A Brief Smile is the winner of this week's CMJ Sonicbids Spotlight. The New York-based five-piece most recently released their self-produced album, Now We All Have Horns (Wrecking Ball), to bloggers' delight, honing their spacey, shoegaze-y pop with each new song. Having played past shows with the Stills, the Wrens and other "the" bands, A Brief Smile will ring out 2007 with one more show, December 5, at the Annex in New York. www.sonicbids.com/abriefsmile
