CMJ 2014 Preview – Day One

CMJ '14 kicks off on Tuesday, October 21st....
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CMJ 2014 Preview

Another year, another CMJ. New York’s multi-venue music industry festival has had its ups and downs, but in 2014 seems to be on an upswing, with a slew of big shows to go with the millions of struggling bands at tiny places, Tuesday-to-Saturday, October 21st to 25th:

 

QRO recommended

 

Baby’s All Right, 146 Broadway, Brooklyn (free) (QRO venue review)
Tell All Your Friends PR
1:00 PM – Strange Names
MONEY1:50 PM – Slothrust
2:40 PM – Spires
3:30 PM – MONEY
4:20 PM – Happyness
5:10 PM – Peter Matthew Bauer
6:00 PM – Bo Ningen

Dealing in love, not lucre, MONEY (QRO live review) come to CMJ with a hot live show (QRO live review).

Catch Peter Matthew Bauer (QRO photos) of The Walkmen (QRO live review) play behind his new solo release, Liberation!.

Catch the Japanese-born (QRO photos at an Asian festival), London-based (QRO photos at a festival) acid-punk of four-piece Bo Ningen.

Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow St., Manhattan (official/free) (QRO venue review)
Capeshok
12:30 PM – Beach Day
Peter Matthew Bauer1:15 PM – Flowers
2:00 PM – Boyd Shropshire
2:45 PM – Casual Sex
3:30 PM – September Girls
4:15 PM – J Fernandez
5:00 PM – Curtin
5:45 PM – CYMBALS

Pianos, 158 Ludlow St., Manhattan (official/free) (QRO venue review)
1:00 PM – Saskwatch
1:45 PM – High Highs
2:30 PM – Mighty Oaks
3:15 PM – Heat
5:30 PM – Baby Alpaca

Pianos (Upstairs), 158 Ludlow St., Manhattan (official/free) (QRO venue review)
Free Williamsburg
1:00 PM – Small Death
1:50 PM – Little Racer
2:40 PM – Green Gerry
3:30 PM – Ski Lodge
4:20 PM – Glass Gang
5:10 PM – Quad
6:00 PM – Big Muff Radio

Rockwood Stage 1, 196 Allen St., Manhattan (official/free) (QRO venue review)
Rockethub
12:00 PM – Kelley Swindall
12:40 PM – niall connolly
1:20 PM – Buffalo Stack
Bo Ningen2:20 PM – Mariachi Flor de Toloache
3:20 PM – 2/3 Goat

 

Acheron, 57 Waterbury St., Brooklyn
Metal Injection/MetalSucks
8:00 PM – Moon Tooth
10:15 PM – King Parrot
11:00 PM – Inter Arma

Alphabet Lounge, 104 Avenue C, Manhattan
7:00 PM – Graveyard Lovers
7:45 PM – Northern American
8:30 PM – Grassfight
9:15 PM – Toy Cities

Baby’s All Right, 146 Broadway, Brooklyn (official/free) (QRO venue review)
Mom + Pop/M For Montreal
7:30 PM – Tei Shi
7:30 PM – Green Gerry
7:30 PM – Mikhael Paskalev
9:30 PM – DMA’s
12:00 AM – Honey
12:45 AM – HOMESHAKE
1:30 AM – Calvin Love
September Girls2:15 AM – The Mystery Lights
3:00 AM – oj pimpson

The Bitter End, 147 Bleecker St., Manhattan
L Rock Entertainment
7:00 PM – Armand Margjeka
7:40 PM – Aly Tadros
8:20 PM – Luke Elliot
9:00 PM – Joe Marson
9:40 PM – Cecilia Celeste
11:20 PM – Skunkmello
12:10 AM – Wyland

Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St., Manhattan (QRO venue review)
8:00 PM – Sons of an Illustrious Father
9:00 PM – Corbu
10:00 PM – Walking Shapes
11:00 PM – Oh Land

Bowery Electric, 327 Bowery, Manhattan (official/free)
EiPR/The Outlet Collective
6:00 PM – Kalen & the Sky Thieves
6:30 PM – Memoir
7:00 PM – The Grayces
7:30 PM – Red Oblivion
8:30 PM – Sleepy Hahas
9:00 PM – Thee Idea Men
9:30 PM – Ménage
10:00 PM – Butcher Knives
10:30 PM – Jesus On The Mainline
11:00 PM – The Dough Rollers
12:00 AM – Midnight High

Bowery Electric (Map Room), 327 Bowery, Manhattan (official/free)
L Rock Entertainment
5:00 PM – Ravens & Chimes
Cold War Kids5:40 PM – Craig Greenberg Band
6:20 PM – Meghann Wright
7:00 PM – Lisa Bianco
7:40 PM – Air For Ants
8:20 PM – Slim Wray
9:00 PM – Sons of Origin
10:20 PM – Beecher’s Fault
11:00 PM – Hey Anna
11:40 PM – Shirley House
12:20 AM – The Singularity
1:00 AM – ‘Nuf Said

Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave., Brooklyn (official or RSVP) (QRO venue review)
The Syndicate
8:00 PM – Chief Scout
9:00 PM – Aurora
11:00 PM – Cold War Kids

After a string of EPs, Fullerton, California’s Cold War Kids (QRO photos) blew up in 2006 with their full-length debut, Robbers & Cowards. While 2008’s Loyalty to Loyalty (QRO review) suffered something of a sophomore slump, 2011’s Mine Is Yours (QRO review) and last year’s Miss Lonelyhearts (QRO review) lifted things somewhat, and their live show (QRO live review) is still electric, especially outside (QRO live review outdoors) or at festivals (QRO photos at a festival), as they still ring with singles (QRO photos), from the more recent “Mine Is Yours” and “Audience” (QRO video) to their break-outs “We Used To Vacation”, “Hospital Beds” (QRO video), and “Hang Me Out To Dry” (QRO video).

Brooklyn Night Bazaar, 165 Banker St., Brooklyn
T Presents
7:30 PM – Beach Day
8:30 PM – Nuns
9:30 PM – PAWS
10:30 PM – Splashh
11:30 PM – DIIV

Brooklyn shoegaze outfit DIIV (QRO live review) – previously known as Dive (QRO photos) – come to a rare ticketed show at Brooklyn Night Bazaar, after releasing debut Oshin (QRO review) in 2012.

Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow St., Manhattan (QRO venue review)
Inflated
DIIV8:00 PM – Muuy Biien
8:50 PM – Young Buffalo
9:40 PM – Zula
10:30 PM – Native America
11:20 PM – Roman a Clef

Cameo Gallery, 93 N 6th St., Brooklyn (QRO venue review)
Oh My Rockness
8:00 PM – Amanda X
9:00 PM – Vasudeva
10:00 PM – Mannequin Pussy
11:00 PM – September Girls
12:00 AM – PINS

Manchester’s PINS (QRO photos) channel the Manchester of thirty years ago.

Carroll Place, 157 Bleecker St., Manhattan
6:00 PM – Monica Heldal
6:45 PM – Karl S. Williams
7:30 PM – Happy Lives
8:15 PM – Enola Fall
9:00 PM – Jupe Jupe
9:45 PM – Buffalo Sunn
10:30 PM – Tales in Space
PINS10:30 PM – LOVE X STEREO

Chez Andre, 25 Cooper Sq., Manhattan  (unofficial)
Standard Sounds
Jukebox the Ghost

Coco 66, 66 Greenpoint Ave., Brooklyn
6:00 PM – Ponyhof
7:00 PM – Go Back To The Zoo
8:00 PM – Without Parachutes
9:00 PM – The Delta Riggs
10:00 PM – ME
11:00 PM – The Dead Ships

The Delancey, 169 Delancey St., Manhattan
Turnstyle Music Group
6:00 PM – Tiny Victories
7:00 PM – Clam
8:00 PM – The Montauk Project
9:00 PM – Rocket & The Ghost
10:45 PM – Janna Pelle
11:30 PM – Sylvana Joyce + The Moment
12:15 AM – Clementine and the Galaxy
1:00 AM – Ugly Kids Club

Check out the space-dance of Clementine & The Galaxy (QRO photos at a festival).

The Delancey Upstairs, 169 Delancey St., Manhattan
Turnstyle Music Group
6:30 PM – Blacktop Daisy
Clementine & The Galaxy7:30 PM – Vince Azure
8:30 PM – Michelle Newman
9:30 PM – Mel Childs
10:30 PM – Anna Haas + The Effect
11:15 PM – DownBeat Keys

DROM, 85 Avenue A, Manhattan (QRO venue review)
ASCAP/Next2Shine
8:00 PM – Rainy Milo
8:30 PM – Kat Wright & The Indomitable Soul Band
9:00 PM – Taylor Berrett
9:30 PM – Sid Sriram
10:00 PM – Mary C and The Stellars
11:00 PM – The Rooks
11:30 PM – Jay Stolar
12:00 AM – The Suffers

The Flat, 308 Hooper St., Brooklyn (official/free)
FreeWilliamsburg
7:45 PM – LODRO
8:30 PM – Honduras
9:45 PM – HITS
10:30 PM – Turbogeist

Fontana’s, 105 Eldrige St., Manhattan (QRO venue review)
Funk Fest
7:00 PM – Nabiha
8:00 PM – DOWN NORTH
9:00 PM – Funky Dawgz Brass Band
10:00 PM – Blue Food
11:00 PM – Indigroove

HondurasFriends and Lovers, 641 Classon Ave., Brooklyn
8:00 PM – Stranger Cat
9:00 PM – The Point
10:00 PM – The Mast
11:00 PM – Psychic Twin

Glasslands, 289 Kent Ave., Brooklyn (QRO venue review)
Popgun Booking
8:45 PM – Dune Rats
9:30 PM – Spires
10:45 PM – CYMBALS

Grand Victory, 245 Grand St., Brooklyn
High Voltage PR/Diffuser.fm
7:00 PM – Broken Water
7:45 PM – Michael Sincavage of Low Fat Getting High (solo set)
8:30 PM – The Dead Ships
9:15 PM – Ruby Fray
10:00 PM – Darlings
10:45 PM – Dead Stars
11:30 PM – Love As Laughter

Hotel Chantelle, 92 Ludlow St., Manhattan
9:00 PM – Beatenberg
10:00 PM – YOLANDA Y’AWA
11:00 PM – Christian Tiger School

Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn (QRO venue review)
BMI
7:30 PM – The Wans
8:20 PM – Thief
Fly Moon Royalty10:00 PM – Charly Bliss
10:50 PM – Atarah Valentine
11:40 PM – VÉRITÈ

(le) Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St., Manhattan (QRO venue review)
Cleric
8:30 PM – Secret Chiefs 3

Left Field, 87 Ludlow St., Manhattan
8:00 PM – RANDOM RECIPE
9:00 PM – Baby In Vain
10:00 PM – Drop Electric
11:00 PM – Le Galaxie
12:00 AM – Thief

Left Field (Downstairs), 87 Ludlow St., Manhattan
7:00 PM – The Afternoon Edition
8:00 PM – Image Society
9:00 PM – Wonderful Humans
10:00 PM – Erel Pilo
11:00 PM – Lazer Cake

Lit Lounge, 93 2nd Ave., Manhattan (QRO venue review)
8:00 PM – The Ocean Party
8:45 PM – Shiloh
9:30 PM – Oracles
10:15 PM – Shark Week
11:00 PM – THE CAIROS
11:45 PM – Gold Lake

Littlefield, 622 Degraw St., Brooklyn (QRO venue review)
Studio Bancs
8:00 PM – Dreams in Static
8:30 PM – Secret Weapons
9:00 PM – Fly Moon Royalty
9:30 PM – DREAMERS
10:00 PM – The Feed
10:30 PM – Kosha Dillz
11:00 PM – Shinobi Ninja
Elizabeth & The Catapult11:30 PM – We Are Stations
12:00 AM – Loose Buttons
12:30 AM – The Longshots

Living Room, 134 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn
7:00 PM – Not Blood Paint
8:45 PM – Caleb Hawley
10:00 PM – Mosco Rosco
11:00 PM – Elizabeth & The Catapult
12:00 AM – Line & Circle

Marlin Room at Webster Hall, 125 East 11th St., Manhattan
BalconyTV
5:00 PM – Handsome Ghost
5:45 PM – Vinyl Thief
6:30 PM – Mainland
7:15 PM – Catey Shaw
8:00 PM – Stone Cold Fox
9:30 PM – Tiny Victories
10:30 PM – little daylight
11:30 PM – Carousel
12:15 AM – Paperwhite

Matchless, 557 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn (QRO venue review)
Rocker Stalker
7:45 PM – The Toxic Femmes
9:15 PM – Stroamata
10:00 PM – Cadaver Dogs
10:45 PM – The Wans
11:30 PM – STRNGRS

Mercury Lounge, 217 E Houston St., Manhattan (QRO venue review)
6:30 PM – Olga Bell
The Wans7:30 PM – Tom Vek
9:00 PM – BØRNS
10:00 PM – Slothrust
11:00 PM – Made Violent
12:00 AM – Ming City R*ckers

MOSCOT Gallery, 118 Orchard St., Manhattan (RSVP)
Young Guns

Muchmore’s, 2 Havemeyer St., Brooklyn
Aputumu
7:00 PM –  How To Be Topp
7:40 PM – Wonderbitch
8:20 PM – Loose Buttons
10:20 PM – Slavve
11:00 PM – Little Racer

Niagara, 112 Avenue A, Manhattan (official/free)
9:00 PM – Sharkmuffin
10:00 PM – The Bowery Riots
11:00 PM – Prospector

Palisades, 906 Broadway, Brooklyn
9:00 PM – Washer
9:45 PM – Heliotropes
10:30 PM – Celestial Shore
11:15 PM – Roomrunner

Heliotropes (QRO photos at a festival) evolved from a Craigslist ad to a full-fledged act with last year’s A Constant Sea.

Paper Box, 17 Meadow St., Brooklyn (official/free)
No Sleep Records/Brooklyn Vegan
6:00 PM – Maps For Travelers
6:35 PM – Foreign Tongues
7:10 PM – In Between
Heliotropes7:45 PM – Rescuer
8:20 PM – Run Forever
8:55 PM – Aviator
9:30 PM – The Felix Culpa
10:05 PM – Xerxes
10:35 PM – Chris Farren
11:10 PM – ‘68
11:50 PM – John Nolan

No Sleep (records) ‘Til Brooklyn (vegan)!

Parkside Lounge, 317 E Houston St., Manhattan
7:00 PM – Fixtures
8:00 PM – Every Flavor Weather Machine
9:00 PM – Roz and the Rice Cakes
10:00 PM – Arc Iris

Jocie Adams left The Low Anthem (QRO spotlight on) to head her own project, Arc Iris (QRO photos).

Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St., Brooklyn (official/free) (QRO venue review)
Riot Act PR
5:10 PM – Conveyor
5:50 PM – Benjamin Verdoes
Arc Iris6:30 PM – Melaena Cadiz
7:10 PM – Hundreds
7:50 PM – Monomyth
9:00 PM – Sorcha Richardson
10:00 PM – Beautiful Ground
11:00 PM – iNCH.

Pianos, 158 Ludlow St., Manhattan (QRO venue review)
Banners
7:00 PM – Go Wolf
7:45 PM – In-Flight Safety
9:15 PM – Fort Lean
10:00 PM – Modern Rivals
11:30 PM – Yellerkin
12:15 AM – Sunflower Bean
1:00 AM – Mainland
1:00 AM – Kosha Dillz
1:30 AM – Soho Kings
1:45 AM – The Prettiots
2:00 AM – Dreams in Static
2:30 AM – Kokoro
3:15 AM – Inner City Kids

Pianos (Upstairs), 158 Ludlow St., Manhattan (official/free) (QRO venue review)
Banners
7:30 PM – HIGHS
8:15 PM – Painted Zeros
9:00 PM – The Due Diligence
Fort Lean9:45 PM – Canon Logic
10:30 PM – Jack + Eliza

Radio Bushwick, 22 Wyckoff Ave., Brooklyn (QRO venue review)
8:30 PM – The Morning Sea
9:15 PM – Nallo
10:45 PM – Brett Saxon
11:30 PM – Swagger Dagger

Rock Shop, 249 4th Ave., Brooklyn (QRO venue review)
8:00 PM – Gypsy George & the Open Road Love Affair
9:00 PM – Fiona Silver
10:00 PM – CLEO T.
11:00 PM – Slang King

Rockwood Stage 1, 196 Allen St., Manhattan (official/free) (QRO venue review)
5:00 PM – BAILEN
6:00 PM – Shayfer James
7:00 PM – Matthew Santos
8:00 PM – The Reign of Kindo
9:00 PM – Shayna Steele
10:00 PM – Michael Daves
11:00 PM – 10 String Symphony
1:00 AM – The WilHelmus.! Trio at Large

Rockwood Stage 2, 196 Allen St., Manhattan (official/free) (QRO venue review)
WFUV/Squarespace/Communion
5:00 PM – Horse Thief
Son Little6:00 PM – Elle King
7:00 PM – Son Little
8:00 PM – Happyness
9:30 PM – Monica Heldal
10:30 PM – Little May
11:30 PM – Fractures
12:30 AM – Honey Wild

Catch the angular blues of Son Little.

Rockwood Stage 3, 196 Allen St., Manhattan (official/free) (QRO venue review)
5:00 PM – Tom West
6:00 PM – Matt Walters
7:00 PM – Owen Beverly
8:00 PM – Dan MIlls
9:00 PM – Joseph
10:00 PM – Amy Vachal
11:00 PM – Akie & Lynette
12:00 AM – Watching for Foxes

Rough Trade NYC, 64 N 9th St., Brooklyn (official/free) (QRO venue review)
Music Is Great/Ben Sherman
8:00 PM – Longfellow
9:00 PM – Spring King
10:00 PM – MONEY
11:00 PM – The Crookes

S.O.B.s, 204 Varick St., Manhattan
7:30 PM – Trial & Era
7:30 PM – DP

Santos Party House, 96 Lafayette St., Manhattan (QRO venue review)
6:15 PM – Karma Darwin
7:00 PM – The Pink Tacos
8:00 PM – The Freaky Baby Daddies
9:00 PM – Darling Czar
10:00 PM – The Attic Ends

Shea Stadium, 20 Meadow St., Brooklyn (QRO venue review)
Texas Is Funny
9:45 PM – Vetter Kids
10:30 PM – Glish
11:15 PM – Ex-Breathers

The HorrorsSpike Hill, 186 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn (QRO venue review)
6:25 PM – Beechwood
7:00 PM – The Feed
8:30 PM – STRNGRS
9:15 PM – Smoke Season
10:00 PM – Born Cages
10:45 PM – Tsela (say-la)
12:15 AM – Soldout
1:00 AM – Oracle Room

Stage 48, 605 W 48th St., Manhattan (QRO venue review)
The Bowery Presents
8:00 PM – The Horrors
8:00 PM – Moon Duo

Southend’s The Horrors followed up 2007 debut Strange House with 2009’s Primary Colours (QRO review) and 2011’s Skying (QRO review), as their once-called ‘zombie death punk’ brings new power live (QRO live review). They return to New York (QRO live review in New York) to CMJ behind this year’s Luminous (QRO review).

The Studio @ Webster Hall, 125 East 11th St., Manhattan (QRO venue review)
New Zealand/World War Trading
6:00 PM – Chelsea Jade
6:40 PM – Doprah
Moon Duo7:20 PM – Orchestra of Spheres
10:20 PM – tiny deaths
10:40 PM – Father Dude
11:00 PM – Amy Lynn & The Gunshow
11:25 PM – OXYMORRONS
12:25 AM – RYE RYE
12:25 AM – Jason Smith

New Zealand is more than just Lord of the Rings and Lorde…

Trash Bar, 256 Grand St., Brooklyn
8:00 PM – The Chloes
9:30 PM – GHXST
10:15 PM – Vomitface
11:00 PM – L.A. WITCH
11:45 PM – Nox Boys

Union Hall, 702 Union St., Brooklyn (QRO venue review)
9:00 PM – NEW MYTHS
10:00 PM – In-Flight Safety

JamesUnion Pool, 484 Union Ave., Brooklyn (QRO venue review)
YVYNYL
8:00 PM – The #1s
8:45 PM – Dilly Dally
9:15 PM – J Fernandez
10:00 PM – Heat
10:45 PM – Lydia Ainsworth
11:30 PM – Guy Blakeslee

Webster Hall, 125 East 11th St., Manhattan (QRO venue review)
8:30 PM – Elle King
9:15 PM – James

James (QRO spotlight on) are back! You fell in love with the group (QRO live review) thanks to wonderful 1993 single “Laid”, but they were already part of the ‘Madchester’ scene since the late eighties. The group (QRO live review) went on a hiatus as singer Tim Booth (QRO interview) did solo work, but reunited (QRO photos at a festival) behind Hey Ma, The Night Before The Morning After (QRO review), and this year’s La Petit Mort (QRO review), are now play a special NYC show at Webster Hall (QRO live review at Webster Hall)

 

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