As of now, it looks like the number of artists performing at this year’s CMJ Music Marathon is exceeding 1.200. It seems that the folks at CMJ and Music Plus have anticipated some possible head explosions, and created CMJ Discover – a search tool that helps you find the best artists to check out based
Weekend After previewing their shows and choosing them as concert picks more than once, I finally, finally got to see Weekend. A live show review of these guys was really well overdue on BestNewBands.com, so with this post I am rectifying that. Added bonus: catching them at my forgotten favorite venue Mercury Lounge to even
Image by Alex Disenhof Psychedelic pop duo Pepper Rabbit are playing Mercury Lounge tonight, along with Brooklyn’s own ambient rock outfit We Barbarians, plus the tropical melodic sounds of ANR. This is a great chance to catch Pepper Rabbit live to see them do their wide array of instrument looping and switching thing, adding a
I realized last night that it’s quite possible that I see more shows at Mercury Lounge than anywhere else. I walked up to see Vetiver with Luke Rathborne, and the bouncer informed that he didn’t need to see my ID anymore because he knows who I am by now. The woman inside who runs the
Early shows in the summer always feel strange to me, since it’s just so bright outside. Last night (or day), I checked out the early show at Mercury Lounge where Other Lives played, with Ravens & Chimes as support. Even though I was going out to a show when the sun still seemed too high
Dirty Beaches, the one-man band of Alex Zhang Hungtai, is quite possibly one of the most intriguing artists that I’ve recently come across. There’s something mysterious in his music that sounds like nostalgic echoes from decades ago. After I caught his show at the Mercury Lounge, I really couldn’t get over how much tension and
Last night I once again had a reason to race to an early show at Mercury Lounge: Dirty Beaches. This one man band of Alex Zhang Hungtai had peaked my interest after I had heard about his cinematic lone traveler-themed music, and when I checked it out for myself I was hooked on the song
This past Saturday night was the first time I had to wait in a long line to get into Mercury Lounge. I had just discovered Still Corners (and then fortuitously discovered they had a show here), and had thought of Papercuts as being a very under the radar band as well, so I was a
When Sebastian Bernarski won a pair of tickets to see The Parlotones at The Mercury Lounge in New York City this week, he took his camera to the show, and he shared some of his pics with us. We’ll be giving away tickets to see the band in Portland and Los Angeles in the next
On the warmest night so far this year, Asobi Seksu played a sold out show at Mercury Lounge. This night’s lineup consisted of all bands representing New York, mainly Brooklyn (what up!). The opener, Elika, is an electro pop duo from Brooklyn, with a guy on knobs/laptop, and a girl on vocals. It was hard