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and Bill Pearis OBN IIIs in Austin in January (more by Tim Griffin) We just posted a list of 10 NYC artists we think are worth catching this week at CMJ, but CMJ is also a great time to check out bands from other cities and countries passing through for the multi-venue music f…

Halifax, NS quartet Monomyth releaed their debut album, Saturnalia Regalia!, over the summer via Canadian label, Mint. I caught them while at Pop Montreal a couple weeks ago and was impressed:Hailing from Halifax, NS and having all four members write and sing, I couldn’t help but compare them a bit to Sloan…

As mentioned, Ultimate Painting (aka James Hoare of Veronica Falls and Jack Cooper of Mazes) will release their debut album next month via Trouble in Mind…

London trio Flowers released their debut album, Do What You Want To, It’s What You Should Do, this week (9/9) via Kanine. Produced by former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler, it’s delicate, pretty indiepop not a million miles away from The Sundays or the first Cranberries album…

Porches at Baby’s All Right in April (more by Amanda Hatfield) BrooklynVegan’s 2013 Friday CMJ day party was the first-ever show at Williamsburg venue Baby’s All Right, and now they’ll be celebrating their 1 year anniversary with some shows including a double header of Porches and Frankie Cosmos on October 17 &…

In addition to the Fear of Men special edition LP, Kanine Records announced their other Record Store Day 2014 releases today as well. One of them is a compilation called Non Violent Femmes, which culls tracks from some of today’s more promising female-fronted bands from around the globe (well, America, UK, and NZ): Speedy Ortiz, Eternal Summers, Bleeding Rainbow, Beach Day, Tashaki Miyaki, Is/Is, Beverly, TEEN (who just played Baby’s All Right), Joanna Gruesome, Flowers, and Beaches…

As mentioned, New Zealand indie legends The Bats are on their first North American tour since 2006 which stopped in Austin last night (5/30) to play Chaos in Tejas…

London’s trio Flowers are on their way to the U.S. for NYC Popfest, where they’ll play this Saturday (6/1) at The Bell House as part of a bill that includes New Zealand headliners The Bats as well as fellow UK acts Tigercats, The Hobbes Fanclub, and The Proctors as well as Sweden’s Azure Blue…

We already knew that The Monochrome Set would be performing at this year’s NYC Popfest (May 30 – June 2) but now the rest of the line-up has been announced and it’s pretty great with appearances from New Zealand Flying Nun legends The Bats, two bands who featured on NME’s legendary C-86 cassette (Scotland’s Close Lobsters and London’s The Wolfhounds), and long-running California band The Orange Peels; plus newer bands like Wales’ The School, UK group Flowers, Hobbes Fanclub and Tigercats, Sweden’s Alpaca Sport and Azur Blue, Norway’s Making Marks, and Spain’s Zipper; and American groups Ringo Deathstarr, Math & Physics Club, Literature, Ski Lodge and more…