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CMJ: Looking Back At A Whirlwind Of Music : All Songs Considered This week, host Bob Boilen, NPR Music editor Stephen Thompson and WFUV's Alisa Ali discuss some of the best bands they discovered at this year's CMJ.

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CMJ: Looking Back At A Whirlwind Of Music

CMJ: Looking Back At A Whirlwind Of Music

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CMJ, short for College Music Journal, is an annual five-day music festival that takes place primarily on New York's Lower East Side and in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Each year, thousands of bands from all over the world gather and play packed showcases at dozens of venues around the city. This week on All Songs Considered, host Bob Boilen, NPR Music editor Stephen Thompson and WFUV's Alisa Ali recap the festival's highlights and discuss some of the best bands they discovered there.

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CMJ Minutes: Sample Videos From 27 Bands

Bob, for example, found musical healing from the Swedish sisters known as First Aid Kit, while Stephen learned the meaning of "sissy bounce" with Big Freedia and Alisa became mesmerized with the overpowering sexiness of Sherlock's Daughter.

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Disaster

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Kopecky Family Band

  • Song: Disaster
  • from The Disaster

For more information on this album, visit the artist's website.

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Come Howling

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Family Cactus

  • Song: Come Howling
  • from Come Howling

For more information on this album, visit the artist's website.

Cover for Seven Gulps Of Air

Small Memory (Tuung Remix)

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Jon Hopkins

  • Song: Small Memory (Tuung Remix)
  • from Seven Gulps Of Air
Cover for Monitor

A More Perfect Union

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Titus Andronicus

  • Song: A More Perfect Union
  • from Monitor
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Gaze

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Suuns

  • Song: Gaze
  • from Zeroes QC
Cover for Wondervisions

Walk With Me

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Delicate Steve

  • Song: Butterfly
  • from Wondervisions

For more information on this album, visit the artist's website.

Cover for Big Freedia Hitz Vol. 1

Azz Everywhere

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Big Freedia

  • Song: Azz Everywhere
  • from Big Freedia Hitz Vol. 1

For more information on this album, visit the artist's website.

Cover for Fold It! Mold It!

The Message

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Random Recipe

  • Song: Shipwreck
  • from Fold It! Mold It!
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Winter Is All Over You

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First Aid Kit

  • Song: Winter Is All Over You
  • from Big Black & the Blue
Cover for Sherlock's Daughter EP

Reprise

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Sherlock's Daughter

  • Song: Reprise
  • from Sherlock's Daughter EP
Cover for Shadow Temple

Thunderdrums

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Prince Rama

  • Song: Thunderdrums
  • from Shadow Temple
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Blue & Silver

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Lower Dens

  • Song: Blue & Silver
  • from Twin-Hand Movement

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