The government may be shut down and the U.S. about to go into default, but the band plays on, even on The Titanic. So head to New York, Tuesday-to-Saturday, October 15th to 19th, for CMJ. QRO’s got your schedule for you, including both official & unofficial shows, free, RSVP, etc.
QRO Recommendation
Thursday, October 17th
Ace Hotel, 20 W 29th St. (free)
11:00am – Kan Wakan
12:00pm – Mood Rings
2:00pm – Keren Ann
3:00pm – The Darcys
4:00pm – Satellite
Bowery Electric, 327 Bowery
Sam Mickens
2:00pm – Weeknight
2:45pm – Shy Hunters
3:30pm – Shy Hunters
4:15pm – Tops
5:00pm – Kirin J Callinan
The Delancey, 168 Delancey St.
SaskMusic/Nevado
2:00pm – Megan Bonnell
2:45pm – Castle River
3:30pm – Grounders
4:15pm – Slow Down Molasses
Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square S (official/free)
KEXP
10:00am – Saint Rich
12:00pm – Minks
2:00pm – Au Revoir Simone
4:00pm – Ski Lodge
Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave. (official or RSVP) (QRO venue review)
Culture Collide
12:00pm – Instrumenti
1:00pm – Prata Vetra
2:00pm – Birth of Joy
3:00pm – traumahelikopter
4:00pm – Ghost Wave
5:00pm – Half Moon Run
Catch a wave of foreign acts (and drinks) at Knitting Factory thanks to Filter Magazine’s Culture Collide Festival (QRO ’12 recap), such as Half Moon Run (QRO album review).
Mission Sound Recording, 16 Powers St. (free)
11:00am – Ski Lodge
11:00am – John Murry
11:00am – Casual Sex
11:00am – Doug Keith
11:00am – Tweens
11:00am – Ghost Wave
11:00am – Jacco Gardner
From the Netherlands comes neo-psych keyboardist Jacco Gardner, whose debut single “Where You Will Go” was released in garage label Trouble in Mind Records, the same as Ty Segall (QRO album review).
Muchmore’s, 2 Havemeyer St. (official or RSVP)
MySocialist
Haybaby
Sharkmuffin
Calvin Love
Krill
3:00pm – Jamaican Queens
Ava Luna
5:00pm – Ratking
Piano’s, 158 Ludlow St. (official/free) (QRO venue review)
I Guess I’m Floating
1:00pm – The Bots
2:00pm – TV Girl
3:00pm – GEMS
4:00pm – The Preatures
5:00pm – Wild Cub
6:00pm – holychild
Piano’s (upstairs), 158 Ludlow St. (official/free) (QRO venue review)
I Guess I’m Floating
1:30pm – J Fernandez
2:30pm – Salt Cathedral
3:30pm – School of Night
Rockwood Music Hall (stage 1), 196 Allen St. (official/free) (QRO venue review)
Flux Studios
12:00pm – Bridge City Hustle
1:00pm – Julian Peterson
2:00pm – Banda Magda
3:00pm – Cyrille Aimee
Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Ave. (free) (QRO venue review)
3:00pm – Clementine & The Galaxy
3:00pm – Dark North
3:00pm – Palehound
3:00pm – manicanparty
3:00pm – Diamond Bones
3:00pm – Psychic Twin
285 Kent Ave.
8:00pm – Big Ups
8:50pm – Homeshake
9:40pm – Calvin Love
11:30pm – Ex-Cult
11:30pm – Hunters
12:30am – Speedy Ortiz
Alphabet Lounge, 104 Avenue C
7:00pm – Eric Frisch
7:45pm – Adios Ghost
8:30pm – Danny Chait
9:15pm – Avi Wisnia
10:00pm – Hurrah! A Bolt of Light!
Arlene’s Grocery, 95 Stanton St. (QRO venue review)
7:00pm – Hawk and Dove
8:00pm – Folding Legs
9:00pm – The Wives
10:00pm – The Von Shakes
11:00pm – The Dirty Names
Bitter End, 147 Bleecker St.
L Rock Entertainment
7:30pm – Bobby McGrath
8:30pm – I’ll Be John Brown
9:30pm – 2/3 Goat
10:30pm – The Morningsiders
11:30pm – Danielia Cotton
12:00am – Mokaad
Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St. (QRO venue review)
Domino Records
8:00pm – Piano Movers
9:00pm – Hookworms
10:00pm – Jonathan Rado & The Gentleman Jets
11:00pm – Real Estate
Pitchfork has long loved Ridgewood, New Jersey’s Real Estate (QRO live review), including last year’s sophomore release Days (QRO review), so see for yourself if they’re right as the band comes to CMJ (QRO photos at CMJ ’09).
Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave. (QRO venue review)
Okay Africa
7:00pm – Eko Hotel featuring Sahr Ngaujuah
Cameo, 93 North 6th St. (QRO venue review)
Cascine
Bruce Smear (DJ set)
7:20pm – North Americans
8:00pm – Rush Midnight
8:50pm – Heavenly Beat
9:40pm – Jensen Sportag
10:30pm – Ejecta
11:20pm – Shine 2009
Converse Rubber Tracks, 130 Hope St. (RSVP)
FADER Magazine
6:45pm – Wet
8:55pm – Potty Mouth
The Delancey, 168 Delancey St. (official/free)
Party Guy
6:00pm – 8th Grader
7:00pm – SHMNS
8:00pm – Facts
8:45pm – Shy Girls
9:00pm – Kuato
9:30pm – Child Actor
10:00pm – Tony Quattro
10:15pm – Float Fall
11:00pm – Figgy
11:00pm – Born Gold
12:00am – Public Service Broadcasting
12:45am – Hermitude
Not the BBC or PBS, Public Service Broadcasting (QRO photos at a festival) use samples from old public information films & propaganda material to, “Teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future.”
The Delancey (upstairs), 168 Delancey St.
Party Guide Records
DROM, 85 Avenue A (QRO venue review)
International Hip Hop Night
Devon Tracy
IKES
Cookin Vinyl
CHIEF
1:00am – MANGA
Ella, 9 Avenue A
7:00pm – Everest Cale
8:00pm – Black Wing Halo
9:00pm – Thee, Idea Men
10:00pm – Buy The Sky
11:00pm – Wild Rompit
12:00am – PUBLIC
Fat Baby, 112 Rivington St.
Music From Ireland
8:00pm – Slow Skies
9:00pm – Cat Dowling
10:00pm – We Cut Corners
11:00pm – Enemies
12:00am – Kid Karate
The Flat, 308 Hooper St.
8:00pm – Left Right
8:45pm – Lurve
9:30pm – Monogold
Glasslands, 289 Kent Ave. (free) (QRO venue review)
Gorilla vs. Bear/Yourstruly
Ejecta
Tei Shi
Sapphire Slows
Shy Girls
The Range
Lee Bannon
Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd St. (QRO venue review)
ICM
6:00pm – AJR
6:45pm – Heavy English
7:30pm – Wild Child
8:15pm – NGHBRS
9:00pm – Neon Hitch
9:45pm – Joywave
10:30pm – Diane Birch
Grand Victory, 245 Grand St. (unofficial)
Brixton Agency/MezzoForte Productions
4:00pm – Teen Death
4:30pm – Two Inch Astronaut
5:15pm – Desert Sharks
6:00pm – Midnight Reruns
6:45pm – Wild Adriatic
7:30pm – Kal Marks
8:15pm – Ovlov
9:00pm – Greys
9:45pm – Dads
10:30pm – Pity Sex
Highline Ballroom, 431 West 16th St. (QRO venue review)
8:00pm – Tift Merritt
8:45pm – Over the Rhine
Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave. (QRO venue review)
Totally Gross National Product
8:00pm – Umami
9:00pm – Pony Bwoy
10:00pm – Lizzo
11:00pm – The Cloak Ox
12:00am – P.O.S.
1:00am – Marijuana Deathsquads
A founder of hip-hop collective Doomtree (QRO photos at a festival), Stefon Alexander has also worked in punk bands like Building Better Bombs & Marijuana Deathsquads, but comes to the festival also as his underground hip-hop alter ego, P.O.S. (QRO photos at a festival).
Left Field, 87 Ludlow St.
7:00pm – Mideau
7:45pm – Fan-Tan
8:30pm – Magic Bronson
9:15pm – Trumpeter Swan
10:00pm – Tan Vampires
10:45pm – Steel Phantoms
11:30pm – Top Less Gay Love Tekno Party
Left Field (downstairs), 87 Ludlow St.
8:30pm – Tokyo Taboo
9:30pm – Dulcinea Detwah
10:00pm – Brittany Campbell
Legion, 790 Metropolitan Ave.
Haerts Bleeds Radio
8:00pm – Heavy Birds
8:45pm – The Meaning of Life
9:30pm – FAN-TAN
10:15pm – Big Quiet
11:00pm – EULA
12:00am – Wet Water
12:40am – Savants
Somewhere between irresistible dance beats and unforgettable no wave guitar lies EULA (QRO album review).
Lilium, 201 Park Ave S (RSVP)
Rome Fortune
Lit Lounge, 93 2nd Ave. (QRO venue review)
8:00pm – Enola Fall
8:45pm – Bored Nothing
9:30pm – The ACBs
10:15pm – Bethesda
11:00pm – FLAGSHIP
Littlefield, 622 Degraw St. (QRO venue review)
BOOM Collective
7:00pm – Jamaican Queens
8:00pm – Julia Easterlin
9:00pm – Lisa Alma
10:00pm – John Murray
11:00pm – Conway
Living Room, 154 Ludlow St. (official/free) (QRO venue review)
6:15pm – Joanna Wang
7:00pm – Rocket & The Ghost
7:45pm – Norman Vladimir
8:40pm – Christopher Paul Stelling
9:15pm – Ruby The Rabbitfoot
10:00pm – New Madrid
11:00pm – Wild Moccasins
12:00am – Yip Deceiver
1:00am – White Violet
QRO’s favorite Houston outfit Wild Moccasins (QRO live review) play CMJ. The collective of kids weren’t old enough to drink when they came out with their debut full-length, Skin Collusion Past (QRO review), but have grown up (QRO interview), with a new album coming out (QRO spotlight on).
Living Room (upstairs), 154 Ludlow St. (official/free) (QRO venue review)
7:30pm – Hungry Lake
9:30pm – Katy Glorioso
10:30pm – Nicole Mercedes
11:30pm – Streets of Laredo
12:00am – Tiny ruins
12:00am – Aoife O’Donovan
Marlin Room at Webster Hall, 125 East 11th St.
Skateboard Marketing
6:00pm – Lydia Can’t Breathe
6:30pm – Fit For An Autopsy
7:10pm – New Years Day
8:00pm – Stolen Babies
9:05pm – OTEP
Matchless, 557 Manhattan Ave.
Rockerstalker
6:00pm – Scary Cherry & The Bang Bangs
6:45pm – Isle of Rhodes
7:30pm – The Breakfast Machine
8:15pm – Cadaver Dogs
9:00pm – The Battery Electric
9:45pm – The Tye Trybe
10:30pm – The Phuss
11:15pm – Midnight Spin
McKittrick Hotel, 530 West 27th St.
PledgeMusic
8:00pm – Holychild
9:00pm – Firehorse
10:00pm – Here We Go Magic
11:00pm – Nicole Atkins (DJ set)
Yet another Brooklyn indie success story is Here We Go Magic (QRO photos at a festival). Luke Temple’s outfit (QRO photos) has enchanted crowds & critics with its mixture of alt-folk and hazy electronica, most recently with 2010’s Pigeons (QRO review) and last year’s Different Ship.
Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston St. (QRO venue review)
Windish Agency
7:00pm – John Murry
8:00pm – Wilsen
9:00pm – Bad Suns
10:00pm – GEMS
11:00pm – Dan Croll
12:00am – Black Light Dinner Party
1:00am – Cardiknox
Moscot Gallery, 118 Orchard St. (RSVP)
Nick Waterhouse
Raw, rhythmic and exciting rhythm ‘n’ blues from California comes in the form of Nick Waterhouse. Debut album Time’s All Gone mixes classic R&B with modern day influences.
Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 North 6th St. (QRO venue review)
8:00pm – Rathborne
8:45pm – PAPA
9:30pm – Rose Windows
10:30pm – The Head and The Heart
Pretty recently, things have been seriously booming for The Head and The Heart (QRO photos at a festival). The Seattle alt-folk/pop band (QRO photos outdoors) was signed by Sub Pop (QRO photos outdoors), named their city’s best new band (QRO live review) by Seattle Weekly, opened for everybody from Dave Matthews (QRO live review) to Death Cab for Cutie (QRO album review), and even played Conan (QRO Indie on Late Night TV)!
Output, 74 Wythe Ave.
AM Only
10:00pm – Just Blaze
10:00pm – Oliver
Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston St.
Show & Tell
9:30pm – The Dewars
10:30pm – Half Undressed
11:30pm – Wake Up
12:30am – The Band in Heaven
Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St. (official/free) (QRO venue review)
Riot Act Media/Team Love Records
5:00pm – Norwegian Arms
5:40pm – Spaceships
6:20pm – Shelby Earl
7:00pm – Jay Arner
7:40pm – Torres
Miwi La Lupa
Andrea Tomasi
Woods Broderick
Peter & Heather
Last Good Tooth
Piano’s, 158 Ludlow St. (QRO venue review)
Frenchkiss Records
7:00pm – Dream Boys
7:45pm – Rey Pila
8:30pm – Shark Week
9:15pm – Dream Shake
10:00pm – Tweens
10:45pm – The Band in Heaven
11:30pm – Rathborne
12:15am – Drowners
1:00am – special guest
Piano’s (upstairs), 158 Ludlow St. (official/free) (QRO venue review)
Holy Underground Records
7:00pm – Alec Benjamin
7:45pm – Body Parts
8:30pm – Elizabeth Rose
9:15pm – FLASH/LIGHTS
10:00pm – Real Magic
10:45pm – Brothertiger
The Raven, 55 Gansevoort St.
10:00pm – City Riots
Rock Shop, 249 4th Ave. (QRO venue review)
Ellestock/Long Trail Brewing Company
Eric French and Mr. Hyde
12:00am – These Animals
12:00am – Sleep Study
11:00pm – Old Monk
12:00am – The Grownup Noise
12:00am – Golden Bloom
12:00am – Virtual CH
Rockwood Music Hall (stage 1), 196 Allen St. (official/free) (QRO venue review)
Flux Studios
5:00pm – Jeff Campbell & Megan Stankard
6:00pm – Mark Wilkinson
7:00pm – Landshapes
8:00pm – Badboxes
9:00pm – Lil & The Parlour Tricks
10:00pm – Aaron Lee Tasjan
11:00pm – Aabaraki
12:00am – Mandolin Orange
Get funky with Aabaraki (QRO photos).
Rockwood Music Hall (stage 2), 196 Allen St. (official/free) (QRO venue review)
Noise Collective/Monkey Rock
Brendan Rivera
6:00pm – Such Hounds
6:45pm – Junior Prom
7:30pm – The Static Jacks
9:00pm – Nick Hakim
10:00pm – Lyle Divinsky
11:00pm – Jennah Bell
Rockwood Music Hall (stage 3), 196 Allen St. (official/free) (QRO venue review)
7:00pm – Matt Sucich
8:00pm – Tiny Ruins
9:00pm – James Bay
10:00pm – The Saint Johns
11:00pm – Carte Blanche
S.O.B.’s, 204 Varick St.
11:00pm – Tayo
11:20pm – Lylit
11:30pm – Sisqo
12:00am – Mucho Deniro
12:30am – Bebe O’Hare
1:00am – Jazmin Sisters
1:30am – Eric Bellinger
2:00am – Phranchyze
2:15am – Oxymorrons
2:45am – G4SHI
3:15am – Black Sheep
Santos Party House, 96 Lafayette St. (QRO venue review)
Neon Gold Records
7:00pm – Claire
7:30pm – Night Terrors of 1927
8:00pm – The Preatures
8:30pm – Panama Wedding
9:00pm – Morning Parade
9:30pm – Wet
10:00pm – Kodaline
10:30pm – Magic Man
11:00pm – Haerts
11:30pm – Lovelife
12:00am – Little Daylight
12:00am – CK Kidtronik
12:30am – The Griswolds
Shea Stadium, 20 Meadow St. (free) (QRO venue review)
Impose Magazine/Terroreyes
SISU
8:30pm – Odonis Odonis
Guardian Alien
YC The Cynic
Wreck and Reference
Billy Woods
Drummer Greg Fox has rotated collaborators in his experimental noise-rock outfit, Guardian Alien.
Silent Barn, 603 Bushwick Ave. (unofficial)
Panache Booking/Calico Corp
Gem Trails
Zacht Automaat
Home Comfort
Slim Twig
10:00pm – U.S. Girls
Slipper Room, 167 Orchard St.
Glassnote Records
8:30pm – Foy Vance
9:30pm – Half Moon Run
Montreal’s young trio Half Moon Run (QRO photos) come to CMJ after the American release of their debut Dark Eyes (QRO review), and touring cross-country with Metric (QRO live review with Half Moon Run).
Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Ave. (QRO venue review)
Deli Mag
8:00pm – Heeney
8:30pm – Dead Stars
9:00pm – Slonk Donkerson
9:40pm – People’s Champ
10:30pm – Sway Machinery
11:30pm – EMEFE
12:30am – Mammal Dap
St. Vitus, 186 Bedford Ave.
Invisible Orange
8:00pm – Pelican
The Standard East Village (Chez Andre), 25 Cooper Sq. (RSVP)
Olivier Libaux
Steve Nieve & Tall Ulysse
The Studio at Webster Hall, 125 East 11th St. (QRO venue review)
Photo Finish
7:45pm – Matt Galle (DJ set)
8:15pm – Clinton Sparks (DJ set/performance)
9:00pm – Brick + Mortar
10:00pm – Misterwives
Sullivan Hall, 214 Sullivan St.
Berklee/Heavy Rotation
8:00pm – The Hello Strangers
8:45pm – Shun Ng
9:30pm – Sylvana Joyce & The Moment
10:15pm – Sirma
11:00pm – Miko & The Musket
11:45pm – Red Oblivion
12:30am – Numasbala
Tammany Hall, 152 Orchard St. (official or RSVP)
Texas Takeover
6:00pm – The Migrant
7:00pm – Wild Moccasins
8:00pm – Megafauna
9:00pm – Emily Bell
10:00pm – The Tontons
11:00pm – Wild Child
12:00am – Quiet Company
1:00am – Ishi
Terminal 5, 610 West 56th St. (QRO venue review)
12:00am – Wild Cub
Tobacco Road, 355 West 41st St.
Behind The Facade
Kingsfoil
12:00am – Jump For The Sails
12:00am – Nobody Takes Vegas
12:00am – He Is Legend
12:00am – Die A Hero
Trash Bar, 256 Grand St.
Wreckroom Records
8:00pm – Eureka California
9:00pm – traumahelikopter
10:00pm – Criminal Hygiene
11:00pm – Controller
12:00am – Von Shakes
12:00am – Mal Blum
12:00am – White Dynomite
12:00am – Slothrust
12:00am – Isadora Barkhouse
Dutch energetic garage band traumahelikopter combines lo-fi psychedelia and punk.
Tribeca Grand, 2 6th Ave. (RSVP) (QRO venue review)
Nicky Digital/NinjaTune Records
Village Psychic
Such Hounds
Junior Prom
SPF 5000
Jogyo
Tribeca Grand, 2 6th Ave. (RSVP) (QRO venue review)
Mixpak
11:00pm – The Large
11:00pm – Jubilee
11:00pm – Dre Skull
11:00pm – Ricky Blaze
11:00pm – Mr. Vegas
Union Hall, 702 Union St. (QRO venue review)
7:30pm – Benjamin Cartel
8:30pm – Juston Stens & The Get Real Gang
9:30pm – Enemy Planes
10:30pm – Cold Blood Club
11:30pm – Old Monk
Union Pool, 484 Union Ave. (QRO venue review)
Beyond Beyond Is Beyond
8:00pm – Worthless
9:00pm – Coke Weed
10:00pm – Prince Rupert Drops
11:00pm – Velcro Lewis Group
Webster Hall, 125 East 11th St. (QRO venue review)
Menomena
The Helio Sequence
6:00pm – Pattern Is Movement
12:00am – Nick Waterhouse
Acclaimed Portland experimental indie duo Menomena (QRO live review) come to CMJ (QRO photos at a festival) off of last year’s Moms, their latest since 2010’s Mines (QRO review) and 2007’s Friend and Foe (QRO review).
While their last full-length was 2008’s Keep Your Eyes Ahead (QRO review), wherein singer/guitarist Brandon Summers lost his voice and relearned to sing, guitar-and-drums two-piece The Helio Sequence, from Beaverton, OR (QRO photos at a festival), knows how to fill a stage (QRO photos at a festival), and last year released the new Negotiations – just keep an eye on drummer Benjamin Weikel’s goofy faces (QRO photos).
Raw, rhythmic and exciting rhythm ‘n’ blues from California comes in the form of Nick Waterhouse. Debut album Time’s All Gone mixes classic R&B with modern day influences.
Westway, 75 Clarkson St.
Bond
8:00pm – Dinosaur Bones
Wythe Hotel, 80 Wythe Ave. (RSVP)
4:30pm – PAPA
6:00pm – Little Daylight
7:30pm – Dan Croll
9:00pm – Belle Mare
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