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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Matt Bauer might just get you with his haunting folk songs accented with twinkling chimes and rippling banjo. With a touch of ethereal charm and down home sensibility, Bauer’s music seems like it belongs in a dimly lit log cabin in the best way possible. Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn is the perfect intimate venue for his lovely musical cradling...

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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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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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