Though sometimes buried in an avalanche of free pizza, promo beer, and press releases, CMJ Music Marathon’s guiding principal has always been the discovery of new music. In that spirit, we decided to kick off coverage of the mega-fest’s 35th year with a countdown of 15 must-see bands you may have not heard, but need […]
Destruction Unit, Perfect Pussy, Protomartyr and more playing a Lorimer Street car wash
5 Star Service and Prices for the quality of work. – Some dude on Yelp They miraculously cleaned out nearly an entire back trunk floor full of yellow lab’s long hair. – Some girl on Yelp My Red 3000gt looks great. – Some bro on Yelp Paid for my boyfriend’s detailing cause I had too […]
Download Destruction Unit's new album for free
Okay, so Adult Swim are kinda-sorta on my shit list for canceling Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but they’ve basically redeemed themselves by offering up a free download of Destruction Unit’s new record, Negative Feedback Resistor. If you guys could just bring back 12 Oz Mouse now, we’ll be even. Premature endings for antisocial mice and […]
CMJ announce 2015 initial artist lineup
CMJ celebrate their 35th anniversary this year and have just announced their initial lineup for the ‘music marathon’. The festival runs from the 13th until the 17th of October, featuring hundreds of bands and showcases (see our thoughts on last year here). The full lineup (so far) can be seen on the official site here, […]
Union Pool's Summer Thunder series returns with Destruction Unit, Wolf Eyes, more
Union Pool’s free Summer Thunder shows are always a good time, and they’ve got quite the lineup set for the first run of shows this year. The first show is Saturday, May 30th with Hector’s Pets and the incomparable TBA, and things get way noisier from there with bills featuring Destruction Unit, Wolf Eyes, Blues […]
Top five shows this July 4th weekend
While the rest of world lumbers off down constipated highways to flesh-choked cultural landfills like Myrtle Beach and others of equal or greater disgustingness, you, Mr. or Ms. Independence, have chosen to throw a wrench into the gears of the infernal machine–to say fuck, the tzaztiki and turn your back on the pneumatic bolt gun-destined […]