With a sound as sunny as their hometown of Brisbane, Australia, Cub Sport shone on stage from our CMJ broadcast this morning.
After a certain organization asked the band to change their name (can you guess who?), the newly-monikered quintet hit the road for their first-ever US tour, including their American radio debut on our airwaves. With their dueling keyboards and the schoolboy-sweet vocals of frontman Tim Nelson, their session charmed the audience at the Judson Memorial Church. As the sun poured in through the stained glass windows here in New York City, for a brief moment it felt summer hadn't ended yet.
Brooklyn-based (formerly San Francisco) shoegaze band Weekend came into the picture at the turn of the decade with Sports, a strong introductory statement that could have seen the band go in plenty of different directions in the future. But in the form of Jinx, their sophomore step mixes dense text…
Well, that was a sure way to wake up the neighborhood! Kicking off KEXP's 2013 CMJ broadcast was New York's own Bear Ceuse, a band whose pounding drums, searing guitars, and loud, belted vocals definitely woke up the group of caffeinated New Yorkers who gathered at Judson Memorial Church for their …
