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The Best Shows of CMJ 2014

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Hope you slept well this weekend because CMJ 2014 is about to wreak havoc on your REM cycle for the next week. We already know you’re coming to Palisades on Thursday for our showcase with Princess Nokia, Open Mike Eagle, Heems, Malportado Kids and Chris Gethard, among others, but there are five more relentless days of stacked line ups all over New York City.

We waded through the tidal wave of Facebook events, press releases, and off-the-record tips to bring you our choice shows, official or not, for CMJ 2014.

Get your ear plugs, Advil, and day planner ready because scheduling conflicts are getting real A-F.

Monday, October 20

The Needle Drop / We Want Someone to Shout For / We Listen For You Unofficial Kickoff Party

Cakes Da Killa
Uncommon Nasa
White Reaper
Oscar
Machine Girl
Sharpless

8pm
Free
21+
Pianos Showroom
158 Ludlow Street

Chris Burden Presents: The Bowery Electric CMJ Kickoff Party

Tall Juan
Psychic Blood
BEIJU
Arm Candy
Treatment
Amadels
DJ sets by Jordan Stern (ONWE) & Ryan Drag (Heavy Birds)

7pm
21+
$5
The Bowery Electric
327 Bowery
Manhattan

Tuesday, October 21

Tell All Your Friends Presents: CMJ 2014
Peter Matthew Bauer
Bo Ningen
Happyness
Money
Spires
Slothrust
Strange Names

12pm
Free
All Ages
Baby’s All Right
146 Broadway
Brooklyn

Exploding in Sound Presents

Roomrunner
Celestial Shore
Heliotropes
Washer

8pm
$7 adv//$10 day of
All Ages
Palisades
906 Broadway
Brooklyn

OHMYROCKNESS CMJ Showcase!

PINS
September Girls
Mannequin Pussy
Vasudeva
Amanda X

8pm
21+
$10
Cameo Gallery
96 N 6th Street
Brooklyn

Texas is Funny Official Showcase

Ex-Breathers
Vetter Kids
The Hawks (of holy rosary)
Shining Mirrors

8pm
All Ages
$8 / Free with badge
Shea Stadium
20 Meadow Street
Brooklyn

Gingercore Anti-CMJ

Dream Police
PC WORSHIP (solo)
Broken Water
Survival
Sediment Club
Psychic Blood
Natural Velvet
Chimes
and more

5pm
Free entry and free pizza before 8pm/$5-$10 sliding scale 8pm-2am
All Ages
The Silent Barn
603 Bushwick Avenue
Brooklyn

Wednesday, October 22

Captured Tracks // Omnian Music Group Unofficial CMJ Day Showcase

Widowspeak
Juan Wauters
Dinner
Homeshake
Mega Bog
Alex Calder
Girl Tears

1pm
Free
All Ages
Baby’s All Right
146 Broadway
Brooklyn

Resevoir Sound Womb Presents:

Armand Hammer
We Are Not For Them
SKECH185
Lt. Headtrip & The Karma Kids
Henry Canyons
Reservoir Sound System

8pm
$8 / Free with CMJ badge
The Loft
260 Moore St.
Brooklyn

Brixton Agency Official Showcase

Native America
ANGEL DU$T
Ex-Breathers
Young Statues
Unwed
Palehound
creepoid
Teen Death

4pm
$10 / Free with CMJ badge
The Grand Victory
245 Grand Street
Brooklyn

Bird Dog Promo @ CMJ

Tonstartssbandht
TOPS
Moon King
Calvin Love
Nicholas Nicholas

8pm
$8
All Ages
Shea Stadium
20 Meadow Street
Brooklyn

Panache Booking Official Showcase

Reigning Sound
White Fence
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Shonen Knife
Guy Blakeslee
Ice Balloons
Ultimate Painting

7pm
$15/Free with badge
Knitting Factory
361 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn

Sugar Mama BK + Raw Paw Official CMJ Showcase

Water
Sharkmuffin
Painted Zeros
The Sleepy Zzz
Chimes
MILEZO

5pm
21+
$5
Legion Bar
790 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn

Thursday, October 23

Portals x Stadiums & Shrines unofficial CMJ

Yohuna
R.L. Kelly
Heathered Pearls
Saint Pepsi
Nicholas Nicholas
$3.33
Kites Sail High DJ set

7pm
Free
Lutheran Church of the Messiah
129 Russell St
Brooklyn

Gorilla vs. Bear x CMJ

Saint Pepsi
Lydia Ainsworth
Tei Shi
TOPS
Ellie Herring

11pm
Baby’s All Right
146 Broadway
Brooklyn

KXLU & Burger Records CMJ Showcase

White Reaper
Meatbodies
Girlpool
L.A. Witch
Las Rosas
John Wesley Coleman

7pm
Free
All Ages
Death by Audio
49 S 2nd St.
Brooklyn

NYC Taper Unofficial CMJ Day Party

Purling Hiss
Mainland
Palehound
Amanda X
Rivergazer
The Kickback
The Prettiots
Whiskey Bitches
Beach Day

12pm
Free
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow St
Manhattan

Chris Burden’s Official Daytime CMJ Showcase

Hamish Kilgour (of The Clean)
Honduras
Sunflower Bean
ONWE
Mirror Kisses
Napoleon
Haybaby
Life Size Maps
The Veda Rays
Sam Kogon
Malatese
Heavy Birds
Teen Body
Bodega Bay
Quasi Fae

12pm
Free
Open Beer Bar + Free Pizza
The Bowery Electric
327 Bowery at Joey Ramone Place
Manhattan

Buzz Records + Ipsum Present

Weaves
The Beverlys
HSY
MUUY BIEN
Vulture Shit
Mexican Slang

7pm
$5/Free with CMJ badge
All Ages
Shea Stadium
20 Meadow Street
Brooklyn

Friday, October 24

Father/Daughter + Miscreant Present: Conscious Coupling

Moon Bounce
Running in the Fog
Leapling
Jawbreaker Reunion
Girlpool
Amanda X
Bent Shapes
Rivergazer
Sharpless
Mitski
Attic Abasement
Nicholas Nicholas
Flagland
Small Wonder
Bethlehem Steel
Adult Mom
Bad Cello
Comfy
Vagabon
+free karaoke between sets!

2pm
$5 / $8 with latest issue of Miscreant
All Ages
The Silent Barn
603 Bushwick Avenue

Move Forward Music + Pigeons and Planes present:

Deniro Farrar & Denzel Curry
Remy Banks
Kevin Abstract
D.R.A.M.
JK The Reaper

7pm
$12 advance/$15 at door
16+
Webster Hall
125 E. 11 Street
Manhattan

Orchid Tapes Official CMJ Showcase

Foxes in Fiction
Mister Lies
Emily Reo
R.L. Kelly
Yohuna

12pm
$5/Free with CMJ badge
The Shop
234 Starr Street
Brooklyn

Hardly Art/Inland Empire Present

Protomartyr
Creepoid
Love as Laughter
Eaters
+special guest

8pm
$8/Free with CMJ badge
All Ages
Death By Audio
49 S 2nd Street
Brooklyn

GODMODE and Driftless Present: Get on the Rocketship

Ellie Herring
Shamir
North Americans
Young Ejecta
CFCF
Courtship Ritual
Megafortress
Fitness
Mister Small
Isn’t Ours

6pm
$10
Babycastles
137 West 14th Street
Manhattan

Saturday, October 25

Exploding in Sound Third Birthday + Unofficial CMJ

Roomrunner
Krill
Two Inch Astronaut
Baked
Geronimo!
Grass is Green
Kal Marks
Broken Water
Gnarwhal
Ovlov
Palehound
Pile (acoustic)
My Dad
Meat Wave
Ronald Paris

2pm
$8
All Ages
The Silent Barn
603 Bushwick Avenue
Brooklyn