COLLABORATIVE ALBUM ONE FAST MOVE OR I'M GONE: KEROUAC'S BIG SUR OUT OCTOBER 20 ON F-STOP/ATLANTIC
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One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur, a new album featuring 12 original songs composed and performed by Jay Farrar of Son Volt and Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie--with lyrics based on the prose of Jack Kerouac's landmark 1962 novel Big Sur--is set for an October 20 release  |
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California, US: U2 have confirmed via video blog that their sold-out concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in California, Sunday 25th October 2009 will be streamed free, in full and live on YouTube. It's the first time a show of this size will be streamed live.
The Rose Bowl show is th | They also announce a headline date of their own.
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The Clientele formed a long time ago in the backwoods of suburban Hampshire, playing together as kids at school, rehearsing in a thatched cottage remote from any kind of music scene, but hypnotised by the magical strangeness of Galaxie 500 and Felt, and the psych pop of Love and the Zombies. Duri | Out November 2nd on Feraltone
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Put the name 'Daniel Johnston' into any Internet search engine and you will find hundreds of pages about America's most unlikely pop phenomenon. Dating back to the earliest compilation of Songs of Pain in 1981, Johnston has spent nearly three decades exposing his heartrending tales of unrequit |
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Recorded over the Winter and Spring of 2009, Espers III was intended to be an aural tonic to the layered fullness of the band's second offering. The idea was to record as little as possible in the hope of achieving a stronger, more oxygenated sonic presence. Where II was meant to be almo |
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Pascal Babare was born in southern Australia, the son of a choral singer and a composer. His mother can only hear in one ear and sings like an angel; his father was the first ex-gangster to join the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Raised in and out of ashrams on a diet of Pet Sounds and droni | Year In The Kingdom Out NOW On Western Vinyl
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Year In The Kingdom unravels some kind of galactic wilderness. Tillman's 6th album lyrically borders on mystic; proffering a transcendent union, an effortlessness. Strange and honest, this song cycle inhabits it's own idea-scape; one seemingly obsessed with wrestling death. These are afterli |
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Lisbon's Buraka Som Sistema were one of the breakout acts of 2009 with their debut album ‘Black Diamond’ (featuring hits "Sound of Kuduro" & "Kalemba").
Their now infamous live show - hailed by New York Times as the "best of Coachella Festival 2009" and received a glowing 5* live review from t Last chatter by jack s | 2 Comments  |
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Kartel can announce the official UK release of Tommy T's debut album ' The Prester John Sessions' to be released
on US label Easy Star Records on January 25th and exclusively available on I tunes now. Dub, jazz and Tommy's
super-charged and outer-worldly big band all lend a hand in turning t | "GROWING" MP3, CMJ THIS WEEK!
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Toronto-based group Little Girls (Josh McIntyre and co.) are releasing the two songs that bookend their debut full-length, Concepts, as they make a pit stop at CMJ on their North American tour with Japandroids, Monotonix, You Say Party! We Say Die! Wavves, and Nurses among others. The first is |
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Here Come The Regulars, the first book penned by indie music scene wunderkind Ian Anderson, hits shelves and Amazon.com today. Anderson's book is required reading for anyone with big ideas about starting a record label, but only a small budget with which to make their dream come true. He |
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Owen Tromans grew up in The Black Country and led John Peel favourites San Lorenzo before pursuing a solo career that has seen him release several acclaimed albums and tour extensively, playing with the likes of Brian Jonestown Massacre, Idlewild, Plush and The Autumn Defense. Owen has al |
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The BODEGA GIRLS "She's Into Black Guys" was featured on this season's Entourage, and the band have remixed the likes of Passion Pit, Sean Bones, Wild Light, and Port O'Brien. You can check out their appearance on NPR's Here And Now discussing their company Hector Fund which is based on f |
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Careful Love is out today and you can get it right NOW at iTunes! The album is Tim Williams' third full length and is his most recent labor of love. On this album Tim shares with the world his new found love for the West coast (a recent transplant from NYC) and his undeniable strength followi | Featuring Exclusive Brian Eno / Karl Hyde Collaboration
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The internationally revered techno superstars Underworld pay tribute to their art-school roots on their new compilation album, Athens. The first in a series, this rich musical mix is packed with rare grooves and cult gems from the outer limits of dance music, jazz-rock, fusion and progressive po |
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he wait is over, Yo Gabba Gabba! fans! Yo Gabba Gabba! Music Is… Awesome! arrives in stores today, via FILTER US Recordings! The album, available here, features The Shins, Of Montreal, The Roots, and of course the whole Yo Gabba Gabba! gang- DJ Lance Rock (Lance Robertson) and a cast of colorf | An Installation Combing Illustrations and Projections Following Human Relationships Through Diverse, And Often Clashing, Societies; Running October 2
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303GRAND, Williamsburg's newest and most unique short term retail rental space, is pleased to announce it's latest gallery showing, an installation by internationally renown and The Next Generation Design Leader Grant winner, Dongyun Lee. "Eternal Flow" opens on October 28th at 7PM and ru | Showcase Information and Artist Schedules
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Polyvinyl Records CMJ Showcase
10/23 Brooklyn, NY @ Bell House
Doors @ 6:00 PM | Show @ 7:00 PM
Japandroids - 1:00 AM
Headlights - 12:00 AM
James Husband - 11:00 PM
Cale Parks - 10:00 PM |
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Tom Brosseau’s third full-length for FatCat, Posthumous Success, marks a huge stylistic shift away from the spare, acoustic arrangements of his previous releases, notably 2007‘s Cavalier, produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Eels). During spring, summer and fall of 2008, Brosseau worked with t | OUNSWORTH TO DEBUT SONGS LIVE AT NEW YORK'S CMJ FESTIVAL THIS WEEK
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Alec Ounsworth, charismatic frontman for celebrated rockers Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, releases his much anticipated solo album, Mo Beauty, today on Anti-Records. Recorded deep in the heart of musical New Orleans with an ensemble of local heavyweights including George Porter Jr. of the Meters a | Above & Beyond / Calvin Harris (DJ Set) / Sander van Doorn / Laidback Luke + More
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The Cream party wagon rolls into town on Boxing night for its final fling of the year. The team behind the award winning Cream, have pulled out all the stops to deliver an all star unbeatable line up for this years Christmas party, that culminates one of the brands biggest years ever, havi | "%" merges prismatic noise, acid-soaked guitars, and propulsive grooves
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DINOWALRUS merge prismatic noise, acid-soaked guitars, and propulsive grooves thrusting noise-rock into the future. The Brooklyn-based drum n' drone trio began when Pete, an unemployed architectural designer and installation artist, met Kyle, an abstract painter and wine-store manager, whi |
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