CMJ 2010 - Bill's Tuesday picks & stuff (Yo La Tengo, The Billy Nayer Show, Greg Dulli, day parties & more)

October 19, 2010

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What, it’s Tuesday already? CMJ is here and I’m not really ready. Can we postpone for a week? No? All right. Here we go. Let’s not go too crazy tonight (10/19), there’s still four more days of this to come.

DAYTIME

Pretty much all the free daytime action happens on Ludlow St. today. Biggest among them is The Music Slut’s party at Pianos, which features the dark synths of Brahms, the cheery synths of Hooray for Earth, plus Oberhofer (who play our day party on Friday), Young the Giant, Pearl and the Beard, and more. Party starts at noon, with the first band (Vancouver’s Yukon Blonde) on at 1PM.

Moving down the street, Paper Garden Records has a showcase at The Living Room, with Denmark’s Alcoholic Faith Mission, two bands from Toronto (Freedom or Death, Kidstreet), Emmanuel and the Fear, Motel Motel, Young Mammals and Saadi. First band is on at 1PM.

And then at Cake Shop, it’s the Flower Booking/CapeShok party with Million Young, Sunglasses and Azalia Banks. This one starts a little later — first band is on at 4PM.

And somewhere between day and night is the free New Zealand showcase at Le Poisson Rouge which starts at 5:45PM. I especially recommend you check out Lawrence Arabia, whose material ranges from delicate folk to ELO style orch-pop. Also playing: electropop artist Zowie, Kids of 88, Street Chant, Ruby Frost and Electric Wire Hustle. Did I mention it’s free? You do need to RSVP if you don’t have a badge.

NIGHTTIME

Big ticket shows for tonight: Yo La Tengo play for free at the official CMJ kickoff show at Brooklyn Bowl with Screaming Females (who play our showcase Thursday night) and DOM (who play our Friday day party); Former Afgan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli is at Bowery Ballroom with Craig Wedren; and Jenny and Johnny, Wild Nothing, Times New Viking, Happy Birthday and La Sera (Kickball Katy of Vivian Girls) at Irving Plaza;

If you wanna dance, you might want to head to Highline Ballroom for a night bands that sound like they could be on a Kitsune Maison compilation: the electro-soul sounds of Dan Black, Italo-disco lovers The Golden Filter, helium voiced Neon Hitch, Denver’s The Chain Gang of 1974, and more.

UPDATE: “Chain Gang has dropped off tonight’s show due to food poisoning. All other shows are set to occur as scheduled.” (10/20 @ Maxwell’s, 10/22 @ Cameo, 10/23 @ Santos)

For hip hop, it’s Duck Down Music vs. Blacksmith at LPR.

And tonight at Cake Shop is your only chance this week to catch The Billy Nayer Show (11PM), the live band behind such cool sci-fi western musicals as The American Astronaut and last year’s Stingray Sam. (Frontman Cory McAbee also directs and stars in them.) They’re a one-of-a-kind, and playing as part of the Panache Booking showcase that also features Audacity, Dinowalrus, Onra, Janka Nabay, O’Death and Gary Wilson.

There’s tons more shows, obviously. But that’s what looks interesting to me. What are you going to see? Flyers and day party set times are below.

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1:00 – 1:30 – Young Mammals (Houston)
1:45 – 2:15 – Alcoholic Faith Mission (Copenhagen)
2:30 – 3:00 – Emanuel and the Fear (NYC)
3:15 – 3:45 – Freedom Or Death (Toronto)
4:00 – 4:30 – SAADI (NYC)
4:45 – 5:15 – Kidstreet (Toronto)
5:30 – 6:00 – Motel Motel (NYC)
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