Mothers

, videos After the mere seven-hour BrooklynVegan Friday party at Baby’s All Right during CMJ, we threw a 12-and-a-half hour party on Saturday (10/17)…

If you have the advantage of being free in the afternoons during CMJ week, day parties offer an easy way to catch many of the most talked about bands at the fest, usually for free with maybe some free drinks/food too…

You already know the details for the free BV Friday day party at Baby’s All Right. There’s also an all-day BrooklynVegan Saturday party from 11:00 AM to midnight at Baby’s…

Athens, GA band Mothers began in 2013 as the solo project of visual artist Kristine Leschper and became a full band in 2014. Naming a variety of disparate influences, Mothers’ music can go from delicate folk-pop to math-ier sounds that recall Dirty Projectors…

Cheatahs are due to fly in from the UK for this week’s CMJ Festival here in NYC. They still are but are going to be a little late due to — you guessed it — visa issues…

It’s been a couple years, but Louisville, KY’s Murals are back with a new label, Firetalk, and a new single, “Violet City Lantern,” which is out next week (10/16)…

Once again, Sub Pop and their kid sister Hardly Art are teaming up for a CMJ showcase at Knitting Factory, happening October 15 with Protomartyr, Strange Wilds, The Gotobeds, S (aka Carissa’s Wierd singer Jenn Ghetto), and Mass Gothic…

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…

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Afropunk Festival @ Commodore Barry Park It’s day one of the awesome multi-genre two-day Afropunk Festival, and there’s a ton of great artists today including Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Death Grips, Kelis, Danny Brown, Suicidal Tendencies, Candiria, SZA, Lion Babe, Oshun and plenty m…

Athens, GA’s Mothers began as the solo project of Kristine Leschper, but has since tranformed into a full band with Matthew Anderegg (drums), Drew Kirby (guitar), and Patrick Morales (ba…