Thursday night, I spent the night floating between venues, sampling the sounds of CMJ. I got to Bowery Electric in time to catch Boston’s feisty garage rock group Twin Berlin and Denton, TX’s, soulful and lounge-tinged rock quartet, The Ton Tons. Rockwood Music Hall, which was consistently, packed all of CMJ, housed back-to-back Brooklyn artists, cheerful indie pop creations of The Canon Logic and The Stationary Set’s dancy, disco-electronic, falsetto-lead numbers.
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Last Night, Rocker Stalker Said…:CMJ Day 1 Recap 10/16/12
Posted: October 26, 2012 in EntriesTags: black taxi, bowery electric, cmj, new york, rockwood music hall, spacehog, the phuss, the ugly club, the young things, wyatt, xny
CMJ 2012 kicked off on Tuesday October 16. My fifth CMJ, I bounced between Bowery Electric for the 11-hour party hosted by The Outlet Collective and some artists at Rockwood Music Hall. Folksy, sibling- membered band, Wyatt, began the evening at Bowery Electric. Following the family four-piece, I bounced over to Rockwood Music Hall where pop song veterans, Space Hog entertained in primary colored suits, pumping up the audience for Brooklyn’s Black Taxi, who were welcomed home after some time on the road with a packed venue. Back at Bowery Electric, indie rockers, The Young Things were prepping the audience for hard-rocking out-of-town guests, The Phuss (Dallas), who captured the attention of the entire room (video below!). Next up, The Ugly Club reintroduced the NYC indie sound and folk-punk duo, XNY, closed the show with impassioned vocals and mesmerizing drumming.
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