Pretty Lights @ North Coast Music Festival | Photo by Chris Monaghan
I’ve been pretty inspired by Pretty Lights lately and I’ve been rocking his music ever since seeing his set at Outside Lands this year, but I’m bummed that we didn’t get the new Pretty Lights with drummer extraordinaire Adam Deitch. He adds a whole element to the sound that really matters when you’re catching it live. Let’s first see how they sounded together at Red Rocks earlier this year… READ MORE
Photo by Chris Monaghan
Chris Monaghan took care of the official LMB photography duties this weekend at North Coast Music Festival, and his shots from Day 3 are absolutely fantastic.
We’ll have a final wrap-up coming soon and plenty more photos and videos before the week is over. Read on for the full gallery… READ MORE
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals @ North Coast Music Fest 2010
Check out Chris Monaghan’s photos from North Coast Music Fest on Saturday… READ MORE
Crowd @ North Coast Music Festival 2010 | Photo by Chris Monaghan
North Coast Music Festival kicked off its inaugural year last night in Chicago’s Union Park, with performances by Pretty Lights, Paul Van Dyk, and Chemical Brothers. Our man Chris Monaghan is at the festival giving us some photo coverage, so read on for some shots from last night’s sets… READ MORE
North Coast Music Festival is set to kickoff their inaugural year next weekend in Chicago’s Union Park, and we’re got FIVE pairs of tickets to giveaway to the lucky fans in the area that can make it out for the event.
For those that haven’t been following, the festival is a newcomer to an already packed Chicago festival circuit, with Pitchfork Music Festival in July and Lollapalooza in August. Add to that a plethora of street festivals around town and the fact that you’re driving distance from Alpine Valley and Deer Creek, you’ve got yourself a pretty action-slammed summer musically speaking. Not that you could afford tickets to all of those events or make time for it, but talk about choices. So many you were on the fence with this one, even though the headliners of Umphrey’s McGee, Disco Biscuits, Nas & Damian Marley, Moby, Pretty Lights, and Lotus are really worth the ticket price and definitely deserve your attention on a warm, autumn afternoon in the great Windy City. That’s where we step in… READ MORE
Good news for Chicago fans planning on hitting the inaugural North Coast Music Festival in September — Lupe Fiasco, The New Deal, Holy Ghost!, Grace Potter, New Mastersounds, and Claude VonStroke were all just added to the bill.
Yesterday brought a nice little news nugget for the heads in Chicago and anyone intereted in trekking there for the inaugural North Coast Music Festival set for Labor Day weekend. If you weren’t keen on everyone on the artist roster for the festival, you can now pick and choose which day has the strongest lineup and buy your tickets from there. READ MORE
www.northcoastfestival.com
Check out their Twitter page here and follow along for the official lineup announcement. We have it on good authority that this is the lineup we’ll be seeing when it gets dropped.
Lineup:
Chemical Brothers (Live)
Nas & Damian Marley
Umphrey’s McGee
Disco Biscuits
Moby (DJ Set)
Pretty Lights
Benny Benassi
Paul Van Dyk
Cold War Kids
De La Soul
Mayer Hawthorne & the County
Jay Electronica
Boys Noize
Flying Lotus
Benga
Jakob Dylan & Three Legs
Laidback Luke
Future Rock
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Green Velvet (Live)
Phantogram
Van Ghost
Two Fresh
Paul Kalkbrenner
Orchard Lounge
The Uglysuit
Loyal Divide
Seriously tight. Who’s already planning their weekend there?
The daily schedule has been announced…
Day 1 – Friday, September 3, 2010 – $35
The Chemical Brothers (Live), Paul Van Dyk, Pretty Lights, Paul Kalkbrenner, Orchard Lounge
Day 2 – Saturday, September 4, 2010 – $35
Umphrey’s McGee, Moby (DJ Set), De La Soul, Cold War Kids, Jay Electronica, Boys Noize, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Benga, Future Rock, Jakob Dylan & Three Legs, Van Ghost, Two Fresh
Day 3 – Sunday, September 5, 2010 – $35
Nas & Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, The Disco Biscuits, Benny Benassi, Flying Lotus, Mayer Hawthorne & The County Green Velvet (Live), Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Phantogram, Loyal Divide
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