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A Concert for Every Hour of CMJ, Day 3
The shows to see on October 21
Pains of Being Pure at Heart, playing tonight for CMJ
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Below is Day 3 of our CMJ 2010 guide. Here’s Day 1 and Day 2.
1 p.m.

Life Size Maps
Spike Hill, 1:30-2 p.m.
Origin: New York, NY
Quirky MySpace Fact: Influenced by “faux nostalgia.” You and me both.
2 p.m.

Vagina Panther
Spike Hill, 2:15-2:45
Origin: New York, NY
Quirky MySpace Fact: The name alone, isn’t enough?
3 p.m.

Santah
Public Assembly, 3:30-4 p.m.
Origin: Champaign, Illinois
Quirky MySpace Fact: Have a song called “Neighbors & Cousins (Are We Lovers?)”
4 p.m.

(Photo courtesy of Lulu Rubens)
Alex Winston
Public Assembly, 4:30-5 p.m.
Origin: New York, NY
Quirky MySpace Fact: Zebra!
5 p.m.

Chamberlin
Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2, 5-5:30 p.m.
Origin: Goshen, VT
Quirky MySpace Fact: “When not playing music they keep themselves entertained with cheap whiskey and cheaper thrills…”
6 p.m.

TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb
Spike Hill, 6:45-7:15 p.m.
Origin: Philadelphia, PA
Quirky MySpace Fact: Band member Bonnie plays “fiddle, clitoris”
7 p.m.

(Photo courtesy of Shawn Brackbill)
Oberhofer
Public Assembly, 7:30-8 p.m.
Origin: New York, NY
Quirky MySpace Fact: Sounds like “coincidence pop”?
8 p.m.

(Photo courtesy of Tod Seelie)
Dark Dark Dark
Coco 66, 8-8:30 p.m.
Origin: Providence, RI
Quirky MySpace Fact: Very little quirk
9 p.m.

Lia Ices
Pianos, 9:45-10:15 p.m.
Origin: Brooklyn, NY
Quirky MySpace Fact: Top two friends are the Beatles and Dylan. Not too shabby.
10 p.m.

GZA
Le Poisson Rouge, 10:30-11 p.m.
Origin: New York, NY
Quirky MySpace Fact: When you’re a member of Wu-Tang, you don’t need quirk
11 p.m.

(Photo courtesy of Pavla Kopecna)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Music Hall of Williamsburg, 11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.
Origin: New York, NY
Quirky MySpace Fact: From All Music Guide, “Sounds like a slice of watermelon tastes, feels like the wind blowing through your hair as you ride down a back street on your way to the beach, and makes the melancholy of resigned heartbreak seem like exactly the right mood for this summer”
12 a.m.

(Photo courtesy of Eric Martin)
Stalkers
Fontana’s, 12-12:30 a.m.
Origin: Brooklyn, NY
Quirky MySpace Fact: Sounds like “The Beatles but better”
1 a.m.

LMFAO
Santos Party House, 1-1:45 a.m.
Origin: Los Angeles, CA
Quirky MySpace Fact: “While searching for a name for his Electro/Hip-Hop group, Sky Blu decided to shoot an iChat message to his grandmother with the latest idea, seeking her opinion. ‘Our new name is gonna be Sexy Dudes…what do you think of that?’ Grandma Goodfoot replied, ‘LMFAO’”
2 a.m.

Uproot Andy and Dave Nada
Santos Party House, 2:15-4 a.m.
Origin: Brooklyn, NY
Quirky MySpace Fact: This chicken, I guess?