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QRO's gonna be tearing it up at the Big Apple's CMJ next week, so we've got to get ready - and so do you. So here's a primer on the who we want to see, when we want to see them, and where we're gonna see them. We're not gonna catch all these acts, but we're gonna throw as wide a net as possible.
(click venue for listing in the QRO Concert Calendar) Tuesday, October 16th Day Stage - Puck Building* (CMJ pass only) 12:00 PM - 1090 Club
1:00 PM - Takka Takka (photos)
2:00 PM - The Section Quartet
3:00 PM - Saturday Looks Good To Me
4:00 PM - Jennifer O'Connor
The folks at CMJ are good enough to provide a day stage, Tuesday through Friday - and it's right where you pick up your pass, so there's no excuse not to check out acts like Takka Takka. Gibson Showroom (unofficial, free online RSVP) 10:00 AM - Harlem Shakes (interview, album review, live review )
12:00 PM - Pela (album review)
2:00 PM - Eagle*Seagull
4:00 PM - The Hold Steady (live review) Except you might want to swing by midtown's Gibson Showroom to check out some of KEXP's live, in-studio performances every weekday by up-and-comers like the Harlem Shakes and Pela or already-come-up Hold Steady. Pianos* (unofficial, free)
3:00 PM - The Deadly Syndrome Bowery Ballroom*
6:00 PM - Bon Iver
7:00 PM - Shaky Hands (album review)
8:00 PM - Miracle Fortress
9:00 PM - The Most Serene Republic (album review, live review)
10:00 PM - Dean & Britta (album review)
11:00 PM - The Rosebuds (interview, album review, photos)
12:00 AM - Voxtrot (photos)
Probably Tuesday night's premiere showcase, Bowery Ballroom starts off CMJ with a line-up of great bands young (Most Serene Republic, Voxtrot) and old (Dean & Britta, The Rosebuds), all starting with the band Land of Talk's Lizzie Powell is "obsessed with" (QRO interview). And it's located in what looks to be the nexus of CMJ, south of East Houston, east of Bowery. There's a ton of CMJ venues located right around there (look for the *), making it easy to hit up multiple venues in a night. Crash Mansion* 10:00 PM - Oppenheimer Knitting Factory (Old Office) 10:00 PM - Witch's Hat Living Room*
6:00 PM - New Buffalo (album review)
11:00 PM - Jennifer O'Connor
Other Music (unofficial, free) 8:00 PM - St. Vincent (interview, album review, photos)
Piano's*
11:15 PM - Sam Champion (interview, live review)
Southpaw, Brooklyn (unofficial, free) 8:30 PM - The Felice Brothers (live review)
9:30 PM - A.A. Bondy
10:30 PM - The Rosewood Thieves Union Pool, Brooklyn 11:00 PM - Dragons of Zynth
12:00 AM - Celebration (photos) Tuesday's Brooklyn alternative, The Felice Brothers deliver a mean show, but watch out - Dragons of Zynth/Celebration looks to be packed. Wednesday, October 17th Apple Store* (unofficial, free) 2:00 PM - Thurston Moore (album review, live review) Day Stage - Puck Building* (CMJ pass only) 12:00 PM - Roarke
1:00 PM - Rock Plaza Central
2:00 PM - Anna Ternheim
3:00 PM - Eskimo Joe
4:00 PM - Alberta Cross The Delancey* (unofficial, free) 2:30 PM - Liam Finn
3:15 PM - The Brunettes
4:00 PM - Cut Off Your Hands
5:00 PM - New Zealand Official Reception, hosted by the Deputy Cultural Attache and band manager of Flight Of The Conchords, Murray Hewitt
New Zealand gets its own showcase during the day at The Delancey, but the big draw isn't the bands, it's Murray Hewitt from HBO's hilarious Flight Of The Conchords. Gibson Showroom (unofficial, free online RSVP) 10:00 AM - iLIKETRAiNS (album review)
12:00 PM - Sons and Daughters
2:00 PM - Dead Confederate
4:00 PM - The Blakes Gothamist House* (unofficial, free) 2:15 PM - Cut Off Your Hands
3:00 PM - O'Death (photos)
3:45 PM - Peasant
4:30 PM - TBA
5:15 PM - Aaron Behrens (of Ghostland Observatory)
6:00 PM - The Forms (interview, album review, photos)
6:45 PM - Charles Bissel (of The Wrens)
7:30 PM - Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
Wednesday-Saturday, woxy.com will be broadcasting live all-day from the Gothamist House, with free daytime shows. Midway* (unofficial, free) 12:00 PM - Four Trips Ahead
1:00 PM - Heartbreak Club
2:00 PM - The Panda Band
3:00 PM - Let's Go Sailing
4:00 PM - Mary Trembles
5:00 PM - Care Bears on Fire
7:00 PM - Hot IQ's Pianos* (unofficial, free)
12:00 PM - Cut Off Your Hands
12:45 PM - Team Robespierre
1:30 PM - Le Loup
2:15 PM - Joan As Policewoman
3:00 PM - The Deathset
3:45 PM - The Meat Puppets
4:30 PM - Celebration (photos)
5:15 PM - Bon Iver Sound Fix Records, Brooklyn (unofficial, free) 3:00 PM - Fatal Flying Guilloteens
4:00 PM - Pre
5:00 PM - Miracle Fortress
6:00 PM - Aeroplane Pageant
7:00 PM - The Jealous Girlfriends (photos)
8:00 PM - The Muggabears
9:00 PM - The Big Sleep
10:00 PM - Balthrop, Alabama Avalon 6:30 PM - Grindcity
7:20 PM - The Felice Brothers (live review)
8:10 PM - White Denim
9:00 PM - Mates of State
10:10 PM - Tif McMillin
11:10 PM - The Walkmen (album review, photos)
12:10 AM - Just Jinger The only event at the Avalon night club, and it's a doozy, headlined by The Walkmen. Blender Theater at Gramercy (late night sessions) 12:00 AM - HIM Bowery Ballroom*
8:00 PM - Ponytail
9:00 PM - White Williams
10:00 PM - No Age
11:00 PM - Dan Deacon
12:00 AM - Deerhunter (live review)
Things get a little more electronic at Bowery with the likes of Dan Deacon and White Williams, with Deerhunter sure to close out the night right. Canal Room 8:30 PM - Christopher Denny
9:15 PM - Arizona
10:00 PM - Air Traffic
10:45 PM - Division Day (album review)
11:30 PM - Die Romantik
12:30 AM - Dragonette
The Delancey*
7:00 PM - Five O'Clock Heroes
8:00 PM - The Wildbirds
9:00 PM - Cut Off Your Hands
10:00 PM - Foreign Born (album review)
11:00 PM - Oh No! Oh My! (interview, album review, photos)
12:00 AM - The Deadly Syndrome
1:00 AM - The Red Romance
2:00 AM - Connan & the Mockasins
Be sure to check out QRO favorite Oh No! Oh My! and new favorite Foreign Born. Fat Baby* 10:20 PM - Mason Proper Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
9:00 PM - The Nightwatchman
9:50 PM - Serj Tankian
Fontana's*
7:00 PM - Middle Distance Runner Knitting Factory (Old Office) 7:30 PM - The Poison Control Center
8:30 PM - Carolyn Mark
9:30 PM - Bella
10:30 PM - The Awkward Stage
11:30 PM - Little Birdy
Lion's Den
8:00 PM - The Valley Arena
9:00 PM - Charlemagne
10:00 PM - Via Audio
11:00 PM - Meat Puppets
12:00 AM - 1090 Club
Luna Lounge, Brooklyn 9:30 PM - Jeremy Jay
10:00 PM - Jason Anderson
10:15 PM - Hornet Leg
10:45 PM - Adrian Orange & Her Band
11:00 PM - Saturday Looks Good To Me
12:00 AM - Pigeon John
Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ
9:00 PM - International Shades
10:00 PM - Imperial Teen Mercury Lounge*
7:00 PM - Rock & Roll
8:00 PM - The Rosewood Thieves
9:00 PM - The Airborne Toxic Event
10:00 PM - Eagle*Seagull
11:00 PM - The Little Ones
12:00 AM - Robbers On High Street (album review, photos)
1:00 AM - Eskimo Joe
Music Hall, Brooklyn 9:00 PM - Yeasayer
10:00 PM - Sam Champion (interview, live review)
11:00 PM - Cadence Weapon
12:00 AM - Foals
1:00 AM - A Place to Bury Strangers Other Music (unofficial, free) 6:00 PM - No Age
Piano's* 6:00 PM - The IQ's
7:00 PM - Rockethouse
8:00 PM - Mixel Pixel
9:00 PM - Monsters Are Waiting
10:00 PM - Chairlift
11:00 PM - Holy Hail
12:00 AM - Shock Cinema Union Hall, Brooklyn 8:00 PM - Hot IQs
9:00 PM - Gabby Glaser
10:00 PM - Ladybug Transistor
11:00 PM - The Rosebuds (interview, album review, photos) Thursday, October 18th Day Stage - Puck Building* (CMJ pass only) 12:00 PM - Look Mexico
1:00 PM - Eagle*Seagull
2:00 PM - Connan & the Mockasins
3:00 PM - Wild Light
4:00 PM - Catfish Haven
Gibson Showroom (unofficial, free online RSVP) 10:00 AM - The Sammies
12:00 PM - The Poison Control Center
2:00 PM - Yeasayer
4:00 PM - Simian Mobile Disco Other Music (unofficial, free) 11:00 AM - Vampire Weekend
Gothamist House* (unofficial, free) 2:15 PM - The Muggabears
3:00 PM - The Jealous Girlfriends (photos)
3:45 PM - The Teeth
4:30 PM - The Big Sleep
5:15 PM - Bad Veins
6:00 PM - Dead Confederate
6:45 PM - Sam Champion (interview, live review)
7:30 PM - iLIKETRAiNS (album review) Pianos* (upstairs) (unofficial, free)
1:00 PM - Camphor
1:45 PM - Claire and the Reasons
2:30 PM - San Serac
3:15 PM - Le Loup
4:00 PM - Elk City
Sound Fix Records, Brooklyn (unofficial, free) 3:00 PM - Apes
4:00 PM - The Forms (interview, album review, photos)
5:00 PM - Scissors For Lefty
6:00 PM - Tulsa (album review)
7:00 PM - Ludlow Lions
8:00 PM - O'Death (photos)
9:00 PM - Lewis & Clarke
10:00 PM - Mariee Sioux
11:00 PM - Black Swans The Annex* 9:00 PM - We Are Wolves
10:00 PM - Black Kids
11:00 PM - Jack Peñate
12:00 AM - Mates of State
Arlene's Grocery* 8:00 PM - Southeast Engine
9:00 PM - Hallelujah the Hills
10:00 PM - The Affair
11:00 PM - Get Him Eat Him
12:00 AM - Palomar
1:00 AM - Centro-maticc Blender Theater at Gramercy 7:00 PM - Death of Fashion
7:45 PM - Benzos
8:30 PM - The Epochs
10:00 PM - Datarock
Blender Theater at Gramercy (late night sessions) 12:00 AM - Spoon (album review, live review)
12:00 AM - 1990's
12:00 AM - Air Traffic Bowery Ballroom* 7:00 PM - The Grey Race
8:00 PM - Stardeath & The White Dwarfs (photos)
9:00 PM - Tiny Masters of Today
10:00 PM - 1990's
11:00 PM - Pela (album review)
12:00 AM - British Sea Power (album review, live review)
The Delancey*
8:00 PM - Princeton (album review)
Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
10:00 PM - Eisley
11:00 PM - Mute Math Fontana's* 1:00 AM Phonograph (album review) Highline Ballroom 8:00 PM - Thunderheist
8:45 PM - Yo Majesty
9:30 PM - ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (live review)
10:30 PM - Enon
11:15 PM - Octopus Project (photos)
12:00 AM - Islands The first CMJ show at the new Highline Ballroom, and it's a nice one, with names like ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Enon, Octopus Project, and Islands.
Knitting Factory
8:00 PM - Speck Mountain
8:45 PM - Le Loup
9:30 PM - The Papercuts
10:15 PM - Bowerbirds
11:00 PM - His Name Is Alive
12:00 AM - St. Vincent (interview, album review, photos) Knitting Factory (Old Office)
8:00 PM - Dri
9:00 PM - Fourth of July
10:00 PM - Mocco Nell
11:00 PM - Octoberman
12:00 AM - Mohawk Lodge (album review) Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ 9:00 PM - Roman Numerals
10:00 PM - Meat Puppets
Music Hall In Williamsburg, Brooklyn 9:00 PM - Invisible Conga People
10:00 PM - Simian Mobile Disco
R Bar* 7:00 PM - The Epochs
7:00 PM - Benzos
7:00 PM - Takka Takka (photos)
7:00 PM - Born In the Flood
7:00 PM - The Forms (interview, album review, photos)
7:00 PM - Little Birdy Southpaw, Brooklyn (unofficial, free) 9:00 PM - Orba Square
10:00 PM - Catfish Haven
11:00 PM - Imperial Teen Studio B, Brooklyn 12:00 AM - Muscles
1:00 AM - New Young Pony Club (album review) The Tank 8:00 PM - The Subjects (live review) Union Hall, Brooklyn
9:00 PM - Let's Go Sailing
10:00 PM - 1900's
12:00 AM - Division Day (album review) Webster Hall 9:00 PM - Walter Meego
10:00 PM - Holy Fuck
12:00 AM - UNKLE (album review)
Friday, October 19th Apple Store* (unofficial, free) 2:00 PM - Simian Mobile Disco
Day Stage - Puck Building* (CMJ pass only) 12:00 PM - Moros Eros
1:00 PM - Bowerbirds
FADER Sideshow (unofficial, free with RSVP) 5:00 PM - Wild Light
6:15 PM - Dragons of Zynth Gibson Showroom (unofficial, free online RSVP) 10:00 AM - Wild Sweet Orange
12:00 PM - The Maccabees
2:00 PM - Band of Horses (album review, live review)
4:00 PM - Foals Gothamist House* (unofficial, free) 2:15 PM - Illinois (album review, live review)
3:00 PM - The Epochs
3:45 PM - Jukebox The Ghost
4:30 PM - Pattern Is Movement
5:15 PM - The Mugs
6:00 PM - White Denim
6:45 PM - The Deadly Syndrome
7:30 PM - Bound Stems Pianos* (unofficial, free)
1:20 PM - Everything Is Energy
2:00 PM - Division Day (album review)
2:40 PM - Oppenheimer
3:20PM - The Shackeltons
4:00 PM - Air Traffic
4:40 PM - Mink
5:00 PM - Bang Camaro Pianos* (upstairs) (unofficial, free)
1:20 PM - Ola Podrida (album review)
2:00 PM - The Wildbirds
2:40 PM - The Blakes
3:20PM - Two Looms For Tea
4:00 PM - T.H. White
4:40 PM - Mike Errico
5:00 PM - Benzos R Bar* (unofficial, free) 12:15 PM - iLIKETRAiNS (album review)
1:00 PM - Fatal Flying Guiloteens
1:45 PM - Other Passengers
2:30 PM - Health
3:15 PM - Mika Miko
4:00 PM - Yeasayer
4:45 PM - Black Kids
5:30 PM - Saturday Looks Good To Me
6:15 PM - Islands
7:15 PM - Yo Majesty Sound Fix Records, Brooklyn (unofficial, free) 1:00 PM - Yea Big + Static Kid
2:00 PM - The Clutters
3:00 PM - Afuche
4:00 PM - Old Time Relijun
5:00 PM - The Coathangers
6:00 PM - Danava
7:00 PM - Orba Square
8:00 PM - Craig Werden
9:00 PM - The Brunettes
9:30 PM - Georgie James (of Q and not U)
10:30 PM - Finches
Blender Theater at Gramercy (late night sessions) 12:00 AM - Maccabees
1:00 AM - "special guest"
Bowery Ballroom*
7:00 PM - Drug Rug
8:00 PM - 1900's
9:00 PM - Sahara Hotnights
10:00 PM - Alberta Cross
11:00 PM - The Maccabees
12:00 AM - Sons and Daughters
1:00 AM - The Spinto Band Crash Mansion*
7:00 PM - This Car Up
8:00 PM - Zambri
9:00 PM - House and Parish
10:00 PM - Wild Light
11:00 PM - Foreign Islands
12:00 AM - MGMT The Delancey*
10:00 PM - Mannequin Men (album review)
Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
8:50 PM - Santogold
9:40 PM - Earl Greyhound
11:20 PM - The Noisettes (album review, photos)
12:30 AM - Spankrock Highline Ballroom 9:00 PM - As Tall As Lions
10:00 PM - Coheed and Cambria
Knitting Factory 9:00 PM - Sightings
10:00 PM - Japanther
11:00 PM - Old Time Relijun
12:00 AM - Ruins
1:00 AM - AIDS Wolf
The Living Room* 12:00 AM - Let's Go Sailing Mercury Lounge*
7:00 PM - Bon Savants (album review)
8:00 PM - The Shaky Hands (album review)
9:00 PM - iLIKETRAiNS (album review)
10:00 PM - The Dead Trees (album review - as "Furvis")
11:00 PM - The Walkmen (album review, photos)
12:00 AM - The Broken West (album review, live review)
1:00 AM - White Denim The stars aligned and six bands with recent QRO-reviewed albums are all playing at Mercury Lounge. Midway*
8:00 PM - Hot Springs
9:00 PM - Bonk
10:00 PM - Jack
11:00 PM - The Jealous Girlfriends (photos)
12:00 AM - Illinois (album review, live review) Music Hall In Williamsburg, Brooklyn 9:00 PM - Activator
9:20 PM - Cool Calm Pete
9:30 PM - Junk Science
9:50 PM - Despot
10:10 PM - Yak Ballz
11:00 PM - El-P w/ The Mighty Quinn & Mr. Dibbs
11:30 PM - Hangar 18
Piano's* 10:00 PM - Tulsa (album review)
10:45 PM - The Capitol Years
11:30 PM - The Teeth
12:00 AM - Frank Jordan
Roseland Ballroom 8:00 PM - Alex Skolnick
9:00 PM - Rodrigo y Gabriela
Terminal 5 8:00 PM - M.I.A. (photos)
One in a series of highly-anticipated events at the new Terminal 5 in west Midtown. Trash* 8:45 PM - Mason Proper Union Pool, Brooklyn 8:00 PM - Spectacular Bird
8:45 PM - Chris Mills
9:30 PM - The Black Hollies
10:30 PM - Takka Takka (photos)
11:30 PM - O'Death (photos) Webster Hall 8:30 PM - Ghostland Observatory Saturday, October 20th Gothamist House* (unofficial, free) 2:15 PM - Palomar
3:00 PM - The Subjects (live review)
3:45 PM - Andrew Dost
4:30 PM - Ford & Fitzroy
5:15 PM - Luke Temple
6:00 PM - The Spinto Band
6:45 PM - Eagle*Seagull
7:30 PM - The Narrator Midway* (unofficial, free) 12:00 PM - The Morning Pages
1:00 PM - The Pierces
2:00 PM - Foreign Born (album review)
3:00 PM - The Checks
4:00 PM - Bear Hands Sound Fix Records, Brooklyn (unofficial, free) 1:00 PM - Imperial Teen
1:00 PM - The Rosebuds (interview, album review, photos)
1:00 PM - The Broken West (album review, live review)
1:00 PM - The Ladybug Transistor
1:00 PM - Oakley Hall (album review)
6:00 PM - Health + Monotrox
7:00 PM - Elk City
8:15 PM - Camphor
9:00 PM - TBA
10:30 PM - Elizabeth Harper Union Pool, Brooklyn 1:00 PM - Carolyn Mark
1:45 PM - The Panderers
2:30 PM - Bone-Box
3:15 PM - The Silos
3:55 PM - Centro-matic
4:05 PM - Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
5:00 PM - Ha Ha Tonka
The Annex* 6:00 PM - Bring Back The Guns
7:00 PM - Clockcleaner
8:00 PM - Slim Cessna's Auto Club
9:00 PM - Hopewell
10:00 PM - Bryan Scary and The Shredding Tears
11:00 PM - Wodden Shjips
Apple Store* (unofficial, free) 8:00 PM - Justice Blender Theater at Gramercy (late night sessions) 12:00 AM - Coheed and Cambria
12:00 AM - White Denim
12:00 AM - Free Moral Agents Bowery Ballroom* 8:00 PM - DJ Set
9:00 PM - Le Loup
10:00 PM - Foals
11:00 PM - The Brunettes
12:00 AM - Band of Horses (album review, live review) Bowery closes out CMJ with its biggest show, thanks to Band of Horses. Knitting Factory 8:30 PM - Colour Revolt
9:15 PM - Anathallo
10:00 PM - The Color Fred
10:45 PM - The New Amsterdams
11:40 PM - Saves the Day
If you need some emo in your CMJ, check out Princeton's Saves the Day's acoustic set. Mercury Lounge* 7:00 PM - The New Violators
8:00 PM - Baby Dayliner
9:00 PM - Dragons of Zynth
10:00 PM - Georgie James (of Q and not U)
11:00 PM - Professor Murder
12:00 AM - Harlem Shakes (interview, album review, live review)
1:00 AM - Tigercity
2:00 AM - Stylofone Midway* 7:00 PM - Four Fifty One
8:00 PM - Mussels
9:00 PM - The Forms (interview, album review, photos)
10:00 PM - Goes Cube
11:00 PM - The Get Quick Music Hall In Williamsburg, Brooklyn 9:30 PM - Art Goblins
10:15 PM - The Hood Internet
11:00 PM - Flosstradamus
12:00 AM - Matt & Kim (interview, photos) One of the cheapest ($5) of the paid ticket CMJ events, you know Music Hall is going to be packed for hometown heroes, Matt & Kim - but make sure to show up early for Art Goblins, the crazy side-project from Art Brut's Eddie Argos (QRO interview). Piano's* 6:30 PM - Bell
7:15 PM - Pink & Noseworthy
8:00 PM - Tab
9:00 PM - Tiny Animals
9:45 PM - The King Left
10:45 PM - Great Northern
11:45 PM - The Heavenly States
12:15 AM - The Cobbs (live review)
12:45 AM - Nouveau Riche
1:15 AM - War On Drugs
1:45 AM - Other Passengers
Roseland Ballroom 7:30 PM - The Ponys (album review)
8:30 PM - Spoon (album review, live review)
The biggest of all the CMJ shows, the fresh-off-of-Saturday Night Live Spoon is blowing up in a well-deserved way. Terminal 5 8:00 PM - Midnight Juggernauts
9:00 PM - Justice Another big show, these two famed French mixologists are stepping out on their own. Union Hall, Brooklyn 8:00 PM - Aeroplane Pageant
9:00 PM - Princeton (album review)
10:00 PM - Beat Radio
11:00 PM - Mugs
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