When premiering Small Black's "Bad Lover," we accompanied the MP3 with the catchy J&MC-echoing pop tune "Despicable Dogs," its Washed Out remix, and plenty of background information on the duo of ex-Slowlander Josh Kolenik and Ryan Heyner and their self-titled... CONTINUE READING NEW SMALL BLACK - "KINGS OF ANIMALS"»
Posted on November 3, 2009 in Album Art, MP3 (5 comments)
Tags: Small Black | The Golden Filter
One last gargantuan batch of photos from an exhausting, exhaustive week of NYC showgoing. On Friday Jessica Amaya joined us at Doveman's record release party at the Elevated Hole, a Chelsea loft owned by the Yale English Dept. chair Michael... CONTINUE READING CMJ '09: WEEKEND IN PHOTOS»
Posted on October 26, 2009 in Concert, Photo (2 comments)
Tags: A Place To Bury Strangers | Acrylics | Bear In Heaven | Bryce Dessner | Chris Taylor | CMJ | Cold Cave | Cymbals Eat Guitars | Dawn Landes | Delorean | Dent May | Doveman | Dum Dum Girls | Glasser | Golden Triangle | Harlem | Highlife | Imaad Wasif | Javelin | JBM | Kiss Kiss | Lemonade | Local Natives | Lovvers | Pete And The Pirates | Rain Machine | Real Estate | School Of Seven Bells | Sean Bones | Sean Lennon | Sharon Van Etten | Small Black | Smith Westerns | Stricken City | Surf City | Surfer Blood | Tanlines | Ted Leo | The Moondoggies | The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | The xx | Three And Nine | Titus Andronicus | Turbo Fruits | Violens
On Thursday at CMJ the xx played theIr 66th and 67th shows of the week -- one at the Apple Store SoHo, another as the "x-rated" secret guest at the horribly delayed, horribly sweaty Club NME showcase at the Delancey.... CONTINUE READING CMJ '09: THURSDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on October 24, 2009 in Concert, Photo (0 comments)
Tags: A Place To Bury Strangers | Alec Ounsworth | Bear Hands | CMJ | Crystal Antlers | Delorean | Freelance Whales | Happy Hollows | Hockey | Japandroids | Local Natives | Lovvers | Male Bonding | Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson | Peggy Sue | Real Estate | Rebecca Shiffman | Reni Lane | Sky Larkin | Small Black | Suckers | Surfer Blood | The Antlers | The xx | We Are Enfant Terrible | Yes Giantess
As far as full-on noon-to-2AM marathon set hunting goes, Wednesday's spread won't be topped this year. In addition to bringing us memorable sets from two bands we'll be watching much more closely in Sleigh Bells and Golden Silvers, the day... CONTINUE READING CMJ '09: WEDNESDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on October 23, 2009 in Concert, Photo (5 comments)
Tags: Apache Beat | Beach Fossils | CMJ | Cymbals Eat Guitars | Deastro | Dutchess Says | Eternal Summers | Evan Voytas | Faces On film | Fool's Gold | Free Energy | Freelance Whales | Golden Silvers | Grooms | Holopaw | I Was A King | Javelin | Malajube | Midnight Juggernauts | NewVillager | Real Estate | Seven Saturdays | Sleigh Bells | Small Black | Stilly Flyin' | Stricken Sound | Suckers | Surfer Blood | The xx | Theophilus London | These United States | Ungdomskulen | VEGA
Despite the pre-CMJ buzz that this year was gonna be a buzzkill -- or maybe because of it -- so far the fest has turned out a surprising number of notable new artists, sets, and showcases. You can't see all... CONTINUE READING CMJ '09: TUESDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on October 22, 2009 in Concert, Photo (3 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Dave Hill | Fanfarlo | Holiday Shores | Javelin | Laura Marlng | Little Girls | Monsters Of Folk | Motel Motel | Nathaniel Rateliff And The Wheel | Sisters | Small Black | The Antlers | The Rocketboys | The Walter Schreifels Band | Think About Life
A few years ago a band called Slowlands had a few of us convinced they were on to something great. That band was built on crystalline guitars, glockenspiels, laptops, all very much in the spirit of those days, but none... CONTINUE READING NEW SMALL BLACK - "BAD LOVER" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on September 23, 2009 in MP3 (5 comments)
Tags: Small Black | Vampire Weekend | Washed Out
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Rain Machine - Give Blood (»)
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Beck - Little Hands (Feat. Feist, Wilco And Jamie Lidell) (»)
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Yeasayer - Ambling Alp (Memory Tapes Remix) (»)
Solange - Stillness Is The Move (Dirty Projectors Cover) (»)
Pearl Harbor - California Shakedown (»)
LoneLady - Immaterial (»)
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Family Portrait - Super Cool (»)
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Bear In Heaven - Dust Cloud (»)
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Atlas Sound - The Screens (»)
Cloud Nothings - Hey Cool Kid (»)
The Mary Onettes - Dare (»)
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Digital Leather - Photo Lie (»)
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