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Cosmicide (ex Secret Machines) playing NYC residency

Cosmicide, the current musical project from onetime Secret Machines frontman Brandon Curtis, have an upcoming residency at Pianos every Thursday in February:February 4 with Exiles, Ohnomoon, Sleepy Ha Has, and Queen of Jeans February 11 with Hellbirds, New Myths, Secret Servants, and Everest Cale February 18 with Heaven, The Vandelles, Drawing Boards and Willows February 25 with Lip Talk, Dead Leaf Echo, Arc Waves and Crown the InvisibleTickets for all four residency shows are on sale now…

CMJ 2015 initial artist lineup

The 2015 CMJ Music Marathon happens from October 13-17, and today the initial list of artists was revealed. A bunch of these are NYC shows we’ve posted about (browse our “CMJ” tag), but highlights include Car Seat Headrest, Cheatahs, Destruction Unit, Dent May, Dilly Dally, Doomsquad, Drinks, Eternal Summers, Evans the Death, Ex Hex, Expert Alterations, Ezra Furman, Frankie Cosmos, Hooton Tennis Club, Kamasi Washington, Kero Kero Bonito, Mercury Rev, Nai Harvest, Neon Indian, Panda Bear, Perfect Pussy, Protomartyr, S, Shannon and the Clams, Slim Twig, Stealing Sheep, The Album Leaf, The Dirty Nil, The Men, The Wonder Years, Titus Andronicus and Wil…

What's going on Saturday? (Speedy Ortiz, Perfect Pussy, Into It Over It, Juan Maclean, Lee Ranaldo, Dorthia Cottrell, more)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Speedy Ortiz, Mitski, Krill @ Bowery Ballroom Speedy Ortiz’s new album, Foil Deer, takes the band into new sonic directions without losing their style of discordant indie rock that made us love the music in the first place…