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2010 Hangout Music Festival Lineup Additions: Ben Harper, the Flaming Lips, Trey Anastasio

February 18, 2010
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We wrote about the all-new Hangout Music Festival a few weeks back, but now they’ve added a bunch of artists to their 2010 lineup, including Ben Harper & Relentless 7, the Flaming Lips, Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Rodrigo y Gabriela, and the Funky Meters. The festival is slated for May [...]

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Mountain Jam Initial 2010 Lineup

January 21, 2010
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Warren Haynes’s annual staple, the Mountain Jam music festival, is back in 2010 for its sixth iteration, and they’ve just announced their initial 2010 lineup. Mountain Jam VI will take place June 4-6 and will once again be held at Hunter Mountain in upstate New York.
Mountain Jam Initial 2010 Lineup:
Gov’t Mule
Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi [...]

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Mountain Jam 2009: Silly Rabbit, Fests are for Kids

June 24, 2009

After many festivals together, this year’s Mountain Jam was going to be different. This year my wife and I would have a six-month old child with us, our son Harry. As I discussed in an earlier post, we had no idea what to expect.

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Bumbershoot 2009 Lineup

April 9, 2009

The lineup for Seattle’s Bumbershoot 2009 was just announced recently, and advanced three-day tickets are on sale now for only $80. Based on the lineup that’s been announced already I’d call that a good deal.

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Podcast #062 | Keep On Votin’ in the Free World (Part 1)

October 2, 2008

Editor’s note: in my haste in switching over the site to WordPress I forgot to make sure our podcast feed was rigged up correctly. I’m working on fixing it, but in the meantime you can come and stream the podcast on the site using the built in music player on the site. We’ve [...]

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All Points West 2008 | Staff Preview

August 6, 2008

Liberty State Park, site of this weekend’s All Points West. Photo © Fovea Centralis
It’s August, and while the festival circuit has been going strong for a couple months, my own personal festival season is just beginning. This week brings the first All Points West to Liberty State Park, and I couldn’t be more [...]

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Rothbury 2008 | Photos by Matt Spaulding

July 29, 2008

Matt Spaulding went to the inaugural Rothbury music fest and got tons of photos of the festivities, including tons of shots of Trey Anastasio, Primus, and Dave Matthew Band among others. We’re pleased he wanted to share them with us. Head on over to the Live Music Blog photo page for the entire [...]

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From the Pit | Mountain Jam Photos from Day 2

June 10, 2008

Saturday was going to be a long day. We planned on getting to the mountain in time to see Sharon Jones, whose set began at 2:15 p.m., with plans to stay and see Dark Star Orchestra, whose set was scheduled to run until 4 a.m.
After blowing me away at Langerado 2007, I knew that [...]

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Mountain Jam 2008 | From the Mountain Recap and Photos, Day 2

June 1, 2008

Day Two of Mountain Jam was a bit stormy for a time, but before that it was warm and sunny. After the storms blew through there was nothing but a clear cool night.
The musical highlights for me can be summed up like this…Sharon Jones and Michael Franti.
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings have such fantastic [...]

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