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Misquoted : w/ Dead Confederate I got the chance to interview a few members of Dead Confederate the day before their set. They joked around, also talking about mistakes they've learned from, Lil' Wayne, and insights into what the next album may be like. It started with a compliment: Brantley Senn (bass, vocals): Nice shirt (he's commenting on my Blonde Redhead shirt) LHJE: Hey thank you. I actually got this at the festival you guys [...]

Young Coyotes Guitar player and singer Zach Tipton has a new little side project what what by the name of I am the Dot . Pretty good stuff I have to say. Check that soon to be out on iTunes wickedness HERE . I'll have more interviews written up tomorrow. But only after I help make a mixtape for a wedding this weekend. Boss-a-moss.

Misquoted : w/ Big Head Todd and the Monsters (again, I'll mention that I asked each group roughly the same questions so I could get their opinions on a few things that I'm curious about when it comes to any artist, but especially when it comes to artists who make art I'm unfamiliar with) You guys have been around a little while, and I would imagine you would have a little more input on this that most the bands here today: Have you noticed any [...]

Misquoted : w/ Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam (Admittedly, the Mile High Music Festival had a lot of bands on the bill that I was fairly unfamiliar with. I was also unfamiliar with their styles of music, and really what their for of art was all about, so I asked a bunch of questions that got to the root of my curiosity towards their musical style. I asked basically the same questions to all the bands [...]

Looking at my current schedule, I'll probably be down typing up all the interviews I did at Mile High by tomorrow. I'll have the first couple posted today. This is the drummer for the band I saw last night at Titwrench Fest, which I'll also try to find time to talk about in the coming days. He played with this wonderful saxophone player quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="450" height="345" name="mp3player" align="" type="application/x-shockwave- flash" pluginspage=" http://www.macromedia.com/go/g etflashplayer">

I don't have any time this weekend to enjoy any of the Awesomeness that is the UMS or Titwrenchfest :( Well, I suppose I will tomorrow, so that's good :) Look at the madness that is occurring: (Boba Fett and the Americans) interviews form MHFM posted monday

Also tonight: Aristocrunk artists Lord T & Eloise perform down at True Blue at 10PM. Get rich dirty

Starting Tomorrow: Continuing tomorrow:

Phew! So many posts written. Aaaanyway , that's the end of my and reviews for the Mile High Music Festival. After Pepper it was getting to stormy and the show at Rhinoceropolis with Andrew Jackson Jihad was more enticing than the clouds that were forming in the air, which is a shame because I would have liked to see a little bit of Widespread Panic, if only to have seen them once. So now I'm going to take a break, and either later today or tomorrow start posting the interviews [...]

I received Pepper 's latest album a few scant months ago and even reviewed it. I enjoyed it more than I've enjoyed any other care free ska album, but I wasn't completely taken in by the genre, so I couldn't fully appreciate it. I got a chance to interview the band, and I instantly realized that these guy's music is nice and happy and carefree for a reason: that's just how they are. They're fun, awesome guys. Their stage was surrounded with ska kids, all excited for the coming performance. [...]

I, to this day, do not recall how I stumbled upon this band so many years ago when the internet was still a budding resource for music, but some how an obscure song by Gov't Mule ended up on my computer. That song, Soul Shine, is still one of my favorites. I didn't expect them to play it when I saw them, and I also didn't expect to like them very much live, because they are, at their core, a Jam Band, which is something I just can't stand for. I [...]

I've heard only a few things by Matisyahu , but one can't escape his reputation throughout the music world as an innovator and, simply, as a fantastic performer. From what I'd heard of him, I was expecting him to perform, essentially, a simple hip-hop set. When I got to his tent after Thievery Corporation finished up, I was taken aback, at first wondering if I had gone to the correct tent. There was a sort of Post-Rock sound coming from the Westword tent where M was headlining, and instead of rapping there [...]

I quickly realized that Thievery Corporation was not as popular with the people at festival as I had imagined, despite their absolute legendary status among anyone I've ever talk to about them. I say this because I easily made my way up to the railing (while I had press, I didn't have photo pass [forgot, so sue me]), and no one made any sort of fuss. There was one die hard fan mentioning the songs he wanted TC to play, but really that was the only person talking about TC. I almost began to wonder [...]

last posts on Mile High to start up around 2. Then the interviews. then back to regularly scheduled programming U2 - I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight from David OReilly on Vimeo . 88 LINES ABOUT 44 WOMEN from MARC CAMPBELL on Vimeo .

I did not see the beginning or end of 3oh!3 ' s set, as most of my time was spent over at Thievery Corporation's stage watching the gods descend. Luckily I was able to convince the people right up front where I'd snagged a spot for the beginning of TC's set to save my spot so I could sneak away and see a bit of 3oh!3. I've been following our area code boys for about 2 years now when I saw them open for Mr. Pacman over at the Hi-Dive when 3oh!3 only [...]

I saw Devotchka last year at Monolith for the first time, despite having heard more about them than I thought I'd be able to handle (living in the state that band is from after they scored Little Miss Sunshine = you hear about them all the time). I was happy for a second chance to see them, now without the pressure of headlining a festival. Now monumentally scaled down from the performers who appeared one cold night last September, 3 of the 4 performers gain the stage and instantly started having sound problems :/ . The vocal [...]

I had been hearing all day long about Buddy Guy . The day before, people were wearing Tool T-shirts. Sunday, people were wearing Buddy Guy T-shirts. His name was a buzz all over the field and a bit in the media tent, so I was pretty interested in getting over to see what all the hubbub was about. Again, I had built myself up far too much, because Buddy Guy was simply another blues jam band kind of act. Yes, his guitar skills were probably unmatched, but since every musician there was probably more [...]

I only stuck around for a little bit of John Butler 's set as it wasn't much of my kind of music. He had this DMB, John Mayer style swing to him that didn't sit well with me, but certainly had a lot of people at the festival on their feet swaying and singing along. The drummer dutifully beat out some undercover complicated rhythms while John played slide guitar and sang with pop over and under tones about love and life and everything in between. I'm glad to have seen so many people supporting what these [...]

Gogol Bordello is another act like Tool in that their act is fairly notorious, but not so much as Tool's is. Anyone who knows about Gogol knows about their epic shows, regardless of whether or not they've been. I'd heard stories of 5 hour shows, a variable circus on stage, and a multitude of other various wickedness in relation to their live show. Well it was this and more, save for the 5 hours (because festivals have caps on that sort of thing if you're not the headliner). It was Gypsy Punk at it's [...]

I was initially turned onto Guster by my friend Laura. I went on a bit of a Guster kick there for a summer, and, since then, have actually rarely listened to them. I went back and listened to them again before I saw them and remembered why I was addicted for minute or two: they're just simple, fun, garagey college rock that is pretty hard to hate. My biggest problem with them was that, after a while, I found myself not really able to fully attach to the song because they weren't heavy enough or [...]