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Every year, bands/artists, music bloggers, A&R/Record label big-heads, converge in New York City for the annual CMJ Music Marathon. As expected, there is going to be a LOT of good music, making it hard to make sense of it all. But we’re here to help.
Here’s our list of official and unofficial showcases you’ll want to be at, hand picked by our staff:
Monday 10/12
Oh My Rockness CMJ Kick Off Party @ Elvis Guesthouse | TIX $5 DOOR
Big Ups Yvette ULD Shopping
Tuesday 10/13
Cake Shop Presents @ The Cake Shop | FREE
Bent Denim Sweet Bronco Chomp Nox Boys
Sugar Mama BK CMJ Showcase @ LPR | TIX
Teen Sharkmuffin Total Slacker Beverly Looms
WFUV CMJ Showcase @ Rockwood Music Hall | FREE
Hooton Tennis Club Martin Courtney (Real Estate) Fraser A. Gorman The Suffers
Tell All Your Friends CMJ Showcase @ The Cameo Gallery | TIX
Alexander F Waltz Pearls Cheatahs Bayonne Methyl Ethel Warbly Jets Mothers
Pianos CMJ Kickoff Party @ Pianos | FREE
Cosmo Sheldrake Crooked Colours Slum Sociable Robbing Millions Caveboy Good Morning Them Bruins
Dr. Martens Stand For Something CMJ Showcase @ Dr. Martens Store | FREE w/ RSVP
Beverly Pinact Expert Alterations
Bayonet Records CMJ Showcase @ Baby’s All Right | TIX
Frankie Cosmos Mega Bog Sheer Agony Laced
The Syndicate’s Presents Conflict of Interest @ Brooklyn Bowl | FREE w/ RSVP
Joywave Oberhofer Grace Mitchell Kid Bayonne
Wednesday 10/14
NME + PopGun + House Arrest CMJ Party @ Santos Party House | TIX
UPSTAIRS: Perfect Pussy Protomartyr Yung Seratones Hooton Tennis Club
DOWNSTAIRS: Dilly Dally Downtown Boys Shopping Nico Yaryan Car Seat Headrest Yak
Spectacles Sessions + Seagreen Records + Exploding In Sound CMJ Showcase @ Elvis Guesthouse | TIX $8 DOOR
Big Ups Japanese Breakfast Vundabar Soft Fangs Operator Mattress Financial Strange Kids Terrible Roars
Dr. Martens Stand For Something Showcase @ Pianos | FREE w/ RSVP
SHOWROOM: Beverly Weaves Expert Alterations Oscar Pinact Car Seat Headrest Yung
UPSTAIRS: Shopping Eternal Summers Hockey Dad Hin Du Wildhoney Cheetahs Mercury Girls
Iron Pier CMJ Showcase @ The Acheron | TIX
Wildhoney Expert Alterations Weed Hounds Pills
Panache CMJ Showcase @ The Knitting Factory | TIX
Ezra Furman Juan Wauters Drinks Slim Twig Sheer Agony The Babe Rainbow Gramma’s Boyfriend
BrooklynVegan + Collect Records + Vinyl Me, Please Showcase @ Baby’s All Right | TIX
Nothing No Devotion Wax Idols Creepoid Foxes in Fiction
Treefort + Duck Club CMJ Showcase @ The Cameo Gallery | TIX
Willis Earl Beal Magic Sword Street Fever Sun Blood Stories Foul Weather
Handsome Dad Records Presents A Free CMJ Party @ Baby’s All Right | FREE
Slum Sociable Beach Baby Oscar Georgia
Niagara Showcase @ Niagara | FREE
Look Vibrant Surf Rock Is Dead Buhu
Thursday 10/15
NYC Taper CMJ Showcase @ The Cake Shop | FREE
Car Seat Headrest Dirty Ghosts NE-HI Mothers Zachary Cale Dirty Dishes Vomitface Whomps
Bella Union CMJ Showcase @ LPR | TIX
Mercury Rev Ezra Furman Landshapes Mammut Holly Macve
Cake Shop Presents @ The Cake Shop | TIX
Weaves Sweet Spirit Diet Cig Shopping tricot S Robbing Millions
Sub Pop CMJ Showcase @The Knitting Factory | TIX
Protomartyr Strange Wilds The GOTOBEDS S Mass Gothic
Hand Drawn Dracula + 1 Percent + Sweetwater CMJ Showcase @ Alphaville | TIX $10 DOOR
Ringo Deathstarr Dead Leaf Echo Lazyeyes Nailbiter Vallens Beliefs
Topshelf Records CMJ Showcase @ Shea Stadium | FREE
Nai Harvest Donovan Wolfington Wildhoney Solids Clique Infinity Girl Lizard Kisses
Harpoon Brewery Presents: CMJ Unplugged @ The Knitting Factory | FREE
Holly Miranda Morningsiders Frankie Cosmos Special Guest TBA Ben Abraham Alice Phoebe Lou Mail The Horse
Friday 10/16
Unimpressed Fest (DNNM + Willow Wood + 80N7) - Night One - @ Black Bear Brooklyn | TIX TBA
Ringo Deathstarr Oso Oso Mumblr Pinact Boosegumps Soft Cough Good Morning
Panache CMJ Showcase @ Baby’s All Right | TIX
The Men Destruction Unit Michael Rault Celestial Shore Dirty Ghosts Beach Baby
Inland Empire CMJ Showcase @ The Cake Shop | TIX
Spray Paint Turn To Crime Eaters The GOTOBEDS J. Fernandez Tweens
CMJ + Atypical Beasts Presents @ The Delancey | FREE
ROOFTOP DECK: Frances Gone Avi Jacob Caitlin Harnett Kat Quinn
MAIN FLOOR: Tow3rs Lena Fayre Caveboy Lazer Cake Wolkoff Surf Rock Is Dead!
DOWNSTAIRS LOUNGE: Teen Commandments Flint Eastwood New Myths Lazyeyes Of Clocks and Clouds
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: No Jacket Required @ Rough Trade NYC | TIX
Protomartyr Omni The Lemon Twigs Yoko and the Oh Nos Mothers Car Seat Headrest Modern Vices
Cymbal FM. + Terrible Records CMJ Showcase @ The Cameo Gallery | FREE
Porches LE1F Empress Of Deradoorian Kirin J Callinan Okay Kaya Jimmy Whispers Kaya Stolen Jars
Terrorbird CMJ Showcase @ The Cake Shop | FREE
Avan Lava The Album Leaf Deradoorian Stealing Sheep (Special Guest TBA) Nai Harvest PWR BTTM
The Deli Magazine + Pianos CMJ Showcase @ Pianos | TIX SHOWROOM / FREE UPSTAIRS
SHOWROOM: Mild High Club Weaves Beverly Eternal Summers Diet Cig Stolen Jars Controller The Fluids Vundabar
UPSTAIRS: Golden Pony Solvey My Body Yes Alexander Paperwhite
R.I.P. - Strange Victory Touring CMJ Showcase @ Union Pool | TIX TBA
Spray Paint PC Worship Strange Wilds
Titus Andronicus w/ Ex Hex + The Spiderbags @ Warsaw | TIX
Saturday 10/17
Unimpressed Fest (DNNM + Willow Wood + 80N7) - Night Two - @ The Studio At Webster Hall | TIX
Nai Harvest Solids Furnsss US & US Only Alaska Donovan Wolfington Whitney **just added 9/16** ^^ Gleemer DJ Set ^^
AdHoc Car Wash @ Hand and Detail Car Wash Center | TIX
Destruction Unit Perfect Pussy Porches LVL UP Downtown Boys Pity Sex Potty Mouth Protomartyr Sheer Mag Whitney
Fire Talk + Silent Barn Presents: A Record and Tape Fair @ The Silent Barn | FREE (accepting donations for bands)
Turn To Crime Crosss ADVAETA Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk Murals Pinact Fern Mayo
Honor Press Showcase (SECRET LINEUP) @ The Silent Barn | $10 DOOR
The Beehive at CMJ (Wild Honey Pie) @ The Wick | FREE w/ RSVP or $5 DOOR
Frankie Cosmos Phony Ppl Dent May (solo) Lazyeyes Fraser A. Gorman Stone Cold Fox The Britanys Acid Dad Sam Cohen Piers Corbu
Cake Shop Presents @ The Cake Shop | FREE
Expert Alterations Palm Eternal Summers Solids Garden of Elks Chomp
The Bowery Presents CMJ 2015 Day Party @ Pianos | FREE
DOWNSTAIRS: Lemon Twigs Methyl Ethel Nico Yaryan Mild High Club Fraser A Gorman Hooton Tennis Club
UPSTAIRS: Whitney Bayonne Aquilo Ben Abraham Zachary Cale Car Seat Headrest
Riot Act Media CMJ Showcase @ Pete’s Candy Store | FREE
Nai Harvest Baeb Rxxth Diet Cig Hethers Light Music Last Good Truth
Exploding In Sound + Gimme Tinnitus + Ipsum Unofficial CMJ Showcase @ Aviv | TIX
Cold Sweats Doubting Thomas Cruise Control Playboy Mansion Dirty Dishes Nonsense Magnet School Strange Wilds Chomp Needs Solids Crosss
Pancakes and Whiskey’s Bangin’ and Jammin’ CMJ Party @ Pianos | FREE
Narc Twain Weaves Outfit Vulkano Smoke Season CULTFEVER
Run For Cover Records CMJ Showcase @ Palisades | FREE w/ RSVP
Pity Sex Makthaverskan Crying Teen Suicide LVL UP Petal Spencer Radcliffe Pinegrove
Seaport Music Festival + Paper Garden CMJ Showcase @ Fulton Stall Market | FREE
STAGE 1 (FULTON AND FRONT STREET) The Album Leaf Mothers
STAGE 2 (207A FRONT STREET) Tiny Hazard Spritzer Lazyeyes EMEFE Arms The Teen Age S Dirty Ghosts Haley Bonar (Solo) Michael Rault Celestial Shore
Urban Outfitters Party @ Space Ninety 8 | FREE
Martin Courtney Soren Juul Car Seat Headrest The Lemon Twigs
Unblinking Ear Unofficial CMJ Showcase @ Union Pool | TIX $10 DOOR
Spray Paint The Gotobeds Big Quiet Snowmans of Love
Sunday 10/18
Conscious Coupling II: The Homecoming (Father/Daughter + Miscreant Records) @ Palisades | TIX
Bad Cello Comfy Bethlehem Steel Fern Mayo Diet Cig Downies PWR BTTM I Tried to Run Away When I Was 6 Vagabon Hiccup Sports Nicholas Nicholas ROMP