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Most likely to make you romp: Delta Spirit
Why: They’re thrash with down-home sensibility and passion equivalent to the sum total.
Random-Ass Trivia: The man featured on their album Ode to Sunshine is Dr. Thomas Payne, their producer’s uncle.
Latest and Greatest: Stealing the show at CMJ
What’s next: Touring across the country, including Cal Pol...
Sure CMJ is about the music. But it's also about the people watching. Hot people watching.
After sitting down to speak with The Virgins, it was almost easy to see how they played their first show in front of eight friends in Brooklyn and their third show with Patti Smith and Sonic Youth before a crowd of 3,000 in Paris. Dizzyingly precocious with their sweetly silly, helter-skelter banter and unaffected zeal, they have made a meteori...
Walter Meego isn’t simply a dorky man's name. Walter Meego is a musical duo comprised of Justin Sconza and Colin Yarck with more electro-pathic, space-age, 80’s-cum-future, Lite Brite-like, dance-rocking synth-pop up their sleeves than can easily be contained in a given music venue. A few years ago, the two were a couple of University of Illinoi...
If you're wondering what The Bronx show was like at CMJ, the photo above is the best approximation available. As The Bronx screamed, spit, riffed, sweat, and beat the crap out of their drums, the crowd screamed, spit, sweat, and beat the crap out of each other. Or at least they got rowdy and shoved each other around.
For everyone who says hard...
The Ettes are Coco, Pony, and Jem. The Ettes are tenacious vox bouncing over garage-y guitar and rolling drum beats. The Ettes are a little bit of sex and sugar and rebel Americana. Singer Coco gave CollegeOTR her take on music school stimuli, politics, and that busty-but-not-busted 62-year-old Dolly Parton. The Ettes play their CMJ show at Arle...
You could call the CMJ Music Marathon a New York music journalist’s wet dream. A music festival almost encyclopedic in scope held by the College Music Journal (CMJ), it saturates five days and about 75 venues with some of the best indie, folk, thrash, noise rock, art rock, hip-hop, synth-pop, and the rest of the gamut in between.
Now CollegeOT...
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