CMJ MUSIC MARATHON 2010 ANNOUNCES INITIAL ARTIST LINE-UP

CMJ MUSIC MARATHON 2010
ANNOUNCES INITIAL ARTIST LINE-UP

August 30, 2010 – New York, NY – The CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival has announced its first round of performing artists including: DeVotchKa, Surfer Blood, Two Door Cinema Club, School of Seven Bells, Bad Books (feat. Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra), Four Tet, The Drums, Ghostface Killah, Greg Dulli, Helmet, Lissie, Foreign Exchange, Katzenjammer, Kristen Schall & Friends, Dean & Britta, Bayside, Senses Fail, Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Salem, The Blow, Small Black, Big Freedia, Dominique Young Unique, Angus & Julia Stone, Frankie and the Heartstrings, Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr, and Langhorne Slim.

Hundreds of additional acts will be announced in the upcoming weeks, so make sure to visit www.cmj.com/marathon for continuous artist updates. This year’s CMJ Music Marathon will be held from October 19th-23rd.

2010 brings the launch of CMJ Play, the first-ever intensive gaming and music seminar on October 20th, 2010. It will be a one-day summit featuring key gaming and music leaders hosted by CMJ Music Marathon in association with the Music Video Game Research Project at NYU Steinhardt at New York University’s Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life, in the Richard L. Rosenthal Pavilion. Registration for CMJ Play is open at www.cmj.com/marathon. Registration fee of $149 includes admission to this one-day event, the interactive exhibit area, CMJ Music Marathon Exhibit Lounge and evening showcases during October 20, 2010 only (All CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival badge holders are of course welcome to attend).

CMJ Music Marathon and SonicScoop have teamed up to present ‘Studio Time,” a two-part program focusing on music production mastery, with ‘Mix Reconstruction’ and ‘Rough to Refined: Exploring Recording from the Demo to the Finished Product’ which is open to all CMJ badge holders, “Studio Time” provides emerging artists, engineers and producers with recording and mixing insights and inspiration from expert music creators.

CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival is one of the world’s most important platforms for the discovery of new music and cutting-edge films, and will take over New York City from October 19-23, 2010. Over five nonstop days and nights, CMJ will feature over 1200 live performances from over 30 countries in more than 75 of New York City’s greatest venues and theatres. In addition to hundreds of showcase performances, cutting-edge films and informative panels, CMJ 2010 will present over 70 panels including featured speakers, a music business law seminar, and College Day and will feature live music performances, exclusive parties, an exhibitor loft, a registrant lounge, an artist gifting suite, meet and greets, seminars, mentoring sessions, networking events, comedy showcases, Q&As, and special events.

For the latest news, artist updates, discount badge registration and more information visit: www.cmj.com/marathon.

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