Archive for Festivals
AURA Music Festival 2013: Papadosio, Conspirator, P-Groove and Heavy Pets to Headline
Big announcement came through yesterday in the festival world! The 4th Annual AURA Music Festival announced that they have changed dates to the third weekend in February 2013 and location of the happenings to The Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park! Their four headlining bands were released -- Papadosio, Conspirator,... more
A Closer Look at the 2012 Voodoo Experience Lineup
New Orleans' Voodoo Experience always has an off-the-wall lineup that you won't really find elsewhere and this year's edition is certainly no exception. Having Green Day, Skrillex, Jack White and Neil Young & Crazy Horse at the top says about all you need to know about this festival - but... more
Made in America Fest Announces Webcasts Via YouTube & Pandora
This weekend is the first and sure-to-be-annual Made in America Festival and YouTube and Pandora will both be broadcasting from the festival live. Check out the trailer for the webcast after the jump. The schedule has been released and it'll close on Saturday with Skrillex > Jay-Z. ... more
With Your Friends Fest: Skrillex, Pretty Lights, Santigold and more in Nashville
The two juggernauts of the EDM universe Pretty Lights and Skrillex, have put their noggins together to put together one of the most wonderfully absurd and compelling line-ups of the festival season (and easily the best promo poster, can't compete with that). The "With Your Friends Festival" is primed to... more
CMJ Music Marathon 2012 Announces Initial Lineup
CMJ Music Marathon announced its first round of artists for this year's event earlier today, and the festival will take over the Big Apple from October 16-20. CMJ 2012 includes a broad-spanning line-up, drawing on acts from a global spectrum and array of musical genres as always. Last year's breakout... more
This Weekend’s Outside Lands Festival Live on TuneIn
Good news for those who can't make it to San Francisco for the 5th Outside Lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park. We'll be able to tune in (literally, on TuneIn) to selected acts through out the three-day event. Check the broadcast lineup after the jump for your... more
Moogfest 2012 Lineup: Primus 3D, Orbital, Miike Snow, Santigold and more
The lineup for Moogfest has been announced! Headlining this year's lineup will be the recently announced Primus 3D tour and they'll be joined by Orbital, Miike Snow, Santigold and more as the top of the bill. Once again the festival returns to Asheville, NC the weekend before Halloween... more
LMB’s 2012 Outside Lands Festival Guide
Check out our 59-Song Outside Lands 2012 Playlist HERE If you are like us, you take one quick initial look at a festival schedule the day it comes out and immediately come down with a delusional case of Hungry Eyes, thinking you can lap up at least 22 hours of... more
Newport Jazz Festival to be Broadcast Online, includes Bill Frisell, Tedeschi Trucks Band
The people in Rhode Island have another treat on their hands this weekend in the Newport Jazz Festival. Included will be favorite, Bill Frisell performing from the songbook of John Lennon on Saturday Evening. A can't miss set. The best part about those who can't attend (like me)... more
NPR Presents Live Stream of the 2012 Newport Folk Festival All Weekend
Today began the 53rd edition of the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island. Our own Eric Tsurumoto broke down some of the acts you don't want to miss earlier in the week . Luckily some of those very acts will be part of NPR's Free stream of the... more
Lollapalooza 2012 Webcast Schedule Announced
Couch Tour alert! The webcast schedule for Lollapalooza has been released and will once again be broadcasting "live" (kinda) all weekend via the festival's YouTube channel. We'll get to see sets from Dr. Dog, tUnE-yArDs, The Shins, The Black Keys, Washed Out, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alabama Shakes,... more
FESTIVAL RECAP / PHOTOS: Camp Bisco 11
My close friend from Chicago, Ross, made it out to Camp Bisco 11 last week. He brought back some awesome photos to share with us and here's what he had to say about the fest... -Andrei Camp Bisco this year was a hell of a time, from the hard pounding dubstep... more
Outside Lands 2012 Daily Lineups Announced
The daily lineups for this year's Outside Lands Music Festival have been announced and I couldn't be more excited for this festival now. Sure, it's so stacked that invariably I will suffer some consequences of choosing between the major headliners who are put on opposite ends of the park,... more
S.S. Coachella announced! Pulp, Hot Chip, Girl Talk, Yeasayer and more
The rumors were indeed true; Goldenvoice announced that Coachella was getting in on the Jam Cruise / Holy Ship sorta idea and launching their own cruising festival. S.S. Coachella was made official earlier today in most major news sources, and the artwork and lineup details are now live over... more
Coachella: The Cruise to be announced today at 6pm PDT
Update: this was confirmed with the announcement today of S.S. Coachella! Yesterday the team at Goldenvoice updated the Coachella website and Facebook page with the graphic above... Carles had some ideas about what it could mean... Others claim that Coachella will add 15 weekends, and even a weekday weekend on Tues-Thurs sometime in... more
REALLY?! Gathering of the Juggalos gets George Clinton, Bobcat Goldthwait, Bizmarkie, Pharcyce and more
Not ever really in our wheel house, but it caught my attention nonetheless: the lineup for the annual Gathering of the Juggalos has been announced... Among the notable acts playing are George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic, Raekwon, The Game, Danny Brown, a reunion of The Geto Boys, Cheech and... more
SETLIST: My Morning Jacket @ Forecastle Festival 7/14/12
MMJ's Spontaneous Curation Series arrived stateside on Saturday night for a highly-anticipated set in front of a massive crowd in their hometown of Louisville, KY (and for those following along on the iClips web cast, myself included). The band closed down a soggy second day at this year's Forecastle Festival... more
Treasure Island Music Festival announces 2012 lineup
The lineup for the Treasure Island Music Festival was announced today. Set for the weekend of October 13-14th on the island smack dab in the middle of the bay between San Francisco and Oakland, Treasure Island will be hosting this year's sixth festival with Saturday headliners Girl Talk and... more
Moogfest 2012: Dates announced!
Save the date for this year's Moogfest! The image above basically says it all; the festival will return to Asheville, NC over the "Halloween" weekend of October 26-27, 2012 and will be "different" this year...somehow. We don't exactly know yet, but it seems that they're definitely going to... more
LMB LA: FYF Announces 2012 Lineup featuring M83, Refused, Yeasayer and More
The 2012 FYF Fest lineup was released earlier today and it is absolutely killer from top-to-bottom. So many personal favorites in here and FYF has done an admirable job of featuring big ticket indie acts wielding a reputation for great live performances like M83, Yeasayer (one of the best live... more
Hard Summer 2012: Lineup Announced
There is never a shortage of untz parties going down in the summer time in California, especially Los Angeles, and this year's Hard Summer is expanding to two days of untz and whomp in downtown LA at Historic Park to keep fulfilling that demand for the beats in the desert.... more
PREVIEW: High Sierra 2012 Artist Playshops
High Sierra is less than four weeks away and our groups' camp plans are slowly crystallizing, but until yesterday there was one large part of the puzzle that had not been put into place: the Artist Playshops schedule! For the last week I had been refreshing the High Sierra's website... more
Pitchfork Music Festival 2012 Schedule Posted
If you're heading to Pitchfork Music Festival this year, go ahead and start planning your attack if you're so inclined. The schedule was released late last week, and while it's bound to change up a little bit before we get to the weekend of July 13-15, 2012 in Union... more
Life is Good 2012 Festival Lineup Announced
The lineup for the annual Life is Good festival dropped today! Set on Prowse Farm in Canton, MA on the weekend of September 22-23, 2012, the annual fundraiser for their nonprofit arm helping kids overcome poverty is welcoming another year of top tier talent. Topping this year's lineup... more
Bonnaroo 2012 Webcast Schedule Posted
The webcast schedule for this year's Bonnaroo Music Festival has been announced and posted on YouTube. It's effing stacked, too. For those of us enjoying this year's festival from the comfort of our own Couch Tour parties, we're in for a treat with webcast sets planned for tUnE-yArDs,... more
EPIC PREVIEW: 10 Must See Artists @ Bonnaroo 2012
Check out Live Music Blog's 2012 Bonnaroo Playlist (5 HOURS!) It's that time of year when my heart starts to race during random intervals throughout the day and night, propelled by my childishly-expectant subconscious, the season when my adrenal glands swell up like pregnant dinosaurs in humming anticipation for one of... more
Summer Set Music Festival: Pretty Lights, Umphrey’s, Big Gigantic and more
Summer Set Music & Camping Festival was just announced and will be a welcome new addition to the summer music festivals we've seen over the past few years. Set for Somerset, Wisconsin the weekend of August 24-26, 2012, Pretty Lights, Umphrey's McGee, Big Gigantic, Nas and more will be... more
ACL Fest 2012 Lineup: RHCP, Neil Young, Black Keys, Jack White and more
The lineup for ACL Fest just dropped officially after a few days of leaking out a few of the artists all around Austin via scratch off clue cards. This year's fest will be headlined by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The Black Keys, Jack White,... more
HEADY LINKS: Ride Festival, Mint Green Music Festival, tUnE-yArDs on ACL and more
The Ride Festival was announced today for August 25-26, 2013 in Telluride. The lineup features Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Ben Harper (his only Colorado appearance this year), Los Lobos, JJ Grey & Mofro, The Lumineers North Mississippi Allstars, The Wood Brothers, James McCurtry, David Lindley, Nathaniel Rateliff,... more
Made in America Festival: Jay-Z, Pearl Jam, Passion Pit, D’Angelo, Skrillex and more
We just learned last week that Jay-Z was setting up to stage a music festival in Philadelphia over the Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day weekend, and all we knew was that we could expect the lineup today. But ahead of anything officially confirmed at madeinamericafest.com, Pearl Jam confirmed... more
Holy Ship!! 2013 Lineup: Justice, Major Lazer, Big Gigantic & more…
The lineup for the Holy Ship!! was just announced and will feature a Justice DJ set, Boys Noize, Major Lazer and Diplo and tons more great untz music for you to enjoy right after the turn of the new year. This is on the same boat (MSC Poesia) as... more
