Published at 1:01 PM on October 6, 2009

By Justin Jacobs

CMJ Announces Full 2009 Festival Lineup

While the names of some music festivals are just plain gibberish (Bonnaroo? Bumbershoot? What?), none are as straightforward as CMJ. The College Music Journal Music Marathon and Film Festival is exactly that—an epic, five-day marathon stretch of more than 1,200 different artists invading more than 75 different New York City venues. We get exhausted just thinking about it.

CMJ 2009, which will fill New York with jams from Oct. 20-24, will feature an overwhelming melange of artists in every genre, mixing up-and-coming acts like Local Natives, The Antlers, Suckers and Deer Tick with more established names like Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and Superdrag.

And now for some statistics for showing off to friends: this year's lineup includes 11 bands with 'love' in their names, five bands with 'blood' and 209 'the' bands, as well as possibly the coolest band name ever, The Dang-It Bobby's.

Below, we've listed enough acts to keep you salivating for CMJ—by no means a complete list. For that behemoth, go here.

Alec Ounsworth
Ambulance LTD
Annie And the Beekeepers
The Antlers
Arizona
Atlas Sound
Au Revoir Simone
Awesome New Republic
Broadcast
Care Bears on Fire
Chuck Mosley
Crystal Antlers
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Deer Tick
Dent May
Dutchess and the Duke
EOTO
Evan Dando
Fanfarlo
Free Energy
French Horn Rebellion
Good Night, States
Heavy Trash
Hercules and Love Affair (Live)
Hockey
Holopaw
Hopewell
James Murphy
Japandroids
Japanther
Laura Marling
Local Natives
The Love Language
The Lovely Feathers
Malajube
Meeting of Important People
Middle Distance Runner
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
Modern Skirts
Motel Motel
Múm
Obits
DJ Odd Nosdam
Old Canes
Orenda Fink
Owen
Phil & The Osophers
Pissed Jeans
Pitbull
Pomegranates
Portugal. The Man
Priestess
Rain Machine
Real Estate
Saul Williams
School of Seven Bells
Screaming Females
Secret Broadcast
Shaky Hands
Shout Out Out Out Out
Skyzoo
Smith Westerns
So Many Dynamos
Speech Debelle
The Spinto Band
The States
Styles P & DJ Green Lantern
Suckers
Superdrag
Ted Leo
These United States
Twin Atlantic
UUVVWWZ
The Very Best
The xx
YACHT
Youth Group
Zac Brown Band

Related links:
News: CMJ 2009 Initial Lineup Announced
Festivus: CMJ 2008: Day One
News: Were Artist Submissions Ignored at CMJ 2007?

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