Sure CMJ is about the music. But it's also about the people watching. Hot people watching.

Thrash band Crystal Castles, a two piece set comprised of Alice Glass and Ethan Kath, took to the stage at Webster Hall for CMJ last night and gave a performance that music journalists, college students, and photographers will be talking about for a long time.

Glass stole the spotlight with epilectic choreography, stage humping, crowd surfin...

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Walter Meego isn’t simply a dorky man's name. Walter Meego is a musical duo comprised of Justin Sconza and Colin Yarck with more electro-pathic, space-age, 80’s-cum-future, Lite Brite-like, dance-rocking synth-pop up their sleeves than can easily be contained in a given music venue. A few years ago, the two were a couple of University of Illinoi...

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If you're wondering what The Bronx show was like at CMJ, the photo above is the best approximation available. As The Bronx screamed, spit, riffed, sweat, and beat the crap out of their drums, the crowd screamed, spit, sweat, and beat the crap out of each other. Or at least they got rowdy and shoved each other around.

For everyone who says hard...

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Since signing with indie label Kill Rock Stars in 1995, Deerhoof has been aurally shocking music fans seeking a bit of dreamy, off-kilter, meandering, creeping pop rock. Lineup shifts have not eclipsed the visionary and varied breadth of Deerhoof's music. They'll take the stage at CMJ at the Fillmore on Wednesday at 8pm. Singer Satomi Matsuzaki ...

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The Ettes are Coco, Pony, and Jem. The Ettes are tenacious vox bouncing over garage-y guitar and rolling drum beats. The Ettes are a little bit of sex and sugar and rebel Americana. Singer Coco gave CollegeOTR her take on music school stimuli, politics, and that busty-but-not-busted 62-year-old Dolly Parton. The Ettes play their CMJ show at Arle...

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You could call the CMJ Music Marathon a New York music journalist’s wet dream. A music festival almost encyclopedic in scope held by the College Music Journal (CMJ), it saturates five days and about 75 venues with some of the best indie, folk, thrash, noise rock, art rock, hip-hop, synth-pop, and the rest of the gamut in between.

Now CollegeOT...

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