there's an eight-hour pile of tracks for you today. Here's how it breaks down: - Six songs get repeated in that eight hours, so it's four hours between plays for those six songs. They're the ones in " The Grinder ", in case you're wondering what I mean by that when I say it on the FM Showcase (which, by the way, is on 90.5 The Night tonight at 10pm .) - The rest of the songs are set up so [...]
How many times can you listen to this song in a row? I start seeing unfavorable side effects around 38, but found the collective office threshold is much, much lower. Recently as coffee highs waned, bagel carbs crashed and the cube farm fell into silence, we enlisted Ronnie, Bobby, Rickie and Mike (+ Ralph) for a motivational experiment. Everyone knows playing New Edition's "Cool it Now" over the paging system provides a noticeable five-minute productivity bump (it's been in the effective manager's toolbox for years), but exactly how long could heightened performance levels be sustained? How would coworkers [...]
Real Estate @ Woodsist Fest on July 4th ( more by Tim Griffin ) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Maluca @ Glasslands * Amayo's Fu Arkistra @ 92YTribeca * Alberta Cross @ Jet Blue's Terminal 5 JFK * Flashing Lights w/ Flosstradamus @ Studio B * Dark Dark Dark, Son Lux @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * Guitars, In One Wind, Neon [...]
Recommended Show: FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2009 THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART @ SOUTH STREET SEAPORT Pier 17 New York, NY 10038 FREE, 6:00PM Expect free shows to dominate my selections for the most part over the weekend (if not the entire summer). It seems to be a good year for free outdoor shows. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart perform tonight at the South Street Seaport, continuing the River to River Fest. More shows in (and around) the City are listed below. Castanets @ Cake Shop pow wow! @ [...]
How the heck did this get past me?!?!? THE BLOODSUGARS ...a kick ass indie group out of Brooklyn, NY did an amazing job covering the Laura Branigan smash hit SELF CONTROL and it is a treasure! However it's not just this terrific cover that is great, The Bloodsugars too have many great original tracks that will surely make you an instant fan! This particular track/cover is [...]
Recommended Show: SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET & MORE @ THE BELL HOUSE 149 7th Street Brooklyn, NY 11215 FREE, NOON This show actually takes place OUTSIDE of the Bell House as part of the Go Go Gowanus Festival. A slew of other bands play along with Robbers on High Street such as Ume, Mia Riddle, Iayd, and Tiny Masters of Today. Angry Feminists @ Cake Shop Band Of Skulls @ Glasslands Your Nature @ The Studio at Webster Hall Nullsleep & Machinedrum @ Santos Party House Ted [...]
Monday 6/15 * The Dead Science, Bobby Conn, Monica Bou Bou, Zs @ The Studio at Webster Hall ( MP3: "Make Mine Marvel" by the Dead Science) * Bachelorette, Lichens, Pikelet @ Cake Shop Tuesday 6/16 * Jonathan Richman, Vic Chesnutt @ Bowery Ballroom [EF Pick of the Week] * Spanish Prisoners, Sleepy Ghosts @ Glasslands ( MP3: Los Angeles [...]
Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the two NYC Weakerthans shows coming up in September . Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the WAVVES/Woods/Real Estate show at Bowery Ballroom . $10 tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the 10 bands playing Terminal 5 . $10 tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the 10 bands playing [...]
If you are fan of one or maybe more of these bands (as I guess), have a stop at the daytrotter and get the 4 song sessions of them! Incredible concept, incredible acceptance, incredible songs... Congretulations! ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (Mar 3, 2008) The 1900s (Feb 11, 2008) 31 Knots (May 9, 2007) A Faulty Chromosome (Apr 12, 2009) A Place to Bury Strangers (Mar 25, 2008) The A-Sides (Jan 9, 2008) A.A. Bondy (May 21, 2008) About (Mar 5, 2007) The Acorn (Feb 22, 2009) Adam Green [...]
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