Wednesday night’s primo CMJ Music Marathon gig is taking place at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, the Panache Booking Showcase with Reigning Sound, White Fence, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Shonen Knife, Guy Blakeslee, Ice Balloons, and Ultimate Painting, beginning at 7:30 ($15). This year’s thirty-fourth annual festival features more than thirteen hundred performers at more than eighty venues October 21-25; below are some more recommendations for the second day.
The Color of Noise (Eric Robel, 2014), followed by a Q&A with Robel and Amphetamine Reptile Records founder Tom Hazelmyer, NYU Kimmel Center, Room 802 Shorin, 2:00
Radical Dads, Piano’s upstairs, 7:00
Lia Mice, Santos Party House, 8:10, and Piano’s upstairs, 10:45
Poor Young Things, Hotel Chantelle, 9:00
Archie Powell & the Exports, Bar Matchless, 10:25
Line & Circle, the Studio @ Webster Hall, 10:45
Gringo Star, Niagara, 11:00
Dead Leaf Echo, Palisades, 1:00 am