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[oddwomen]

Ad for Tracy Chapman’s album New Beginning, 1995

[cotdfan]

CMJ Presents Certain Damage! - Volume 52 November 1993 (College Music Journal / Aja Records)

COALTAR OF THE DEEPERS - My Speedy Salah 5:11

CMJ New Music No. 6 January 1994

COALTAR OF THE DEEPERS - My Speedy Salah 5:11

CMJ Presents Certain Damage! - Volume 53 January 1994

COALTAR OF THE DEEPERS - My Speedy Salah 5:11 (same fadeout as Sinking Slowly version)

NOTE: (CMJ News Music Report January 31, 1994 pg. 61) Certain Damage Volume 52: mastered at wrong speed "My Speedy Sarah" was misspelled

This is COALTAR OF THE DEEPERS' first US debut. They performed at CMJ MUSIC MARATHON at LION'S DEN (New York) on November 4, 1993. They also performed at: 11/10 BOURBON SQUARE (Los Angeles) 11/19 COCONUT TEASZER (Los Angeles) 11/23 RAJI’S (Los Angeles) 11/27 ROXY (Los Angeles) They toured the US with the Japanese band, Brutish Bulldogs.

mirror: https://cotdfan.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/college-music-journal-1993/

[soupy-sez]

Faith No More Tom Lanham interview in CMJ New Music Monthly magazine with photos by Jay Blakesburg, April 1995 [X]

[vpjdrums]

Back in the early aughts I played in a band (Sleep Station) that was labelmates with My Chemical Romance. We shared a rehearsal/practice space (in fact where their Vampires… video was shot using my Slingerland drum kit) for a few years here in North Jersey. I would often stay after at the studio and watch them write and rehearse. I was always in awe of their camaraderie and collaboration. I got to know those guys pretty well. Especially the Way brothers whom I still consider friends to this day. I would frequently sing with them whenever we shared a bill together. Here's one of those times on a brisk NYC October night at CMJ back in 2003 (a couple of days after Elliott Smith died), when I got to sing (starts at 21:38) Headfirst for Halos with them.

[peterbuckmichaelstiperem4ever]

CMJ (College Music Journal) New Music Awards, held at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, New York, 9th November 1985.

(Photo by Vinnie Zuffante/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

[lastjanuary]

How do you love? Like a fist. Like a knife.

—Ada Limón

[fendaira]

[indieephemera]

Postcard for an invitation-only Beggars Banquet/Atlantic Records promotional event taking place September 22, 1994, featuring a performance by Grant McLennan of The Go-Betweens.

Fifteen years ago today, Grant McLennan died—too young, too soon—of a heart attack. I feel fortunate to have been able to not only see him perform many times, but to have interviewed the man himself for issue #2 of my fanzine.

That interview had taken place the same day as this event, that afternoon in his record label’s office tower. I was very nervous meeting one of my musical idols, but even so I had the gumption to hand him a copy of my band’s 7″ single along with issue #1 of my zine. He was interested in my opinion of his proper CMJ showcase gig the night before (which I also taped, of course), asking me, ”So, honestly, tell me what you thought of the show?” (Spoiler: I very much enjoyed it!)

So, post-CMJ showcase, at this low-key early evening event for “industry insiders” (that would be me... I guess?), Grant was feeling pretty relaxed. I probably would have been more relaxed had I taken advantage of the open bar (open bar!), but at that point in my life I was still straight-edge. I do recall noshing on the various hors d’ouvres on offer, though.

I probably sat through Mary Karlzen and Chris Sheehan’s sets first, as I am sure Grant’s performance was the finisher. I would have gotten there early to secure a good spot, though I needn’t have worried too much, as in this music biz crowd at this small Irish bar, I was the clear and obvious TOTAL FAN.

So as many times as I got to see Grant perform—solo, as a duo with Robert, with Steve Kilbey in Jack Frost, and finally in the reformed Go-Betweens—this was undoubtably the most intimate and one of the most special performances in that repertoire. Never mind the jaded music industry lifers knocking back whiskeys at the Irish bar. I was mere feet from Grant, still on a post-interview high, and swooning as he played solo acoustic versions of Go-Betweens classics “Bye Bye Pride” and “Right Here.”