CMJ is overrated and worthless...

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CMJ is totally overblown and not worth the $. I don't know why it continues to draw people... Talk about a scam!

― CMJ Hater, Monday, 19 September 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Wait, there's money involved?

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

There's two words in show business, dude.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Same with SXSW.

― harken, Monday, 19 September 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

I think it's cool that someone is brave enough to disparage a famous music festival on the Internet.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

I fully support this thread. The more people that get fed up with CMJ, the less crowded the shows'll be when I attend them.

― cdwill, Monday, 19 September 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

did Bloodshot do their saturday BBQ this year?

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 19 September 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

last time I went to a show the band was trying to sell t-shirts & bumper stickers, I was totally outraged

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Monday, 19 September 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

I was pretty bored with CMJ this year, to be honest. I had fun playing, but I couldn't really get excited about anything else.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 September 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

CMJ sucks only because NYC is a pain in the ass. SXSW is great because Austin makes it easy.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 19 September 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

sounds like somebody has some second-city blues

― ryannyc (ryannyc), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

jaymc, who did you play with?

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

The dozen shows I went to weren't crowded at all. If you're gonna waste your time waiting in line for Clap A Ham And Say Yeah, then the problem's not with CMJ.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

Clap A Ham And Say Yeah

*tumbles out of chair*

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

yeah i mean i went to the dfa showcase and though i expected it to be terribly crowded it was bearable up until hot chip, at which point half the fucking audience cleared out before cut copy's set. weird

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

I saw one band only - Voxtrot. And they were awesome.

― Rick Spence (spencerman), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

I always hated the opportunity to see so many bands over a short period of time. I can't tell you how relieved I was to spend the past week in Minneapolis, where I didn't have to worry about being overwhelmed by so many choices.

― subgenius (subgenius), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

jaymc, who did you play with?

Do you mean what band am I in, or who else was on the bill? I'm in the band Canasta. We played a Chicago showcase with The Living Blue, Baby Teeth, Cameron McGill, the Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, Head of Femur, and Le Concorde.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

http://cmj.thesocialcollective.com/events/event/3214

So CMJ considers Nabisco a curmudgeonly music critic. Nice panel though.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 21:50 (fifteen years ago)

Curmudgeons of Rock Panel Is the music press too soft today? Not according to these ruthless critics who never mince words or beg to win favor.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)

psyched about BOOT CAMP CLIK. maybe ill even go

― teflon dawn (uptown churl), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 05:50 (fifteen years ago)

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