The Secret Life Of Sofia, whose Seven Summits album we recently wrote about, is going on a week-long tour that will take them through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. And they’re getting the whole thing kicked off with a free show at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn tomorrow night. Here are a couple of mp3s [...]

Aldenbarton plays a certain brand of indie power-pop that requires an amount of skill and charm that not every musician is capable of exhibiting, no matter their level of talent. So it’s a good thing these guys are all excellent musicians with skill and charm to burn. Their sometimes/somewhat-retro sound, with its big rhythms and [...]

We recently saw Limbs play at the Delancey with Umami. It was a great combination of talented musicians. And they’re playing together again this evening at Union Hall (info below). It’s one of Umami’s two last shows (with the other one being tomorrow night), so catch them together again while you can. Here’s an mp3 [...]

Thursday, July 17th
El Jezel
@ Europa / 8pm
98 Mesarole Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
w/ Two Seconds To Midnight, AM Preacher
“Champagne And Cold Coffee”

Umami is a band that we’ve long been interested in checking out. The whole drums with two basses and no guitar thing was immediately intriguing when we first heard about it and the songs we were first able to hear on their MySpace page were impressive. We were finally able to see them play live [...]

Listen to The Song Corporation’s new full-length album, Pirates!, and you’ll hear a band that’s not only good at playing, but enjoys it and doesn’t care if you know it. One of the things we like about them is that they’ve never been afraid of letting their music be fun. Even when the lyrics [...]

“All of the stories on Seven Summits are at least partly true. Some are completely true, and were told to me firsthand. Some are more like historical fiction.” - Kyle Wilson
Obviously, it’s not possible to objectively quantify the quality of any piece of music. But if counting the number of times an album is able [...]

Morning Theft has been busy working on a new full-length album. It’s called Between Walls and the band’s just made it available as a free download on their website at www.MorningTheft.net. We suggest you head over there and take advantage of it. Here’s a track-listing:

1. “Between Walls”
2. “The Fall”
3. “Limb From Limb”
4. “Cursed (I’m Lost)”
5. [...]

Chop Shop is one of our favorite finds of the year. We were immediately impressed with them, as evidenced by our writing about them on numerous occasions since meeting them earlier this year and have already worked with them on a couple of successful shows. We’re very happy to have them starting off the night [...]

In case it hasn’t been obvious, one of the best things about this CMJ showcase we’ve set up for Saturday is that we’ve been able to include a lot of bands we’ve got to know pretty well over the years. And there are probably few bands we know better than El Jezel. When we first [...]