CMJ 2010 First Line Up Announcement:
Each year, the CMJ Music Marathon hosts over 1,200 artists, featuring the best new music from all over the world.
CMJ Music Marathon 2010 will feature:
DeVotchKa
Four Tet
Two Door Cinema Club
The Drums
Surfer Blood
Ghostface Killah
Greg Dulli
Foreign Exchange
Bad Books (featuring Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra)
Helmet
Lissie
Katzenjammer
Kristen Schaal & Friends
Dean & Britta
School Of Seven Bells
Bayside
Senses Fail
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
Salem
The Blow
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Small Black
Big Freedia
Dominique Young Unique
Angus & Julia Stone
Frankie And The Heartstrings
Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
Langhorne Slim
Four Tet
Two Door Cinema Club
The Drums
Surfer Blood
Ghostface Killah
Greg Dulli
Foreign Exchange
Bad Books (featuring Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra)
Helmet
Lissie
Katzenjammer
Kristen Schaal & Friends
Dean & Britta
School Of Seven Bells
Bayside
Senses Fail
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
Salem
The Blow
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Small Black
Big Freedia
Dominique Young Unique
Angus & Julia Stone
Frankie And The Heartstrings
Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
Langhorne Slim
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"Is Brooklyn the new Seattle?" (8/6/10 - taken from"The Coach's Corner from Next Music Online)
[In my somewhat biased opinion, abso-fucking-lutely]
I’ve been obsessed with The National basically all summer. Before them I was obsessed with Vampire Weekend. What do these two bands have in common? Brooklyn. This got me thinking. I started looking around at all the great alternative bands that are out right now and I noticed a pattern. They were all from Brooklyn. We’ve already mentioned The National, and Vampire Weekend coming out of Brooklyn. There’s also The Hold Steady, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, MGMT, The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, and Yeasayer all coming out of Brooklyn as well. That’d be one hell of a festival lineup. If these bands were around in 1993 they would sell twice as many albums as they do now. This cluster of talent in Brooklyn can be compared to all of those great alternative bands that came out of Seattle in the early 90′s. Back then you had Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice In Chains among others. Unfortunately alternative isn’t the main stream anymore and the music industry just isn’t what it used to be. Today’s bands may not sell as many records as the Seattle grunge days but there is no shortage of talent. I wasn’t in Seattle in the early 90′s but I’d have to imagine it was much of the same type of scene that’s going on right now in New York City. It’s easy to see how all of these bands came out of Brooklyn if you visit a local bar or club in the village. On any given weekend you can walk the streets of Greenwich Village and as you pass by various bars you hear the talent pouring out of the bars and on to the sidewalks of New York City. On any given night you can pay a small cover charge and walk into a local bar and be blown away by the talent you see on stage. I noticed this a couple of years ago when I was tipped off, by a friend, about a Brooklyn band called Black Taxi. I saw them live and was blown away. I couldn’t believe that a band like that was playing bars and clubs. I then slowly realized that Brooklyn is full of great bands. On any given weekend you can walk into a place like Piano’s on Ludlow St. (Be sure to stop at Katz’s Deli it’s right down the street) and see a band like Deadbeat Darling, or The Shake. You can walk into Webster Hall and see The Frontier Brothers (yea they’re from Texas but they moved to Brooklyn so that counts). Another great place for live music is Le Poison Rouge on Bleecker St. Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing (another Brooklyn native) stops in and plays there every so often. Downtown New York is flooded with talent like CBS was flooded with phone calls from angry mid-western housewives after the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction. I can go on but I think you get the idea. If you’re a music junkie like I am there’s no better place to be than New York City right now. If you can’t scoop up a ticket to a sold out show for The National or Vampire Weekend. You won’t be wasting a night by checking out some of the talent that may be playing down the street from Madison Square Garden rather than inside. You will be pleasantly surprised and you’ll be sure to leave the bar that night with a new favorite band. I’ll be seeing Vampire Weekend at Radio City in September. Who knows? Maybe soon I’ll have tickets to see Black Taxi or The Shake there. By then I probably won’t be able to get tickets and will be one of those pissed off fans that goes around saying “I liked them before they even signed a contract”. For their sake I hope that happens. If you live in the city or the surrounding areas take advantage and see these guys now you won’t regret it.