Listen to new songs from Big Freedia (Lady Gaga cover), Chubby and the Gang, Dusted (Holy Fuck's Brian Borcherdt), Bad Bunny, J Balvin, Farruko, Twelve'len, Moonshine/Georgia Anne Muldrow, Jesse Royal, oddCouple, and more...
'Exquisite Corpse' features one-of-a-kind collaborations featuring 47 members of the Polyvinyl family, including members of American Football, Rainer Maria, Pedro the Lion, The Get Up Kids, Beach Slang, Vivian Girls, Xiu Xiu, SSLYBY, and more.
The inaugural New Colossus Festival, the CMJ-esque music festival and industry conference, happens this weekend (March 7-10) at East Village/LES venues Pianos, Arlene's Grocery, The Delancey, Berlin, Coney Island Baby, and Bowery Electric.
Here I am again at M for Montreal, the now eight annual edition that is part music festival and part industry conference. Right now it is more of the latter, with "international delegates" (of which I am one) in from around the world attending panel discussions, sanctioned schmoozathons and seeing the night's "official selection" of bands...
The 2013 M for Montreal happens at various clubs across its namesake city from November 20 - 23. Like last year, in addition to it's industry conference/showcase side earlier in the week, the Friday and Saturday shows are part of M Fest which like a smaller scale CMJ or Pop Montreal with over 75 bands playing over those two days...
The 2013 CMJ Music Marathon happens from October 15 - 19 at clubs all over New York City. As we've been tweeting about at @BVCMJ, tonight (8/27), the CMJ folks held an announcement party at Bowery Electric with live performances from Weekend and Magic Man...
Osheaga Festival is returning to Montreal's Parc Jean-Drapeau from August 2-4. This year's lineup includes The Cure, Mumford and Sons, Phoenix, New Order, Vampire Weekend, Kendrick Lamar, Hot Chip, Alt-J, Beach House, Explosions in the Sky, Big Boi, Baauer, Father John Misty, Disclosure, Frightened Rabbit, Angel Haze, Jessie Ware, DIIV, Guards, and many more...