Last week, jerky-loose and ball busting Austin trio White Denim premiered the first single from a four-track EP exclusive to RCRD LBL, the recently launched ad and label supported, free music download site. Aside from getting MSTRKRFTy with their vowel... CONTINUE READING WHITE DENIM PREMIERES SONG AT RCRD LBL, BUSTS OUR CAMERA AT CMJ»
Posted on December 3, 2007 in Video (6 comments)
Tags: CMJ | White Denim
CMJ 2007 will be remembered for ... not a lot, sadly. And not just 'cause everybody was boozed up. Folks will probably hold on to how it was every bit as exhausting as years past but not every bit as... CONTINUE READING YOUR FRIEND, ANDREW W.K. & OUR CMJ SUPERLATIVES»
Posted on October 22, 2007 in Concert, Video (5 comments)
Tags: Andrew W.K. | CMJ | Dan Deacon | Deerhunter | Land Of Talk | No Age | White Williams
With the help of Andrew, we've already uncovered what partying at CMJ's like for the fest folks parading around the Lower East Side; for the second and final installment of the Stereogum + Andrew W.K. Study of Partying at CMJ,... CONTINUE READING CMJ PARTY SCHOOL! WITH STEREOGUM AND ANDREW W.K. (PART TWO: BACKSTAGE AT BOWERY)»
Posted on October 22, 2007 in Video (14 comments)
Tags: Andrew W.K. | CMJ | Dan Deacon | Deerhunter | No Age | Ponytail | White Williams
Afterpartying on the last night of CMJ was sort of a doomed enterprise; after catching the Forms, we made our way out to Williamsburg, arriving well in advance of the Black Kids/Peter & Bjorn (no John) Almost Gold party... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: ISLANDS/PROFESSOR MURDER/MUSCLES/FLOSSTRADAMUS/DATAROCK @ VARIOUS VENUES, VARIOUS TIMES, NYC»
Posted on October 22, 2007 in Concert, Video (3 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Datarock | Flosstradamus | Islands | Muscles | Professor Murder
There isn't much more we can say about for the Forms at this point, so we'll recapitulate as succinctly as possible: You should be listening to this band. And, shit, if their Midway show was a sign of their... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: THE FORMS/GOES CUBE @ MIDWAY, NYC 10/20/07»
Posted on October 22, 2007 in Concert, MP3 (1 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Goes Cube | The Forms
It'd been too long since we'd last seen Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay -- just about six months ago at Coachella, actually, before the now-iconic magic tees shifted their first shape -- so a trek to Terminal 5... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: JUSTICE @ TERMINAL 5, NYC 10/20/07»
Posted on October 22, 2007 in Concert (6 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Justice | Kanye West
That headline's almost entirely true, too! Will and Erik really did play solo, at Music Hall Of Williamsburg and upstairs at Pianos, respectively; Craig was listed by his lonesome, but turned up with a backing band and a fan/friend we're... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: CRAIG WEDREN, ERIK FRIEDLANDER & WILL SHEFF PLAY SOLO AT SATURDAY DAY SHOWS»
Posted on October 22, 2007 in Concert (1 comments)
Tags: Amy Miles | Amy Poehler | CMJ | Craig Wedren | Erik Friedlander | Okkervil River | Saturday Night Live
Walked into Irving tired, walked out in desperate need of another party; such is the rejuvenating power of Santo/Rock. We were more thinking "dance" than "soaring reverb rock," but it didn't take much prodding to get us to hit Band... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: BAND OF HORSES @ BLENDER THEATRE AT GRAMERCY, NYC 10/20/07»
Posted on October 21, 2007 in Concert (9 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | CMJ
Still aren't used to calling it that, but that's where we were on Friday night. Twice. Rolled in early for Santogold's 8:50 set, only to be told that she was no longer on the schedule ("cancelled," one Irving staffer said).... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: SANTOGOLD/SPANK ROCK @ THE FILLMORE AT IRVING PLAZA, NYC 10/19/07»
Posted on October 21, 2007 in Concert (4 comments)
Tags: Amanda Blank | Bangers And Cash (Spank Rock) | CMJ | M.I.A. | Santogold | Spank Rock | Yo Majesty
Friday night was an evening of cancellations, mix ups, and superfluous cab trips, but our early evening aggravation melted with a solo set from Aloha's Cale Parks, offering a more ambient, electro-grooved take on the one-man/live-percussion thing (see also:... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: CALE PARKS/THE NARRATOR @ THE DELANCEY 10/19/07 (FLAMESHOVEL/POLYVINYL SHOWCASE)»
Posted on October 21, 2007 in Concert, MP3 (0 comments)
Tags: Aloha | Cale Parks | CMJ | The Narrator
Stereogum's Friday night was a mix of hip hop and indie rock, getting started with Abbey's trip to Terminal 5 to take in buzzy Chicago MCs The Cool Kids and M.I.A., while the rest of us ran back and... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: THE COOL KIDS/M.I.A. @ TERMINAL 5, NYC 10/19/07»
Posted on October 21, 2007 in Concert (1 comments)
Tags: CMJ | M.I.A. | The Cool Kids
This year's CMJ merit badge for obligatory buzz-chasing wasn't earned without at least once seeing Jacksonville, Florida's Black Kids; every chatty writer/blogger/scenester seemed to have hit at least one of their four appearances this week. The first two were... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: BLACK KIDS @ R BAR, NYC 10/19/07 (BROOKLYN VEGAN PARTY)»
Posted on October 21, 2007 in Concert, MP3, Video (10 comments)
Tags: Black Kids | CMJ
New Zealand's Liam Finn earned his Band To Watch stripes on the strength of just one song -- the masterful "Second Chance" -- and a few views of his instrument-switching live footage. His debut release I'll Be Lightning will... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: LIAM FINN @ MO PITKINS 10/19/07 (YEP ROC SHOWCASE)»
Posted on October 21, 2007 in Concert, MP3 (1 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Elijah Wood | Liam Finn
Our intrepid field reporter Abbey Braden made the long trip from Webster to Studio B to take in a late set with last year's Band To Watch New Young Pony Club at the Modular Showcase, and left impressed:"The city... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB @ STUDIO B, BROOKLYN 10/18/07 (MODULAR SHOWCASE)»
Posted on October 21, 2007 in Concert, Video (8 comments)
Tags: CMJ | New Young Pony Club
Everyone walking in to Webster to see James Lavelle and UNKLE had to be a little curious about the "very special guest vocalists." This is, after all, a band that's pulled in LP cameos from Thom Yorke, Richard Ashcroft,... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: UNKLE @ WEBSTER HALL, NYC 10/18/07»
Posted on October 21, 2007 in Concert, MP3 (4 comments)
Tags: CMJ | The Cult | UNKLE
Since a superb self-titled 2005 debut, original Napalm Death guitarist/Godflesh founder Justin K. Broadrick has been refining Jesu's increasingly honed catalog of "shoegaze metal" (even if he chaffs at the term), dispatching heavy fuzz with a fragile inseam. Dude's recorded... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: JESU/TORCHE @ BLENDER THEATER AT GRAMERCY, NYC 10/20/07»
Posted on October 22, 2007 in Concert (11 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Jesu | Torche
Early Saturday evening, on an empty stomach, we watched our favorite glammy Norwegian neo-wave quartet New Violators play a streamlined set of their excellent Echo & the Stardust anthems. Streamlined because hired-gun guitarist Stian Westerhus left the past Puppet Show... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: NEW VIOLATORS @ MERCURY LOUNGE, NYC 10/20/07»
Posted on October 22, 2007 in Concert (1 comments)
Tags: CMJ | New Violators
That's Biffy, nearly in the buff up there. So. We've had more than enough bands from Canada and/or bands with lupine names over the past few, but Abbey hit the FADER party on Thursday to see if Montreal's We... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: WE ARE WOLVES/CUT OFF YOUR HANDS/IMPERIAL TEEN/BIFFY CLYRO @ FADER SIDESHOW, NYC 10/18/07»
Posted on October 20, 2007 in MP3 (6 comments)
Tags: Biffy Clyro | CMJ | Cut Off Your Hands | Imperial Teen | We Are Wolves
Ever see those people scribbling into notebooks or onto napkins at shows? That's us. Indeed, we've been busy covering sundry scraps with mostly illegible chicken scratch at CMJ this past few days, which got us wondering: How other folks go... CONTINUE READING A LESSON IN CMJ NOTETAKING»
Posted on October 19, 2007 (19 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Jon Pareles
On a night that didn't really offer much by way of new-band-discovery options, ForceFieldPR and Aero Booking represented with the best bill of bands we liked but had yet to see live: Band To Watch Speck Mountain, Band To... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: SPECK MOUNTAIN/LE LOUP/PAPERCUTS/BOWERBIRDS @ KNITTING FACTORY, NYC 10/18/07 (FORCE FIELD/AERO SHOWCASE)»
Posted on October 21, 2007 in Concert (6 comments)
Tags: Bowerbirds | CMJ | Le Loup | Papercuts | Speck Mountain
"We're really happy to be playing Other Music, especially since this is the first store in the world to sell our music," Ezra said a song into Vampire Weekend's 11AM set at Other Music yesterday. "Online," he added with... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: VAMPIRE WEEKEND @ OTHER MUSIC, NYC 10/18/07»
Posted on October 19, 2007 in Concert, MP3 (4 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Peter Bjorn And John | Vampire Weekend
CMJ: The chance to have your eardrums bludgeoned by a thousand bands. Of course we're trying to catch as many acts as possible for you ... but the seedy party underbelly of the fest isn't confined just to the rock... CONTINUE READING CMJ PARTY SCHOOL! WITH STEREOGUM AND ANDREW W.K. (PART ONE: THE STREETS OF THE L.E.S.)»
Posted on October 19, 2007 in Video (13 comments)
Tags: Andrew W.K. | Bon Iver | CMJ | Land Of Talk | No Age
At last night's Windish Showcase Dan Deacon got our sweaty selves hyped with group shouts of "Ethan Hawke!" and "Gattaca!" then screwed our minds with his signature strobes, green skull, and iPod-taped-to-a-banana (this has made Dan a person of interest... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: DAN DEACON PARTS THE PARTY AT BOWERY BALLROOM»
Posted on October 18, 2007 in Video (24 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Dan Deacon
While we were taking in No Age and White Williams, witnessing Deacon's Ballroom-sized dance-tag, and hitting the streets with the W.K., Abbey was representing Stereogum's best interests across the river by hitting the second-best bill on the evening, brought... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: YEASAYER/ALBERTA CROSS/SAM CHAMPION/FOALS/A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS @ MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN 10/18/07 (AFTER THE JUMP SHOWCASE)»
Posted on October 19, 2007 in Concert, MP3, Video (0 comments)
Tags: A Place To Bury Strangers | Alberta Cross | CMJ | Foals | Sam Champion | Yeasayer
While we were downing bloody marys with Sparrow House, Abbey was just a few blocks away at Arlene's Grocery, taking in a sweet set from, yes, Billy f'in Bragg. The man ripped through an eight-song set of classics and new... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: BILLY BRAGG @ ARLENE'S GROCERY, NYC 10/17/07»
Posted on October 18, 2007 in Concert (5 comments)
Tags: Billy Bragg | CMJ
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