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Attending a weeklong music festival featuring more than 1,000 bands can be intimidating. Sometimes you\u2019re torn between going to see artists you\u2019re familiar with and the ones you have yet to discover. Going to a show of a band you\u2019ve seen before is a safe bet, but venturing out to see someone new is exciting and can be quite rewarding if you end up liking them. During my time of discovery during CMJ this year, I found three bands I fell in love with and I\u2019m sure will be heard from again.<\/p>\n

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MOTHXR<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s unwise to dismiss this band just because the lead singer is former Gossip Girl actor Penn Badgley. I showed up at their Marlin Room at Webster Hall show because of him, because I was intrigued to see if a band could be lead by a celeb. Turns out this one can. Badgley played it cool during the performance, but also seemed to play up his appeal to the ladies. Unsurprisingly, we all crowded around the microphone, where Badgley was crooning away to the group\u2019s slow-burn funk songs. Badgley spent most of the show swaying his hips to the beat, and his movements really embodied their sound, cool, collected, raw and funky. They\u2019ve only been playing together (and not even as an official band) for about a year, so I\u2019m sure there\u2019s much more to come.
\nSong to listen to: “Easy”
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Gossling<\/strong>
\nOK, I admit I had actually heard of Gossling before I went to see her. Last year, I had meant to see her at the Australia showcase at The Delancey, but got there too late. So I was determined to see her this year, and was not disappointed when I did at Glasslands. In the last year, she\u2019s put out an EP and a full-length album and honed her sound so that it’s become a solid, electro-pop that you can\u2019t help but to get into. There are few more fun things to listen to than Gossling\u2019s Aussie accent as she\u2019s crooning out in the new tracks.
\nSong to listen to: “Wild Love”
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Colony House<\/strong>
\nThis band I wasn\u2019t expecting to like. As the boys ascended the stage, I figured it would be just another indie-pop band, looking like they had just stepped out of a frat house in California. Their music definitely has that carefree Cali vibe, but it\u2019s so much more. It\u2019s a great indie rock, perfectly produced and catchy as hell. They\u2019re an incredibly fun, put-together high-energy band that gives you exactly what you want even though you didn\u2019t know you wanted it. They had the packed crowd at Glasslands jumping and singing and buying into them completely, and it wasn\u2019t difficult to see why.
\nSong to listen to: “Silhouettes”
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