Over the course of three measly days, Gab, Jessie and I spent every waking moment running up and down the Bowery, East Houston and Bleecker in hopes of squeezing into the packed venues that hosted the stellar shows of this year’s CMJ Music Marathon.  Given that we were there to pay close attention to the [...]

After running around like crazy people hopping from show to show in the Lower East Side/East Village last night, Jessie and I passed out promptly upon returning to makeshift TPB CMJ headquarters and charged our batteries, literally and figuratively speaking, for the second day of our time at CMJ.  Huge bonus?  Gab arrived fresh off [...]

A fan of the Brooklyn-based trio since their 2005 debut, Verses of Comfort, Assurance and Salvation, finally getting to meet the ladies behind the pulsating piano-pop made me nervous—mostly because I was afraid I might get a bit “fangirl,” but I also worried that they wouldn’t be the lovely people that I had imagined weaving their rose-tinted, crystalline voices and tinkling synth melodies into my perfect summer soundtrack. Well, friends, I had worried in vain.