So Pitchfork Is Hosting A Huge Music Festival Called #Offline In New York...
Well, that's one way to let CMJ know what you think of it, if you are the vast music recommendation website Pitchfork--by having a multi-day, 30-plus band festival in the middle of Williamsburg during...
View ArticleWhy Pitchfork Is Challenging CMJ With Their #Offline Festival
In case there was any doubt, it's now official: next week's Pitchfork-sponsored #Offline Festival will have no CMJ affiliation whatsoever. "This is purely a Pitchfork event," a representative for the...
View ArticleCMJ on Pitchfork's #Offline: "It Has Everything To Do With CMJ"
When, a couple days ago, Pitchfork announced they'd be hosting #Offline, a Brooklyn Bowl-based, three-day music festival in the midst of next week's CMJ, it seemed like a provocation, or at least a...
View ArticleCMJ Day Three: Maximum Balloon Deal With Dance-Music Bias At Pitchfork's...
Maximum Balloon Brooklyn Bowl Thursday, October 21 Last night, Pitchfork kicked off their #Offline Festival -- a three-day, anti-CMJ stint at Brooklyn Bowl. For many, this is a neatly packaged delivery...
View ArticleLive: Kanye West! The GZA! Brooklyn Bowl! Offline! CMJ!
Kanye West Brooklyn Bowl Saturday, October 23 Better than: Pretty much everything but the Blow. Let us go now to Brooklyn Bowl, where the hour is just past 2 a.m., the enthusiastic but mostly...
View ArticleLive: Zola Jesus, Glasser, And Deradoorian Battle Brooklyn Bowl's Actual...
Zola Jesus/Deradoorian/Glasser Brooklyn Bowl Friday, October 22 CMJ needs to abolish this whole badge thing. The festival has admirably justified its existence, but we still can't understand the math...
View ArticleTen Surprising & Strange Tributes to Billy Joel
In case you haven't noticed, Billy Joel is everywhere these days. And if him taking up permanent residence at Madison Square Garden wasn't enough, the Piano Man is preparing to headline Bonnaroo in...
View ArticleGood Times: Nile Rodgers Returns to the Apollo With Chic Hits
Though he’s been a prolific collaborator for an incredible array of artists, it’s been twenty-five years since Nile Rodgers released a full album of new material with Chic, the disco-funk ensemble...
View ArticleElliphant Pulls the Crowd (and Tove Lo!) Onstage to Rage in NYC
Over the past few years, Ellinor Olovsdotter, who performs under the name Elliphant, has released a string of EPs that have dipped into a number of different genres, from her dancehall influenced debut...
View ArticleParlour Tricks Move Past Broken Hearts and Bones on Their Pop Journey
“It was an accident,” said Lily Cato of Parlour Tricks’ latest record. “We didn’t set out to make a pop album. We just set out to make some new music, and this is what came out.” If you’ve listened to...
View Article5 Seconds of Summer Prove They've Got Headliner Chops at First Major NYC Gig
At the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, the mostly-teenaged Australian band 5 Seconds of Summer took home the VMA for Song of the Summer with their My Chemical Romance-channeling single “She’s Kinda Hot.”...
View ArticleMadonna's Amy Schumer Ass-Kicking Was More American Than the GOP Debate
Last night at Madison Square Garden, a sold-out arena full of screaming, voguing and otherwise beside-themselves fans opted to spend the evening with Madonna and Amy Schumer instead of taking in the...
View ArticleRudimental Have a Ball With a High-Flying Ed Sheeran at Webster Hall
It's easy to spot the person listening to their favorite song in public. They're usually the one on the subway tapping their foot — even if it's accidentally tapping on someone else's — and shaking or...
View ArticleStromae Sings for His Cheries Madison Square Garden
Madonna singing "La Vie En Rose" with the ukulele at her Madison Square Garden shows might have seemed random two weeks ago, but leave it to the coeur rebelle to know the pop music weathervane better...
View ArticleStromae Sings for His Cheries at Madison Square Garden
Madonna singing "La Vie En Rose" with the ukulele at her Madison Square Garden shows might have seemed random two weeks ago, but leave it to the coeur rebelle to know the pop music weathervane better...
View ArticleMiley Cyrus Cries, Comforts Confused Fans (and John Mayer) With 'SNL' Return
Leave it to Miley Cyrus to host a Saturday Night Live season premiere, cry-sing her way through a song while wearing a pile of fake dreads double her body weight and upstage a presidential candidate in...
View ArticleHow Bushwick and the Internet Shaped MS MR's 'Grimy, Gritty, Dark' New Music
Lizzy Plapinger and Max Hershenow of MS MR are glad to be back on the road, if only because it gets them out of the “glorified dirty closet in Bushwick” where they recorded their new album, July's How...
View ArticleTom DeLonge is a Y.A. Novelist & Musical Theater-Penning Renaissance Man
“To all the dreamers out there on spaceship Earth, anything is possible.” That's how the dedication at the beginning of Tom DeLonge’s new novel, Poet Anderson …Of Nightmares reads. If anyone dreams big...
View ArticleThe Weeknd on 'SNL': Slick Moves, Amharic Grooves and a Surprise From Nicki...
Any man who can make Kanye West get up out of his chair at the VMAs to dance like a Cool Mom hearing "Party in the USA" for the first time as a prom chaperone is one to be commended, and Abel Tesfaye —...
View ArticleIssue a Warrant for Demi Lovato, 'Cause Girl Murdered 'Saturday Night Live'
In 2012, Demi Lovato was a judge on the American edition of The X Factor alongside Britney Spears, LA Reid and Simon Cowell. The standout viral clip from the broadcast talent show that season came...
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