Welcome to episode 11 (video) of the Zune Insider Podcast co-hosted by Cesar Menendez and Rob Greenlee . This video episode was recorded in New York City at the CMJ Music Marathon event held from Oct 22-24, 2008, sponsored by XBox, Zune and Doritos. Topics covered this week include: Video from the CMJ music event ( CMJ.com ) at NYU, The Fader "The Fort" party space , we also visit 30 Rock , Zune meet-up party , we speak with Zune Insider podcast viewers, attend the Zune Bowery Ballroom...

This year, Zune is a title sponsor at CMJ - and for us, it's all about music discovery. So what does that mean? It means we're presenting music showcases with some top artists, working with some top music blogs to get awesome coverage, and putting together some amazing playlists that celebrate the best music to come out of CMJ. Over its 20 year history, CMJ has been instrumental in launching the careers of bands like Arcade Fire, The Hold Steady, Mars Volta, Modest Mouse, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs...

Greetings from NYC! I'm here for the Latin Alternative Music Conference - LAMC . Zune is proud to sponsor LAMC, the only major conference geared toward Spanish-language alternative music, now in its ninth year. To get ready for LAMC, the Zune Marketplace team has created a custom LAMC page that features a playlist with music from some of this year’s hottest performers, Breakdowns and Guestlists from LAMC talent past and present, music videos and even a build-your-collection master playlist with 88...

Greetings from New York City! Yesterday we had about 60 people at Gemma, a restaurant in the Bowery Hotel . Amidst all the CMJ goings-on , we had Zuneinsider readers and some local bloggers come through and check out the new Zune lineup. And now, meet some NYC Zuneinsider readers who came out to the event: (in the picture from left to right: Otherguy, Whatshisface, SoandSo, Thatguy, and WhosHe. jkjk, I know their names!) Drea from GenerationZune has a great writeup, and so do some folks from Zunerama...