Archive for Festivals
Jam Cruise 10: Let the countdown begin!
The final additions and tweaks have been made to the JamCruise schedule, which means we're getting into the home stretch. Jamuary is right around the corner! One of the best things about the cruise is the interaction with the musicians on the boat, and getting to chill with them in close... more
Jam Cruise for UNTZ: Holy Ship! 2012
Woah, sorry for the silence around here, folks. Life has been wonderfully busy in my world, and I've had no time to digest all the awesome year-end stuff that's coming out now. But more important to me looking back on 2011, I need to get on previewing the... more
Sasquatch 2012: Tickets on sale this Friday
Make your Black Friday shopping legit this year by buying in on tickets for Sasquatch Music Festival's return to the Gorge on Memorial Day weekend next year. Given how fast the festival sold out last year, you should not wait on this one at all if you suspect you've... more
SnowGlobe: Full Lineup (Big Gigantic, Fishbone, SBTRKT & more)
UPDATE (9/18/11): Check out the 2012 lineup here... The lineup for this year's SnowGlobe Music Festival has been announced! As we wrote about earlier this week, the bands that have been added on this lineup reflect a bunch of the teasing the promoters did to entice people to buy tickets to... more
SnowGlobe Festival Lineup? Fishbone, Eliot Lipp, Big Gigantic & more…
The organizers over at SnowGlobe Music Festival have started "leaking" out the names of the other bands fit for the bill. While they say it's not official yet, this post on Twitter implies that they're clearly not really concerned with making it obvious or not. They tweeted out... more
Jam Cruise 10: Schedule Posted
The onboard programming schedule for Jam Cruise was just posted. Dirty Dozen kicks off the kick-off party and it's basically music nonstop from there on out. Our very good buddy @PeteLikesMusic will be on the boat with the usual players and suspects (like Scotty B. from Hidden Track)... We'll be following... more
FAIL: Danzig debacle @ Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011
I guess Danzig is a bit of a primadonna. His set on Friday at Fun Fun Fun Fest was a pretty big deal and he was all set to headline the Auditorium Shores stage that was ready, approved and waiting for him to rock it. That's not at... more
WEBCAST: Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011 via Pitchfork
Pitchfork will be webcasting Fun Fun Fun Fest live from Austin, Texas this weekend (the first time that the festival will be livestreamed). With only a few exceptions for specific sets, they'll be streaming live from all four stages which are broken up by genre: indie rock, punk/metal, hip-hop/dance, and... more
SnowGlobe Festival: NYE 2012 in Tahoe
Sometime today the official headliner announcement is going to come down from the team at SnowGlobe Music Festival, a New Year's Eve three-day music festival celebration in South Lake Tahoe, CA that just jumped on my radar. I am all over this festival, though, so I was quick to... more
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ODD FUTURE ‘slaps a bitch’ at Voodoo Experience [updated]
This weekend was full of Halloween revelry at the annual Voodoo Experience festival down in New Orleans, which I can't wait to hear more about once our very own LMB NOLA crew gets their act together and gets some posts published from the weekend. I did get a few... more
MARK IT: Wakarusa 2012 dates announced
Save the date: Wakarusa 2012 has been set for May 31st-June 3rd. As it has for many years recently, the festival will return to Mulberry Mountain in the Ozarks for a weekend of major festival attitude in a smaller festival package.
Bear Creek 2011 Schedule Posted
I am very excited to be making my first trek down to Live Oak Florida in less than 3 weeks for the Bear Creek Music Festival, and the anticipation has only increased now that the schedule dropped last week. It's my first time ever flying to a festival, so it'll... more
Bridge School Benefit Webcast Today on YouTube, Facebook
In case you missed the news, today is the first day of the Bridge School Benefit Concert down in Mountain View and the entirety of tonight's performance will be webcast online via YouTube and Facebook. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SupportBridgeSchool YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/bridgebenefitconcert For the first-time ever, The Bridge School Concert will be webcast... more
Electric Forest Announces 2012 Dates
(2/1/12 update: 2012 Electric Forest Festival Initial Lineup Announced) The dates for Electric Forest 2012 have been finalized and announced; the festival formerly known as Rothbury will return to the same spot in Rothbury, MI on the weekend of June 28th through July 1st. And the promoters put up a... more
Jam Cruise Sold Out; Schedule Teases Abound!
Yesterday, a critical graphic on the Jam Cruise homepage changed with little fanfare, but this morning the official email went out: the tenth sailing of this musical sea odyssey is now sold out. There is a waitlist for parties that are still interested, but most people that were still on... more
Sea of Dreams NYE 2012 Lineup: Santigold, Amon Tobin, Beats Antique & more…
Just like Phish, Furthur and Pretty Lights before them, NYE plans have already been announced and finalized for a big set of artists bringing their big names to this year's Sea of Dreams NYE here in San Francisco. Topping this year's lineup is Santigold, who is releasing a new... more
Pitchfork Expands Festival Plans to New York City with Forms
It looks like Pitchfork is continuing to expand their festival business. After recently rolling out the Pitchfork Music Festival's European counterpart in Paris, they've just announced plans for a "full-on four-day multi-media festival" in New York City. The festival is called Forms and is scheduled for February 1-4, 2012. According to... more
Warren Haynes X-Mas Jam Lineup Announced
I caught this late yesterday but just not getting around to posting the news update from the 23rd Annual Warren Haynes Christmas Jam. The lineup hit the wires yesterday with Phil & Friends, Gov't Mule, Los Lobos and Bela Fleck all sitting at the top with plenty more yet... more
Moogfest 2011 schedule posted
Moogfest has posted their set times for this year's festival. In case you missed it, we've put together an awesome preview of what you need to see there if you can make it. Turns out we're not sure we'll be able to cover, so if you know you're... more
Snowball Music Festival 2012 Dates Announced
Snowball Music Festival just announced it will be held March 2-4 2012 in Avon, Colorado. Last year's fest featured The Flaming Lips, Edward Sharpe, Bassnectar, and Pretty Lights (just to name a few)... Following the huge success of their inaugural event earlier this year, the organizers of the SnowBall Music Festival... more
Bear Creek 2011 Update: Schedule Posted, Pre-Parties, Costume Theme Nights
The Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival held this November 10 - 13, 2011 at Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL has just released the daily performance schedule as well as additional details about pre-parties, costume theme nights, ticket prices and more. The festival lineup includes Trey Anastasio Band... more
VIDEOS @LMBNOLA: Voodoo Highlight Reel (RHCP, NIN, RATM, BTE, KISS, MGMT & more)
As we await the release of this year’s Voodoo Experience daily grids, here’s a look back at several video highlights from the last eight years of the fest (including a clip from 2005′s Memphis Voodoo Experience). Hopefully it’ll be a nice walk down memory lane to help you get ready... more
Moogfest 2011: Terry Riley added to Lineup
Moogfest has added Terry Riley to this year's lineup, a pioneer in electronic keyboard music and someone innovating way out ahead of folks like Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno and Pink Floyd. Woah, really? One of the most monumental and influential musical figures of the past century – the composer and... more
NEWS: CMJ 2011 Announces Full Lineup
The entire 2011 CMJ Music Marathon lineup has been posted. CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival is proud to announce that its latest slate of performing acts and artists is its boldest, most exhaustive yet. Coming in at just under 900 bands, this third round maintains the same adventurous... more
Forecastle 2012: Dates Announced
The Forecastle Festival will be returning to Louisville's Waterfront Park on July 13-15, 2012; the announcement was dropped today confirming that the festival was locked and loaded and ready to go. We'll have the lineup posted once it comes our way. Read on for the official announcement from the promoters... Dear... more
Moogfest 2011: Daily Schedule Announced
You been paying attention Moogfest this year? We're digging on their lineup and the daily schedule has been announced already. In addition to the top-tier lineup covered in untz and whomp, this year will feature the festival along with an expansion to a number of new venues in... more
PREVIEW: Music Midtown Makes a Triumphant Return to Atlanta Live Music Scene
Being a recent transplant to Atlanta, Music Midtown is a festival I’ve heard a lot about but never had the pleasure of attending. The event previously ran annually as a 2-day and later 3-day festival from 1996-2005, in various locations throughout midtown and downtown Atlanta, and was a huge success.... more
Suwannee Springfest 2012 Lineup
The lineup for next year's Suwannee Springfest was just announced featuring Yonder Mountain String Band, Peter Rowan & Tony Rice, Justin Townes Earl and Emmitt-Nershi Band all topping the list of artists announced so far. The festival returns to Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL for the weekend... more
ACL Fest: It Begins!
The Austin City Limits Music Festival just began! I'm freshly lathered in sunblock and I've got a cheap poncho on the way to make sure I can shoot the festival with no exception, and our buddy Wes is already on the scene and caught a (likely) raucous set by... more
ACL Festival 2011 Webcast Schedule Announced
http://youtu.be/Er4vugx4n4o The ACL Festival kicks off this weekend, and we'll have some official coverage here on LMB as well as LMB NOLA (you can check out our preview coverage here and over on LMB NOLA). But if you're not lucky enough to be heading down to Zilker Park in Austin this... more
