The Monday Mix - CBGB Fest Announces Headliners, Springs To Life In A Big Way

When I think of CBGB, I can't help but remember the holy trinity of musical acts that emerged from that venue in the late 1970s, all of which reside in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame today: The Ramones, The Talking Heads and Blondie.

Founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973, CBGB was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles (country, bluegrass and blues), but became a forum for American punk and New Wave bands like the Ramones, Misfits, Television, the Patti Smith Group, Mink DeVille, The Dead Boys, The Dictators, The Fleshtones, The Voidoids, The Cramps, The B-52's, Blondie, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, The Shirts, and Talking Heads. From the early 1980s until its later years, it would mainly become known for hardcore punk, with bands such as Agnostic Front, Murphy's Law, U.S. Chaos, Cro-Mags, Warzone, Gorilla Biscuits, Sick of It All, and Youth of Today becoming synonymous with the club.

The legendary New York venue may have shuttered its doors in 2006, but the brand is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year with the second annual CBGB Music & Film Festival, happening from October 9 to 13 in NYC. The five-day event will take place in various locations throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn, with the Landmark Sunshine Theater on East Houston Street serving as the hub for the conference and cinema showcase.

My Morning Jacket, Grizzly Bear, Divine Fits, and The Wallflowers will be playing Times Square during this year's CBGB Music and Film Festival.

Those are among the acts slated for CBGB Fest's centerpiece event, a free outdoor concert that will see Broadway and 7th Avenue in New York City closed to car traffic from 46th Street up to 54th Street between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Oct. 12.

James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem will also DJ at the show, from a platform between its two main stages. A total of about 30 bands are expected to play, many of them at a third acoustic stage.

Sponsors for the Times Square event include Coca-Cola, Spotify, Red Bull, MTV, Gibson Guitar, The Standard Hotel, Astral Tequila, J&R Music and Bust Magazine.

"Times Square is the crossroads of the world," said festival organizer Tim Hayes. "It's the most visited spot on earth ... We think it's the biggest stage in the world. Our goal is to keep the spirit of CBGB alive in all of its forms."
[Quote Source:  New York Times]

Overall, the 2013 CBGB Festival will feature more than 500 artists playing at 125 venues in Brooklyn and Manhattan between Oct. 9 and Oct. 13. The schedule also features more than 125 panel speakers from the music and film industries, and 100 screenings of music-related films and documentaries.

New Day Dawn, who we had at SXSW in March this past March, is playing this year's event. Their showcase is curated by Big Mountain Entertainment, and will be held at Fontana's on October 11th at 9PM. The bill includes Matt Butler, The Young Presidents, Citrus Distress and Universal Rebel. Fontana's is located at 105 Elridge Street in Manhattan.

You can get the entire lineup right here.

CBGB, the movie, will also make its U.S. festival premier at the 2013 CBGB Festival. The historical drama's cast includes Alan Rickman as CBGB founder Hilly Kristal and Malin Ackerman as Debbie Harrie, the lead singer of rock band Blondie. The movie is already airing on DirecTV's video-on-demand platform. Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins plays Iggy Pop in the movie.

Additionally, the CBGB Film Festival will premier an estimated 40 new movie titles with most featuring Q&A sessions with directors, producers and/or actors. "The CBGB Film Festival is positioned to be the leading rock and roll film festival in the country," adds CBGB Co-Owner Joe D'Urso. "We will have approximately 40 movie premieres and 100 screenings. No other major film festival in the country focuses exclusively on music-themed movies on this scale. There is a ton of great music films out there and the field is really exploding right now."
[Quote Source:  New York Times]

Did you know?

The full name is CBGB & OMFUG which stands for "Country Bluegrass Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers." Gormandizer (gourmand) usually means a ravenous eater of food, but according to Kristal, here it means "a voracious eater of ... music."

THIS WEEK'S TOP FIVE LIST

Five essential albums from the CBGB Scene:

1. Ramones by The Ramones
2. Talking Heads '77 by The Talking Heads
3. Horses by Patti Smith
4. Marquee Moon by Television
5. Parallel Lines by Blondie

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For years New Day Dawn songwriter and front lady Dawn Botti led a double life. She was an executive at a major media company by day and a rock musician by night. Her band performed all over the U.S., including at a number of major music festivals, such as South By Southwest (SXSW) and the Millennium Music Conference. Her double life lasted until June of 2012, when she was confronted with an ultimatum.

“My boss said to me either you’re going to be successful here and you’re gonna push your music back down to a hobby level, or you can’t work here.” It was a choice Botti had thought about on a regular basis but she says when it was actually presented to her, “it was the easiest decision in the world to make. I’m not giving up music.”

Soon after she parted ways with her nine to five, Botti and her band consisting of drummer Gary Szczecina (who is also Botti’s husband) and guitarist PJ Angeloni, finished their second album, Rise Above This, which will be released in February.

Musically, Botti describes Rise Above This as “anthemic rock, with big, bold choruses.” This is due, in part, to New Day Dawn working with platinum-selling songwriter/ guitarist Chris Henderson (3 Doors Down), and John Moyer (Disturbed, Adrenaline Mob) who each produced tracks on the album.

New Day Dawn isn’t Botti’s first attempt at rock success either. Her previous band, Slushpuppy, received early airplay from Matt Pinfield on NYC’s K-Rock (WXRK 92.3FM), back when it mattered and regularly filled iconic venues like CBGB’s. Slushpuppy broke up in 2003. Shortly thereafter their bassist Cory Baker committed suicide. Determined to never quit, Botti started New Day Dawn, but then put it on the back burner when she became pregnant with her son. In 2006 the band started back up and released their first full length album, The Company We Keep, in 2008.

For Botti, she says one of the highest compliments someone can give her is that they can’t get her songs out of their head. “To me, that means I’ve succeeded. I want you to remember.”

After one listen to Rise Above This, it’s clear Botti is a woman, and New Day Dawn is a band, you won’t want to forget.

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MONDAY MIX PLAYLIST FOR 16 SEPTEMBER 2013

1. Cuts You Up by Peter Murphy
2. What A Day That Was by The Talking Heads
3. When The Beatles Hit America by John Wesley Harding
4. Dixie Brothers by Bear Ceuse
5. What Do I Get? by The Buzzcocks
6. Eyeoneye by Andrew Bird
7. For Anyone by Star Anna
8. Charmer by Aimee Mann
9. California Sun by The Ramones
10. Back To You by Dimitri's Rail
11. You Are My Everything by New Day Dawn
12. Crying Tree by Fiawna Forte
13. March Of Fools by Gram Rabbit
14. The Edge Of The Western World by The Great Apes
15. Autumn Sweater by Yo La Tengo
16. Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? by Arctic Monkeys
17. Devil by Well Hung Heart
18. Compromised Intentions by Massy Ferguson
19. Buick City by Whitey Morgan & The 78's
20. Give It (Once In A Lifetime) by Lambchop
21. Reflektor by Arcade Fire
22. Uh Oh by Super Water Sympathy
23. Does She Know Yet? by Tae Phoenix
24. Nightfall by Hollis Brown
25. Weight by Mikal Cronin
26. Big Love by Matthew E. White
27. Drugstore by The Can't Tells
28. Titus Andronicus by Titus Andronicus
29. Dead Man's Shoes by The Virginmarys
30. 86 Me by The Wanton Looks
31. Evil Girls by Escondido
32. 16 Days by Whiskeytown
33. Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve
34. A New Life by Jim James
35. Heart Of Glass by Blondie
36. Stay Right Here by Lisa Marshall
37. Same Old Ground by He's My Brother She's My Sister
38. The Ghost In You by The Psychedelic Furs
39. Take Me To The River by The Talking Heads
40. Youth Wasted by The Bronx
41. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker by The Ramones
42. Do It With A Rockstar by Amanda Palmer & Grand Theft Orchestra
43. Hey Anthony by Sabrina Signs
44. Fear & Fallacy, Sitting In A Tree by The Quiet Company
45. Dancing Barefoot by The Patti Smith Group
46. Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel
47. Chicken Switch by The James Hunter Six
48. Lucky Number by Lene Lovich
49. Chocolate by The 1975
50. The Wire by Haim
51. Call Me by Blondie
52. Sometime Around Midnight by The Airborne Toxic Event
53. Got To Have Rock and Roll by The Heartless Bastards
54. Man by Neko Case
55. Electric Daisy Violin by Lindsey Stirling
56. Walk On The Wild Side by Lou Reed
57. Because The Night by Patti Smith
58. Raw Meat by Black Lips
59. Unsatisfied by The Replacements
60. I'm Writing A Novel by Father John Misty
61. In The Dark by The Iveys
62. Spoon by Cibo Matto
63. Candleland by Ian McCullough
64. These Sore Eyes by Gold Motel
65. You Took It All by Sassparilla
66. Butternut by Hugh Bob & The Hustle
67. Not Quite Right by Lovebettie
68. Motorcycle Emptiness by Manic Street Preachers
69. Elephant by Tame Impala
70. Whatever It Takes by New Day Dawn
71. Still Wish by Sam Batt
72. Easy People by Pilgrim
73. See A Little Light by Bob Mould
74. Left Of The Dial by The Replacements
75. Workin' Woman Blues by Valerie June
76. Buena by Morphine
77. The Pursuit Of Happiness by Ben Sollee
78. Haunted by The RockTigers
79. Maybe For Sure by Deborah Harry
80. Seven Angels by Hem
81. No Control by Pepper
82. Santa Cruz by Foreign Talks
83. T.B. Sheets by Van Morrison