Van McCann, Catfish & The Bottlemen (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
The first names for this year’s CMJ Music Marathon have been confirmed.
The annual showcase takes places across New York City next month, and has Catfish & The Bottlemen, The Men, Mercury Rev and Titus Andronicus among its first participants for this year.
Catfish & The Bottlemen will be at another sprawling US music showcase after rocking up at the daddy of them all, SXSW, earlier this year. We sat down with frontman Van McCann during the festival:
“Because we’ve been together for eight years we’ve been through every up and every down of anything any band could be involved in, down to coaxing our van to the next station because it’s run out of petrol on the motorway,” he told us.
“We felt like we were fifteen again on that stage, like we had something to prove. It was exciting to be in a band that can still do that. It’s like being with a girl for ages but still fancying her like the day you met her.”
The first round of CMJ confirmed acts include:
Acid Dad, Allday, Arrows Of Love, Bad Veins, Balthazar, BØRNS, British India, Car Seat Headrest, Catfish and The Bottlemen, Death By Unga Bunga, Dent May, Destruction Unit, Diet Cig, DRINKS, Eternal Summers, Ex Hex, Frankie Cosmos, Fraser A. Gorman, Glass Animals, Hockey Dad, Jamie N Commons, JPNSGRLS, Juan Wauters, Kamasi Washington, Kero Kero Bonito, LODRO, Marlon Williams, Mercury Rev, METHYL ETHYL, Michael Rault, Motion City Soundtrack, Nai Harvest, Neon Indian, Ngaiire, Panda Bear, Perfect Pussy, Pinact, Pompeya, Protomartyr, Potty Mouth, Saint Pé, Shannon And The Clams, Son Little, Sunbeam Sound Machine, Surf Rock Is Dead,The Babe Rainbow, The Big Moon, The Henry Millers, The Joy Formidable, The Men, The Wonder Years, The Word, Titus Andronicus, Tobias Jesso Jr., Vomitface, Walking Shapes, Wet Leather, WOMPS