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CMJ darlings Freelance Whales played a sold out show at the Mercury Lounge in New York City. The fact that it was the fifth sold out show on this headlining tour for the band seemed to surprise the band (but not the crowd). Frontman Judah Dadone, who eerily looks like a…
Family Of The Year is an indie pop rock band out of Silverlake, California. They played opening night of CMJ at Crash Mansion on 10/20. The band has sort of a Mamas and the Papas feel to them. Frontwoman Vanessa Jeanne Long was enchanting and playful and the band was…
Lights Resolve played the first night of CMJ at the Bowery Ballroom on 10/21. They were filling in for The Black And White Years from Austin (who couldn’t make the trip, sucks!). The lineup originally also had Hockey but you know how these CMJ shows change all the time. Anyways,…
We officially kicked off CMJ by hitting up Crash Mansion last Tuesday to catch an indie rock band from Milwaukee called Invade Rome. Invade Rome kind of reminded us of Queens Of The Stone Age but not nearly as good. The music’s not quite hypnotizing but it’s experimental enough to…
Care Bears On Fire played the first night of CMJ at Bowery Ballroom. Though the girls have a lot of pop, there’s just not enough punch. I’m not sure if they’ll ever be taken seriously as a pop/punk/rock band or just as a kiddie band. I mean, they did make…
Any evidence that Paste Magazine is in trouble was not present at their really chill CMJ showcases this week at The Living Room. Free beer, cocktails, snacks (thank you!) accompanied all the great music. On Tuesday, we had the pleasure of catching Julia Haltigan. This girl has a huge voice,…
Jukebox The Ghost played last night at the Bowery Ballroom on the first night of CMJ. Our photographer Meimi Yeung was there to snap off some photos from the epic performance. Check out the pics below and make sure to come to our CMJ party on Friday!. For more on…
Toronto-based group Little Girls (Josh McIntyre and co.) are releasing the two songs that bookend their debut full-length, Concepts, as they make a pit stop at CMJ on their North American tour with Japandroids, Monotonix, You Say Party! We Say Die! Wavves, and Nurses among others. The first is a…
SAINT MOTEL, an emerging, indie-pop band from Los Angeles, CA, discovered their van had been robbed Sunday afternoon, October 18, 2009 between 1:30 PM and 4:00 PM while on tour in Chicago, IL. The thieves smashed one of the van’s windows and stole an electric bass, an acoustic guitar, iPods,…
This week Brooklyn quintet Paul & The Patients are embarking upon the “To The Lions” project. It is an endeavor that will see them releasing a new self-recorded composition to the public every week for the foreseeable future. The songs will be available for both free and paid download on Bandcamp.com…
Serj Tankian, a Grammy Award winner and one of rock’s most unconventional frontmen, will perform Elect the Dead Symphony — a very special orchestral interpretation of Tankian’s critically acclaimed solo debut Elect the Dead — for two very special live shows to take place this summer. Tankian will recreate Elect the Dead…
