The annual festival, celebrating its 33rd year, will once again be headquartered in downtown Manhattan with daytime events including panel sessions, exhibitors’ loft and registrant lounge, seminars and other special events. At night CMJ Music Marathon takes over more than 75 of New York City’s premier clubs and music venues, featuring performances from over 1,300 of the world’s best new artists, featuring genres including alternative, rock, dance, hip-hop, metal, country, world, jazz and much more.
Ticket Price: $275 - $495
Headliners
Festival lineup
- ARMS
- ASTR
- Alberta Cross
- Alpine
- Aly Tadros
- Arp
- BLK Kathy
- Bad Suns
- Ball Park Music
- Bear Mountain
- Ben Caplan and the Casual Smokers
- Betty Who
- Between the Buried and Me
- Big Black Delta
- Black City Lights
- Black Light Dinner Party
- Black Taxi
- Bleeding Rainbow
- Body Language
- Body Parts
- Bored Nothing
- Born Gold
- Braid
- Butchers and Bakers
- CHAPMAN
- Caged Animals
- Calvin Love
- Cardiknox
- Caught A Ghost
- Celestial Shore
- Cherub
- Christopher Paul Sterling
- Chrome Sparks
- City Riots
- Cloak Ox
- Coke Weed
- Continuum
- Courtney Barnett
- Crocodiles
- DIANA
- Dan Croll
- Decades
- Deep Cotton
- Deep Dark Woods
- Diane Birch
- Dinosaur Bones
- Dorine Levy
- Dune Rats
- Duologue
- Duologue
- Dusted
- Easter Island
- Ejecta
- Eleanor Friedberger
- Electric Wire Hustle
- Elizabeth & The Catapult
- Elizabeth Rose
- Elle King
- Elliot and the Ghost
- Emperors
- Empress Of
- Enola Fall
- Ex-Cult
- Ezra Furman
- Fat Tony
- Father John Misty
- Firehorse
- French Horn Rebellion
- Frontier Ruckus
- Fuck Buttons
- GEMS
- Gemini Club
- Gentleman Hall
- Geoffrey O'Connor
- Ghost Wave
- Ginger And The Ghost
- Glasser
- Godflesh
- Golden Bloom
- Gossling
- Grizfolk
- Gus + Scout
- HAERTS
- Half Moon Run
- Helio Sequence
- Heliotropes
- Here We Go Magic
- Hockey
- Hopspin
- Hunters
- INVSN
- In The Valley Below
- JBM
- JMSN
- Jacco Gardner
- Jesca Hoop
- Jessy Lanza
- Jetta
- John Murry
- Jonathan Rado
- Julia Easterlin
- July Talk
- Junior Prom
- KIng Dude
- Kevin Drew
- Kid Karate
- Kill It Kid
- Kodaline
- Landshapes
- Larry Gus
- Lawrence Rothman
- Le Trouble
- Lee Bannon
- Lee Fields & The Expressions
- Lily & The Parlor Tricks
- Lindi Ortega
- Little Daylight
- Lovelife
- Luke Temple
- Magic Man
- Marc Kinchen
- Marijuana Deathsquads
- Mark Mulcahy
- Menomena
- Midnight Spin
- Miniboone
- Misun
- Moonstone
- Morning Parade
- Mr. MFN eXquire
- NONONO
- Nachtmystium
- Nicole Mercedes and the Affair
- Night Drive
- North Highlands
- Obits
- Oceanographer
- Odonis Odonis
- Oh Mercy
- Okta Logue
- Optic Yellow Felt
- Orgone
- P.O.S.
- Panama Wedding
- Peach Pit
- Pelican
- People Get Ready
- Pictureplane
- Ponyboy
- Pool Cosby
- Press
- Quadron
- Quiet Company
- RATKING
- REPTILES
- Real Estate
- Real Estate
- Real Magic
- Reuben and the Dark
- Riff Raff
- Riggs
- Royal Bangs
- Royal Teeth
- SISU
- SKI LODGE
- SWF
- Saint Rich
- Saul Williams
- Savages
- Sensitive
- Shark?
- Sheppard
- Shigeto
- Sir Sly
- Slim Twig
- Speedy Ortiz
- Squad
- St Vitus
- Stalley
- Still Corners
- Still Life Still
- Story of the Running Wolf
- Strange Talk
- Streets of Laredo
- TEEN
- TEEN
- TV Ghost
- Talib Kweli
- Tanlines (DJ Set)
- The Aprons
- The Band In Heaven
- The Canon Logic
- The Darcys
- The Delta
- The Dismemberment Plan
- The Dragons of Zynth
- The Head and the Heart
- The History of Apple Pie
- The KickDrums
- The Long Winters
- The Neighbourhood
- The Novocaines
- The Preatures
- The Spring Standards
- The Suzan
- The Ugly Club
- Them Swoops
- Tiny Ruins
- Touch
- Toy Soldier
- Traumahelikopter
- Tremor Low
- U.S Girls
- UFO
- Vadoinmessico
- WET
- White Denim
- Wild Child
- Will Stratton
- Willis Earl Beal
- Wilsen
- Woodkid
- World's Fair
- Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
- You Me At Six
- Yuck
- Zeus
Festival News and Rumors
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