The annual CMJ (College Music Journal) Music Festival was held last week, which meant I got to go see an unlimited amount of bands on my radio station's dime.

Since school and I aren't friends right now, I wasn't going to go until Friday night, but I looked at the set list for Thursday and JANELLE MONAE and CHESTER FRENCH were playing at the Bowery Ballroom...aka F*CK responsibilities.

Since I'm cool, I got to hang out with all of them after the show...but we'll talk about that another day. The moral of this post is the band I "accidentally" saw before Janelle went on.


Company of Thieves is one of those rare CMJ Festival finds that I'm sure is going to blow up very soon. They put on a crazy live show, and even though I never heard of them, I was instantly hooked.

This is one of the songs they performed Thursday night that made me actually buy their CD.

Company of Thieves - Under the Umbrella


 Shout out to the lead singer Genevieve for giving me a discount! lol