CMJ Music Marathon is proud to announce its first round of artists for this year’s event, held October 16-20 in New York City. The 2012 festival features the most wide-reaching line-up of the event to date, further cementing CMJ’s commitment to exposing the world’s best new talent to an expectant audience.

Highlights include:
The Presets
The Walkmen
The Mountain Goats
Kimbra
GZA
OFF!
King Tuff
Killer Mike
Com Truise
DIIV
Pig Destroyer
The Jezabels
Electric Guest
Poolside
Daughn Gibson
Robert DeLong
Icona Pop
Emma Louise
Mac DeMarco
Prince Rama
Young Magic
The Stepkids
MS MR
Sundress
The Soul Rebels
Twerps

While dozens of others have just been announced, the initial artist line-up is just a taste of what’s to come, with thousands more bands, panels and events to be announced in the lead-up to the festival. To purchase a CMJ Music Marathon badge please head here.

Click here for the initial artist line-up.