February 3, 2012 By Brandon Specktor
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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February 3, 2012 By webmaster
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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February 3, 2012 By Elissa Stolman
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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January 31, 2012 By Brandon Specktor
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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January 30, 2012 By Brandon Specktor
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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January 30, 2012 By Zach Timm
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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January 26, 2012 By Dan Jackson
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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January 26, 2012 By Annie Lesser
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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January 24, 2012 By Brandon Specktor
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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January 24, 2012 By Zoe Camp
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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January 24, 2012 By Christine Werthman
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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January 23, 2012 By Luis Paez-Pumar
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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January 19, 2012 By Brandon Specktor
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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January 16, 2012 By Brandon Specktor
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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January 16, 2012 By Dan Jackson
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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January 11, 2012 By webmaster
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January 9, 2012 By webmaster
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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January 6, 2012 By Zach Timm
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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January 5, 2012 By Elissa Stolman
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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January 4, 2012 By Zach Timm
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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