Marathon Runner Josh’s first day at CMJ: Blonds, Laura-Stevenson & the Cans, The Nightmare River Band, Sean0Sean, sami.the.great, Brainstorm, Everest Cale

The second best thing about the CMJ Music Marathon, after of course the opportunity to see tons of great bands for five straight nights in the greatest city for music, is the process of sorting through the seemingly endless list of bands in order to meticulously plan your personal schedule down to the minute. That feeling of invincibility concerning the laws of time and space is an awful like the one you get when you develop grand plans to start exercising and working out. That brief sensation of euphoria lasts right up to the minute you told yourself you were going to start. Then you realize you already walked something like three flights of stairs that day, so really there’s no need to exercise. – read the full report here. (in the picture, Blonds)