To nobody’s surprise, every year the CMJ Music Marathon exists, it gets a bit lamer. You took a look at this year’s lineup and were totally unimpressed. I understand. So was I. But holy fuck that lineup at Union Hall on Thursday October 22nd looks really good! Someone’s gotta curate a lineup of exciting up and coming acts that everyone hasn’t already seen a billion times, so come to my (Good for You’s Good For Me’s) first annual CMJ Party, co-presented by the good folks at themusicslut.com
Thursday, October 22
Doors at 6pm
LOXSLY – 7
UNICYCLE LOVES YOU – 8
ARPLINE – 9
DELETED SCENES – 10
ARMY NAVY – 11
SKY LARKIN- 12
21+, $10, cmj badges will be accepted
Advance tickets are on sale, and it’s going to sell out, so I highly recommend getting them now.
Loxsly – “Instead of relying on a couple of offbeat songs to demonstrate a more experimental bent, Loxsly often blends familiarity and new ground within the same song, making for a more intriguing concept.” — NPR All Songs Considered
Loxsly – “Lamprey Eels”
Unicycle Loves You – “Unicycle Loves You is a psychedelic pop band whipping up a frenzy of addictive pop melodies fresh enough for even the most jaded listener to sit up and pay attention. Formed in Chicago in the summer of 2006 by songwriter/home recording artist, Jim Carroll, they’ve carved out a niche for themselves within the ever-changing world of indie-rock that’s full of merriment, madness and mayhem. The band’s self-titled debut album was produced by Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine) and released on Chicago’s Highwheel Records in June of 2008. Since then, Unicycle Loves You have generated quite a bit of buzz resulting in opening gigs with the likes of Fiery Furnaces, Art Brut, Crystal Antlers, Awesome Color, Cymbals Eat Guitars, & Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. Dark and twisted, light and airy, smooth and sweet, or raucous and wild, Unicycle Loves You will grab you by the ears and pull you through their technicolor world of pure pop bliss. The band is currently shopping for a label for the follow-up to its self-titled debut and will be playing three showcases at this year’s CMJ Marathon in NY.” — Undiscovered Band of the Month, Filter Magazine 10.07.2009
Unicycle Loves You – “Justine”
Unicycle Loves You – “The More You Ignore Me the Closer I Get” (Morrissey cover for Music Slut)
ArpLine – “One of the most promising local acts I’ve seen in quite some time” —The Music Slut
“Arpline are the liberators of the 80s” – dj John Richards, KEXP
ArpLine – “Fold Up Like A Piece of Paper”
Deleted Scenes – “8.0 – Ferocious and brave, this debut LP is a well-balanced demonstration of both thoughtful existentialism and strange, drowsy downers.” — Birdseed Shirt review by Pitchfork
Deleted Scenes – “Fake IDs”
Deleted Scenes – “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want” (Morrissey cover for Music Slut)
Army Navy - “Classic…enormous choruses, pure alchemy ..Army Navy is a BLAST” —Pitchfork, 7.8 “A splashy jangle of distorted guitars and winsomely defiant vocals” —Spin Magazine “Irrefutably charming and undeniably infectious.” —Filter Magazine “Seriously, I could listen to songs like this from now until the end of time.” —Idolator.com
Army Navy – “My Thin Sides”
Sky Larkin - “Absolutely every indie kid we know in London is obsessed with Sky Larkin, a trio of bright young things who make moody, thoughtful Britpop. We’re sure the DiS guys are as into it as their peers, and they just released a track from Sky Larkin’s new EP Swift Swoo, called “I Was a Teenage Hand Model” on their RCRD LBL blog. Kind of slow, totally beautiful, and strangely catchy—can’t wait till this band finally record their debut LP (scheduled to happen this summer is Seattle). —RCRD LBL “Sun-stroking, cloudbusting indie” —NME
Sky Larkin – “Fossil, I”