S/D: this year's CMJ lineup

Well, I'm guessing Bunnybrains, Cex, Flin Flon, Hella, Oxes, and Stereo Totale might be fun and/or funny... as for the other 734 bands... *shudder*

David Cross (Mr. Show) is funny... and if it's David Cross of King Crimson doing a solo gig - that's even funnier.

Heard a lot about Pretty Girls Make Graves -

Fleshtones can be fun.....

I've seen PGMG twice. Good live band.

I'd be excited to see Stereo Total.

The Chemical Brothers are headlining the closing night party at the Hammerstein Ballroom.

I might go see Michael Gira, Mark Eitzel, the Cherry Valence, Volta Do Mar... the New York bands they've got lined up are all pretty good, but they play here all the time anyway.

But I'd see Bunnybrains, Lighting Bolt,Sianspheric,Wolf Eyes

Bands I want to see:
Stereo Total
My Morning Jacket
Bright Eyes
Milemarker
Blonde Redhead
Micheal Gira
Sigur Ros

funny bands:
Atom & his package
Cex

and avoid: Paul Dempsey (of Something For Kate) because he's a shite Australian wanker.

AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSLERS!!!

Possibly centre the whole thing round them. Other than this:

Atom and His Package
Ben Kweller (I fear I am alone on this one)
Calexico
The Datsuns (will almost certainly be sold out, but give it a go anyhow)
The Dirtbombs
Dressy Bessy
Essex Green (Primrose is burrowed into my skull rather heavily)
French Kicks (Young Lawyer used to be burrowed into my skull rather heavily)
Hissyfits
Ikara Colt (they is my peeeee-pow! Though their tunes may be a bit lacking at present, they'll probably break something on a fairly large scale, which should be fun)
Joy Zipper
Kid Koala
Kingsbury Manx
Moldy Peaches
The No-No's
Of Montreal
Okkervil River
Polyphonic Spree (album's average, but live it could be rather grate)
PGMG (I fall into the 'liking them' camp)
Radar Brothers
Radio 4
Sing-Sing (so underrated it hurts)
Slumber Party
Saint Thomas
VHS or Beta
Von Bondies
Walker Kong
Yeah Yeah Yeah's (will probably be sold out already)

Destroy

Vendetta Red
Simian
Haven
The D4
Bowling For Soup#
Audio Bullys

Calexico - mariachi music meets spaghetti westerns meets psychedelia meets others stuff, good stuff

Burnt Sugar - Greg Tate's band and lineups can shift, approaches cabn sh8ift but tends to be fascinating,. if you klike the way he writes you should check out the band becaus eit is a musical translation of his writing (to my ears)

Sultan 32 - one of the leading figures on the global electronica scene which I think is one of the most interesting things ogoing on in music at presnt. HIs party Globesonice is one of my fave activities amd the muisc is amazing. Def go see him

Wednesday:
Warsaw (Paint It Black, Trial By Fire, onelinedrawing, Owls, Denali, Strike Anywhere, Milemarker, The Explosion, Pedro The Lion)
 
Thursday:
Irving Plaza (Enon, Black Heart Procession, Blonde Redhead, Calexico, !!!, Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
Warsaw (Washdown, Oranges Band, The Pattern, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Ted Leo/ Pharmacists)
 
Friday:
Knitting Factory (Semiautomatic, Young People, Hella, Deerhoof)
Northsix (Armor For Sleep, Schatzi, Common Rider, Shiner, Oxes, Har Mar Superstar)

Saturday:
Irving Plaza (Desaparecidos, Good Life, Now It's Overhead, Azure Ray, Rilo Kiley, Cursive, Bright Eyes)
Knitting Factory (Portastatic, Destroyer, Radar Brothers, Britt Daniel, Crooked Fingers, Imperial Teen)
Luxx (The Vexers, Natural History, Turing Machine, Secret Machines, A.R.E. Weapons, W.I.T., Larry Tee)
Mercury Lounge (David Cross, Iron and Wine, Jason Loewenstein, Arlo, Hot Hot Heat, Ugly Casanova)

I think the Walkmen should only be seen at 2 a.m. Or later.

I am also planning on seeing (I have a badge):

Wednesday:
Opening night festivities (Polyphonic Spree, Soundtrack of Our Lives)
Calla/Boggs/Mink Lungs @ Tonic

Thursday:
Electric 6/Kills @ Bowery
Touch & Go showcase @ Irving Plaza
Out Hud @ Opaline

Friday:
Hella @ Knit
Oxes @ North 6
Arab on Radar @ Tribeca
We Ragazzi @ Village Underground

Saturday:
Ikara Colt @ Warsaw
Secret Machines/Natural History/Turing Machine @ Luxx
Explosions in the Sky @ Brooklyn Lyceum
Victory at Sea @ Acme

That's my list for now.

This is probably a dumb question, but will the Calla show on Wednesday be better than the Jade Tree showcase? Because I'm not particularly thrilled about the Jade Tree show, although I'd like to see the Owls. Although you did previously voice your love for Calla... I'll have to search for some mp3s and get back to you on that.

I'm not a Jade Tree fan. I like Strike Anywhere (mainly because a friend is in the band) and Turing Machine (friends again, and also because they're incredible). So I couldn't tell you which would be better. Calla is very gloomy, Ennio Morricone-ish pop. They recently opened for Nick Cave. You should just download some stuff. Their new album (which comes out in January) is really fantastic. They're among my favorite bands.

Me neither. It's an interesting gimmick but it grows old quickly.

What's the gimmick again?

It's true; they're not.

Walk across the street to see Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Enon, and Fourtet.

You're on your own regarding Sigur Ros.

(side note - say hi to all of the beautiful label/media/radio people for me!)

Radio 4 were terrific, sort of a Gang of 4 with bongos. I will search their records.

Soundtracks of Our Lives were great live. I can see the Who and the middle-period Verve comparisons. Maybe I'll go see them again Sunday.

Well your at it cut Moose's fro for me.

Sigur Ros is also "the next big thing". Or maybe, later.

So... it's October 2007. Is anyone talking about CMJ? Did I miss a thread? Or does nobody care? Here's the link to the roster, fwiw

good question. i'm attending and would like to know if there's anything i shouldn't miss apart from what i'm already interested in (which is a lot, of course)

Friday:

Knitting Factory Main Space
9:00pm Sightings
10:00pm Japanther
11:00pm Old Time Relijun
12:00am Ruins
1:00am AIDS Wolf

Knitting Factory Old Office
8:30pm The Mall
8:45pm Shellshag
9:30pm Wizarzz
10:30pm Dynasty Handbag
11:30pm Yip Yip
12:30am Monotonix

Knitting Factory Tap Bar
9:30pm Made in Mexico
10:15pm Health
11:00pm Pre
11:45pm The Apes
12:30am Aa

the one band I really wanted to see was No Age but they got put on the big opening-night show w/ Deerhunter & it sold out

Sightings -> Health -> Old Time Relijun -> Ruins sounds pretty cool tho

pre make a pretty good racket

Pre is great!

another chance to see No Age:

>> This Wednesday please come to our second event at the St Mark’s
>> Church. For $5 you can comfortably see a lot of friends and a lot
>> of the bands that everyone will be clamoring to see at other CMJ
>> events that are hard to get into. This will be incredibly casual
>> and fun. From the afternoon until very very late. And again, this
>> benefits the Historic St Marks Church!
>>
>> Off Bowery, A-Ron the Downtown Don,
>> and ANPQuarterly + Ethan Swan present
>> ...another benefit for the St Mark's Church...
>> Wednesday October 17th
>> 5 pm until 5 am (for reals)
>> St Mark’s Church (10th St+2nd Ave, NY)
>> $5. All Ages. Won’t sell out, you can come easily.
>> Food. Drinks. Cheap. Fun. Team. Everyone.
>>
>> No Age
>> Soiled Mattress and The Springs
>> Sahra Motalebi
>> Mika Miko
>> ModRocket
>> Lissy Trullie and the fibs
>> Crash Diet Crew
>> SexVid
>> High Places
>> CarClutch
>> BrianDegraw(GangGangDance)
>> Ecstatic Sunshine
>> DJ Free Simon
>> After 1:00 am dance party
>> with Eric Duncan (Rub N Tug)
>>

I'm going to see Mika Miko and Pre at Sarah Lawrence tonight. That should be fun. Will I be the oldest person in the audience by a good 10 years?

How do you know David Byrne and Lou Reed won't be there?! I keep seeing articles about them being out on the town.

Whiney, didn't you work for CMJ (or do you still)? Did you get to plan the whole shebang?

Well, Sarah Lawrence is a bit far to bike to.

Whiney, didn't you work for CMJ (or do you still)? Did you get to plan the whole shebang?

I worked for 'em until June 2006, but I didn't have much to do with the marathon. I worked at the hypothetical monthly magazine.