This week on Required Listening: Shout out to support P.O.S., get totally feather Dusted and climb into Melody’s Echo Chamber.
Required Listening for this week: addictive indie rock from You Can Be A Wesley, totally crushing on Soko, disturbed and elated by The Features as rodents.
Woods is sprouting roots throughout the soundscape, this Soft Swells song will never end and Captured Tracks is a label on a roll.
From the moment you walk in you instantly feel the good vibes. Dim lighting in contrast with the well lit stage, beautiful music streaming through the speaker system, and a music loving crowd that surrounded the band from the floor to the upper balcony; all ingredients needed to make for extremely entertaining evening.
Friday night’s Pitchfork showcase was one of the most buzzed-about events of CMJ in 2012, and it delivered on all fronts.
I decided to skip to the Worldโs Greatest Ballroom, the Roseland on W. 52nd to see one of the most influential British bands of all time, New Order.
A lot of our friends from the College Radio scene are hitting NYC this week for the annual CMJ Music Marathon and are kindly sending us some excellent reviews of what’s happening on the ground. CMJ is always a look into the future of music so hop into the DeLorean.
Screw pumpkins and cooler weather? We’re heading to the shore with 4 excellent beach videos by Freelance Whales, Sleeping With Sirens, Cayucas and Mac DeMarco.
On this week’s ‘Required Listening.’ Whistling dixie with Angus Stone, skinny dipping with Breathe Owl Breathe and taking a foot to the face with Riff Raff.
Welcome to the first ever Required Listening blog crush-a-thon wherein we laud praise and adoration upon the things that have been relentlessly streaming into our earholes, dilating our pupils and causing surges of fanboy/girl love bliss.