<![CDATA[Idolator At CMJ, Day One: Botched Badges, Missing Bags, And The Taste Of Baby Aspirin - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Idolator At CMJ, Day One: Botched Badges, Missing Bags, And The Taste Of Baby Aspirin - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:25:59 EDT Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:25:59 EDT http://idolator.com/tunes/conference-crash/idolator-at-cmj-day-one-botched-badges-missing-bags-and-the-taste-of-baby-aspirin-311721.php <![CDATA[Idolator At CMJ, Day One: Botched Badges, Missing Bags, And The Taste Of Baby Aspirin]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/conference-crash/idolator-at-cmj-day-one-botched-badges-missing-bags-and-the-taste-of-baby-aspirin-311721.php#c2703194 @DavidWatts: You can be smart-assed about it, but this thing wasn't even built for them. I see hardly a mention of college radio in any of these articles, and yet it remains the conference's primary raison d'etre. College and non-commercial radio are important parts of the music industry right now and their continued influence is dangerously underacknowledged in favor of the blog world, whose influence is still up for debate.

Lucas Jensen

]]> 33:311721:c2703194 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:25:59 EDT <![CDATA[Idolator At CMJ, Day One: Botched Badges, Missing Bags, And The Taste Of Baby Aspirin]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/conference-crash/idolator-at-cmj-day-one-botched-badges-missing-bags-and-the-taste-of-baby-aspirin-311721.php#c2687381 Guy practically rupturing something singing along to "Blinded By The Light" while stuck in traffic in Long Island City, blissfully unaware CMJ was even going on.

hey, that was me on my way to work this morning. first with the original and then the manfred mann version (i love my satellite radio).

iantenna

]]> 33:311721:c2687381 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:45:22 EDT <![CDATA[Idolator At CMJ, Day One: Botched Badges, Missing Bags, And The Taste Of Baby Aspirin]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/conference-crash/idolator-at-cmj-day-one-botched-badges-missing-bags-and-the-taste-of-baby-aspirin-311721.php#c2686155 you guys are asking jess to NOT complain about something?? HA!

Weezy F Baby

]]> 33:311721:c2686155 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:40:27 EDT <![CDATA[Idolator At CMJ, Day One: Botched Badges, Missing Bags, And The Taste Of Baby Aspirin]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/conference-crash/idolator-at-cmj-day-one-botched-badges-missing-bags-and-the-taste-of-baby-aspirin-311721.php#c2686063 @Lucas Jensen: Yes, in what way are bloggers involved in the music business these days? Why, I don't even read them!

DavidWatts

]]> 33:311721:c2686063 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:35:34 EDT <![CDATA[Idolator At CMJ, Day One: Botched Badges, Missing Bags, And The Taste Of Baby Aspirin]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/conference-crash/idolator-at-cmj-day-one-botched-badges-missing-bags-and-the-taste-of-baby-aspirin-311721.php#c2685075 hotel room? don't you live here?

JobCain

]]> 33:311721:c2685075 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:38:51 EDT <![CDATA[Idolator At CMJ, Day One: Botched Badges, Missing Bags, And The Taste Of Baby Aspirin]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/conference-crash/idolator-at-cmj-day-one-botched-badges-missing-bags-and-the-taste-of-baby-aspirin-311721.php#c2685021 I gotta admit that all of this talk about bloggers obscures the fact that this is a college radio (and non-commercial radio) music conference. The bloggers have very little to do with it! Let's not pretend that they are the reason this thing even exists.

Lucas Jensen

]]> 33:311721:c2685021 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:35:01 EDT <![CDATA[Idolator At CMJ, Day One: Botched Badges, Missing Bags, And The Taste Of Baby Aspirin]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/conference-crash/idolator-at-cmj-day-one-botched-badges-missing-bags-and-the-taste-of-baby-aspirin-311721.php#c2684734 thanks a lot, now I have Blinded By the Light stuck in my head!

also, @WESTENDGIRL I agree. I don't care how shitty you think the festival is, I'm curious about the actual music. Otherwise, why bother going at all? save yourself the obvious grief those emo/hipster/indie mullets are causing you and stay home?

krazykarot

]]> 33:311721:c2684734 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:14:14 EDT <![CDATA[Idolator At CMJ, Day One: Botched Badges, Missing Bags, And The Taste Of Baby Aspirin]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/conference-crash/idolator-at-cmj-day-one-botched-badges-missing-bags-and-the-taste-of-baby-aspirin-311721.php#c2684567 i hate cmj. avoid it like the plague.

i find it much more enjoyable to have bloggers brave the crowds and do the dirty work, only to tell me who was worthy of the hype after the fact, at which point i can peruse all reviews and pick which bands i want to see when they play nyc again next month.

and almost all the 'buzz' bands have already been covered by euro-media and/or college radio, so if you're not an active A&R rep, what's the point?

k122n

]]> 33:311721:c2684567 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:59:15 EDT <![CDATA[Idolator At CMJ, Day One: Botched Badges, Missing Bags, And The Taste Of Baby Aspirin]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/conference-crash/idolator-at-cmj-day-one-botched-badges-missing-bags-and-the-taste-of-baby-aspirin-311721.php#c2684392 My God, would it kill anyone to put up some actual band reviews from CMJ to balance out this incessant whining about the "total experience"? Some of us stand in very long lines without fancy passes to see the bands because we want to see them play, not because we want to count the mullets.

westendgirl

]]> 33:311721:c2684392 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:46:27 EDT