Duuuuuuuuuuuuude! Have you seen the lineup?

The Arcade Fire - Atmosphere - !!! (Chk Chk Chk) - Dungen - Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Juan Maclean - John Vanderslice - Nouvelle Vague - Of Montreal - The Hold Steady - Against Me! - Mae - Wolf Parade - Blackalicious - Blowfly - Athlete - Lucero - Supersystem - Mary Timony - Tim Fite - Hot Chip - Devin Davis - Arctic Monkeys - Wolf Mother - Constantines - Colder - Why? - Cut Copy - The Oranges Band - Motion City Soundtrack - Copeland - The Honorary Title - Battles - Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic - Chad VanGaalen - Mu - Earth - Cranes - Alan Sparhawk - Kinski - The Morning After Girls - Annie - The Talk - People In Planes - Grand Buffet - Ida - The Wrens - The Giraffes - Nashville Pussy - Portastatic - Hella - The Epoxies - Marat - Cocorosie - Jessie Diamond and the Thousand - Urdog - Zzz - The Big Huge - Zeke - The Firebird Band - Big Business - Parts & Labor - Icarus Line - William Elliot Whitmore - Eric Bachmann - The Rosebuds - Elevator Action - The Rakes - Receiving End Of Sirens - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Amusement Parks On Fire - Need New Body - Youth Group - The Gossip - The Kingsbury Manx - Rogue Wave - Robbers On High Street - Paybacks - Dr. Dog - Funeral For A Friend - Snatches of Pink - Limbeck - The Mae Shi - The Makers - Early Man - Alias - Her Space Holiday - Black Forest Black Sea - The Witnesses - Gore Gore Girls - Fruit Bats - Test-Icicles - Vaux - Sex Slaves - The Dix - Nightmare Of You - James Blunt - Dennison Whitmer - Jessica Dobson - Oxford Collapse - Saturday Looks Good To Me - xbxrx - Kind of Like Spitting - The Robot Ate Me - The Numbers - Goblin Cock - Jim Yoshi Pileup - Tenement Halls -Annie Hayden - Pony Up! - Mahjongg - A Gun Called Tension - Lion Fever - Prosaics - Das Oath - DDM - Swords - Pilot To Gunner - Talkdemonic - The Kingdom - The Comas - The Standard - American Princes - The Cities - Alternative Champs - Emperor X - Langhorne Slim - The Mobius Band - Subtitle - Hockey Night - The Dollylrots - The Reputation - Troubled Hubble - Bling Kong - Bellini - Psychic Paramount - Sleeping People - Coptic Light - Maserati - Deadman - Jeff Klein - B.C. Camplight - Levy - Without Gravity - The Sammies - Queenadreena - Pit Er Pat - Head of Femur - Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - Cameron McGill - Catfish Haven - Le Concorde - Dirty Perfect - Billy Nayer Show - Channels - Edie Sedgwick - Voicst - Singapore Sling - Maktub - Dirty On Purpose - Face Tomorrow - Enablers - Blood and Time - Grails - The Soviettes - Dressy Bessy - World/Inferno Friendship Society - The Heavenly States - The King of France - 8-bit - The Blue Van - The Plastic Constellations - Walking Concert - Cary Brothers - Man Man - Daughters - TSAR - Kaki King - The Navigators... and many more to be announced.

And Whiney's performing! I wonder who he slept with?

OPA, probably.

oh wait that gets you OFF the list!

Test-Icicles is a horrible band name.

Yeah, it's one of those names that forces you to rebel against the most natural pronunciation for it to make any sense. Any band name that requires work isn't worth it.

i'm planning to trek out to NY for this... starting to save my pennies now. but just as long as my girl doesn't flake on me, then we're going.

I can't wait to see Goblin Cock!

WHAT? POP TODD DIDN'T GET IN?! THAT'S BULLSHIT@!

I think they're performing with Test-Icicles.

It's only just dawned on me that this is a double entendre.

Are you implying that the people at CMJ don't like me?




Oh shush, there's nothing wrong with being passionate about a friend's band.

What, is a goblin cock something dirty in the UK?

sick lineup this year for sure.

Well the shameful anatomy of supernatural beings is always dirty but so is "gobbling cock" or simply 'O' as it's often etched into public toilet cubical doors.

He's a supporting-player in the Harry Palmer series of adult-theme Harry Potter knock-offs.

Dri, doesn't this girl ALWAYS flake out on you?

Oh shit, I just noticed a friend of mine is playing (8 Bit). Damn, maybe I should talk to him more often.

MOre bands ot be added....there better be...

This is definitely worth the journey, if I can take the time off work - which is looking more and more doubtful by the day...

Actually no. She only flaked on SXSW... we were planning to go last minute, and things ended up not working out so we decided to hit up CMJ for sure.

Just a bit of advice....(froma veteran NY'er / CMJ goer)

Unless you are interested in the panels and showcases during the day and stuff, you are much better off buying actual tickets for the shows you want to see, instead of getting a badge...

Of course, once the schedules come out, we all make our list of shows we want so see, and we make these crazy plans of being in 6 different venues in a 5 hour period, but it rarely works out....

Set times change, traffic while traveling, overall partying, etc....

PLUS, having a badge does not guarantee you entrance to the shows. Usually each club is set up to allow ony a certain amount of badges in, and the rest goto ticket holders... So you either wind up getting to a show early, and waiting on line with your badge to hopefully guarantee your entrance to the show, or you look at the schedule, and buy tix for the shows you defniitely dont want to miss...

personally, i think you'll save yourself alot of grief....but thats just me.

Hey Dov, I'll hit you up about this when the time gets closer and to make sure our plans follow through. My friend's getting badges through her work, but yeah, I don't want to miss out on any shows if that's the case.

Dammit, I wanna go! If I do that'll be THREE weekends in a row worth of music fests:

Sunset Junction
Arthurfest
CMJ Music Fest

Dude, I'm hardcore but not THAT hardcore!

(edited cuz I can't get my fest names right)

Oh shit. That means four for me. At least Sunset Junction is cheap.

Sunset Junction
Arthurfest
CMJ Marathon
Love Parade SF

Fuck. Time to start saving NOW cuz I plan on going to ALL of them.

Mos def....can't beat free badges, but word of warning.. id still try and buy tix to the shows you simply cant miss!

Wait, weren't you talking shit about Todd's band like 6 months ago?