Judy NelsonTop picks for music festivals in 2014, with a focus on the Pacific Northwest festivals, New York City festivals, national music festivals, and transformational festivals that are worth a damn.
TOP INDIE POPS! New tracks from Phantogram's sophomore album, Visions, plus Glass Animals and a collaboration between Jeremih and Shlohmo.
“We also only work with people that we have a close personal relationship with. This ensures that we understand our artists intimately, allowing a mutual trust and support. Decisions we make are in line with each others’ ideologies, so everyone is...
CMJ Music Marathon 2013 is the time of year when one runs through the streets of the Lower East Side, hopeful that you will be able to get into a jam-packed venue to see your favorite band — or maybe discover a band that you haven’t...
Montreal-based indie band BRAIDS make music that one rarely encounters: music that is meant to be processed and digested, bit by bit, as opposed to gulped down in one large bite. BRAIDS' 2011 debut Nate Dpeaker was a lush, layered, complex swirl of...
On their self-titled full length sophomore release, Junip stake a definitive claim into the world of indie folk. As a band, Junip have been in existence for over a decade, but the fact that this is only their second album (the first, Fields, came...
“Pop music shouldn’t always get a bad rap,” says Top Pops!, a recurring selection of pop highlights across a selection of styles, updated every month to keep you funkeh. +++ FULL POST + TOP POPS! COLUMNS + ALL MUSIC COLUMNS Empress...
!!! Thri!!!er Warp Records !!! are by definition FUN. Once you move past the confusion of how you pronounce their band name (it’s “Chk Chk Chk”), you realize that it just adds an extra emphasis on maximum excitement. Their musical...