GSTV caught up with these rising stars of the NYC rock scene at this year’s CMJ Festival. Check out GSTV’s exclusive interview and live footage of one of the Big Apple’s most-buzzing-est bands
you take your laminate and you wander around Ludlow, Stanton, Bowery, dipping your head into one club after another, catching 20 minutes of a half hour set and heading out while the next band sets up.
But that isn’t where Killer Mike is at ALL THE TIME. On RAP Music, he is too hard, on stage he is something else jumping off the stage and spending the last two songs dancing and rhymin’ with us, his arms around a fan, going round and round and round.
Wild Nothing have played ethereal melodies for college kids who might be stoned or might be smoking tea for three years now, and if the first album is the best, the latest, Nocturne, isn’t unconscionable.
For one thing, a lot of the guys had breasts now. And they were al much younger than me, that never happened before. Inexplicable, right
Neither performer are what I would dub wild populists, on their Facebook page they name “Silence” as their influence and I sincerely believe them,.. And on stage Jack hardly says a word and he is the absolute life of the party! Oli stared at his keyboards for the entire , admittedly short, set.
it isn’t as though you just plug in and play, you actually have to be screened and approved. I read where they received around 10,000 requests this year!
I am really exciting about it, now, that I can see how to deal with it. Not to worry about the names that are about to break but maintain my love for those bands that may get big,
