Ball Park Music

Wiretap Records bands list their favorite albums of 2020

Talk Show Host, American Television, Mercy Music, LOVEBREAKERS, Catholic Guilt, Answering Machine, and In Parallel told us about their favorite music of the year.

SXSW 2015 2nd round of artists announced

The Cribs at MHOW in 2012 (more by Guy Eppel) A ton of artists were already announced for SXSW 2015 (March 17-22), and now the second artist announcement has come with several more including Twin Shadow, The Cribs, Swervedriver, Gang of Four, KEN mode, Weyes Blood, Wild Throne, Elvis Depressedly, SURVIVE, Juan Wauters, San Fermin, Lydia Ainsworth, The Blind Shake, Ex-Cult, Ikonika, King Tuff, Pujol, The Velvet Teen, The Zombies, Zookeeper, Yumi Zouma and tons m…

Courtney Barnett, The Preatures, Cub Sport, Bored Nothing & more Australian artists here for CMJ, playing free Aussie BBQ

Holy crap there are a lot of Australian bands playing CMJ 2013. And almost all of them will be at the annual Aussie BBQ, which happens at The Delancey all day and night Saturday (10/19)…

What's going on Tuesday? (CMJ, Sondre Lerche, Brian Wilson, Cults, Glasser, Joanna Gruesome, Iceage, Ovlov, PUP & more)

Sondre Lerche @ MHOW, 2011 (more by Dana Yavin) The CMJ Music Marathon starts today and runs through Saturday (10/19) and NYC, which has no shortage of worthy shows on any given night, and explodes into an overload of options…

CMJ 2013 initial line-up released

The 2013 CMJ Music Marathon happens from October 15 – 19 at clubs all over New York City. As we’ve been tweeting about at @BVCMJ, tonight (8/27), the CMJ folks held an announcement party at Bowery Electric with live performances from Weekend and Magic Man…

Dune Rats working on new EP, coming to the US for tour (download a song & watch them smoke weed in its video)

DOWNLOAD: Dune Rats – “Red Light, Green Light” (MP3) Speaking of Australia, Brisbane fuzz rock duo Dune Rats (aka Danny Beus and BC Michaels), who were one of Andy from Cake Shop‘s “21 Amazing Experience of 2012”, surfaced with two EPs in 2011, Sexy Beach and Social Atoms, and they’re planning to follow that with another EP, titled Smile, and eventually a debut full length at some point this year…