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By Sam Cleeve Bestival 2012 takes place 6th-9th September at Robin Hill Country Park, Isle of Wight ( website / tickets ). Lead photo (left) by Louise Roberts . Next month sees the eagerly awaited return of Rob Da Bank's annual shebang—the ninth instalment of his four-day festival, nestled away on the UK's favourite holiday-making annex, the Isle of Wight. Across the water, festival-goers will be privy to one of the summer's most thoughtful and eclectic line-ups. Exclusive live performances and an unparalleled selection of DJ sets [...]
Photo Credit: Andrew St. Clair 21 years after its inception, Lollapalooza is a festival that does most things right. For quite a while, it's been in a very convenient area and has an excellent line-up, even compared with competing fests such as Bonnaroo, Coachella, and Outside Lands. When done right, a great festival includes bands for everyone, and Lollapalooza does this to near perfection. Among the headliners: Jack White and Red Hot Chili Peppers , Justice , Kaskade , Bassnecter and Santigold [...]
Sunday, August 5 was a steady continuation of the current drought in the Midwest. The sun was high in a bleakly open sky. The park was sun-dried, putrefying the baseball fields and grass into a off-putting mud that rivaled Bonnaroo . And the night was set for the biggest acts of the entire weekend; Jack White and Justice . But more so than anything else on my mind was the imminent end of not only my weekend, but possibly my tenure at Lollapalooza . If it would be the final day - the truly final [...]
For Saturday's recap and photos, click here . For Friday's recap and photos, click here . In contrast to Saturday's torrential downpours, emergency weather evacuation, and general air of hecticness, Sunday floated by, with cooler temperatures and even occasional breeziness, to ease out of three long festival days. Read More...
Stereogum For Saturday's recap and photos, click here . For Friday's recap and photos, click here . Sunday's recap below... In contrast to Saturday's torrential downpours, emergency weather evacuation, and general air of hecticness, Sunday floated by, with cooler temperatures and even occasional breeziness, to ease out of three long festival days. 1:30 p.m. @ The Sony Stage: Poliça Swaying in the sun to Poliça's dreamy experimental pop was a [...]
For the eighth time in a row, Lollapalooza returned to Chicago's Grant Park. While the festival has received its share of rain over the years (e.g. Billy Idol's mesmerizing sun shower set in 2005, The Gaslight Anthem's downpour debut in 2009, Best Coast's muddy power hour in 2011, to name a few), the grounds have never had to shut down . Yet with recent catastrophes at festivals worldwide, management took no chances and they made the right choice. Only three hours were ultimately lost and in those three hours something wild happened - there was a sense [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Frank Yang Day one of the Osheaga Festival in Montreal kicked off yesterday with two Icelandic highlights, a nostalgic blast from the past and one redheaded festival goddess named Florence Welch . As the sun began to set rapidly at Parc Jean-Drapeau, Icelandic ambient rockers Sigur Ros took the stage armed with a set of hits as cinematic as the darkening sky itself. [...]
The countdown is on! Only two more days until I board a smelly bus at six in the morning in my attempt to get to Jean Drapeau Park in time to see The Walkmen . High hopes this one has. As the excitement for the festival builds, here is a playlist and preview of what thousands upon thousands of happy ears will be feasting upon. This post will be broken up in three, as the festival has now expanded to three days now. If you are reading this and wondering what the hell "Osheaga" is, well here's [...]
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." -Willy Wonka Aesop Rock – “ZZZ Top” Aesop Rock and one kick ass Asian woman play baseball with some throwing knives in this clip. Eat your heart out Quentin Tarantino. Charli XCX – “You’re the One” Goth-pop goddess Charli XCX enlists the help of an army of tiny lookalikes in her latest video. Let's all hope this isn't part of some weird gothic spinoff of Toddlers & Tiaras . Cultfever [...]
With three-day passes selling out yesterday, Lollapalooza released their "which artists on which day" rough schedule. The announcement (click photo for larger image) came with the release of single-day passes, which are available now for $95. Conflicts are inevitable (in life as well, but, forget about that), and it seems that Sunday presents the biggest challenge. Jack White , Florence+The Machine , At the Drive-In , Justice , and Sigur Ros are scheduled to play as the day's largest acts, so decisions are likely going to be made, [...]
So, the day's really here. And after the previous months/weeks of speculation, the biggest story of Lollapalooza 2012 ended up being that the lineup leaked from Sunday WAS 100% ACCURATE. It's the first time in recent memory that a complete leak like this has happened with a major U.S. music festival, so everything we heard tonight wasn't a surprise. As you know, Black Sabbath , with all original members, Red Hot Chili Peppers , The Black Keys , Jack White , Florence + The Machine , At The Drive-In , [...]
It's finally arrived. The line up for Lollapalooza, one of the biggest music festivals in the U.S., has been revealed and it's quite good. The Chicago Sun-Times has reported that the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Keys and Black Sabbath will headline this year's festival. This will also be the only U.S. appearance for Sabbath this year. Additionally, Jack White, Justice and Avicii will also serve as headliners this year. Also appearing at Lolla will be At the Drive-In, Sigur Rós, Florence and the [...]
The Osheaga Music and Arts Festival returns to Montreal's Parc Jean-Drapeau from August 3-5th. The Black Keys, Snoop Dogg, Sigur Rós, and Justice top this year's bill, and they'll be joined by MGMT, Florence and the Machine, The Weeknd, Bloc Party, M83, Franz Ferdinand, Metric, and Garbage. Also playing are Passion Pit, Yeasayer, City and Colour, Brand New, Young the Giant, Portugal. the Man, The Walkmen, ASAP Rocky, Zola Jesus, Atlas Sound, Amadou & Mariam, Black Lips, Little Dragon, Calexico, The Black Angels, Gary Clark Jr., The Ravonettes, Of Monsters and Men, Kathleen Edwards, Austra, Tame Impala, The [...]
Robin Silas Throwback-style pop is nothing new - sounding old is really kind of the point - but there's something special in the way English quartet Veronica Falls goes about it. It's like they've got a foot in 19702s New York, with no small amount of Velvet Underground goodness in the mix as well as echoes of their followers and the other in swinging 19602s London with the irresistible catchiness of the British invasion. Taken together and you've got a brew that's buoyant, yet somehow sinister and wholly memorable. Their set was [...]
Where the hell did this last week go?! Another Monday? fuckkkk! Coming off a great weekend in the Mountains; Gaper day in Breckenridge on Friday, 55 and sunny in Keystone on Saturday, coming back to Denver where it was 80. But wait, because it's Denver, obviously it snowed yesterday, and is 25 right now. Totally makes [...]
One place I certainly wouldn't have minded being this weekend was the Coachella Festival in Los Angeles. The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is a three-day annual music and arts festival, featuring many genres of music, held at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California, in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley. Like our Oxegen or Electric Picnic festivals, the event has several stages and tents set up throughout the grounds, each playing live music continuously throughout the three days. The festival first took place in 1999 and acts that have graced the stages since [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , UK With spring firmly in the air, it's with an incredible sense of timing that the headliners of this year's series of open air concerts in the truly breathtaking environs of London's Somerset House have been announced -- and this year the accent is very much on the capital and the music that it has to offer. Florence and the Machine , Mystery Jets , Noah and the Whale , N-Dubz and the [...]
Frank Yang If Alan Sparhawk is looking to avoid Neil Young comparisons with his Retribution Gospel Choir work, you wouldn't know it. Taking the stage at the Drake Underground on Monday night, the Low frontman was almost a tribute to Shakey boasting an impressive pair of muttonchop sideburns complimenting his black, P90-equipped, Bigsby-ed Les Paul. Okay, you'd probably never catch Neil dressed as classically dapper as Sparhawk and his bandmates, but sartorial concerns aside, you don't have to look to hard for at least one source of inspiration. [...]
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Mei Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven ~ What is the essence of adept or good music? Is it the mere ability to catch people's attention or has it had to do with the virtuoso style of creating the songs which somehow makes it unique from other pieces? +/- I couldn't answer that. In some ways, music has its own relativity. [...]
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