CMJ Announce Initial Batch Of 2013 Acts

This year’s CMJ Music Marathon, taking place in New York City, spans from 15th-19th October. The showcase specialist festival has announced an initial bunch of exciting new bands, all looking to steal the attention of industry so-and-sos.

HAERTS, DIANA and Empress Of are set to appear alongside the likes of Savages, Menomena and Woodkid. Newer names come in the form of LA group Sir Sly and Washington duo GEMS.

UK representatives come in the form of Duologue, The History of Apple Pie, Still Corners.

Names announced so far:

Bad Suns * Ball Park Music * Black City Lights * Bear Mountain * Big Black Delta * Black Light Dinner Party * BLK Kathy * Bored Nothing * Calvin Love * Cardiknox * Caught A Ghost * Chrome Sparks * City Riots * Cloak Ox * Continuum * Courtney Barnett * Dan Croll * Deep Cotton * Deep Dark Woods * Diane Birch * Dorine Levy * Dune Rats * Duologue * Dusted * Ejecta * Eleanor Friedberger * Electric Wire Hustle * Elizabeth Rose * Elle King * Elliot and The Ghost * Emperors * Enola Fall * Ex-Cult * Firehorse * Frontier Ruckus * GEMS * Geoffrey O’Connor * Ghost Wave * Ginger And The Ghost * Gossling * Grizfolk * Gus + Scout * Hopspin * In The Valley Below * INVSN * Jacco Gardner * JBM * Jessy Lanza * Jetta * John Murry * Julia Easterlin * July Talk * Junior Prom * Kid Karate * Kill It Kid * King Dude * Landshapes * Larry Gus * Lawrence Rothman * Le Trouble * Lee Bannon * Little Daylight * Lindi Ortega * Magic Man * Marc Kinchen * Marijuana Deathsquads * Misun * Moonstone * Nicole Mercedes and the Affair * Night Drive * NONONO * North Highlands * Oh Mercy * Okta Logue * Optic Yellow Felt * Orgone * P.O.S.* Panama Wedding * Peachpit * Pelican * People Get Ready * Pictureplane * Ponyboy * Pool Cosby * RATKING * REPTILES * Reuben and the Dark * Royal Bangs * Saint Rich * Sheppard * Shigeto * Sir Sly * Slim Twig * Squad * Still Corners * Story of the Running Wolf * Strange Talk * Streets of Laredo * TEEN * The Aprons * The Delta * Riggs * The History of Apple Pie * The Novocaines * The Preatures * Them Swoops * Tiny Ruins * Touch * Sensitive * Tremor Low * TV Ghost * U.S. Girls * Vadoinmessico * WET * Will Stratton * Wilsen * World’s End * Press * Yamantaka // Sonic Titan