by snoadmin | Nov 30, 2010 | Archives-old
I’ll begin with a brief warning. You will probably not have fun listening to Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music for Airports. This is not dancing music. This is not driving-down-the-highway music. This is not makeover montage music. Some people wouldn’t...
by snoadmin | Nov 30, 2010 | Archives-old
There’s a story that I heard growing up in North Carolina about a spot known as the “Devil’s Tramping Ground.” This is a place where no trees grow. Animals avoid going near it out of fear of something. Local legend says that this is the place where the...
by snoadmin | Nov 19, 2010 | Archives-old
Newly Subpop’d signees Jaill released their album “That’s How We Burn” in July to moderate acclaim. Please do not be thrown off by the extra “L” and judge them for the worst likeÛÓ you will be doing yourself a disservice. Among the teaming multitudes...
by snoadmin | Nov 16, 2010 | Archives-old
One of the greatest parts of CMJ was reading band descriptions off the official pamplet. You can just tell the interns of CMJ toiled endlessly up until the week of shows to come up with 1,300 descriptions for each of the bands. The official description of Kisses read,...
by snoadmin | Nov 10, 2010 | Archives-old
CMJ has lots of panels, but the one I was most excited about was called, “So You Want to be a Music Blogger: Who Cares?” Not because I want to be a music blogger, but because the panel included Matthew Perpetua, founder and sole writer of Fluxblog (www.fluxblog.org)....