Welcome to our third installment featuring CMJ’s OurStage Staff Picks from the CMJ Relay Blog. CMJ is well known for their industry leading New Music Report magazine, which contains music reviews, artist news and interviews with the best artists being played on college radio. The New Music Report contains top played charts compiled from college radio stations all across the US. CMJ is also well known for hosting the CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival , a city wide festival in New York featuring the best emerging artists and film makers.
Val Broeksmit/Bikini Robot Army
“Fragile Things”
Acoustic Channel
This is a great throwback to the classic rock era. The song takes its sound from a decadent time when intoxicating psychedelic funk flooded the airwaves.
RIYL: Steppenwolf, War, T. Rex
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/bikinirobotarmy
Five Foot Nine
“Jardin Du Luxembourg”
Indie/Alternative Channel
Male and female vocals light up the song along with organ and glitchy bleeps that lay down an outline for everything else to fit into place.
RIYL: Paul Simon, Talking Heads, David Bowie
WEB: http://www.fivefootnine.net/index.html
Edgar Allen Floe
“The Righteous Way To Go”
Hip Hop Channel
Accompanied by orchestral samples and laid-back beats, Edgar Allen Floe’s rhymes are as literate as his name suggests.
RIYL: Kanye West, Nas
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/eafloe
