(NEW YORK) - Nearly 1,000 bands, 7,000 registrants, 500 journalists, 50 panels and 11 films are scheduled for CMJ MusicFest '97, a four-day event focusing on alternative culture and the influence of music on the future. The festival runs Wednesday-Saturday in more than 60 Manhattan locales. |The confab, whose attendance and importance to the music industry grows with each passing year, will feature such up-and-comers -- and label priorities -- as Daft Punk, Sneaker Pimps, Aphex Twin, Super Chunk, Cornershop, Catherine Wheel, Mansun, Bettie Serveert, Geraldine Fibbers, Smoking Popes, G. Love & Special Sauce, Death in Vegas, the Crystal Method and many others. Organizers said the CMJ festival, approaching its 20th anniversary, has been able to not only sustain but propel its success even though the overall music industry has been in a nearly unprecedented, yet universally acknowledged, slump.
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