Cool new band alert
This year's CMJ Festival in New York City, which took place two weeks ago, generated more new band buzz than Austin's SXSW has in quite some time. One of the group's feted by the industry movers and shakers and music press alike was the UK quartet the Answering Machine, a band so mighty, apparently, that it was able to convince the normally uber-snarky British tastemaker rag NME to drop the attitude.
"Perfect pop songs... a fantastic debut", opined NME's scribe. Of course, that magazine said pretty much the same thing about Pete Doherty, and we all know how that ended up.
Anyway, the Answering machine - even though the band's name is kinda lame, let's face it, but "the Beatles" was already taken - is a pretty cool outfit, and the single being pushed right now, "Obviously Cold", is obviously cool, too.
Check it out.
