Sharing thoughts that no one will read…
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Derek James at The Delancey CMJ
Derek James playing somewhere and we’re in town? That’s where we’ll be. He was headlining a CMJ Showcase at The Delancey on the main stage. We had never been to The Delancey, but now you know why we’ll never be able to say that again. I’ve written about Derek many times now. The […]
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Alec Gross at The Delancey CMJ
We headed down to The Delancey for two CMJ Showcases. It was our first time there. We arrived 25 minutes early and bumped into a few people we knew. One of them mentioned that Alec Gross was playing upstairs (The Delancey has three stages). We had only seen Alec once, when he played […]
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Lucius at The Living Room CMJ
Prior to last night, we’d never seen Lucius perform (that web site is not up yet, you can check out their MySpage page in the meantime). That makes them very unique in our personal history. They are the only band that we have contributed to (on Kickstarter) without ever having seem them perform […]
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Shenandoah and the Night at The Living Room CMJ
After seeing Delta Rae at Rockwood, our evening was supposed to be over. Our friend Jason asked if we were heading over to see Lucius (the site is not up just yet, but you can check them out here) at The Living Room. I said that we were planning to see them tonight […]
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Delta Rae at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 CMJ
Delta Rae made the trek to NYC to headline a CMJ set at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2. If they can make the trek from North Carolina, we can do it from midtown. We saw the previous two sets out of interest, but mostly out of wanting to guarantee that we’d be near […]
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Aunt Martha at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 CMJ
Aunt Martha headlined a set at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 as part of CMJ week. We saw the set before them (Jenny Owen Youngs) and were primarily there to see the set after them (Delta Rae), so we had every intention of sticking around (even though we knew nothing about them). However, […]
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Jenny Owen Youngs at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 CMJ
In April 2009 we accidentally were pulled into the orbit of the NYC indie music scene (courtesy of The Paper Raincoat, comprised of Alex Wong and ambeR Rubarth). Even though some of these artists are signed to labels, most of them still operate (and struggle) like indie musicians, with a one-inch leg up. […]
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Ian Axel at Cooper Square Hotel
This is CMJ week in NYC. Think of it as our SXSW (since I’ve never to been to the real SXSW, I won’t compare them). That means that there are a ton of choices to see amazing music all day and night, for 7+ days. That makes it even more difficult than it […]
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Erik White at Rockwood Music Hall
Erik White headlined a show at Rockwood Music Hall yesterday. I’ve seen Erik three times before, always in the role of sideman. I had no idea what to expect. I would have gone anyway, on the strength of how I came to know about him to begin with, but when Chris Anderson told […]
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OK SWEETHEART at Rockwood Music Hall
We were planning to catch the 3 and 5pm sets at Rockwood Music Hall. Normally, that means we’d sit through the 4pm set no matter who it was. Considering that yesterday was one of the last gorgeous days of 2011, a reasonable alternative would have been to stretch our legs on the Lower […]