Seriously, people. You’ll love NDFY forever if you heed this piece of advice: Go see Jim Bianco tomorrow night at the Living Room. Yeah, I mentioned him once before, but this time you’ve got a great opportunity to catch him live at CMJ: Tomorrow (Thursday) night at the Living Room.
There’s a little sense of pride […]

I’m in love with Georgie James. That’s not a guy (or a girl), but rather a mid-Atlantic power duo with the sweetest, power-poppiest record I may have heard yet this year. Places, the twosome’s debut full-length for perennial melodic rock stable Saddle Creek, is 12 cuts of pure golden-touch songwriting with more than […]

I’ve never been shy to spew the occasional Pitchfork hate, more so because of the ubiquitous nature of the site’s influence and how it represents the yuppie-ization of my beloved underground scene than because I have a problem with the writing or the people doing it. I was pretty interested, for many reasons, in how […]

Woah, where do I even start? This CMJ is also Mo Pitkins’ swan song, so I’m planning to say ‘thanks for the memories’ in a big way.
Division Day recently brought their Brit poppy, shoegaze-yness to Chicago and didn’t disappoint. It’s only a matter of time before these guys are on more radars, so catch ‘em […]

Expect some serious hype for the CMJ parties I’m hoping to get to next week here on NDFY over the next several days. I’ll preview the bands that looks exciting, post mp3’s where I can, and of course hope that everyone will come out, meet up, and shake it with me in New York.
First up, […]