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In case you missed the news last week, there’s about zero chance that we’ll see another
All Points West music festival.
Similarly, it doesn’t look like AEG will revive its All Points West festival at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J. “We’re probably going to kill it,” says Phillips of APW, “mostly because the site. As beautiful as it is, it’s very hard to get New Yorkers to cross that river. All Points West is an experiment that just didn’t work.”
We had a sense that this was going to happen already and it makes sense that this one didn’t live up to its hype, but it’s always sad to see an event like this fall by the wayside. I’m sure they’ll noodle on a fitting alternative that will get some new name next year, but until that point you’ll have to just travel a bit to see what you want.
We Need a High-Quality Paid Webcast for Phish Concerts
After witnessing the evolving and ever-expanding online activity surrounding Phish’s recent reunion tour, I’m now thoroughly convinced that the Phish fan base is primed and ready for a high-quality and paid live video stream for the band’s next tour. If done properly and in innovative Phish fashion, it could create an untapped revenue stream for the band while allowing more Phish fans to engage with the band’s music – in particular those fans that can’t make it out to every show on tour.
Given the band’s recent history of wanting to scale down their in-house operations, I could see why you might think that a large-scale paid webcast would not be worth the large investment and effort it most certainly would require. But it’d be wrong to think so. There are some very compelling reasons why this should happen now and why Phish is the band to do it.
Phish, Red Light Management, please hear us out. We’ve really thought this one through…
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I was psyched to see MGMT as one of the headliners at the Treasure Island Music Festival, and they’ve been staying busy in the meantime. They just announced the remastered release of the Time to Pretend
EP with a few tracks I’ve never heard before, and they’ve got a decent tour booked up until TI here in October.
07/16 Pipeline Café – Honolulu, HI
07/21 Auckland, New Zealand – The Powerstation
07/22 Auckland, New Zealand – The Powerstation
07/23 Auckland, New Zealand – The Powerstation
08/02 Jersey City, New Jersey – All Points West Festival
08/05 Boston, MA – Fenway Park
08/06 Boston, MA – Fenway Park
08/15 Hamburg Wilhelmsburg, Germany – Dockville 2009
08/22 Staffordshire, England – V Festival @ Weston Park
08/23 Chelmsford, England – V Festival @ Hylands Park
08/25 Ibiza, Spain – Ibiza Rocks Hotel
08/28 Eriksdal Badet, Stockholm, Sweden – Popaganda Festival
08/30 Paris, France – Rock En Seine // Domaine National de Saint-Cloud
09/02 Tel Aviv, Israel – Bitan 1
09/04 Stradbally, Ireland – Electric Picnic // Stradbally Hall
09/05 Warsaw, Poland – Orange Festival
09/08 Athens, Greece – Electron Festival
09/11 Isle of Wight – Bestival
Add Treasure Island to the list and we’ve got ourselves a pretty large tour to look forward to for this band. I can’t wait to see them after all this time has passed; I originally caught them with Yeasayer back at Schubas in Chicago and I’m pretty sure they’ve had a lot of growth musically since then. Let’s hope they impress me.
In case you missed our recent interview with the CEO from iClips, we’ve learned that the company is taking the lead in trying to get quality live concert webcasts to the masses. And even though AT&T Music just did the webcast from Bonnaroo, it looks like they’re not going to be the preferred webcast partner for a few of the festivals that we’ve seen from them in the past. Both Lollapalooza 2009 and Austin City Limits Music Festival 2009 are now going to be webcast free via iClips.net, which is something we’re very excited about. That’s not all, though.
From iClips.net:
Festival Season is upon us in full force – Come celebrate the best music of the summer with iClips! We’re traveling all across America to bring you non-stop footage of your favorite festivals and artists, so that you can watch it all from the comfort of your own home, office, or wherever you may be. So fire up the grill, settle into your couch, escape from the every-day, grab a seat by the pool, and check out the live broadcasts from this summer’s greatest events!
All of the LIVE broadcasts below will be FREE! Stay tuned for further announcements, as we still have a few more events to announce!
July 2nd – 5th
Rothbury Festival
July 18th – 19th
Mile High Music Festival
July 31st – August 2nd
All Points West
August 7th – 9th
Lollapalooza
October 2nd – 4th
Austin City Limits Music Festival
For anybody not going to these festivals already, this is always a fantastic alternative. Free music is good. Free live concert webcasts are really good.
Fleet Foxes are following up a fantastic spring tour with Blitzen Trapper with dates scheduled across the country, including some festivals like Sasquatch and Lollapalooza. I totally love this band and I’ve gotten a chance to see them a few times now, once at the Independent and then a few weeks back at the Fillmore with the aforementioned openers, Blitzen Trapper. Their opening set has me sold that they’re going to be huge very soon, and one day I will get to say that I smoked a jay with the drummer while upstairs at the Mohawk at the Hot Freaks Party at SXSW 2008. Scandalous!
SO ANYWAY, Fleet Foxes played a fantastic set at the sold-out Fillmore show. They did a couple new songs and really showed that they had progressed as a live band, especially with front-man Robin Pecknold now standing up for the duration of their set. When they played the Indy he was sitting down, which honestly seems a lot more to the vibe of what kind of sound and mood they’re trying to create during their set. It’s not jammy even though you want to dance to some of the grooves, but all of that stops when the band lets their instruments fade and their vocals carry. Nothing can touch it when these guys hit a note together.
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Trey Anastasio is going out on tour pretty soon and tickets are now on sale for all dates. For those that didn’t read it elsewhere, the first date of the tour was set to start in Port Chester, NY. That show got canceled and moved to the Roseland Ballroom, much to the chagrin of the NYC folks that were going to attend the concert.
Here are the tour dates again:
10/16 Roseland Ballroom – New York, NY – on sale Friday September 12 at Noon (EST)
10/17 Chevrolet Theatre – Wallingford, CT – on sale Friday September 12 at 4PM (EST)
10/18 Palace Theatre – Albany, NY – on sale Saturday September 13 at 10AM (EST)
10/19 Higher Ground – Burlington, VT – on sale Friday September 12 at 11AM (EST)
10/21 Lupo’s – Providence, RI – on sale Friday September 12 at Noon (EST)
10/23 The Orpheum – Boston, MA – on sale Friday September 12 10AM (EST)
10/24 Electric Facory – Philadelphia, PA – on sale Friday September 12 at 10AM (EST)
10/25 The National – Richmond, VA – on sale Friday September 12 at 10AM (EST)
We got our hands on a nice crispy version of “Gotta Jibboo” from Trey’s set at All Points West.
Who’s going to what?
This weekend I spent Saturday and Sunday in the photo pit for the Slow Food Rocks music festival, an inaugural event at Fort Mason here in San Francisco set atop a hill overlooking Golden Gate Bridge and the mouth of the Bay. What a view. The festival went off without a hitch at all to be found, and both days featured an eclectic mix of music and food vendors and it was a great, relaxing way to spend the weekend. I chose an extra day off from the blog, too. So just think of yesterday as my blog “labor” day. Hopefully the rest of you slackers found quality time to chillax, also.
We’ve got some great updates lined up for the week and we hope to have a podcast or two to share this weekend — we’ve been way too quiet in that department — so stay tuned to the site and check out our headlines from last week in case you missed them.
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