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LIVE REVIEWBill Callahan @ Baby's All Right

This is the closest we will ever get to Bill Callahan’s living room, or…porch.

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LIVE REVIEWCMJ 2015-Cosmo Sheldrake

On my second venture to Williamsburg’s Living Room, I encounter an even stranger sight than the Anglomania days prior. A lanky, rather stunning gentleman is flung upon a couch like the lead dandy of an Oscar Wilde play. He wears foppish Chelsea boots, a rust red sweater with a hole in the elbow and...

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CMJ 2015Ezra Furman

Ezra Furman was all over CMJ this year. I was lucky enough to see him twice-once at a matinee showcase for Brooklyn Vegan, and again at a headlining spot at The Knitting Factory. I’ve always felt like seeing a band more than once in a short span of time is like hearing a the same joke back to...

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CMJ 2015Jake Isaac and Hooton Tennis Club @ The Living Room

From left: Callum McFadden, Ryan Murphy, James Madden and Harry Chalmers of Hooton Tennis Club. I've often been called an anglophile. When it comes to my favorite books, movies, music - even people - an alarming amount hail from the U.K. I can’t help it. So imagine my delight upon arriving at The...

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NORTHSIDE HIGHLIGHTSShilpa Ray and Sun Ra Arkestra @ Rough Trade

An unlikely lineup at the last night of Brooklyn’s seventh annual Northside Festival, one angsty crooner Shilpa Ray opening for the sparkly and jubilant Sun Ra Arkestra. In a way it was the perfect bill, not only due to the heightened quality of the musicians on it, but that their disparity...

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LIVE REVIEWCourtney Barnett @ Bowery Ballroom

“There’s not enough songs about Squash.” Are there not? Not according to Australian singer/songwriter Darren Hanlon. On paper, Hanlon wouldn’t entice me all that much. Solo artist. Acoustic guitar. Singer/songwriter. Cheeky and cheerful folk numbers. Australian. With those keywords I’d fear a...

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LIVE REVIEWYvette/Eaters @ Baby's All Right

Bob Jones and Jonathan Schenke of Eaters It takes a lot of nerve to wear your white hair long like that: straight, thin, and skimming the neck of your skinny white tie, worn over a tight black t-shirt, matchstick jeans, and elf-point boots. But how else would you dress for your 20th wedding...

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ARTIST INTERVIEW + LIVE REVIEWHappyness @ Baby's All Right

Across me, or rather, encircling me, are the three young gentlemen who make up Happyness, arguably one of England’s best new bands. They’ve just released their debut LP Weird Little...

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