Every fall, musicians, bands, and industry folk gather in New York City for CMJ, five days of non-stop musical mayhem (AKA heaven on earth).  On October 21st, Indaba will be co-presenting an exciting artist showcase with our friends from Whitesmith Entertainment at one of our favorite venues in NYC, The Living Room. Tickets are free, and first come, first serve. If you're in town, stop on in, say hello and check out some great music!

Wednesday, October 21st

The Living Room
154 Ludlow St, New York NY
(212) 533-7235
21+, one drink minimum, & NO CMJ badge necessary 

7pm - Emilyn Brodsky (with Brian Viglione of the Dresden Dolls)

8pm - Sydney Wayser

8:30pm - Pinky Swear (featuring Rachel Trachtenburg of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players)

9pm - Sara Benincasa (comedy)

9:15pm - Elon James White (comedy)

9:30pm - A special surprise guest! (comedy)

10pm - Family of the Year

11pm - Jason Trachtenburg (of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players)

11:45pm - Alina Simone

Multimedia: Media Vox 

Hosted by Sara Benincasa and Emilyn Brodsky 

Hope to see you there!

- The Indaba Music Team

From Mantis' Blog 

Keep an ear out for a record that producer Jerry Roche and I are currently working on.

Ex-Captain Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas and his band Gods And Monsters which includes Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) on keys, drummer Billy Ficca (Television), bassist Ernie Brooks (Modern Lovers) along with a horn section had played a great set of music at the CMJ Festival and we have captured it! For your ears AND eyes! The CD will be titled One Man's Meat.

Jerry has decided to release this as a CD/DVD package! The CD includes 14 high-energy tunes that took the audience to their feet! Indaba videographer Chuck Fishbein had collected his crew and filmed the entire event including the private pre-show solo performance and interview at the Indaba loft! The live concert was recorded by Indaba member Liberty Ellman at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC.

Gary Lucas was co-writer on the Jeff Buckley hit Grace and can be most recently heard on Chris Cornell’s latest album.

Here is a sneak preview of that night. Don’t tell Jerry I showed you!

Remember CMJ?  We do.  In fact, Indaba hosted 30+ bands at the loft (and got a bunch of nice press to boot!). But Indaba wasn't the only music site involved in CMJ (obviously).  Stereogum, the blog for all things hip, underground and clad in American Apparel, had a great idea: get Andrew WK to go around and interview CMJ'ers about partying.  Enjoy!

Video after the jump

Check out Stereogum's wrap up of CMJ, too.