Sentimentalist Magazine

CMJ 2007: Sentimentalist Magazine Photo Gallery

Sentimentalist Magazine couldn’t be at every show, but we tried our best. Here are some memorable shots from a few of our fave showcases last week…

Dan Deacon’s Bowery love-in. This guy knows how to bring the joy

U.N.K.L.E., CMJ 10.18.07, Webster Hall NYC: Sentimentalist Magazine Review

Though the sound was absolutely horrid, the Godfather of Trip-hop known as U.N.K.L.E. – a.k.a. James Lavelle – came to New York City for the first time via Webster Hall, debuting a live rendition of all those demonic bleeps and dirty Joy Division fuzz he’s known so well for. For the most part it [...]

Clare Muldaur of Clare & The Reasons : Sentimentalist Magazine Interview

Clare Muldaur is all about contrasts.
Growing up in Martha’s Vineyard, she admits to being a “total barn rat, a horse girl” but her blues musician father (Geoff Muldaur of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band), nurtured in her a love of music that was heavily steeped in the sounds of Sam Cooke, Mildred Bailey, Bessie Smith, [...]

Nada Surf Announces ‘Lucky’ New Record and Tour

On February 5, 2008, Nada Surf will release its fifth LP, Lucky, on Barsuk Records, co-produced by the band and John Goodmanson. Recorded at Seattle’s Robert Lang Studios, a studio whose walls would surely write a bestseller (Nirvana and Foo Fighters have laid down tracks there), we’re told that Lucky promises to be “filled [...]

PJ Harvey, Beacon Theatre NYC, 10.10.07 : Sentimentalist Magazine Review

It’s quite a challenge, emotionally and professionally, to put words to blank paper about PJ Harvey, and feel that any chosen attributions do her justice. So much to say, really, about this delicate piano-playing, autoharp-strumming Bronte. And yet, in all of my speechlessness, I keep coming back to one word: awe.