CMJ Crush: Dan Croll @ Mercury Lounge
altcitizen
October 20, 2013
Review: Dan Croll @ Mercury Lounge (10/17) Dan Croll’s name has been tossed around the CMJ bustle for the last few weeks and last night
Review: Dan Croll @ Mercury Lounge (10/17) Dan Croll’s name has been tossed around the CMJ bustle for the last few weeks and last night
Review: Dynasty Electric @ Bowery Ballroom (10/18) Dynasty Electric, psych-pop duo out of Brooklyn, is the most magnetic energy that I’ve seen in a while.
Review: Caveman @ Rockwood Music Hall (10/15) At the number one spot on The Deli’s Best NYC Emerging Artists of 2012, there’s little doubt that
Review: Nova Rockafeller @ Tammany Hall (10/18) We came a little late to Nova’s set on Friday night at Tammany Hall, and walked into a
Silent Rider, a self-described minimalist, indie-pop act from Brooklyn, was a pleasant repose from the overwhelming sea of bands descending on CMJ during the past
Review: Lucius @ Brooklyn Bowl (10/15) “Scary good” is my take on what’s been hands-down the main attraction of my very limited CMJ experience thus
Review: Seasick Mama @ Studio at Webster Hall (10/15) As Seasick Mama told me herself in an interview a couple months ago, her new EP,
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CON VOS, a new group from NYC have shared their video for the equal parts dreamy and catchy “Central Park” from their upcoming Cocoon Bloom
Frankie Rose is great. She is celebrating the release of a new album, Herein Wild, released on September 24th. You know who else is pretty great?
Photo filtered and shot to loosely mimic an acid trip, Danny Brown’s brand new video for “Dope Song” features the Detroit rapper riding around his
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The use of the recorder on the first track of Tally All The Things That you Broke is worth the price of admission alone. Parquet Courts
Savior is an album about the grief that someone deals with after a break up. This isn’t a new concept. But the way that Savior slowly shows
Allison Crutchfield, one half of the coolest twins in music (take that Ying Yang Twins!), and her band mate Kyle Gilbride have released a new
Local punk band Hunters debut their self-titled album and release wild new video for “Narcissist.” Seems like these two know how to remain unaffected by
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Because you obviously need another writer telling you that HAIM is awesome, I am here to tell you the following: HAIM is awesome. The Cali-based
Savages released the excellent Silence Yourself earlier in the year. The band has now released a video for the excellent “Husbands” of that same album. The John
Charli XCX releases colorful new visuals for “SuperLove” off her debut album, True Romance, and announces US Tour dates. Shot in Tokyo and directed by
Despite A$AP Rocky telling MTV that he and Rihanna were “just chillin’” in a conspicuously set-like area in Manhattan last month, they were actually making
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It’s been over a year since the Scottish trio first teased listeners with their incurably addicting singles “Lies” and “The Mother We Share,” and after
The ladies of Habibi make the kind of music that I can listen to for days. This Brooklyn-based group spins delicate surf-pop songs with grace
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“Pretty Green” starts with the lyrics “Right before I met you, things were getting pretty green.” Now, I’m not sure exactly what green they are
If you had to choose to do MDMA with one artist, Danny Brown probably wouldn’t be too far from the top of the list. While