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CMJ ’09: Surfer Blood at Cake Shop NYC

CMJ is in the full swing in New York and reports are already coming back from our sister paper, the Village Voice. Zach Baron, in particular, reports on Surfer Blood's performance at Cake Shop. Unfortunately, the West Palm Beach band seems to be getting some heat for accepting so many...
By Jose D. Duran
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CMJ is in the full swing in New York and reports are already coming back from our sister paper, the Village Voice. Zach Baron, in particular, reports on Surfer Blood’s performance at Cake Shop. Unfortunately, the West Palm Beach band seems to be getting some heat for accepting so many invitations to perform during the week. Barson muses, “By Saturday, they’ll be an entirely different band, if they don’t break up before then.” Good luck, guys! Prove ’em wrong.

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Jose D. Duran is the former senior music editor of Miami New Times. His work has also appeared in publications likeVice, Billboard, and Spin. He’s earned numerous accolades including placing first for Weekly Newspaper Contest: Business Reporting from the Florida Press Association in 2020; placing third for the Writing: Light Feature from the Florida Press Club in 2019; and placing third in Weekly Newspaper Contest: Best Obituary from the Florida Press Association in 2015.

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