CMJ: Looking Back At A Whirlwind Of Music
Delicate Steve at CMJ. Bob Boilen/NPR hide caption
Delicate Steve at CMJ.
Bob Boilen/NPRCMJ, 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.
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.
CMJ Wrap Up
Kopecky Family Band
- Song: Disaster
- from The Disaster
For more information on this album, visit the artist's website.
Family Cactus
- Song: Come Howling
- from Come Howling
For more information on this album, visit the artist's website.
Jon Hopkins
- Song: Small Memory (Tuung Remix)
- from Seven Gulps Of Air
Titus Andronicus
- Song: A More Perfect Union
- from Monitor
Delicate Steve
- Song: Butterfly
- from Wondervisions
For more information on this album, visit the artist's website.
Big Freedia
- Song: Azz Everywhere
- from Big Freedia Hitz Vol. 1
For more information on this album, visit the artist's website.
Random Recipe
- Song: Shipwreck
- from Fold It! Mold It!
First Aid Kit
- Song: Winter Is All Over You
- from Big Black & the Blue
Sherlock's Daughter
- Song: Reprise
- from Sherlock's Daughter EP
Prince Rama
- Song: Thunderdrums
- from Shadow Temple
Lower Dens
- Song: Blue & Silver
- from Twin-Hand Movement