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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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The New York Times asks readers to review CMJ rock concerts on Twitter
The Cutline/Yahoo.com – DYLAN STABLEFORD
The CMJ Music Marathon, an annual festival of mostly unknown indie rock bands, kicks off on Tuesday in New York. More than 1,300 acts are scheduled to perform at this year’s fest, which takes place at dozens of venues across the city for the next five days.
The New York Times is crowdsourcing some of its coverage of CMJ, inviting readers to review select shows on Twitter while using a #mycmjreview hashtag. The paper plans to publish some of them on its ArtsBeat blog.
Jon Caramanica, the Times pop music critic, posted his coverage plan and today’s crowd assignment:
Before and after Wild Flag, I’ll attempt to see Psychobuildings at the Delancey and Hunters at Cake Shop, both shows within spitting distance of the Bowery, and then I’ll be heading over the Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn for Friends at 285 Kent (hopefully) and Light Asylum at Public Assembly.
But that’s just me, one man taxed to his limits. I can use some help: you should also rush to see Cerebral Ballzy at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Radical Dads at Rock Shop in Williamsburg; Titus Andronicus at the Stereogum party at Glasslands, also in Williamsburg; and the blues revivalist Gary Clark Jr. at the Highline Ballroom on West 16th Street in Chelsea.
After the shows–or during–send your 140-character reviews via Twitter with #mycmjreview. If you’re at one of the shows I’m at, also send your impressions and we’ll see where we agree or disagree. Thanks for the assist.
For the Times–whose leaders have been critical of the kind of unpaid journalism and aggregation practiced by the Huffington Post and others–the CMJ initiative is a step away from its commitment to traditional reporting and criticism, and perhaps a small glimpse of its future.
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