CMJ lineup
It's almost that time again. CMJ Marathon, the huge music conference that gobbles up downtown Manhattan and the very reason for this blog's existence (last year we won a prize from our bosses for our coverage), is coming. October 21-25.
And the confirmed line-up so far:
3OH!3, A Place To Bury Strangers, AIDS Wolf, An Albatross, Ane Brun, Anna Ternheim, Annuals, Beach House, Broken Social Scene, Cool Kids, Crystal Castles, Cut Off Your Hands, Deerhoof, Del McCoury Band, Delta Spirit, Donavon Frankenreiter, Envy On The Coast, Gang Gang Dance, Lee “Scratch” Perry, IRAN, Jay Reatard, Japanese Motors, Juliana Hatfield, Jupiter One, Lykke Li, Margot And The Nuclear So And So’s, Minus The Bear, Roisin Murphy, The Dears, The Takeover UK, They Might Be Giants, The Virgins and Yo Majesty. Follow the news here.
There's a lot to be excited about here. Cool Kids are an awesome live show, and The Dears will depress the hell out of you. They Might Be Giants are practically a New York institution. Deerhoof, yes! BSS, another hot ticket, if not my personal favorite.
But, as always, the real excitement is the bands you've haven't heard of yet. And for that, you'll have to wait until the event itself. My strategies vary from hitting up the earlier acts for a headliner that you already like to picking a venue at random to wandering the LES and getting in wherever you can get in (this is tricky on Friday and Saturday nights).
— eh
