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FREEwilliamsburg reviews CMJ 2015

October 21, 2015 By Peter Rittweger

The 35th annual CMJ Music Marathon – aka everyone’s best chance to burn through their remaining sick days by year’s end – took place last week and as always, the FREEwilliamsburg team was on hand taking in the sights and, more importantly, the sounds of the five day festival. Here’s what we took away from […]

Filed Under: Events, Music Tagged With: Baby's All Right, Berlin, cake shop, Car Seat Headrest, cmj, CMJ 2015, Collect Records, Cool Ghouls, Heaters, Lilys, Mercury Girls, NME, nothing, Palisades, PC Worship, pianos, PopGun, Protomartyr, shopping, The Album Leaf

CMJ announce 2015 initial artist lineup

September 9, 2015 By Chris Quartly

CMJ celebrate their 35th anniversary this year and have just announced their initial lineup for the ‘music marathon’. The festival runs from the 13th until the 17th of October, featuring hundreds of bands and showcases (see our thoughts on last year here). The full lineup (so far) can be seen on the official site here, […]

Filed Under: Music, News Tagged With: cmj, Destruction Unit, Evans the Death, Ex Hex, Ham Sandwich, Mercury Rev, Panda Bear, Protomartyr, Savak, The Album Leaf, the men

FREEwilliamsburg reviews CMJ 2014

October 29, 2014 By Peter Rittweger

Another year has mostly gone by and another CMJ Music Marathon is in the can. We had four of our esteemed bloggers on the ground for this year’s festivites: Chris Quartly, Coleman Bentley, Carly McAlpine and yours truly. We drank many dranks, ate free pizza, stumbled drunkenly across bridges, fought the urge to get free […]

Filed Under: Bushwick, Events, Greenpoint, Music, Williamsburg Tagged With: Baby's All Right, Beverly, cmj, CMJ 2014, CMJ Music Marathon, Inter Arma, Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires, Meatbodies, Moon Duo, paws, Sacred Bones, Slowdive, So Hideous, zola jesus

TOKiMONSTA's CMJ Show is Tomorrow, 10/22

October 21, 2014 By Megan Venzin

In case you missed TOKiMONSTA’s show at LPR earlier this month, you’ve got a second chance to see the West Coast glitchhop turned trap artist tomorrow, 10/22. The amazingly talented Jennifer Lee will headline MeanRed’s AM Only CMJ Showcase at Williamsburg’s Output along with Ben Pearce, LXURY, Saint Pepsi and SPAZZKID. Hot off the release […]

Filed Under: Events, Music, Williamsburg Tagged With: Ben Pearce, cmj, LXURY, Saint Pepsi, SPAZZKID, TOKiMONSTA

This One Goes To Eleven: Weekly metal roundup

October 21, 2014 By Coleman Bentley

Alright, time to level with you guys: With a week full of CMJ insanity in front of me and a month’s worth of half-listened to records sitting in my inbox, the feeling today’s bare-bones metal line-up has kindled deep in the pit of my being is one of relief, not disappointment. String my cred up […]

Filed Under: Bushwick, Events, Greenpoint, Music, Williamsburg Tagged With: At The Gates, cmj, Inter Arma, Obituary, Oozing Wound, Sandworm, Slipknot, Sunn O))), Toxic Holocaust, Virus

OFFICIAL CMJ SHOWCASE OCT 25th: car2go, doNYC, FreeWilliamsburg and Cameo present… Porcelain Raft, Dave Harrington Group, more

October 15, 2014 By Evan Weiner

  It’s that time again, October is halfway through and CMJ 2014 starts next week. In honor of this week of new music, we’ve joined on as a media sponsor with the good people at car 2 go and doNYC who are bringing a whole host of awesome bands to Cameo FREE of charge with […]

Filed Under: Events, Music, Williamsburg Tagged With: Buscabulla, cameo, car 2 go, cmj, Dave Harrington Group, donyc, Excepter, Lydia Ainsworth, Porcelain Raft

CMJ Music Marathon 2014 Full Schedule

October 10, 2014 By Chris Quartly

It’s that time of the year again, now in its 34th year, the CMJ Music Marathon kicks off on the 21st of October and runs through the 25th. It’s a dangerous time for eyes, ears and livers across the city as over 1,300 bands and artists are put through their paces with few venues left […]

Filed Under: Events, Music, News Tagged With: cmj, CMJ Music Marathon, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, September Girls, Slowdive, Twin Peaks, white fence

Death By Audio Shows Announced up to Halloween

October 10, 2014 By Chris Quartly

Death By Audio is inevitably going to go out in style before closing on the 22nd of November (I’m still not over it), and the venue’s website has updated its list of shows running up until Halloween. As you can imagine, there are some stellar picks available as we enter the last few weeks of having a […]

Filed Under: Events, Music, News, Uncategorized, Williamsburg Tagged With: a place to bury strangers, Burger Records, cmj, death by audio, Hardly Art, Purling Hiss, Tweens

CMJ artist announcement is tomorrow

August 26, 2014 By Peter Rittweger

I can’t believe it’s already (almost) that time of the year again. As in past years, the CMJ Music Marathon brain-trust will host an invite-only artist announcement party tomorrow (8/27) somewhere in downtown Manhattan, where the first round of bands playing this year’s Music Marathon will be announced. There will also be live performances by Juan Wauters […]

Filed Under: Events, Music Tagged With: cmj, CMJ Music Marathon, Juan Wauters, Porches

Free Williamsburg + Believe Digital + Cameo CMJ Showcase with… Télépopmusik, Dream Koala, Betty Black

October 7, 2013 By Evan Weiner

  Free Williamsburg is happy to announce a 2013 CMJ Music Marathon showcase collaboration with Cameo and Believe Digital. Taking place on the last day of the festival, Saturday October 19th at Cameo Gallery, France’s Télépopmusik (Splendid Music) will headline a lineup with support from Dream Koala (Splendid Music) and Betty Black (Kid Recordings).  It will be Télépopmusik’s first […]

Filed Under: Events, Music, Williamsburg Tagged With: cameo, cmj, Télépopmusik

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