Editor’s Note: We’re suspending our usual daily editorial schedule to keep this article readily accessible for you throughout CMJ week. Check back often to EF for continued CMJ show coverage.
And here….we….go! CMJ: Confidently Masochistic Jokers, each and every one of us who feels we can traverse the mind-boggling breadth of shows (click here for visuals) about to go down over the next week. Perhaps you’ve gone on the CMJ site and made your own itinerary, not a bad move, but that doesn’t take into consideration all of the day shows and unofficial goodness that’s just bursting at the seams. Don’t panic though, EAR FARM is here to instill some order into the next week of your lives. CMJ - like all good forays into combat and mindless benders - requires tactical planning, stoic commitment, and flawless execution. Or at least an idea of what the hell is going on.
Below we’ve mapped out every day for you, pretty much hour by hour, with our personal picks and suggestions along with some MP3s scattered throughout. We tried to pretty much list bands only once (with a few exceptions, such as in our Day Party lineup) so if you’re freaked out that this schedule prohibits you from seeing the Vivian Girls or Women, chill out, you’ve got about 238 other opportunities not listed here. And please, feedback is welcome; what did we miss here? Who are you most excited to see this week? Take a deep breath, it all starts here…..
9:00am ON - First get your badge, head HERE….
12:45pm - Hot Lava @ Cake Shop (Pop Tarts Suck Toasted CMJ Day Party) LISTEN: “Resolutions ‘08″
1:30pm - The Secret Life Of Sofia @ Cake Shop (PTST party) LISTEN: “Fifty Fourteeners”
2:15pm - The Antlers @ Cake Shop (PTST party)
2:30pm - Pattern Is Movement @ Pianos (Music Slut CMJ Day Party)
3:30pm - Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears @ Pianos (Music Slut CMJ Day Party)
4:30pm - Marnie Stern @ WNYU
5:10pm – Oxford Collapse @ Cake Shop (PTST party)
7:35pm - Sister Suvi @ Knitting Factory
8:00pm - Apache Beat @ The Annex
8:35pm - Tanya Morgan @ DROM
9:00pm - Chairlift @ The Annex
9:30pm - Reggie Watts @ The Studio at Webster Hall
10:00pm - Mason Proper @ Rehab LISTEN: “Lock and Key”
10:20pm - Passion Pit @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn Vegan Official CMJ Showcase) LISTEN: “Sleepyhead”
11:00pm - Lykke Li @ Bowery Ballroom
11:15pm - Via Audio @ Crash Mansion
12:15am - Murder Mystery @ Crash Mansion
EAR FARM CMJ DAY PARTY!
1:10pm - Howlies @ Pianos (EF Party) LISTEN: “Chimera”
2:00pm - Sister Suvi @ Pianos (EF Party) LISTEN: “Lightning Train”
2:50pm - Drink up Buttercup @ Pianos (EF Party) LISTEN: “Young Ladies”
3:40pm - Project Jenny, Project Jan @ Pianos (EF Party) LISTEN: “You Said” (feat. So Percussion)
4:30pm - Sam Champion @ Pianos (EF Party) LISTEN: “Be Mine Everyone”
5:20pm - Takka Takka @ Pianos (EF Party) LISTEN: “Silence”
8:00pm - Deerhoof @ Fillmore LISTEN: “Offend Maggie”
8:45pm - The Lisps @ Knitting Factory Old Office (After The Jump Official CMJ Showcase)
9:00pm - Women @ Red Bull Space LISTEN: “Black Rice”
10:00pm - Love As Laughter @ Bowery Ballroom
10:15pm - Pale Young Gentlemen @ Rehab LISTEN: “The Crook Of My Good Arm”
10:30pm - Motel Motel @ Knitting Factory Old Office (ATJ CMJ Showcase)
11:00pm - Sebastien Grainger and the Mountains @ Mercury Lounge
12:00am - Muggabears @ Knitting Factory Old Office (ATJ CMJ Showcase)
12:30am - Beach House @ Le Poisson Rouge LISTEN: “Gila”
12:00-5:30pm - Brooklyn Vegan Day Party @ Pianos - feat. Peasant, Pwrfl Power, Wye Oak, Phosphorescent, The Muslims, Crystal Antlers, Friendly Fires, Sebastien Grainger LISTEN: “Exposure” by Peasant
3:00-7:00pm - NYC Taper CMJ Day Party @ Cake Shop - feat. Naked Hearts, The Loom, Bridges & Powerlines, Bearsuit, Bloodsugars, Best Friends Forever, Sharon Van Etten @ Cake Shop
7:10pm - Scissors For Lefty @ Crash Mansion (Indaba Music Day Party)
7:30pm - Juliana Hatfield @ Housing Works Bookstore
8:00pm - The Jones Street Boys @ Mercury Lounge LISTEN: “Last Time” (live at WMSE)
8:15pm - 12:00am - The Silent League, Mancino, The Jealous Girlfriends and Sam Champion - Bell House
9:00pm - Bell @ Pianos LISTEN: “New Bridge”
10:00pm - The Muslims @ Mercury Lounge
10:20pm - The Forms @ Fontanas
11:00pm - So Percussion @ Glasslands
11:30pm - Goes Cube @ Delancey LISTEN: “Clenching Jaws”
12:15am - Villa Vina @ Delancey
1:00am - Tobacco @ Pianos
3-8:00pm - Gothamist House @ Bell House feat. Wild Sweet Orange, Travels, Jukebox The Ghost, The Albertans, Sky Larkin, Fight Bite, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
3:10pm - Blind Pilot @ Knitting Factory
6:00pm - The Helio Sequence @ Knitting Factory
8:00pm - Bel Air @ Spike Hill LISTEN: “Looking Up”
8:30pm - Land of Talk @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
9:00pm - DD/MM/YY @ Spike Hill
9:15pm - Broken Social Scene @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
9:30pm - Crystal Stilts @ Bell House LISTEN: “Shattered Shine”
10pm - Ambulance LTD @ Mercury
10:30pm - The Ladybug Transistor @ Bell House
11pm - Crystal Antlers @ Red Bull Space
11:30pm - Rosebuds @ Bell House LISTEN: “Life Like”
11:45pm - Dungen @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (Kemado Records CMJ Showcase) LISTEN: “Satt Att Se”
12:00am - Vivian Girls @ Cake Shop LISTEN: “Where Do You Run To?”
12:15am - The Ruby Suns @ Pianos
1am – Suckers @ Glasslands
2:00pm - Walter Meego @ Pianos (Bowery Presents)
3:00pm – Takka Takka @ Knitting Factory (BV Day Party)
4:00pm – Drink Up Buttercup @ Public Assembly
6:00pm - 2:00am - StereoactiveNYC Official CMJ Showcase/5 Year Anniversary Party feat. - Renminbi, El Jezel, The Art Of Shooting, Mancino, The Secret Life Of Sofia, The Silent Years, Gold Streets, Abigail Warchild LISTEN: “On Our Way Home” by The Silent Years
7:00pm - Lord T and Eloise @ Bowery Ballroom
7:45pm - Annuals @ Webster Hall
8:00pm - 2:00am - MERGE Records CMJ Showcase @ Mercury Lounge feat. - Oakley Hall, The Rosebuds, The Broken West, Portastatic, Wye Oak, The Music Tapes
9:00pm - High Places @ The Annex LISTEN: “From Stardust To Sentience”
9:50pm - Dragons of Zynth @ The Studio at Webster Hall
11:00pm – The Subjects @ Lit Lounge
12:30am - Impose Records Late Night CMJ Party @ Cake Shop feat. - Team Robespierre, Fiasco
2:00am - A Place To Bury Strangers @ Bowery Ballroom
3am - vomit, crash, sleep….you made it!
