While there were some questions as to the point , if not the quality at large of this year's 2009 CMJ music festival, there was no shortage of hip-shot, one-off, closet documentarian video footage that helps to remind any participant or observer from afar (for instance, those of us who didn't leave Brooklyn), that there was a lot going on. Without further adieu: Real Estate, "Younger Than Yeste...

Fanfarlo - the first band of my CMJ 2009 experience at The Music Slut Party at Piano's, Ludlow St, Manhattan, NYC. The last ten days in NYC have been amazing. The food (Aoife's got that part covered ), the bars, the hotels, the people, the buildings, - I've consumed what the city had to offer but still want more of it. Of course, the real reason I was there was for CMJ 2009 - a showcase of 1300 bands taking place over five days in Brooklyn and Manhattan. I missed so many bands I [...]