New York City is pretty much already the definition of sensory overload, all by itself, on a random Tuesday, in the middle of nothing, when half of the city calls in sick. So when it's time for the annual cluster-you-know-what known as the CMJ Music Marathon? If I were Johnny-Five, my circuits would have shorted. Lucky for you, I just eeked by in the "living to tell about it" category, so I here I am, living. And telling you about it! In no particular order, I present to you: my favorite finds from CMJ 2011.
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Last weekend, after weeks and months of ignoring some band I kept getting emails about from Lafayette, LA named GIVERS, I came face to face with them at the Hi-Tone in Memphis for the Grammy GPS showcase & panels. I had planned to hang out for Cities Aviv and then go home, but once they took to the stage, I became completely engaged with what was happening in front of me. Continue Reading...
As the unofficially official wunderkind of the dubstep modernist set (and currently most important name you need to know in music), 21-year-old James Blake had a lot of expectation laid upon him when he took the stage during SXSW 2011 at Stubb's Bar-B-Que last night. Continue Reading...
We've been consciously anticipating the release of Bosco Delrey's forthcoming album on Mad Decent/Downtown Records, Everybody Wah, for some time now. Continue Reading...
If power pop is really not your thing, you're probably in the wrong spot. To my excitement, it happens to be the thing of Vancouver, BC darlings Mother Mother whose third studio album, Eureka, is due for release on 15 March worldwide. Continue Reading...
Tyler the Creator of OFWGKTA drops a video for the single "Yonkers" from his forthcoming album Goblin. You can cop this single on 2/15 from iTunes.
If you don't know about OFWGKTA, they've got next, like it or not -- so get familiar. Prepare to be outraged and amazed at the same time.
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ODD FUTURE WOLF GANG KILL THEM ALL ON TOUR
02/14 - Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall
02/15 - New York, NY @ Santos Partyhouse
02/17 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Barbary
02/22 - San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
04/15 - Indio, CA @ Coachella Music Festival ...
Memphis today has its fair share of people grinding away at what we would call 'traditional hip-hop' -- and if you're familiar with the city's Oscar-winning exploits, you'd see this as an opposing force to what the city is best known for creating. Memphis is, after all, the city that brought you Three 6 Mafia, Yo Gotti and Al Kapone, just to name a few. The current cultural emphasis on chillwave, lo-fi, echoes of latter-day indie rock and game-spitting masters of hip-hop like Guru (R.I.P), Mos Def and Pete Rock, have subliminally entered the regional zeitgeist, trickling down ...
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