Start resting up now, as this year’s CMJ Music Marathon is going to be here before you know it. Zillions of college radio kids roaming the Big Apple, lots and lots of indie rock, all colliding in a week of insanity and sleep deprivation. The Music Marathon is taking place from October 16 to 20, and they’ve just announced their initial list on confirmed performers. Check it:

Spoon
UNKLE
Justice
British Sea Power
Mates Of State
Coheed And Cambria
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Xiu Xiu
Dirtbombs
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
Mute Math
Jesu
Devin The Dude
The Ponys
Islands
Tiny Masters Of Today
Eisley
Vietnam
Little Brother
Mickey Hart & Zakr Hussein
Brother Ali
Marnie Stern
No Age
Crystal Castles
MSTRKRFT
Chromeo
The Brunettes
1990s
Ruins
A-Trak
Foreign Islands
Kavinsky
Simian Mobile Disco

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