The lineup for Coachella 2012 has been posted! This year’s festival will be bringing headliners The Black Keys, Radiohead, and Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg to the two-weekend affair down in Indio, CA. Other LMB favorites on the lineup are Refused, M83, Flying Lotus, SBTRKT, Bon Iver, Girl Talk, DJ Shadow, and the newly-announced reunion by At The Drive-In.
Epic.
However, Saturday was when the full realization hit that this fest really was about as grab bag as a musical gathering can be – headed up by the fact that the SoCal Punk Retrospective was going down (out of the three bands, X was the strongest, delivering an impressive evening set on the Bingo! Stage) the same day as the New Orleans Bounce Azzstravaganza (a well-choreographed riot and a blast), Snoop Dogg and a main stage/mid-afternoon Mastodon rager
Like New Year’s Eve, Halloween is another holiday that a lot of bands choose to celebrate in style. There’s just something about mixing the live concert experience with all the fun and choas of Halloween that really brings out the freaks. While most bands typically play into the Halloween vibe in some way, touring bands often approach Halloween as an opportunity to really create a unique live music event. Just as we did with our New Year’s Eve concert round-up, we’ve compiled a list of Halloween concerts that will be going on this weekend (see below for the long list).
We have also noticed a few bands that are taking a similar approach to Halloween as Phish by doing some sort of “musical costume” and either covering another band’s music or playing a full show of thematic covers. Here are a few of the more interesting “musical costumes” we’ve seen announced this year:
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I didn’t have time to get this posted yesterday but there are some highlights from Bonnaroo 2009 scheduled to air on FUSE TV tonight at 9pm EST. I’ll be following the Alpine shows but if the stream is down this will be a good alternative.
Don’t forget to tune-in to FUSE TV tomorrow night, Saturday, June 20th at 9PM EST, for the Fuse Fest: Bonnaroo 2009 premiere where you can see performances by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Beastie Boys, Phish, Snoop Dogg, Coheed & Cambria, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and more. Also, online at http://fuse.tv, music lovers can download free music from this year’s Bonnaroo bands including Grizzly Bear, Bon Iver, Elvis Costello, Phoenix, as well as view exclusive photos and videos from the 2009 and 2008 event.
Fuse.tv – Bonnaroo [www]
And we’ve got another one folks…a new festival in our midst. Taking one more step towards the greening of the festival scene, Madison House has teamed with AEG Live to create a brand-new, environmentally sustainable music festival in the woods of western Michigan.
What appears to be a Northern version of the Echo Project, the Rothbury Fest has stacked up one heck of a lineup for its first incarnation over the July 4th holiday weekend (July 3 – 6, 2008). Headliners include Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, John Mayer, 311, Phil Lesh and Friends, Primus, Thievery Corporation, Snoop Dogg, Modest Mouse. Check it out…
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