This Week in NYC: The Owl Mag’s CMJ Show Picks
CMJ starts today in NYC. Here are just a few of the great shows happening over the next five days:
Tuesday
Big ticket show: Yo La Tengo, DOM, Screaming Females @ Brooklyn Bowl (FREE)
Best day show: The Music Slut party @ Pianos – BRAHMS, Oberhofer, Electric Tickle Machine, Hooray For Earth, Yukon Blonde and more (FREE)
Buzz-filled lineup: Jenny and Johnny, Wild Nothing, Times New Viking, Happy Birthday, La Sera @ Irving Plaza (tickets)
The Owl Mag recommends: Kevin Devine and the Goddamn Band, Miniature Tigers @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (tickets)
Wednesday
Big ticket show: The Drums, Surfer Blood, The Dewars @ Webster Hall (tickets)
Best day show: Terrorbird party @ Cake Shop – Marnie Stern, Baths, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Dark Dark Dark, Prince Rama and more (FREE)
Buzz-filled lineup: Apache Beat, Wild Nothing, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Marknie Stern, Diamond Rings, DOM, MINKS, Tamaryn, Houses, Lower Dens, Evan Voytas @ Santos Party House
The Owl Mag recommends: Linfinity, Paul & the Patients, Gobble Boggle, Tristen, Teletextile @ Pianos (upstairs)
Thursday
Big ticket show: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Blow, Screaming Females, Suuns, Young Man @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (BrooklynVegan showcase) (tickets)
Best day show: I Guess I’m Floating party @ Pianos – Baths, Oberhofer, Young Man, Beach Fossils, Pepper Rabbit, Violens, Class Actress, MillionYoung, Blackbird Blackbird and more
Buzz-filled lineup: Adam Haworth Stephens, Frankie & The Heartstrings, The Mynabirds, First Aid Kit, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Old Canes, Sky Larkin @ The Delancey (downstairs)
The Owl Mag recommends: Jukebox the Ghost, Drink Up Buttercup, Savoir Adore and more @ The Bowery Electric
Friday
Big ticket show: None, really, but tons of good choices
Best day show: BrooklynVegan party @ Public Assembly – Asobi Seksu, John Vanderslice, Times New Viking, DOM, Ty Segall, Oberhofer, Lower Dens, First Aid Kit and more (FREE)
Buzz-filled lineup: Grooms, We Are Country Mice, Eternal Summers, Young Prisms, Braids, Pepper Rabbit, Viernes, Dream Diary, Dinowalrus @ Cake Shop
The Owl Mag recommends: Takka Takka, La Strada, The Forms, The Nouvellas, Greg Jamie (of O’Death) @ Bruar Falls
Saturday
Big ticket show: Neon Indian, DOM, Wild Nothing, Lower Dens, Lia Ices, Fake Problems, Lord Huron, The Static Jacks @ Bowery Ballroom (tickets)
Best day show: Shilpa Ray, Everything Everything, The Young Empires, Kisses, Lower Dens, Light Pollution @ Arlene’s Grocery (FREE)
Buzz-filled lineup: Xeno & Oaklander, Braids, Gobble Gobble, Buke and Gass, L’Atra, Acrylics, The Tony Castles @ Cameo Gallery
The Owl Mag recommends: Red Wire Black Wire, Mon Khmer, Unsolved Mysteries, Neighbors, Teams @ Brooklyn Fireproof East