Room Full of Strangers

CMJ initial 2014 line-up released

The annual CMJ Music Marathon happens from October 21 – 25 at venues all over NYC. We’ve heard about a few bands who are heading here during that time (Slowdive, The Wytches, The Ocean Blue, Tom Vek and Courtney Barnett to name four) but CMJ threw an announcement party tonight (8/27) at Bowery Electric and the line-up is now out…

Joanna Gruesome released debut LP, making North American live debut during CMJ (dates, streams)

Welsh band Joanna Gruesome released their debut album, Weird Sister, earlier this month via Slumberland. It’s a terrific record of riotous indiepop that has both jangly melodicism and sharp-fanged, bash-it-out aggression…

What's going on Tuesday? (Beth Orton, Lee Ranaldo, Red Baraat, Mutant Supremacy, Chain & the Gang and more)

Lee Ranaldo @ Celebrate Brooklyn! 2012 (more by Dana Distortion) Beth Orton @ Town Hall, Oct. 2012 (more by Toby Tennenbaum) Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows…