Hot on the heels of last year's awesome Find Me A Drink Home , the Lansing, Michigan trio Cheap Girls is back with another great full-length full of straightforward punkish power-pop, My Roaring 20's . There really aren't any huge changes to be found when comparing My Roaring 20's to their debut, but (again) it seems as if Cheap Girls know exactly what it is they do well and just stick with it. The production is (however) a bit better but still retains enough of the lo-fi charm that no one will accuse [...]
Surely you haven't forgotten about that upcoming Cheap Trick show at The Ryman on Dec. 3. You really shouldn't need any more incentive than Cheap Trick to make it out to the mother church that nig... Continue reading "Superdrag to Open for Cheap Trick at the Ryman, Dec. 3" >
I am often asked about the criteria for a great poster. The immediate answers are pretty simple: decent concept, nice image (boobs optional) and competent type. A more in-depth answer is that a poster must be able to hang on a wall for years, stared at and dissected AND still be able to hold your attention. It could be the poster is multi-layered with colors allowing the viewer to focus on different imagery. Or the designer could have placed small jokes, flourishes, text, details that takes time to find and enjoy. Either way, the designers of [...]
New Music this Week ! Someone You Should Know NEW MUSIC FROM ONE OF BOSTON'S BEST - Local readers should head to the Middle East in Central Square, Cambridge, tonight for one of our favorite live acts. Boston perennial favorites Cassavettes are releasing, ' Shakedown the Sun ,' their first new studio in almost three years. The album is a scalding attack on inertia - with the [...]
New Music this Week ! Someone You Should Know NEW MUSIC FROM ONE OF BOSTON'S BEST - Local readers should head to the Middle East in Central Square, Cambridge, tonight for one of our favorite live acts. Boston perennial favorites Cassavettes are releasing, ' Shakedown the Sun ,' their first new studio in almost three years. The album is a scalding attack on inertia - with the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Superdrag | Piano (Planetary Group Day Party) | October 23, 2009 There's a forgotten place in college radio for bands that were once huge. Bands that have moved from majors to indies and still amass a dedicated following. Superdrag are one of those bands from the 90s. With their hit "Sucked Out," they made their claim to fame. Seeing the act perform a day party for they Planetary Group at a small venue like Pianos (even at a day party) was sort of weird. They didn't play "Sucked Out," but "Do the [...]
Imaad Wasif | Pianos (Planetary Group Day Party) | October 23, 2009 While Superdrag played downstairs at Pianos, Imaad Wasif was playing above them. Splitting my time, I didn't get to see all of Wasif's performance, but what I saw was great. The former Yeah Yeah Yeahs touring guitarist played by himself with an acoustic guitar. Check out more photos from this solo set after the jump. www.imaadwasif.com | www.teepeerecords.com
Future Sounds & The Planetary Group annually team up for the SKEWER PARTY at Pianos each CMJ and this year we have Friday the 23rd with both stages filled with great acts. Here are the line ups: Main Stage (downstairs): 2pm: Prayer 2:40pm: Superdrag 3:20pm: Bear Hands 4pm: Samuel 4:40pm: [...]
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. [...]
As part of their ongoing 20th anniversary celebration the creators of The Simpsons are giving their fans an opportunity to appear on the long-running hit series with a design-a-character contest , with the winner to appear on the January 31 episode - which will also feature Coldplay's Chris Martin. All you need to do to enter is fill out this form with everything from your character's name to catch phrase to distinguishing features. The contest ends on October 24 - so start thinking and enter before the deadline. [...]
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 [...]
Warpaint Here's our guide for next week's CMJ Festival in New York. Look for Warpaint, Rough Francis, Electric Tickle Machine, Sin Fang Bous, Japandroids, The Megaphonic Thrift, The Very Best, Speech Debelle and The xx to generate the biggest buzz. Air Waves (Myspace) Hometown: Brooklyn, New York Label: Catbird Records Air Waves - Knock Out Alec Ounsworth (Myspace) Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Label: Anti [...]
DOWNLOAD: Rookie of the Year - "Feels Like New" (MP3) Last month, Rookie of the Year was in town for a show at The Studio at Webster Hall. I had the chance to sit down and talk with lead singer Ryan Dunson and guitarist Mike Kamerman before the show about the evolution of the band, the current tour, and plans for the future. BrooklynRocks : Let's start with the show tonight. How far into the current tour are you? [...]
There are certain songs that I wouldn't necessarily call guilty pleasures, because they are well-written pop songs, but rather - it never stops feeling somehow indulgent to enjoy their toe-tapping majesty this much . The amp-kicking Superdrag hit " Sucked Out " (from 1996's Regretfully Yours) remains a song I still like to hear, and when Brendan Benson covered it last week for his Daytrotter session , I was delighted. Benson and Superdrag share similar songwriting chops in consistently solid pop genius, oft-overlooked. This is a song [...]
There are certain songs that I wouldn't necessarily call guilty pleasures, because they are well-written pop songs, but rather - it never stops feeling somehow indulgent to enjoy their toe-tapping majesty this much . The amp-kicking Superdrag hit " Sucked Out " (from 1996's Regretfully Yours) remains a song I still like to hear, and when Brendan Benson covered it last week for his Daytrotter session - I was delighted. Benson and Superdrag share similar songwriting chops in consistently solid pop genius, oft-overlooked. This is a song that Benson [...]
Following up his latest EP, "The New Dynamic Sound of Evan Voytas," LA-based Evan Voytas returns with Astro . download: Astro CMJ Shows: October 20th FMLY Showcase at The Suffolk w/ Rumspringa, Height with Friends, and more October 21st OhMyRockness Showcase at Santos Party House w/ Real Estate, Cymbals Eat Guitars, and more October 23rd Future Sounds/Planetary Group Skewer Party at Pianos w/ Prayer, Superdrag, and more October 23rd Neon Gold/Chess Club Showcase [...]
Three nights, five venues, eighteen bands, and too many beers to count. That was my Next Big Nashville 2009 in a nutshell. Not quite as crazy as NBN08, but still one hell of a good time. So now that the ringing in my ears has died down, let the recapping begin. Thursday night we kicked things off by meeting Tyge from The Opening Acts at the Basement to catch The Carter Administration [...]
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
Friday Five: Surf Songs
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
The Beach House Theory of 2k10.
