Class Actress

DOWNLOAD: A Classic Education – I Lost Time (MP3) Bologna, Italy’s A Classic Education will be here for CMJ, playing six shows:WED Oct 20 7:00P The Delancey (Lefse & I Guess I’m Floating Showcase) NYC THU Oct 21 8:30P – Hype Machine & dubFrequency Party @ Backstage (formerly The Annex) THU Oct 21 10:00P Trash Bar, Brooklyn FRI Oct 22 12:00P Pop Tarts Suck Toasted @ Cake Shop FRI Oct 22 6:00P Pianos FRI Oct 22 8:30P The Charleston, BrooklynMaybe you caught them last year when they played one of our CMJ day parties? The ba…

Dan Black headlined Bowery Ballroom on Thursday night (9/10), one night before he played a pair of Fashion’s Night Out events. Dan returns to play a dancey BMI & SPIN CMJ showcase at Highline Ballroom on on October 19th, eleven days after he is scheduled to play Austin City Limits 2010…

DOWNLOAD: Standard Fare – Dancing (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Standard Fare – Fifteen (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Lower Dens – Tea Lights (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Lower Dens – Hospice Gates (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Inocultist – Prophecy for the Summer (MP3) Last night was kind of a blowout night for NYC concert-going…

Pissed Jeans @ Mercury Lounge in 2009 (more by Jake Forney) tonight in NYC * Mermaid Parade @ Coney Island * Baby Gramps @ Terra Blues * Hanne Hukkelberg @ Joe’s Pub * Reigning Sound, The Anabolics @ Southpaw * Sleepy Sun, She Keeps Bees @ Brooklyn Bowl * New Kids on the Block @ Radio City Music Hall * The Ponys, Disappears, Woven Bones @ Union Pool * Class Actress, Tom Tom Club (DJ) @ Soho Grand * Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Hess Is More @ 92YTribeca * Rooftop Films w/ North Highlands @ Open Road Rooftop * Anthony Braxton’s birthday fest @ Issue Project Room * Melvins, Isis, Totimoshi @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Born Ruffians, Young Rival, Motive @ Santos Party House * Karen Elson, Midnight Masses @ The Studio at Webster Hall * Zola Jesus, Effi Briest, Nice Face, Amen Dunes @ Glasslands * The Goodnight Loving, Prince Rupert’s Drops (late) @ Cake Shop * The Most Serene Republic, Annuals, What Laura Says @ Maxwell’s * Ceremony, Skin Like Iron, The Men, Blaclisted (early) @ Cake Show * Balls to the Wall, Designer Imposter, House of Ladosha @ Bruar Falls * Josiah Wolf, The Chocolate Horse, Ortolan @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn * Celebrate Brooklyn w/ Bitches Brew Revisited @ Prospect Park Bandshell * The New Pornographers, The Dodos, The Dutchess & The Duke @ Terminal 5 * Glenn Branca solo,The Paranoid Critical Revolution @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * The Machine plays Pink Floyd @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise on The Temptress * The Morning Benders, Freelance Whales, Wild Nothing @ Beach at Governors Island * Eli Paperboy Reed & The True Lovers, The Constellations (late) @ The Bell House * Frog Eyes, Beach Fossils, Pearly Gate Music, You Can Be A Wesley @ Mercury Lounge * Cool Places Soundsystem, Sonido Chichadelico, DJ Awesome Tapes From Africa @ Zebulon * Blue Sabbath Black Fiji, Telecult Powers, Rust Worship, Family Treasures @ Silent Barn * Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Pissed Jeans, Social Circle, Pop…

Dam-Funk And Master Blazter is playing Bowery Ballroom on June 12th. Tickets are on sale. Tame Impala is playing Pianos on June 24th. Tickets are on sale…

Frightened Rabbit @ LPR acoustic in 2009 (more by Jonny Leather) tonight in NYC * Hanson (night 3!) @ Gramercy * Heavy Trash @ The Saint (NJ) * Hole, Little Fish @ Terminal 5 * Tracy Bonham @ Galapagos Art Space * Frightened Rabbit @ Sound Fix Records * Josh Rouse, The Woes @ The Bell House * Willie Mays, Radical Sons @ Don Pedro * N…

DOWNLOAD: Keepaway – Yellow Wings (MP3) Brooklyn’s Keepaway, who have been compared to both Yeasayer and Animal Collective, play tonight (4/17) in NYC at the Studio at Webster Hall along with MNDR (who played with Amanda Blank last night and has more shows on the way) and Class Actress (who’s up first, according to the flyer – see below)…

“Erykah Badu went for a stripped-down approach for her new “Window Seat” video. Literally: As the standout tune from (out tomorrow) plays, Ms…

There’s not much you can say against the laser harp. At the Highline Ballroom on Tuesday night a beam of green light shot up from the floor, then fanned out into eight individual rays…

“However fans pronounced the group’s name (“Yeah-sayer”, “Yay-sayer”) all left the Music Hall of Williamsburg buzzing, humming, or both…