Oh, yeah. CMJ.
BANDS JUST ANNOUNCED:
Spoon – UNKLE – Justice – British Sea Power – Mates Of State – Coheed And Cambria – Rodrigo Y Gabriela – Xiu Xiu – Del Tha Funkee Homosapien – Dirtbombs – Mute Math – Jesu – Devin The Dude – The Ponys – Islands – Tiny Masters Of Today – Eisley – Vietnam – Little Brother – Mickey Hart & Zakir Hussein – Brother Ali – Marnie Stern – No Age – Crystal Castles – MSTRKRFT – Chromeo – The Brunettes – 1990s – Ruins – A-Trak – Foreign Islands – Kavinsky – Simian Mobile Disco
The festival takes place Oct. 16-20, which seems later than usual. The lineup so far seems like the usual indie eclecticism. I've seen Islands a couple times (once with Metric, which was one of my favorite concerts of all time), but I'll see 'em again. Dirtbombs and Spoon would be cool to see, too.
The problem you always face with CMJ is that everyone wants to see all of the same buzz bands, making it super hard to get into those shows, unless you have some sort of hook up, or get there reeeeeally early and sit through five nobody acts. Although, the point of CMJ really is those "nobody" acts. It's always an adventure. Usually around Friday afternoon, I get all music-ed out and end up blowing off the rest of the bands I had planned to see anyway, and going out drinking with my non-music obsessed friends. I'm gonna try my best to make it through the whole weekend this year, but I foresee something similar happening. It's not getting any easier as I get older.
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