This Year's Winners at CMJ Are??????

Passion Pit (photo by Elizabeth Weinberg)

In my informal very unscientific poll of non-industry music fans, bloggers, industry cynics, music industry folks who I trust and journalists whose work I respect here are some of the bands who performed at CMJ last week who all scored high on the buzz meter.

Passion Pit
Emmy The Great
Eugene Francis Jnr
Philly's marvelously fun Drink Up Buttercup
The Muslims
School of Seven Bells
Chairlift Evident Utensil - Chairlift
Janelle Monae
Women Black Rice - Women
The Antlers Cold War - The Antlers
Marnie Stern Transformer - Marnie Stern

I'm especially diggin' the Cambridge based five piece Passion Pit whose Human League-esque indierocksoul is already drawing comparisons to Cold War Kids and Death Cab.

Sleepyhead - Passion Pit

What did you see that completely rocked your guitar strings?