NEW YORK — Well, the 28th annual CMJ Music Marathon has come to a close … at least for me. The past three days have been a whirlwind, to say the least, and it will be interesting over the next few weeks and months to see which artists come away from the festival riding high [...]

NEW YORK — I had a bit more success Wednesday night at the CMJ Music Marathon than Tuesday, and was able to catch entire or partial sets from seven artists.
Scheduling mishaps actually worked in my favor on the second night of the festival, and allowed me the chance to catch a bit of slam poetry [...]

NEW YORK — Greetings from day two of the 2008 CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival. I just attended a truly fascinating panel discussion, “The Political Spin on the Music Industry,” which focused on government regulation issues such as intellectual property rights, artist royalties, Net neutrality, and the use of music in the ongoing presidential campaigns.
CMJ Week, [...]

NEW YORK — It’s been an exhausting first night of the CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival.  The name doesn’t lie. I felt like I was sprinting around lower Manhattan this evening, trying to catch as many shows as I could. I wasn’t entirely successful.
My night got started with a Media Meet and Greet at [...]

NEW YORK — Greetings from the registration area of the 2008 CMJ Music Marathon. Things are just getting started here, with information booths and registration tables set up in various buildings on an around NYU’s Greenwich Village campus.
The information booths alone, the majority of which are centered around digital music sales, DIY recording, and streaming radio, are [...]

NEW YORK — Tuesday marks the start of the 28th annual CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival, a four-day showcase of concerts, film screenings and panel discussions. Music fans in particular will find themselves spoiled for choice as more than 1,100 acts descend on New York City, including noteworthy acts like indie favorites Broken Social [...]