However, I soon learned that the band that was supposed to play at 7, Sean0Sean, was just beginning their set.
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I arrived at The Rock Shop around 7:30 with the intention of catching Brooklyn’s Howth, who released a solid indie-rock album, “Newkirk” earlier this year, at 7:45. My CMJ adventure started with an example of the aforementioned scheduling hassles. As my uncle once said to me while my dad tried to figure out how he forgot to turn the lights off in the now-non-starting rental car we were driving through the middle of Alabama: “It’s part of the adventure.” Yet the chaos of CMJ is part of its undeniable charm. Suddenly those hours of planning turn are for naught as you blindly choose a venue to visit next. Similarly, that confidence in a CMJ strategy lasts for the all too brief period between the schedule’s release and when the first band you see doesn’t start or finish on time. Then you realize you already walked something like three flights of stairs that day, so really there’s no need to exercise. That brief sensation of euphoria lasts right up to the minute you told yourself you were going to start. That feeling of invincibility concerning the laws of time and space is an awful like the one you get when you develop grand plans to start exercising and working out. The second best part of CMJ, after of course the opportunity to see tons of great bands for five straight nights in the greatest city for music, is the process of sorting through the seemingly endless list of bands in order to meticulously plan your personal schedule down to the minute.
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Johnsonīlonds, Laura Stevenson, The Nightmare River Band, Sean0Sean,, Brainstorm, Everest Cale Running the CMJ Marathon 2012 - Day 1 - by Josh S.