Hailing from Philadelphia, PA is the pop rock band Cheers Elephant. Made up of two cousins and kindergarten friends, Cheers Elephant has been making a name for themselves in the […]
LIVE: The Robert Glasper Experiment, CMJ
Photo from Glasper’s concert in Montreal, 2010. Jazz will always be one of America’s finest cultural exports. In recent years, the ingenuity and creativity that drove it over […]
LIVE: Cody Chestnutt, CMJ
Photos from our Interview with Cody Chestnutt, video coming soon! The focus at the CMJ Music Marathon favors new and emerging talent. Yet, every so often, a luminary […]
New Music: SZA – See SZA Run
Couch Sessions #CircusCMJ alumni SZA drops her latest project, See SZA Run this week. We were first drawn to SZA’s outside the box approach to R&B, and she […]
LIVE: Nai Palm of Hiatus Kaiyote, CMJ
Review from her pre-CMJ show at Rockwood Music Hall. Photos from her performance at Free Candy, Brooklyn. Once a year, New York plays host to a deluge of […]
THE CMJ INTERVIEW: Ariane Moffatt
I’m not a Lana Del Rey, I’m not a 20 year old singer from the Internet. I’m not the flavor of the month. In the French-speaking world, Ariane […]
CMJ 2012: Jake’s Best Shows of CMJ
As CMJ drew to a close the week long music marathon put a pounding on all those involved. With over 1,300 artist performances spread out over more than […]
LIVE: The House of Vans CMJ with Alchemist, Ka House, Savior Adore
Photos by Reginald Duvivier Not to be outdone by Converse’s FADER Fort, Greenpoint’s House of Vans had it’s own soriee during the CMJ Music Marathon last week. Everyone […]
LIVE: The Neighbourhood, Hype Machine Handpicked, CMJ
I’ve always joked that The Neighbourhood is like The Weeknd with guitars. It seems like the LA band pulled a page right out of the Toronto singer’s marketing […]
LIVE: NPR and WNYC Soundcheck with Flying Lotus, Death Grips, Buke and Gase, CMJ
Words and Photos by Reginald Duvivier NPR and WYNC’s Soundcheck presented a showcase that brought Flying Lotus, Death Grips and Buke and Gase to Le Poisson Rouge. Ali […]