Sophie Auster

SXSW announces 250 more 2019 artists (Deerhunter, Stealing Sheep, more)

The music portion of SXSW 2019 runs March 11-19 in Austin, TX and other just-announced artists include The Dirty Nil, Versus, Waco Brothers, Combo Chimbita, Public Practice, Sloppy Jane, and more.

Mondo.NYC conference/festival: 2017 lineup & schedule

The second edition of Mondo NYC, the “music festival and tech summit” that was started by CMJ founders, is coming up, happening October 4 – 8. 

What's going on Monday?

Muse, Luke Temple and a tribute to Portishead Live at Roseland are among Monday’s show options.

Scarlet Sails (ft. 1/2 of Dresden Dolls) made a video for "I'll Be There," touring

Scarlet Sails is a new band from Brian Viglione, aka one half of the Dresden Dolls and a onetime Violent Femmes drummer, and his wife Olya. They put out their self-titled debut EP this past January, and we’re now premiering the video for “I’ll Be There”…

La Femme, Dimitri From Paris & more playing France Rocks Summerfest in NYC

Francophone music lovers in NYC have something to look forward to this summer, as the France Rocks Summerfest will host a series of shows at venues all over the city…

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…

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…