The CMJ Music Marathon is a daunting, eventful week full of up-and-coming bands swimming with the sharks of the music industry and fans of over doing it everywhere. Each and every year for five days we all line up like fools to get a taste of what the tastemakers at CMJ have deemed the "buzz" acts of the moment along with a few high profile names to draw in a few extra ticket buyers. It's a ridiculous system yet we play along every year, leave exhausted and drained from the non-stop booze and deafened by bands, most [...]
At Santos, not Cake Shop, but same idea. Let's make a vast generalization here: there is a certain male prerogative that responds to CMJ's fever pitch of hype and borderline hostile audiences by... Continue reading "CMJ: Sian Alice Group and Julianna Barwick Take Back the Cake Shop; Holly Miranda Holds Court at Le Poisson Rouge" >
After one hectic evening rushing around the sweaty streets of Manhattan we decided to make a late night metro journey to the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, however, there were certainly no O. A. P's in rocking chairs here, just Sian Alice Group and a small concentrated crowd of ecstatic fans.
The CMJ day parties really kick into gear today. I'm sure I'm forgetting something on this list. I left off a paid early show ($10 at Santos Party House), and CMJ's official Happy Hour at Brooklyn Brewery, which you need a badge to get into; however, I did include Spin's party, which you had to RSVP for even though that list is now closed. CHOUETTE DAY PARTY AT CAKE SHOP (Noon-7PM): Forest Fire (5th), Sian Alice Group (4th), Juliana Barwick (3rd), Theo Angell (2nd), High Life (1st) PLANETARY GROUP/FUTURE [...]
Recommended Show: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2009 SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS @ MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG 66 North 6th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211 $20, 8PM With this being the start of the weekend and CMJ still going on, there should be some good shows tonight. There are some pretty good ones, but nothing so amazing as to be obvious. However, School of Seven Bells performance at Music Hall of Williamsburg tonight should be pretty memorable--and just off the beaten path enough that badge holders MIGHT be able to get in without too much hassle. [...]
Best Unofficial Day Show : Chouette Presents Where : Cake Shop When : 12pm - 7pm Cost : $5 Lineup : High Life , Theo Angell , Julianna Barwick , Sian Alice Group , Forest Fire Why This Show : In all honesty I have never heard the music [...]
Photo gallery of Day One of CMJ 2009. Pianos - Presented by Sneak Attack Media and The Music Stut Bands: Caxsio Blood Warrior Fanfarlo Milagres Javelin Home Video Greycoats Cake Shop - Presented be Pop Tarts Suck Toasted Motel Motel Small Black CMJ Showcases: Fontanas: Autodrone Knitting Factory: Sian Alice Group Psychic Paramount Highlife Trash: Change The Station
Think About Life @ Pop Montreal (MHOW tonight) ( more by Ryan Muir ) tonight in NYC * Bell @ Sound Fix Records * El Perro Del Mar @ Other Music * Rainbird, Kevin Blechdom @ Zebulon (CMJ) * Vaz, Grooms, Deleted Arrow, Fuck Ton @ Death By Audio * Paper Route, Empires, All the Day Holiday @ Union Hall * Broadcast, [...]
Recommended Show: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2009 CLIPSE @ HIRO BALLROOM 363 West 16th Street Manhattan, NY 10011 RSVP , 9PM I'm sure my listing for events over the next few days will be a little lacking. Mainly because there's a lot going on, but also because I'm trying to keep the listings manageable. Hopefully, I will catch wind of the day shows to properly tip you off, and I will split them off in two sections below (day and night). I'm hoping to make sure you get to know all the great day shows! [...]
Well look at that, It's already that time of year again: C - M - J ! Version 2009 to be precise. And you know the last thing we want is to send you off into the trenches unprepared and indecisive, which is why we're back again with yet another comprehensive plan of action/preview/treasure trove of MP3s to help nudge you through the week ahead. Just as with prior CMJ and SXSW previews, we listed only one show for each recommended band. Most of the bands listed here are playing several – if [...]
In life, the best things are usually the ones you don't know about, stumble upon and end up enjoying thoroughly. It's hard to plan. The best things just fall into place. As is the case with music festivals (and CMJ is no exception to this rule) it may be the reason for the phrase. Like SXSW, CMJ is full of unofficial parties, secret shows, and all sorts of RSVP lists that open the doors to epic parties, or parties that could be epic but no one knew about them, and hence, no one showed up. Luckily, we're going to clear [...]
Sweetest Day didn't go well for me. On one hand, I woke up entirely hung over from Friday's Dr. Dog show at Beachland. We had a little Citizen Dick reunion of sorts, with Rob, Brian, and Justin all converging at my place after the amazing set the medicinally astute canine put on for us. Plenty of brews were enjoyed, and after a slew of heated musical and professional debates, I went to bed knowing the morning wouldn't be too sweet. This was correct because my liver was smoking a cigarette next to me when I rolled out of bed. Lesson [...]
Another great week of cool music! On Thursday there are some awesome choices: there's the legendary Al Green at the House of Blues (hopefully you took advantage of reduced tickets thru Live Nation), great indie rock at the Middle East Downstairs with The DoDos and The Ruby Suns, The Ego and the Oracle (aka Jim of Jim's Big Ego) at the Burren, the reclusive cult figure Daniel Johnston at the Paradise and more, how to choose? Friday brings Art Brut to the Middle East, Reverse to Church and the Spendid Nobodies to Toad; all are great choices. On Saturday you [...]
Sorry for the relative silence around these parts the last few days. I'm still settling into my new Chicago digs, though thankfully I'm just about done unpacking. That means you can expect all kinds of low-quality blogging coming your way later this week. Until then, here's what is going on around Chicago this week. My picks are in bold . If I've missed anything, feel free to add it in the comments! Oh, and I beg you... someone out there has to go see Cattle Decapitation at Bottom Lounge [...]
ROcktober continues with another great weekend. On Thursday, you could go to Precinct to check Barrence Whitfield on his second week of his October residency or go to the Alchemist in JP to see Lars Vegas (for Free!). Or maybe you want to revisit the 1980's and see Howard Jones at Scullers. On Friday,not certain if there are still tix available but I'm looking forward to seeing Black Joe Lewis at the Landsdowne Pub and then heading over to Harpers Ferry for the Upper Crust (gotta love their powdered wigs, puffy shirts and beauty marks!). If that's not your thing [...]
Yo La Tengo : Here To Fall No Age : Losing Feeling Sian Alice Group : Through Air Over Water Health : We Are Water Neon Indian : Terminally Chill Bear In Heaven : Dust Cloud Sea Wolf : White Water, White Bloom Baroness : Swollen And Halo [...]
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 [...]
[Gil Scott Heron] Monday October 5 Yatagarasu w/ Spellcaster @ Rhinoceropolis Daedelus w/ DJ Musa Bailey @ Bluebird Theater The Postmarks w/ Brookville @ Hi-Dive Margaret Cho @ Fox Theatre The Accused w/ Speedwolf @ Marquis Theater Tuesday October 6 Secondhand Serenade w/ Evan Taubenfeld @ Gothic Theatre Federico Aubele w/ DePedro @ Bluebird Theater Doug Benson w/ Graham Elwood @ Larimer Lounge Sian Alice Group w/ Gangcharger @ Hi-Dive Juliette Lewis @ Fox Theatre [...]
Wow, it's already October. I guess time flies when you're having fun or something like that. On Friday I'm torn about the Dinosaur Jr show at the Middle East for a little Pioneer Valley rock or Jay Retard at Harpers or Jetset and Highland Moore at the Plough, too many choices. Saturday has another good night of music with Ra Ra Riot at the Paradise (I love their Rhumb Line cd but have never seen them live yet), a great local line up at TTs with Sidewalk Driver, The Motion Sick, Aloud and John Powhida's International Airport and yet another [...]
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