New York City Marathon

Awesome! The initial slew of bands has been announced for the CMJ Music Marathon. Ready?

3OH!3, A Place to Bury Strangers, Aa, Adept, Aggrolites, AIDS Wolf, Albertans, Amazing Baby, Ambulance Ltd, An Albatross Ane Brun, Anna Ternheim Annuals, Anthony Green Arbouretum, Ariel Pink and Geneva Jacuzzi, Bailiff, Beach House, Benji Cossa, Black Hollies, Black Taxi, BM Linx, Bonne Aparte, Broken Social Scene, Brighton, MA, Canasta, Canon Logic, Caroline Weeks, Catcall, Charles Burst, Coathangers, Cool Kids, Cotton Jones, Crystal Castles, Cut Off Your Hands, Deanna Devore, Death Vessel, Deerhoof, Del McCoury Band, Delta Spirit, Die! Die! Die!, Dive Index, DMBQ, Donavon Frankenreiter, Doug Paisley, Dungen, Eagle Seagull, Envy On The Coast, Experimental Dental School, Fiasco, Flying, Franki Chan, Fujiya & Miyagi, Gang Gang Dance, Gliss, Growing, HeartsRevolution, Hecuba, Hey Rosetta, Higgins, High Places, Hollywood Holt, Hospital Bombers, IRAN, James Jackson Toth, Japanese Motors, Jay Reatard, Joe Pug, Juliana Hatfield, Jupiter One, Karkwa, King Khan & The BBQ Show, Lacona, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Let's Go To War, Life and Times, Looker , Lykke Li, Magnetic Morning, Margot and the Nuclear So-and-Sos, Marissa Nadler, Marnie Stern, Matt Duke, Matthew Dear, Micachu, Mike Bones, Miles Benjamin, Anthony Robinson, Minus the Bear, Mirah, Monotonix, mother mother, Natalie Walker, Needers & Givers, No Kids, Nouvellas, Oakley Hall, Octopus Project, Other Lives, Oxford Collapse, Parts and Labor, Peephole, Pegasuses-XL, Pit er Pat, Plastic Little, Pontiak, Princeton, Psychic Ills, Rainbow Arabia, Real Ones, Rebecca Pidgeon, Restaurant, Rio en Medio, ocketship Park, Roisin Murphy, Ruby Suns, Rumspringa, Said the Whale, Savoir Adore, School of Seven Bells, Screens, Shad, Shellshag, Sian Alice Group, Sky Cries Mary, Sole and Skyrider Band, sPADH, Takka Takka, Terry Lynn, The Apes, The Broken West, The Dears, The Homosexuals, The Mae Shi, The Moin Non Plus, The Music Tapes, The Muslims, The New Number Two, The Octagon, The Psychic Paramount, The Rosebuds, The Takeover UK, The Two Man Gentlemen Band, The Unsacred Hearts, The Virgins, Theresa Andersson, TK Webb, Tunnels To Holland, Two Spot Gobi, Violens, Vivian Girls, Whomadewho, Wild Light, Will Hoge, Woods, Wye Oak, Yip Yip, Yo Majesty

The best part is that this is just the beginning. (Much) more will be announced very shortly (including bands you've actually heard of). The festival will take place all over the place in New York (as always) from October 21st-25th.