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Genre Spotlight: 5 Solo Acts To See At CMJ Music Marathon 2014
Arc Iris The lineup for CMJ Music Marathon 2014 has its fair share of misnomers. There’s an all girl Toronto punk band called the Beverleys, but there are also bands called the Britanys and Christines...
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Q&A: Bully
Nashville’s Bully play blistering, hooky garage pop. Fueled by the songwriting and guitar-wielding skills of Alicia Bognanno, the band has trickled out a series of online EPs and vinyl 7-inches to an...
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Track Premiere: Shark Week – “Desire”
Shark Week are still putting the finishing touches on their upcoming LP Beach Fuzz, but the Washington, D.C. surf-punk band was kind enough to give CMJ an exclusive taste of what’s to come. Here’s...
View ArticleNude Beach – 77
Brooklyn’s Nude Beach have a new record out on Tuesday called 77. The significance of the album’s title is not totally clear. Although 77 is a double album, its contents do not add up to 77 minutes of...
View ArticleWhat’s Cookin’ With Yellerkin?
We recently caught up with CMJ 2014 performers Yellerkin, and they were nice enough to make us dinner! The Brooklyn experimental pop duo’s Adrian Galvin and Luca Buccellati showed us a thing or two...
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Watch: Twin Peaks – “Making Breakfast” Video
Chicago’s Twin Peaks released their second LP, Wild Onion, earlier this year, an album that solidified their reputation as masters of self-consciously sloppy, deceptively catchy garage pop. Today, the...
View ArticleWatch Sunflower Bean Play The CMJ Offices
We invited CMJ 2014 artists Sunflower Bean into our offices for what may have been the loudest happy hour on record. The New York rock ‘n’ roll trio played a spellbinding set of their massive, spacious...
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Watch: Frankie Cosmos – “Art School” Video
Today the world got a video for Frankie Cosmos’ Art School, the opening track from her album (and first proper studio LP) Zentropy, released back in March. The melancholic spurt of a pop song serves...
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Watch: Lucius – “Hey Doreen” Video
At the center of Brooklyn quintet Lucius is Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, whose frequent matching haircuts, dresses and makeup harkens back to a sixties “girl group” aesthetic. At the root of their...
View ArticleCMJ 2014 Sessions @ NYU: Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Tuesday’s daytime programming started CMJ Music Marathon off with an enlightening bang. Session attendees saw lively discussions about the modern state of feminism (featuring Jessica Numsuwankijkul of...
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Stream Antarctigo Vespucci’s I’m So Tethered EP
Antarctigo Vespucci is something of a supergroup, a project founded as a lark by Jeff Rosenstock (of the recently-disbanded Bomb The Music Industry!) and Fake Problems’ Chris Farren. Their first EP,...
View ArticleThe Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave
Scotland’s the Twilight Sad have amassed an impressive catalogue of indie rock at its most brooding. What makes their music unusual, and particularly compelling, is that they convey gloom, not with...
View ArticleAn Interview With Nuns
We sat down with Hank Hanewinkel III, the mastermind behind CMJ 2014 performing artist Nuns, on the evening of their set at the Bowery Ballroom as a part of Champion’s official CMJ showcase with The...
View ArticleDeptford Goth – Songs
Songs, the sophomore LP from Daniel Woolhouse under the Deptford Goth moniker, finds the London producer audibly shifting his focus to songwriting. The result, which pushes his vocals closer to the...
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Track Premiere: Future Of What – “Party In Heaven”
Brooklyn masters of mellow synth pop, Future Of What, are due to drop their proper full-length, Pro Dreams, in January. Today, CMJ has the exclusive premiere of album track Party In Heaven, an earlier...
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