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| | village voice > music > The CMJ Music Marathon by (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | The Voice spent more money on beer during the CMJ Music Marathon than we're getting paid to write it up, suffered the flashlight-toting douche bags they call security guards at Irving Plaza and Hammerstein Ballroom, and wasted valuable minutes scanning the names of countless shitty non-hip-hop bands approval-stamped by the shitty College Music Journal. |
 | | CMJ's biggest act, Blink-182 side-project Box Car Racer, played a lukewarm, no-encore set of crunchy, catchy emo-pop at Hammerstein on Friday to a sea of crowd-surfing mall-punks, shrieking girls, and more than a few nonplussed parents. |
 | | Sivers cheerfully blathered on about "test markets," comparing band promotion to Zima and Coors Lite, and encouraged "putting yourself in a niche." He did offer some practical publicity tips, but for the most part, this guy was just a total cheeseball. |
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