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Today is officially the first day of CMJ! Starting this afternoon and going strong through the weekend, every music club in the city is going to be jam packed with hours upon hours of the hottest up and coming bands from all over the world. Seeing that we'd expect your regular Gothamist reader won't be equipped with a $500 badge, we decided to highlight some of the standout free events this week. While you will still be able to get into nearly all the night showcases by paying at the door, many of these bands will be playing for free anyway while they're in town.

EVENT: It's the first Friday in April, which means one thing (to us at least): the Guggenheim! The Flavorpill curated event has Rjd2 and MC Beans bringing their style to the turntables tonight. Drink and dance the night away, but don't touch the art please.

Well, it’s Thursday again, which means that for many of us lower rungs on the corporate ladder it’s the dreaded Day Before Payday. Personally we spent the morning playing our favorite game “Paying the Man in the Coffee Box With Things We Found in Our Purse,” so we’ve been keeping our eyes peeled for any fun, and more importantly, free events. Our overly linguistic mother liked to stress that one should endeavor to live an inexpensive existence, but never a cheap one. So, we think she’d be happy to find out that we’ll likely be attending tonight’s “Where Fashion Meets Art” event at the Whitney Museum.

Yesterday the New York Underground Film Festival kicked off it's 12th year. So until next Tuesday you can catch some of this years indie gems at the Anthology Film Archives. The festival itself is self described as being "punk," developing and expanding without selling out. It also totally has spiked hair and piercings, we saw it. Anyway, you can view the full schedule is here.

For some of you this weekend marks the launch of fashion week, for others there's a big game on Sunday. Whether you're in couture or sweatpants we have some suggestions on what you can do over the next few days:

Today kicks off the New Yorker Festival and if you haven't snagged your tickets for some of the events yet, here's our list of last minute events we think are more than worthwhile...that still have seats left!

If you have been near Lincoln Center lately (specifically, since July 7th) you may have noticed some large Dr. Suess-esque sculpture art. This is part of the Public Art Funds first major U.S. survey of outdoor art. The sculptures themselves are by Franz West. His 7 recently commissioned sculptures (titled: Franz West: Recent Sculptures) coincides with