CMJ 2014: It's Here, With the Kills and Bombay Bicycle Club Leading the Way — artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

Want to feel like a college radio DJ, A&R executive, music blogger or compulsive club-hopper? That is, awash in possibilities but faced with far more imitators than innovators? This is the week, as the annual CMJ Music Marathon returns with its plentitude — or overload — of musicians eager to be heard. While CMJ’s spring counterpart, South by Southwest, in Austin, Tex., has become a magnet for pop and hip-hop hitmakers, CMJ has fewer celebrities and more strivers, including what seems to be every band in Brooklyn (and there are plenty) and a contingent of 60 Australian acts.

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