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It was another crazy five days when the CMJ Music Marathon came to town, with highs, lows, parties, hangovers, frustrations, surprises, and oh so much more.
QRO finally made it out to Brooklyn on the last day of CMJ for a limited, but high-quality, nightCMJ ended on a high - if wet - note, starting early and ending late, crossing Brooklyn & Bowery & more, catching old faves, new surprises, and missing very little.
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|  | Day Four of CMJ was a major bounce back, with the best new band so far and easily the best show of the marathon.
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|  | Hangovers, delayed schedules, not delayed schedules, the MTA & more all conspired to making Day Three a big disappointment.
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|  | After seeing virtually all new bands in Day One of CMJ, Day Two was dedicated to old favorites.
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|  | The first day of CMJ was dedicated almost entirely to never-before-seen bands - to middling results.
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40 Bands, 41 Shows, 985 photos:
Annuals - Day Five, Webster Hall Au - Day One, Piano's Bear Hands - Day Two, Mercury Lounge Bridges & Powerlines - Day One, Cake Shop Broken Social Scene - Day Four, Brooklyn Masonic Temple The Broken West - Day Four, Arlene's Grocery
Castanets - Day Four, Cake Shop Cheeseburger - Day One, Red Bull Space Crystal Antlers - Day Five, Music Hall in Williamsburg Crystal Stilts - Day Two, FADER Fort Freshkills - Day Five, Studio @ Webster Hall Sebastien Grainger - Day Two, FADER Fort; Day Two, Mercury Lounge
Gringo Starr - Day One, Red Bull Space The Jealous Girlfriends - Day Three, Bell House
Kuroma - Day Four, FADER Fort Land of Talk - Day Four, Brooklyn Masonic Temple The Lisps - Day One, Cake Shop (upstairs)
Little Boots - Day Five, FADER Fort Lord T & Eloise - Day Five, Bowery Ballroom Middle Distance Runner - Day One, Rehab Minus the Bear - Day Five, Webster Hall Oakley Hall - Day Five, Mercury Lounge The Oxford Collapse - Day One, Cake Shop
Pattern is Movement - Day One, Piano's
A Place To Bury Strangers - Day Five, Music Hall in Williamsburg Princeton - Day One, Cake Shop (upstairs) Pwrfl Power - Day One, Piano's (upstairs) Rahim - Day Five, Lit Lounge
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Day Two, Studio @ Webster Hall The Rosebuds - Day Five, Mercury Lounge The Ruby Suns - Day Five, Music Hall in Williamsburg
Sam Champion - Day Two, Piano's The Seabellies - Day Four, FADER Fort The Subjects - Day Five, Lit Lounge
Takka Takka - Day Two, Piano's
Lissy Trullie - Day One, Piano's Vivian Girls - Day One, Red Bull Space Wild Light - Day One, Red Bull Space Wild Yaks - Day Five, FADER Fort Women - Day One, Cake Shop
Best New Band - The Seabellies Runners-Up - Au, Princeton, The Ruby Suns Best Veteran - Broken Social Scene
Runners-Up - Annuals, Land of Talk, Rahim, Takka Takka Best Showcase - (day) AAM CMJ Celebration Party @ Music Hall in Williamsburg, Day Five; (evening) Jelly NYC Presents @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple, Day Four
Runners-Up - (day) EarFarm Showcase @ Piano's, Day Two; (evening) PASTE Magazine & CMJ Artist's Lounge, Day One
Biggest Miss - White Lies
Runners-Up - Friendly Fires, I'm Not Jim, Pela, Physics of Meaning, Mint Records Showcase
Biggest Disappointment - Day Three
Runners-Up - MTA, FADER Fort set-up, CMJ's lack of directions & free food Will Break - The Seabellies Should Break - Rahim Currently Breaking - Annuals, Land of Talk Broken - Social Scene Best New Venue - Lit Lounge Runners-Up - Upstairs at Cake Shop & Piano's Worst New Venue - FADER Fort Runners-Up - Red Bull Space, Studio @ Webster Hall
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