Live Reviews

DJ Baggins on the decks - Photo by Brandon Specktor

DJs Wooden Wisdom @ The Wooly – February 2, 2012

There’s something essentially hipster about appropriating one of New York City’s oldest, most ornate skyscrapers as a plaid wearin’, whiskey drinkin’, vinyl spinnin’ ...

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Fujiya And Miyagi - Photo by Annie Lesser

Photos: Fujiya And Miyagi @ Echo: February 1, 2012

England’s Fujiya And Miyagi played at the Echo in Los Angeles, CA, this week. CMJ was there, camera in hand. Check below for photos ...

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ASAP Rocky @ Irving Plaza: February 1, 2012

Twelve minutes after ASAP Rocky was scheduled to take the stage at New York’s Irving Plaza, the hugely overcrowded audience began a chant: “A-SAP! ...

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Rubblebucket - Photo by Brandon Specktor

Rubblebucket @ Bowery Ballroom: January 28, 2012

Before the clapping robot puppets and confetti cannons even appeared on Saturday night, the sold-out crowd at New York’s Bowery Ballroom on Saturday was ...

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Gories - Photo by Brandon Specktor

Gories @ Maxwell’s: January 27, 2012

Some bands age like a bottle of fine wine, immaculately preserved in a temperature-controlled cellar next to 900 identical bottles of 900 identical flavors. The Gories ages ...

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Hundred In The Hands - Photo by Zach Timm

Hundred In The Hands, Bikini, My Best Fiend @ Glasslands

In the heavily saturated world of DIY music venues in Williamsburg, there is truly no better space than Glasslands Gallery. With the help of Popgun, ...

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Cass McCombs

Cass McCombs, Frank Fairfield @ Bowery Ballroom: January 25

An aura of mystery is difficult to cultivate, but even harder to sustain. California-born singer-songwriter Cass McCombs must know this, but, judging from his tight, ...

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Wilco - Photo by Annie Lesser

Wilco @ Hollywood Palladium: January 24, 2012

Wilco has been around for 18 years, so on Tuesday night, at Wilco’s first of three L.A. shows, the age discrepancy of the audience ...

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Chairlift - Photo by Brandon Specktor

Chairlift @ Bowery Ballroom: January 23, 2012

Like fellow octave-obliterating vocalist Leslie Feist, Caroline Polachek of Chairlift built early buzz for her band thanks in part to an Apple commercial. Last night ...

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Akron/Family

Akron/Family @ 285 Kent: January 21, 2012

  Akron/Family is one of those rare breeds of bands that understands the value of multitasking, not just instrumentally but also musically and aesthetically. ...

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Jeff Mangum - Photo by Kacie Barton

Jeff Mangum @ Brooklyn Academy Of Music: January 20, 2012

The correct pronunciation of Jeff Mangum’s last name feels counterintuitive. You want to call him Magnum, as in Magnum P.I., but doing that ...

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Photo by Luis Paez-Pumar

Caveman @ Bowery Ballroom: January 20, 2012

Last Friday night, Bowery Ballroom was overtaken by a powerful smoke machine. It filled the stage and made everything a little hazy, and I’d ...

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Photo by Brandon Specktor

Sharon Van Etten @ Mercury Lounge: January 18, 2012

Brooklyn songstress Sharon Van Etten debuted her forthcoming album, Tramp, in its entirety last night to a sold-out crowd at New York’s Mercury Lounge. ...

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A-Trak - Photo by Brandon Specktor

A-Trak @ Webster Hall: January 13, 2012

When ’90s mixing wunderkind A-Trak assumed the turntables at 1:35 a.m. on Saturday morning, the floors of Webster Hall were already slick with PBR and ...

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Lushlife - Photo by Dan Jackson

Lushlife, Stepkids @ Knitting Factory: January 14, 2012

It’s not every day a rapper claims to be physically exhausted from a 30-day juice fast, but that’s just what Lushlife , aka Philadelphia ...

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Facelift - Photo by Colin Colfer

Photos: Grunge 20 @ Gramercy Theater: January 6, 2012

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Andrew W.K. - Photo by Alix Piorun

Photos: Andrew W.K., Calder Quartet @ Le Poisson Rouge

Andrew W.K. joined the Calder Quartet on Sunday at Le Poisson Rouge for a medley of classical songs and AWK originals. Photos by Alix ...

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Photo by Zach Timm

Preservation Hall Jazz Band @ McKittrick Hotel: January 5

The traditional New Orleans jazz that the Preservation Hall Jazz Band performs transports you to another era from the first note blown. On any trip ...

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Photo by Elissa Stolman

Sepalcure @ 103 Harriet: December 30, 2011

When producers Praveen Sharma (Braille) and Travis Stewart (Machinedrum) of Sepalcure took over the booth at the San Francisco warehouse venue 103 Harriet, a crowd ballooned ...

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Hold Steady - Photo by Zach Timm

Hold Steady, Titus Andronicus @ Brooklyn Bazaar: December 17

I have seen both the Hold Steady and Titus Andronicus live in concert, and both shows were just pure, energetic, rock ’n’ roll bliss. So ...

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