CMJ Music Marathon: Initial Artist Lineup
By Team JamBase Aug 22, 2012 • 7:36 am PDT
CMJ MUSIC MARATHON 2012
ANNOUNCES INITIAL ARTIST LINE-UP
CMJ Music Marathon is proud to announce its first round of artists for this year’s event, held October 16-20 in New York City. The 2012 festival includes CMJ’s most wide-reaching line-up to date, drawing on acts from a broad spectrum of countries, backgrounds, and genres. Attendees of previous CMJ festivals are already familiar with the Marathon’s adventurous programming, but the 2012 festival is the boldest manifestation of CMJ’s commitment to exposing the world’s best new talent.
Please visit www.cmj.com/marathon for full details on 2012 performing artists announced so far. Highlights include:
The Presets, The Walkmen, The Mountain Goats, Kimbra, GZA, OFF!, Killer Mike, Com Truise, DIIV, The Jezabels, King Tuff, Electric Guest, Daughn Gibson, Prince Rama, Young Magic, Moon Hooch, The English Beat, Talib Kweli, My Life with The Thrill Kill Kult, and The Soul Rebels.
Additional artists announced as part of the initial line-up are listed below. The initial artist line-up is just a taste of what’s to come, with thousands more artists, panels and events to be announced in the lead-up to the festival. Keep an eye on www.cmj.com/marathon for more details on the latest programming. To purchase a CMJ Music Marathon badge, please visit: www.cmj.com/marathon/attend.
7 Estrelo Aan Amy Bezunartea Anberlin Andy Suzuki & The Method Apollo Run Arthur Beatrice At Sea Bajah + the Dry Eye Crew Beacon Bear Hands Beast Patrol Bend Sinister Bertrand Burgalat Black Milk The Blakes Blaudzun Bonde De Role Brainstorm Busy Living The Catch Fire Cemeteries Communist Daughte Country Mice Cruiser Daniel Dexter Deap Vally Debo Band Dent May Die!Die!Die! Dinowalrus Dirty Fences Disorder Dog Bite Dog Is Dead Dope D.O.D. Duologue Dusted Exitmusic Fenster Filligar Find Vienna The Flying Eyes The Foot. Foreign Fields Fort Frances Foxygen The Front Bottoms Generationals Geographer Get People Ghost Wave Gold Fields The Good Natured Gospels GummiHz Half Moon Run Happy People Hey Marseilles High Highs Hilotrons The Hounds Below Housse de Racket The Intelligence Into It. Over It. Io Echo Isaac Delusion J Davey Jacob Jeffries Band Jennifer O’Connor Jensen Sportag Jim White JJAMZ Karl Hendricks Trio Kyla La Grange Labyrinth Ear The Laurels Le Blorr Leaf Bird Leagues Leopold and his Fiction Lescop Levek Lily and the Parlour Tricks The Love Language The Luyas Ma’am Magmana Main Attrakionz Mansions ME Mean Creek Men and Whales Mercies Metalleg METZ Michna The Midnight Beast Mike Simonetti Millionyoung MNDR Moon King Mount Moriah My Dear Mycroft Nnek NO Oddisee Opossom Paul Collins Physical Therapy Pissed Jeans Poor Moon The Postelles Psychic Twin Pujol RackNRuin Rebecca Gates Reigning Sound Reptile Youth Res Robert Glasper Roomrunner Rudimental Rumors Rush Midnight Salt to Bitters Schoepp & The Shades Sea Wolf Sean Nicholas Savage Sean Price Selebrities Septicflesh Shark? Sinkane Skaters Skinny Lister Skipping Girl Vinegar Slam Donahue Slowdance Solid Gold The Spits The Stepkids Strange Talk Such Hounds T.H. White Tauk Tempers Tim Foljahn Tiny Victories Tom Lark Tomorrow’s World TOPS Trapper Turf War Twin Tigers Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown U.S. Royalty The Ugly Club Unicorn Kid The Virginmarys Vockah Redu Von Haze Way Yes We Can’t Enjoy Ourselves Wild Child William Tyler Woodsman World’s End Press Woz Yan Wagner You Won’t Young Buffalo Young Evils Zulu Pearls
