CMJ
CMJ Holdings Corp. is a music events, online media company and a distributor of up and coming music CDs, originally founded in 1978, which ran a website, hosted an annual festival in New York City, and published two magazines, CMJ New Music Monthly and CMJ New Music Report. The company folded around 2017, but was bought by Amazing Radio in 2019 who announced plans to bring back the CMJ Music Marathon in New York, along with other new live and live-streamed offerings. The letters CMJ originally stood for College Media Journal but was also often considered short for College Music Journal.
For other uses, see CMJ (disambiguation).Genre
CMJ New Music Report[edit]
CMJ New Music Report published top-30 lists sent to them by radio stations, which subscribed at a cost of a few hundred dollars a year. The magazine moved to an online only format and was released weekly as a digital PDF magazine until it folded in 2017.[9]
On January 5, 2004, CMJ New Music Report published a 25th anniversary double issue[10] led by an editorial staff that included editor-in-chief Kevin Kerry Boyce, and managing editors Louis Miller and Doug Levy. The issue featured The White Stripes on the cover in a photograph captured by art director Drew Goren; the magazine named the band's 2003 release, Elephant, its Album of the Year.
Many musicians from the New York City indie rock community have worked on staff at CMJ over the years, including members of acts such as Parts and Labor, Poingly, Worriers, and The Airborne Toxic Event.
CMJ Music Marathon[edit]
From 1980 through 2015, staff organized the CMJ Music Marathon, a convention and music festival, each autumn, in New York. A second festival, the CMJ Rock Hall Music Fest, took place in Cleveland in 2005 and 2006; in April 2007, organizers canceled the event, citing strains on financial and staffing resources.[11]
CMJ Music Marathon organized the New Music Awards.[12]
CMJ New Music Monthly[edit]
CMJ New Music Monthly was a monthly music magazine with interviews, reviews, and special features published from 1993[13] to 2009. Each issue included a compact disc with 15 to 24 songs by well established bands, unsigned bands, and everything in between. As of issue 156 (1112 using the CMJ New Music Report numbering), dated June 20, 2009, the magazine ceased operation, and subscribers had their remaining issues replaced by the CMJ New Music Report with a music compilation available online. By April 2010, it stopped delivering CMJ New Music Report to its subscribers.