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If you're in NYC this week, you've probably been running around, checking out all the bananas shows for CMJ. But if you aren't, here are ten of our favorite artists getting a lot of love around town. Enjoy and we'll be back on Monday with some more fresh to death joints.
Marnie Stern - Transparency Is The New Mystery
Dark Dark Dark - Trouble No More
Diamond Rings - Something Else
Zowie - Broken Machine (Pete Wiggs Remix)
So Boogie Boarder dressed up as Lightning Bolt for their photo shoot, which sort of makes sense 'cause they sound like Lightning Bolt covering The Modern Lovers. "URSA" is from Pizza Hero (boy is their naming game on point), which is out now through Famous Class. Their next and final show is the Famous Class day party at Don Pedro's in Brooklyn on Saturday, should you be around.
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77Klash introduced grime to the Jahdan Blakkamoore party, so the story goes, but it’s tough to gauge who’s bringing more to “She Said.” Jah’s golden voice breezily sweeps the floor, allowing 77Klash’s riddim jaunts to grit-pop even more against one lone basement beat. The girls seem to be asking a lot of the Brooklyn boys, but it’s all massively movable. Hit up Dutty Artz for all the details on how Jahdan, Blitz and more are going to ease us out of this CMJ marathon with a killer performance and closing party. Buy tickets right here and catch the tunes on Buzzrock Warrior out now.
Jahdan Blakkamoore - She Said (feat. 77Klash)
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Jahdan Blakkamoore - The General (Remix) (feat. General Steele)
Jahdan Blakkamoore - Go Round Payola (Matt Shadetek Bye Haters Remix)
Jahdan Blakkamoore - Never Gonna Stop (prod. by DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek)
77Klash - Call Me (Produced by Dre Skull)
77Klash - Pressure (feat. Matt Shadetek)
77Klash - Dangerous Nights (feat. Drop The Lime)
77Klash - Code For The Streets
77Klash - Belly (77Klash Vs. Queens Of The Stone Age)
Jahdan Blakkamoore's RCRD LBL Page
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Evan Voytas going in on the falsetto! Dude kinda sounds like Marc Bolan on a helium bender! That is always a good thing! Our favorite Angeleno one-man-band is in town for CMJ schlepping to a bunch of gigs and then spacing minds at said gigs with cosmic pop nuggets like this. He's got a pair left for tomorrow, we suggest you get familiar. Info after the break.
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Evan Voytas - What Would I Do That For
Evan Voytas - I Live This Life Here For You
Evan Voytas - I Have A Dream In My Heart
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Darlings are like the best band that never grew up. They remind us of when Ice Cream trucks weren't annoying and video games were an acceptable interest. "Gorilla" includes a spelling chorus and NES keyboards and lands as the band do an easy but not overbearing three-show stint at CMJ that starts like right now (seriously). Info after le jump, musical anti-aging cream below.
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Screaming Females is actually half-misleading–these New Brunswick basement heroes only have one female (singer/guitarist Marissa Paternoster), and she doesn't scream all the time. Sometimes she sings like Bob Mould and sometimes she shreds virtuosically. We are not exaggerating. "Bell" is probably the only under-three-minute garage-rock song to boast a guitar solo worthy of Steve Vai. They are playing the Mercury Lounge tonight and two Brooklyn shows on Saturday. Three guesses as to where that info lies.
Screaming Females' RCRD LBL Page
(Photo: Beatrice De Gea)
We're not super familiar with Kordan, but knob-tweakers they are not. Their flip of ZAZA's "Arms Length" is brisk, urbane, and human (with claps and tambourines!), stuff that requires more than the usual click/drag/adjust/cash-the-paycheck. ZAZA also start their CMJ tour de force today with a twofer at Cake Shop, all that info's after the break.
ZAZA - Arms Length (Kordan Remix)
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