Plus, great gigs happening this week at Alphaville, The Footlight, and Trans-Pecos!

So you’re looking for a new best friend/roommate; that faux fur coat of yours doesn’t fit your image anymore; or you just want to buy a cheap acoustic guitar to play Beach Boys and sing in a high pitched voice on your roof? We’ve got some something just for you! We have new(ish) Classifieds! We cancelled the old system, and replaced it with a cool feed of community announcements, which we believe serves the purpose better

Northside Festival came and went this past week, along Saturday’s stifling hot weather

This week’s Listening Party features the Brooklyn boys of Honey Wild

It’s hard to keep up with the sheer amount of music that’s being put out these days, especially in New York

CMJ has started with a BANG

Text and photos by Maria Gotay

CMJ festival is the music lover’s mid-fall holiday

It’s the summer music festival season–and Bushwick is getting some love as well

CMJ only seems like a drag if a) you’re in a band that’s playing 3+ shows; b) you don’t know how to navigate the madness

Most of the time, if you tell people that you are going to Bossa Nova Civic Club, they think that you are either going to a cool Bossa Nova trio performance or that you belong to an old-school boys’ club that would require you to wear a suit jacket

Although Bushwick may have survived (and even surged) through devastating Hurricane Sandy, the rest of New York City has not fared so well- Breezy Point, Rockaway in Queens and lower Manhattan suffered among the worst damage

CMJ aka College Music Journal is the second largest U