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CMJ Announces Initial Lineup

by dklein on August 14th, 2008

High Places @ Pitchfork Music Festival

CMJ, the annual music conference in New York akin to SXSW in Austin, has announced its initial lineup, which includes some previously announced shows. You can usually buy tickets to individual shows, or get a badge and hope to get in. If you register by August 19 you get 15% off the “all-access” badge (but sometimes the badge can’t get you in to certain shows anyway…). Here’s the lineup so far:

3OH!3, A Place to Bury Strangers, Aa, Adept Aggrolites, AIDS Wolf Albertans, Amazing Baby Ambulance Ltd, An Albatross Ane Brun, Anna Ternheim Annuals, Anthony Green Arbouretum, Ariel Pink and Geneva Jacuzzi, Bailiff, Beach House, Benji Cossa, Black Hollies, Black Taxi, BM Linx, Bonne Aparte

Broken Social Scene, Brighton, MA, Canasta, Canon Logic, Caroline Weeks, Catcall, Charles Burst, Coathangers, Cool Kids, Cotton Jones, Crystal Castles, Cut Off Your Hands, Deanna Devore

Death Vessel, Deerhoof, Del McCoury Band, Delta Spirit, Die! Die! Die!, Dive Index, DMBQ, Donavon Frankenreiter, Doug Paisley, Dungen, Eagle Seagull, Envy On The Coast, Experimental Dental School, Fiasco, Flying, Franki Chan, Fujiya & Miyagi, Gang Gang Dance, Gliss

Growing, HeartsRevolution, Hecuba, Hey Rosetta, Higgins, High Places, Hollywood Holt, Hospital Bombers, IRAN, James Jackson Toth, Japanese Motors, Jay Reatard, Joe Pug, Juliana Hatfield

Mirah @ Castle Clinton

Jupiter One, Karkwa, King Khan & The BBQ Show, Lacona, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Let’s Go To War, Life and Times, Looker , Lykke Li, Magnetic Morning, Margot and the Nuclear So-and-Sos, Marissa Nadler, Marnie Stern, Matt Duke, Matthew Dear, Micachu, Mike Bones, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Minus the Bear, Mirah

Monotonix, mother mother, Natalie Walker, Needers & Givers, No Kids, Nouvellas, Oakley Hall, Octopus Project, Other Lives, Oxford Collapse, Parts and Labor, Peephole, Pegasuses-XL, Pit er Pat, Plastic Little, Pontiak, Portastatic, Princeton, Psychic Ills, Rainbow Arabia, Real Ones, Rebecca Pidgeon, Restaurant, Rio en Medio

Rocketship Park, Roisin Murphy, Ruby Suns, Rumspringa, Said the Whale, Savoir Adore, School of Seven Bells, Screens, Shad, Shellshag, Sian Alice Group, Sky Cries Mary, Sole and Skyrider Band, sPADH, Takka Takka, Terry Lynn, The Apes, The Broken West, The Dears

The Homosexuals, The Mae Shi, The Moin Non Plus, The Music Tapes, The Muslims, The New Number Two, The Octagon, The Psychic Paramount, The Rosebuds, The Takeover UK, The Two Man Gentlemen Band, The Unsacred Hearts, The Virgins, Theresa Andersson, They Might Be Giants, TK Webb, Tunnels To Holland, Two Spot Gobi, Violens, Vivian Girls, Whomadewho, Wild Light, Will Hoge, Woods, Wye Oak, Yip Yip, Yo Majesty

All photos permission: Devorah Klein

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