XX FACTOR

Related Content

• Live: Buraka Som Sistema Impart Sweaty Joy At The Bowery Ballroom
  January 12, 2012
• Live: Caveman Heat Up The Bowery Ballroom
  January 23, 2012
• Fall Arts: Music Picks
  September 7, 2011
• HOMECOMING KINGS
  November 16, 2011
• Frank Ocean Will Be At The Bowery Ballroom Next Month
  October 4, 2011

More About

• The xx (Band)
• Jon Hopkins
• Bowery Ballroom
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media
• Concerts and Tours

This year's CMJ Marathon needed more wind in its sails, given the disappointing absence of marquee headliners and surprising showcase mash-ups. But the lack of boldface names was a boon for the xx, the inexhaustible young shoegaze/new wave band from London, who pounded the pavement with no less than five shows in three days, including a gig of elephantine volume in the frosty Soho Apple store. The quartet showed an impressive work ethic to match their meticulous pop; single "Crystallized" is a sinuous, intuitive duet, and the rest of their recently released, self-titled debut fares similarly. Now, less than a month later, the recent unknowns have sold out Bowery Ballroom—these days, time moves at the speed of goth. With Jon Hopkins.
Wed., Nov. 11, 8 p.m., 2009