There are a handful of things that music junkies must go to every year to charge their souls sort of the way a vampire needs to occasionally raid a bloodbank or those kids needed to take Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory hostage.
There are the Austin City Limits Music Festival next weekend and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in late April and Early May of each year. But for real junkies there are the Holy Grails the festivals/showcases that tells us audiophiles if that is still a word since there are no longer turntables and everyone gets their music via computer and ipod what will be hot to listen to: South by Southwest in Austin,Texas and CMJ's Music Marathon and Film Festial. This year's Marathon will occur October 21-25 in the city that giveth and taketh away Manhattan, USA. It is going to be an experience not to be missed just take a look at the artists that have been announced so far and they are still coming:
3OH!3, A Place to Bury Strangers, Aa, Aaron Thomas, Adept, Aggrolites, AIDS Wolf Albertans, Amazing Baby Ambulance Ltd, An Albatross, Andy From Denver, Ane Brun, Anna Ternheim, Annuals, Another Black Day, Anthony Green, Appolo Heights, Arbouretum, Ariel Pink and Geneva Jacuzzi, Au, Audrye Sessions, Autodrone, Averkiou, Awkward Stage, B.O.B., Bailiff, Beach House, Bearsuit, Bell, Benji Cossa, Bison B.C.,Black Hollies, Black Taxi, BM Linx, Bonne Aparte
Brighton, MA, Broken Social Scene, Bryan Scary, Bury Your Dead, Cadence, Canasta, Canon Logic, Caroline Weeks, Catcall, Cause Co-Motion!, Charles Burst, Charlie Louvin, Coathangers, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Cool Kids, Cotton Jones, Crystal Castles, Crystal Stilts, Cuchillo, Cut Off Your Hands, Dallas Austin Experience, David Banner, Deanna Devore
Death Vessel, Deerhoof, Del McCoury Band, Delta Spirit, Depedro, Die! Die! Die!, Dive Index, DMBQ, Donavon Frankenreiter, Donovan Quinn, Doug Paisley, Dungen, Eagle Seagull, Envy On The Coast, Eulogies, Eux Autres, Experimental Dental School, Fiasco, Fight Bite, Five Finger Death Punch, Florence and the Machine, Flying, Franki Chan, Friendly Fires, Fujiya & Miyagi, Gang Gang Dance, Gliss, Good Times Crisis Band, Growing, Hackman
HeartsRevolution, Hecuba, Hey Rosetta, Higgins, High Places, Ho-ag, Hollywood Holt, Hopewell, Hospital Bombers, Hot Panda, Ifwhen, Immaculate Machine, In This Moment, IRAN, Ironweed, James Jackson Toth, Japanese Motors
Jay Reatard, Joan Osborne, Joe Pug, Jukebox The Ghost, Juliana Hatfield, Jungle Brothers, Jupiter One, Karkwa, Kid Sister, >King Khan & The BBQ Show, King Tuff, La Caution, Lacona, Late of the Pier, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Left to Vanish, Let's Go To War, Lick Lick, Life and Times, Little Death, Looker, Lozen, Lukestar, Lykke Li, Magnetic Morning, Mangu, Margot and the Nuclear So-and-Sos, Marissa Nadler, Marnie Stern, Matt Duke, Matthew Dear, Micachu, Midway State, Mike Bones
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Minus the Bear, Mirah, Monotonix, mother mother, Natalie Walker, Needers & Givers, Neon Neon, Night Horse, No Kids, Nouvellas, Novillero,Oakley Hall, Octopus Project, Other Lives, Oxford Collapse, Park Avenue Music, Parts and Labor, Peephole, Pegasuses-XL, People Under the Stairs, Pit er Pat, Plastic Little, Pontiak, Princeton, Psychic Ills, Psyopus, Rainbow Arabia, Real Ones, Rebecca Pidgeon, Restaurant, Rio en Medio, Roadsaw
Rocketship Park, Roisin Murphy, Ruby Suns, Rumspringa, Said the Whale, Savoir Adore, School of Seven Bells, Screens, Shad, Shame Club, Shellshag, Sian Alice Group, Silver Screen, Sky Cries Mary, So Many Dynamos, Sole and Skyrider Band, sBACH, Spirit of the Falcon XL, Stars Like Fleas, Stetasonic, Sundelles, Takka Takka, Talib Kweli, Talkdemonic, Terry Lynn, The Apes, The Blue Van, The Broken West, The Bronzed Chorus, The Brother Kite, The Brought Low, The Dears, The Duke Spirit, The Emeralds
The Homosexuals, The Lolligags, The Mae Shi, The Moin Non Plus, The Music Tapes, The Muslims, The New Number Two, The Octagon, The Pack AD, The Psychic Paramount, The Right Ons, The Rosebuds, The Snake Trap, The Takeover UK, The Toxic Avenger, The Two Man Gentlemen Band, The Unsacred Hearts, The Virgins, The Weight, The Whip, Theresa Andersson, These United States, This or the Apocalypse, Throttlerod, Tigercity, Titan, TK Webb, Tobacco, Tombs, Tunnels To Holland, Two Spot Gobi, Uglysuit
Underwater Tea Party, Vancougar, VAZ, Velcro Stars, Violens, Vivian Girls, Wax Tailor, We Are Standard, We Versus the Shark, Weird Owl, White Lies, Whomadewho, Wild Light, Wild Sweet Orange, Will Hoge, Woods, Wye Oak, XYZ Affair, Yip Yip, Yo Majesty, Zimbabwe Legit
For more information about CMJ2008 and to purchase ticket go to: http://www.cmj.com/marathon/
