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WNYC's Picks for the 2011 CMJ Music Marathon
Monday, October 17, 2011
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From Tuesday through Sunday, more than 1,350 bands, DJs and comedians will perform at over 80 venues in Manhattan, Brooklyn and New Jersey for the annual CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival.
The festival, organized by the weekly magazine and publishing company College Music Journal, is known for putting emerging artists onstage. But this year's calendar also includes classic acts like En Vogue, Ziggy Marley, J. Mascis, Kermit Ruffins and Jean Grae.
Click on the trippy color-coded map below to see our CMJ music festival picks, which include shows by Dum Dum Girls, Mike Birbiglia, Talib Kweli and Zola Jesus. You can also view the map here.
WNYC Picks for Tuesday Data from CMJ
WNYC Picks for Wednesday
WNYC Picks for Thursday
WNYC Picks for Friday
WNYC Picks for Saturday
Caitlin Thompson and John Keefe contributed to this report.
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Thanks TimZ and SuperMissMel! Keep the suggestions coming!
Folks want to see Fredericks Brown!! They rocked the Apollo a couple of weeks ago and had an amazing show the Cooper Square Hotel Penthouse last week. Definitely one band to watch!!
MUST SEE!!! Lion in The Mane will be playing CMJ 2011 at LOCAL 269 269 E. Houston St. (at Suffolk) New York, NY Tonight (Tuesday) @ Midnight
That looks like a good one -- thanks Lynn!
American Babies are playing a 10-11PM set of their amazing ROCK music at Spike Hill in Brooklyn on Tuesday night. If you like Wilco, Tom Petty, Gram Parsons, & flat out awesome Rock Music, definitely check these guys out!!! They are unreal!!!
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