CMJ New Music Monthly

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CMJ New Music Monthly is a monthly music magazine with interviews, reviews, and special features. Each magazine comes with a CD of 15-24 songs by well-established bands, unsigned bands and everything in between. It is published by College Media Inc. (also publishers of College Music Journal) in New York City.

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[edit] Issue #1

Jackpot: Front 242, Up Evil (Epic), Season To Risk, Season To Risk (Red Decibel-Columbia); Urge Overkill, Saturation (Geffen); Jungle Bros., The Jbeez Wit The Remedy (Warner Bros.): Reviews: Matthew Sweet, Altered Beast (Zoo); Liz Phair, Exile In Guyville (Matador), Verve, A Storm In Heaven (Vernon Yard); Mercury Rev, Boces (Columbia); Paul Westerberg, 14 Songs (Sire-Reprise); Tiger Trap, Tiger Trap (K); Flaming Lips, Transmissions From The Satellite Heart Featuring The Absolute Sounds Of The (Flaming Lips) (Warner Bros.); The Fall, The Infotainment Scan (Matador); Palace Brothers, There Is No One What Will Take Care Of You (Drag City); Bjork, Debut (Elektra); Rocket From the Crypt, Cira:Now! (Interscope); X, Hey Zeus! (Big Life-Mercury); Boss, Born Gangstar (Def Jam West); Fishbone Give A Monkey A Brain And He’ll Swear He’s The Center Of The Universe (Columbia); Cranes, Forever (Dedicated-RCA); Red House Painters, Red House Painters (4AD-Warner Bros.); David Gray, A Century Ends (Caroline); Cathedral, The Ethereal Mirror (Earache-Columbia); Mecca Normal, Jarred Up (K); Walt Mink, Bareback Ride (Caroline); Bats, Silverbeet (Flying Nun-Mammoth); Van Morrison, Too Long In Exile (Polydor-PLG); Babes In Toyland, Painkillers (EP) (Reprise); Tears For Fears, Elemental (Mercury); My Bloody Valentine, Isn’t Anything (Sire-WB): Features: Primus, Tsunami: On The CD: Matthew Sweet “Ugly Truth Rock”; Rocket From The Crypt “Hippy Dippy Do”; Front 242 “Religion”; Idaho “Skyscrape”; Paul Westerberg “World Class Fad”; Verve “Slide Away”; Ned’s Atomic Dustbin “Saturday Night”; Candlebox “You’; Catherine Wheel “Crank”; Eve’s Plum “Blue”; Quicksand “Dine Alone”; Engines of Aggression “Illusion Is Real”; Sheep On Drugs “15 Minutes Of Fame”; Pharcyde “Otha Fish”; Blind Melon “No Rain”; The Point “Hey Jane”; Boss Hog “Ruby”; Tsunami “460”: CMJ TOP 75: PJ Harvey, Rid Of Me (Island-PLG): Metal: Only Living Witness Prone Mortal Form (Century Media); Galactic Cowboys, Space In Your Face (DGC): Dance: Various Artists, Tresor II (Nova Mute); Various Artists, Guerilla Artists-Singles ’93 Vol. II (5”) (Tribal/Guerilla- I.R.S.): Rap: Prime Minister Pete Nice & Daddy Rich, Dust To Dust (Def Jam/RAL-Columbia); MC Lyte, Ain’t No Other (First Priority-Atlantic): Video: Front 242, “Religion” (Epic): Mixed Media: Incredibly Strange Music, Vol. 1 (book); From The Velvets To The Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History For A Post-Punk World (book); Speed Kills (fanzine); Sub Pop Video Network Program II (video); Duplex Planet Illustrated (comic): Localzine: Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

[edit] Issue #2

Jackpot: Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream (Virgin); U2, Zooropa (Island-PLG); Cypress Hill, Black Sunday (Ruffhouse-Columbia); Various Artists, Sweet Relief -A Benefit For Victoria Williams (Thirsty Ear-Chaos): Reviews: JPS Experience Bleeding Star (Matador); Lisa Germano, Happiness (Capitol); Guided By Voices, Vampire On Titus (Scat); Epic Soundtracks, Rise Above (Bar/None); Various Artists, (Artificial Intelligence): Electronic Listening Music From WARP (WARP/Wax Trax!-TVT); Moonshake, Eva Luna (Matador-Atlantic); Gumbo, Droppin’ Soulful H2O On The Fiber (Chrysalis); Catherine Wheel, Chrome (Fontana-PLG); Idaho, The Palms E.P., (EP) (Caroline); Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares, Melody Rhythm & Harmony (Mesa-Mesa/Bluemoon); Royal Trux, Cats And Dogs (Drag City); Smog, Julius Caesar (Drag City); Acetone, Acetone (EP) (Vernon Yard); Pain Teens, Destroy Me, Lover (Trance Syndicate); Various Artists, Aural Opiates (Virgin); William S. Burroughs And Kurt Cobain, “The Priest They Called Him” (EP) (TK); St. Johnny, High As A Kite (Caroline); Manic Street Preachers, Gold Against The Soul (Columbia); Queen Sarah Saturday, Queen Sarah Saturday (EP) (Thirsty Ear); Sylvian/Fripp, The First Day (Virgin); Various Artists Performed By Sara DeBell, Grunge Lite (C/Z); Tribe, Sleeper (Slash-WB); Badfinger, Straight Up (Capitol): Features: Juliana Hatfield Three, Moby: On The CD: Smashing Pumpkins “Mayonaise”; Mazzy Star “Fade Into You”; Tool “Sober”; New Bomb Turks “Grounded Ex-Patriot”; Verlaines “Mission Of Love”; Flop “A Popular Donkey/The Great Valediction”; Cranes “Jewel (Robert Smith-Bryan (Chuck) New Remix)”; Kinky Machine “Supernatural Giver”; Latour “Craziaskowboi”; Eve’s Plum “Blue”; Guided By Voices “Over The Neptune/ Mesh Gear Fox”; Tiger Trap “Supreme Nothing”; Epic Soundtracks “Farmer’s Daughter”: CMJ Top 75: Urge Overkill, Saturation (Geffen): Metal: Voivod, The Outer Limits (MCA); Morbid Angel Covenant (Giant): Dance: Various Artists Declaration Of Independence Vols. I and II (Tribal/Guerilla-I.R.S.); Various Artists A Taste Of Hard Trance (Harthhouse America-Moonshine Music): Hip-Hop: Rumpletilskinz What Is A Rumpletilslin? (RCA); Soundtrack Poetic Justice (New Deal Music-Epic); Video: Breeders “Cannonball” (Elektra); PJ Harvey “Man-size” (Island): Mixed Media: Greil Marcus Ranters & Crowd Pleasers: Punk In Pop Music, 1977-92 (book); Barry Miles William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible, A Portrait (book); Carol Tyler The Job Thing: Stories About Shitty Jobs (comic); chickfactor (fanzine); The Will to Provoke: An Account of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements (video): Localzine: San Francisco, California.

[edit] Issue #3

Jackpot: Nirvana, In Utero (DGC); The Breeders, Last Splash (Elektra); Uncle Tupelo, Anodyne (Sire-Reprise); Melvins, Houdini (Atlantic): Reviews: The Cure, Show (Fiction-Elektra); Cracker, Kerosene Hat (Virgin); Jamiroquai, Emergency On Planet Earth (Columbia); Morphine, Cure For Pain (Rykodisc); Unrest, Perfect Teeth (4AD); William S. Burroughs, Spare Ass & Other Tales (Island Red): Dead Can Dance, Into The Labyrinth (4AD); Iggy Pop, American Caesar (Virgin); Machine Of Loving Grace, Concentration (Mammoth-Atlantic); James, James (Fontana-Mercury); Swirlies, Brokedick Car (EP) (Taang!); The Boo Radleys, Giant Steps (Columbia); Barkmarket, Gimmick (Def American-Reprise); Curve, Cuckoo (Virgin); Stereolab, Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements (Elektra); Hazel, Toreador Of Love (Sub Pop); Los Lobos, Just Another Band From East L.A.: A Collection (Slash-WB); Verlaines, Way Out Where (Slash); New Bomb Turks, Drunk On Cock (EP) (Engine Records); Randy Weston/Melba Liston, Volcano Blues (Antilles); Best Kissers In The World, Been There (MCA); Fudge Tunnel, Creep Diets (Earache/Columbia); Poor Righteous Teachers, Black Business (Profile); Acetone; Cindy (Vernon Yard Recordings); Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Spinning Around The Sun (Elektra); Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Live Seeds (Mute-Elektra); Buffalo Tom, Big Red Letter Day (Beggars Banquet-EastWest); Diamanda Galás, Vena Cava (Mute); Rancid, Rancid (Epitaph); Joe Henry, Kindness Of The World (Mammoth); Vertigo, Nailhole (Amphetamine Reptile); Tripping Daisy, Bill (Island Red Label); Seaweed, Seaweed (Sub Pop); Eve’s Plum, Envy (550-Epic); Julee Cruise, The Voice Of Love (Warner Bros.); Tar, Toast (Touch & Go); Armageddon Dildos, Homicidal Dolls (Sire-Warner Bros.); Flop, Whenever You’re Ready (550-Epic); Cocteau Twins, Four-Calendar Girl (Capitol); House Of Love, Audience With The Mind (Fontana/Mercury); Big Chief, Mack Avenue Skullgame (Sub Pop); Idaho, Year After Year (Caroline); Bad Brains, Rise (Epic); Heavenly, P.U.N.K.Girl (EP) (K); HollyFaith, Purrr… (Epic); New Radiant Storm King, Rival Time (Homestead); Miles Davis & Quincy Jones, Live At Montreaux (Warner Bros.); Devildogs, Saturday Night Fever (Crypt-Sympathy For The Record Industry); My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, 13 Above The Night (Interscope); The Chameleons U.K, Strange Times (Geffen): Features: The Smashing Pumpkins, Stereolab: CMJ Top 75: Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream (Virgin): Metal: Type O Negative, Bloody Kisses (Roadrunner); Therapy?, Hats Off To The Insane (EP) (A&M); Entombed, Hollowman (Earache/Columbia):Dance: F.U.S.E., Dimension Intrusion (Wax Trax!/+8); Various Artists, Welcome To The Future (Djax): Hip-Hop: Justin Warfield, My Field Trip To Planet 9 (Qwest-Reprise); Kris Kross, Da Bomb (Ruffhouse-Columbia): Video: Mercury Rev, “Bronx Cheer”: Mixed Media: Romper Stomper (movie); Wilder Napalm (movie); Exene Cervenka Virtual Unreality (book); Jim Bessman Ramones: An American Bands (book); 1963 (comic); Blab! (comic); Burning The Midnight Firefly (fanzine); Northwest Bands and Labels Trading Cards: On The CD: Juliana Hatfield Three “My Sister”; Stereolab “Jenny Ondioline”; Uncle Tupelo “Give Back The Key To My Heart”; Big Star “Don’t Lie To Me”; The Pogues “Tuesday Morning”; Iggy Pop “Wild America”; Best Kissers In The World “Miss Teen U.S.A.”; My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult “Blue Buddha (video Mix)”; Jamiroquai “When You Gonna Learn?”; Mighty Mighty Bosstones “Someday I Suppose”; Stick “No Groovy”; Cocteau Twins “Theft, And Wandering Lost”; William S. Burroughs “Words Of Advice For Young People”; Fabulon “In A Mood”; Melvins “Hooch”; The Spelvins “Don’t You Love Me (Edit)”; Heavenly “P.U.N.K. Girl”; King Kong “Funny Farm”; Connells “Slackjawed”: Localzine: Halifax, Nova Scotia.