Blog: State Magazine

For those who haven't been, the CMJ Music Marathon is like a slightly more shy and more sensible cousin of the beast that is South by Southwest . In theory, it is five nights of complete and unadulterated music mayhem, with over 1000 bands playing their hearts out to nearly 100,000 music fans, all crammed into 100 different venues spread out between Manhattan & Brooklyn. In reality CMJ 2008 was a slightly less grandiose affair this year, with most of the highlights taking place in small, sweaty basement venues, with relatively unknown acts all [...]