by Daba
10753 Posts
hopped up out my bed. turn my swag on.
2 weeks, 6 days ago
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1 year, 1 month ago
... ... Tuesday was the start of this year’s CMJ Music Marathon: a five-day audition including showcase concerts for more than 1,100 acts, most of them indie-rock (although the marathon also encompasses hip-hop, bluegrass, funk and world music). For the first day of my annual peregrination through CMJ, I let blogs pick my music. That offered the not necessarily commercial perspective that blogs share with college radio: whiter (by far), more handmade, more intimate or more untamed, and often more old-fashioned than the pop Top 10. I spent the afternoon at two blog parties on Ludlow Street, presented by The Music Slut (musicslut.blogspot.com) and Pop Tarts Suck Toasted (poptartssucktoasted.blogspot.com). Then it was over to the Music Hall of Williamsburg for Brooklyn Vegan’s showcase and to Webster Hall in the East Village for Stereogum’s party. ....
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