As predicted, CMJ Festival was a little cray this year – and not just in Brooklyn

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

At CMJ, camaraderie is contagious

by Maria Gotay

We can pretty much all agree: 2014 was an incredible year in music

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

We hope you are all as jazzed about CMJ as we are! The festival is the College Music Journal’s “Music Marathon”- a completely amazing (and exhausting) week (October 21-25, 2014) of live music, giving the music community a chance to catch the best new artists from around the world before they blow up

For the second year in a row, we are stoked to announce an unofficial CMJ showcase with Out In The Streets! This year’s party will take place on Thursday, October 23rd at Lot 45 with a killer lineup of local talent and well as some imports including Rioux, Fort Lean, Zula, Yawn, Seoul, and more! Come party with us to experience the CMJ Music Marathon from the comfort of your own hood

CMJ has come and gone in a fury of five booze-fueled days

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CMJ, The College Music Journal Music Marathon, is just around the corner, and Bushwick Daily is all over it like bass on dubstep (yeah?)

CMJ aka College Music Journal is the second largest U

Tired of heteronormative and boring Hallmark events? Then this list is for you.

Some may still be rubbing the post-CMJ show slumber from their eyes after having a pretty packed last week, but this weather makes it hard not to push through the exhaustion and hit up some of the awesome events that are soon taking place in Bushwick

With local events such as Exploding in Sound’s CMJ Showcase on Friday at Palisades, AdHoc’s Car Wash show off Lorimer on Saturday, a sprinkling of new art shows around the neighborhood, and the opening up of a bunch of new coffee shops (such as Dweebs), the list of fun things to do this weekend is certainly long

While certain sources claim New York might get “hammered” by Hurricane Joaquin, we have a feeling the only kind of hammered you’re going to get this weekend is the kind that takes place in Brooklyn… at a music venue… at one of these shows…

Have you walked past that closed down bar in Ridgewood on Harman St and Seneca Ave with the crazy neon signs and the blacked out windows thinking someone needs to do something with this place? You will thrilled to learn that hey, someone’s doing something with this place! Ridgewood resident, bartendress, and musician Laura Regan is fulfilling a longtime dream to finally open her own venue

400 artists; six walls; two rooms filled with their small works

If you’re like us and you loooooove music festivals, you may be quietly shedding tears over the (impending) arrival of fall and the end of festival season

We’re back from Austin, suitcase full of freebies, ears ringing, and working our way through the week-long hangover that was SXSW

As you may know, Bushwick Daily is heading down to SXSW! We’ve already filled you in on our 10 Bands That Will Break Big at the festival this year, provided a how-to guide for fans flocking to Austin, and even put together some  festival fashion recommendations! We won’t feel too far from home in the Lone Star State since we’ll be in the good company; tons of great Bushwick bands will be present, playing their hearts out all across town

Dear Bushwick has been a neighborhood hit since they first opened their doors on Wilson Ave in the fall of 2012 and introduced us to a classy modern version of British pub food, (hold the mushy peas)!  Perhaps there is no better reflection of the British joint done on New York soil of than their taplist, which currently features malty brews from the cosmopolitan epicenters on both sides of the pond: the Coffee Porter from Meantime, a brewery based in London, and ERIC More Cowbell! Chocolate Milk Stout from SingleCut, a small Queens-based craft brewery

2014 is the Year of the Horse according to the Chinese Calendar, so let’s giddy up over to some epic shows that you can tell your children about. Hell, you might even be able to tell your kid about that crazy February night in cold ass Brooklyn when he or she was first conceived. Or, […]

Didn’t win a Grammy this week? Yeah, neither did we– unfortunately, we can’t all be Macklemore

In a heartfelt introduction to the series, promoters My Socialist and Supercrush Studios expressed their feelings about the arctic blast that’s defined this season: “this Winter is harshing my vibe in a serious way

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Loud, vile, discordant, disgusting

“You looked like you were going to die

I got into this band by accident – A happy, lovely accident

We give a small tribute to one of Bushwick’s great breakout bands, Night Manager, who decided to call it quits last week

Synthesized pop tunes, with a sprinkle of a punk rocker’s drums is enough to get me hooked on any song, let alone an album

By Maria Gotay