Recent Articles
Moonbabies at On The Side @ Seaport, 10.23.09
Ah, the festival curse: never enough time to fit in every must see band. After multiple failed attempts, I finally caught up with Moonbabies for their final CMJ week show. This one happened to fall late on Friday (in actuality, very early Saturday) at On The Side @ Seaport, a new gallery and performance space [...]
Montrealers Among Us: Malajube, We Are Wolves and Duchess Says, CMJ Day 2, 10.21.09
The M pour/for Montreal Night at Arlene’s Grocery showcased bands from Montreal, playing a packed house at Arlene’s Grocery. Included were We Are Wolves, Malajube and the fiery Duchess Says. Though I came in midway through We Are Wolves and couldn’t get close enough to the stage so see all they had going on, they [...]
A Pre-SXSW Chat with New Zealand’s Cut Off Your Hands
Since we first caught New Zealand’s Cut off Your Hands at a NYC CMJ showcase two years ago, around the time their Shaky Hands EP had just landed, it seems apropos that they’ve not only become one of our favorite festival acts, but one of our favorite international bands, as well as one of the [...]
What’s CMJ? Crashin’ In and Sentimentalist Magazine Party 10.19.07
Our friends at Crashin’ In had the fabulously insane idea of putting on a marathon-of-a-party during CMJ week. Naturally, we had to be a part of it. We had some of the top bands in town from near and far playing on our tiny(ish) Galapagos stage. Foals, Jay Reatard, Foreign Born, Blackstrap, Chairlift, Shock Cinema, [...]
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
What’s CMJ? Party!
We know, we know. You’re already exhausted from planning your CMJ schedule to the minute and millisecond. Us too. And here’s one more thing to add to your schedule for Friday, Oct. 19th. From 12pm until 4am at Galapagos in Brooklyn, join Crashin’ In, Sentimentalist Magazine and more of NYC’s finest music shakers at the [...]
