Here are some music festivals that is coming up in September and October,
in honor of The Festival Ladies' recent Splendour in the Grass misadventures.
We do sometime get invites, but unfortunately many of these events are well out of my traveling budget - but feel free to keep sending them to me.
ALSO: Lara will be covering CMJ 2011 in October. Very excited to see what she has to say about the new College Music Journal shows. Read her CMJ 2007.
BREAKING NEWS: We previously mentioned Afro-Punk Festival (starting tomorrow), but according to news.weheartmusic.com, the show is canceled due to Hurricane Irene:
SNOWY RANGE MUSIC FESTIVAL
September 2-4, 2011
Affordable: $95 (3 days)
Laramie, Wyoming
snowyrangemusicfestival.com
From the looks of things, this is a camping music festival ... which is actually perfect for relaxing on a Labor Day weekend. There is a one-time $33 fee for overnight parking for campers, RVs, and Tent, but it's a lot cheaper than renting a hotel in the area.
The major headliners are pretty popular (George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic, Michael Franti and Spearhead & The Neville Brothers), but it shouldn't be an awful time because there is a capacity of only 5,000 guests. I've been to massive festivals, trust me, it's better to attend a smaller-sized one.
The complete weekend line-up includes:
More details at news.weheartmusic.com.
We do sometime get invites, but unfortunately many of these events are well out of my traveling budget - but feel free to keep sending them to me.
ALSO: Lara will be covering CMJ 2011 in October. Very excited to see what she has to say about the new College Music Journal shows. Read her CMJ 2007.
BREAKING NEWS: We previously mentioned Afro-Punk Festival (starting tomorrow), but according to news.weheartmusic.com, the show is canceled due to Hurricane Irene:
The City of New York has rescinded all event permits for Saturday, August 27th and Sunday, August 28th because of the impending Hurricane Irene. The Afro-punk festival has been barred from holding any public assembly in Commodore Barry Park this weekend. Afro-punk staff have been meeting with officials and sponsors to try and avoid cancellation but have had to cancel this weekend’s festival due to safety concerns. The event organizers are regrouping to plan the next steps and will keep the public updated.
SNOWY RANGE MUSIC FESTIVAL
September 2-4, 2011
Affordable: $95 (3 days)
Laramie, Wyoming
snowyrangemusicfestival.com
From the looks of things, this is a camping music festival ... which is actually perfect for relaxing on a Labor Day weekend. There is a one-time $33 fee for overnight parking for campers, RVs, and Tent, but it's a lot cheaper than renting a hotel in the area.
The major headliners are pretty popular (George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic, Michael Franti and Spearhead & The Neville Brothers), but it shouldn't be an awful time because there is a capacity of only 5,000 guests. I've been to massive festivals, trust me, it's better to attend a smaller-sized one.
The complete weekend line-up includes:
David Maxwell,
Dana Fuchs,
Paul Oscher,
Chubby Carrier,
Neville Brothers,
Bernie Pearl,
Big Jim Adam,
Gino Matteo,
Big Jim Adam,
Davina & The Vagabonds,
Bryan Shupe,
Ruthie Foster,
Miss Blues w/ Bernie Paul,
Sherman Roberston,
Moreland & Arbuckie,
Michael Franti,
Paul Oscher,
Jay Shogren,
Gino Matteo,
Richard Ackerman,
David Maxwell,
Adam Darling,
Bernie Peral,
Billy Branch,
Lionel Young,
Zora Young & Billy Branch,
Paul Thorn,
Trombone Shorty,
Another Kind of Magick,
Oli Brown,
Blinddog Smokin,
George Clinton,
Paul Oscher,
Miss Blues,
Gino Matteo,
Michael Hurwitz,
David Maxwell,
Big Jim Adam,
Dance Set w. BP,
Davina & The Vagabonds
More details at news.weheartmusic.com.
TINDERBOX MUSIC FESTIVAL
September 10, 2011
Bargain: $15
New York, New York
tinderboxmusicfestival.com
The second edition of the Tinderbox Music Festival returns to NYC this September 9th, 2011.
This is strictly for new and emerging female artists around the New York City area, but spanning over a variety of music genres, like pop, hip hop, and jazz. Should be a good time, if you're into girl singers.
100% of net proceeds to organizations like Girls Write Now and the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls.
Lineup:
Holly Miranda (Indie Folk),
Eternia & The Band (Hip Hop),
XYLOS (Multi-instrumentalist Pop),
Charlene Kaye and The Brilliant Eyes (Indie Rock Electronic),
The Debutante Hour (Indie Folk/ multi instrumental/quirky),
Alyson Greenfield (Folk Electro Hip Hop),
Kalae All Day (Hip Hop/Soul),
EULA (Post Punk),
Miss Geo (Indie Electronic Pop),
Canyon. (Indie Folk),
Rebecca Jordan (Jazz/Soul/Folk),
Mira Stroika (Cabaret/Pop/Punk),
White Wave (Experimental),
Pepper Fandango (Folk / Blues),
Sweet Soubrette (Indie Folk),
Helicopria (Prog Rock),
Sarah Aument (Indie Pop Rock),
WOJCIK (Garage Rock),
Sarah Walk (Singer/Songwriter / Piano Rock),
Annie Fitzgerald (Americana/ Folk),
WYATT (Indie Folk Pop),
Natalie Farr (Alternative Folk)
Read more on news.weheartmusic.com
September 3, 2011
Affordable: $40
Los Angeles, California
fyffest.com
Formerly called "F*** Yeah Festival", this is more or less a punk-rock festival, in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. This event is all-ages and will run from noon to midnight (isn't there a curfew for underage kids?)
Full line-up:
Descendents, Death From Above 1979, Explosions in the Sky, Broken Social Scene, Cold War Kids, Guided By Voices, Simian Mobile Disco (live), The Dead Milkmen, Girls, No Age, Kid Dynamite, Glass Candy, Dan Deacon, Four Tet, The Head & The Heart, YACHT, The Weakerthans, Chromatics, Cults, Olivia Tremor Control, Smith Westerns, OFF!, The Strange Boys, Japandroids, Nosaj Thing, Ty Segall, Mister Heavenly, Pink Mountaintops, Avi Buffalo, Cass Mccombs, Title Fight, Fools Gold, Tijuana Panthers, Touche Amore, Purity Ring, Twin Sister and Future Islands
I don't know if this was the case for previous year, but it looks like there will also be a comedian tent! Full comedy details at news.weheartmusic.com
POPPED!
September 23-24, 2011
Affordable: $110 (2 days)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
poppedphiladelphia.com
Some really awesome bands are playing at this show - including Cage the Elephant, Foster the People, Vaccines, Mates of State and Kreayshawn (12 million hits on her Gucci Gucci song!)
This show is described as a music and "food bazaar". So, if you're going, trying out the "infamous Philly Cheesesteak Cookie".
Confirmed line-up:
Shins, Cage the Elephant, Panda Bear, Elbow, Hold Steady, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr, Company of Thieves, Yuck, Miniature Tigers, Joy Formidable, Dead Confederate, Pretty Lights, Girl Talk, Foster the People, Rakim, Cults, Kreayshawn, Black Thought & J Period Mixtape, Titus Andronicus, DJ ?uestlove, Vaccines, Tennis, Budos Band, Patty Crash, Charles Bradley, Mates of State, Zee Avi, Black Landlord, Anamaguchi
More details at news.weheartmusic.com
October 7-8, 2011
Cheaparama: £12.00 (2 days)
Cheltenham, UK
walkthelinefestival.co.uk
This isn't a Johnny Cash festival or is it very big. I'm pretty sure none of you can point out Cheltenham on a map, so I'll just leave it at that...
Lineup for a small show like this typically showcase a lot of local bands from around the area, which also means I've never heard of any of these bands:
Tellison
Midwest Dilemma, Ellen and the Escapades, Skint and Demoralised, Pink Crudge Caravan, The Peppermint Hunting Lodge,
Dirty Tricks,
Beans on Toast,
Swift Manouver,
We Are The AfterGlow,
Tom Browning
Apparently, this is the third year that this festival is taking place. It is organized by Kiss My Face music, which looks to be a booking agency.
DeLUNA FEST
October 13-16, 2011
Little pricey: $149 (3 days)
Pensacola, Florida
delunafest.com
I previously briefly mentioned DeLuna Fest here, but that was in March. As of this writing, all their bands and schedules are all finalized.
There are some great bands playing (Ladytron, Weezer, Stars) vs "mega rock" acts of previous years.
Bands scheduled to play:
The Airborne Toxic Event, Anders Osbourne, Antoine Knight, Asobi Seksu, AWOLNATION, Bad Books, Bear Hands, Bettye LaVette, Big Boi, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Blackbells, CAKE, Cold War Kids, Colour Revolt, The Constellations, Cowboy Mouth, Cut Copy, Dinosaur Feathers, Diplo, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dirty Heads, DLP, Dragoon, Eerie Rockwell, Free The Robots, Gary Fields, Ghostland Observatory, GIVERS, Girl Talk, Griffin House, Grouplove, Hands, The Hood Internet, Honey Island Swamp Band, The Icarus Effect, The Infamous Stringdusters, Jane’s Addiction, JJ Grey & MoFro, Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights, June in January, K. Flay, Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, Kevin Devine, Kitt Lough, Ladytron, The Limousines, Linkin Park, The Listening, The Little Death, Manchester Orchestra, Matt & Kim, Motopony, Mr. Fahrenheit, MUTEMATH, The New Pornographers, Nico Vega, Nicos Gun, Paloma, Papa Grows Funk, The Parlotones, PS I Love You, Ra Ra Riot, Rehab, The Revivalists, Robbers On High Street, Royal Bangs, Saints of Valory, Shamarr Allen and the Underdawgs, The Shins, Sleeper Agent, The Sounds, Stars, Still Corners, The Stone Foxes, Telekinesis, Tim Lauglin's New Orleans All-Stars, Toubab Krewe, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Voice of the Wetlands All-Stars, Wallpaper., Wanda Jackson, The War on Drugs, Weezer, Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band
More details at news.weheartmusic.com
October 28-30, 2011
Affordable: $100 (3 days)
Gainesville, Florida
thefestfl.com
This is the 10th anniversary of "Fest", a punk-themed music festival, taking place in Gainesville, Florida. Our theory on punk music is that fans of the genre are generally younger, so, I think they are missing out on some hardcore fans being an 18+ event. Plus, since you can't buy single-day tickets, fans might not want to pay $100 to see one or two bands...
The good thing is that there are three million bands playing, personally have not heard of any of them, except a few (Against Me!, Minneapolis' Dillinger Four, Less Than Jake). I see that Kevin Seconds is on the bill (randomly saw him at NXNE) and K Records' Pine Hill Haints (which incidentally, I do have their upcoming record for review) and a non-punk trio Greenland is Melting - their new folk/bluegrass album is called Where Were We out September 27th via Paper + Plastick Records. See Greenland is Melting's full tour dates at news.weheartmusic.com. Off topic, but Where Were We is a great Lucksmiths compilation.
Lineup:
1994!, A Great Big Pile of Leaves, A Wilhelm Scream, After the Fall, Against Me!, Algernon Cadwallader, Alligator, Amateur Party, Ampere, Annabel, Armalite, Arms Aloft, Army of Ponch, Asshole Parade,
Astpai, Averkiou, Bangers, Banner Pilot, Banquets, Beasts of No Nation, Bent Left, Big Eyes, Billy Wallace, Blacklist Royals, Bomb the Music Industry!, Bouncing Souls, Bridge and Tunnel, Broadway Calls, Building the State, Calvinball, Campaign, Capsule, Captain We're Sinking, Carpenter, Caves, Charles the Ospery, Cheap Girls, Chicken Little, Chotto Ghetto, Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves, Circle Takes the Square, Cletus, Cobra Skulls, Coffee Project, Coliseum, Comadre, Creepoid, Cutman, Dan Padilla, Dead to Me, Dear Landlord, Deep Sleep, Defiance, Ohio, Despite Everything, die Hoffnung, Dig It Up, Dillinger Four, Dirty Tactics, Divided Heaven, Douglas Shields and the X-Factors, Dude Jams, Dukes of Hillsborough, Elway, Evan Rocha, Failures' Union, Fellow Project, Former Thieves, Franz Nicolay, Future Virgins, Gateway District, Glocca Morra, God Damn Doo Wop Band, Good Luck, Grabass Charlestons, Great Cynics, Greenland Is Melting, Greys, Grown Ups, Heartsounds, Hold Tight!, Hot Water Music, How Dare You, International Dipshit, INxSANE, Iron Chic, Jeff Rowe, Joey Briggs, John-Michael Bond, Jumpers, Junior Battles, Kevin Seconds, King Friday, Kite Party, Koji, Kyle Kinane, Landmines, Larry and His Flask, Leagues Apart, Lemuria, Less Than Jake, Lifetime, Liquid Limbs, Little League, Look Mexico, Luke Fields,
Luther, Magrudergrind, Make Do and Mend, Mauser, Max Levine Ensemble, Mikey Erg, Mixtapes, Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, Monikers, Mose Giganticus, Mouthbreather, Native, Nato Coles, New Bruises, Nightlights, Nightmares for a Week, Ninja Gun, No Friends, No More, No Trigger, None More Black, Nothington, O Pioneers!, Off with Their Heads, OK Pilot, Old Man Markley, One Win Choice, Over Stars and Gutters, P. S. Eliot, Paint It Black, Paul Baribeau, Pianos Become the Teeth, Pine Hill Haints, PJ Bond, Polar Bear Club, Post Teens, Protagonist, Punch, Pure Graft, Pygmy Lush, Red City Radio, Red Collar, Regents, Rehasher, Restorations, Reverse the Curse, Rivernecks, Rose Cross, Run, Forever, RVIVR, Saint Alvia, Samiam, Savage Brewtality, Screaming Females, Scum of the Earth, Senders, SexyCrimes, Shores, Sister Kisser, Small Brown Bike, Smoke or Fire, Spanish Gamble, Spraynard, SSSSNAKES, Static Radio NJ, Street Eaters,
Such Gold, Ted Leo + the Pharmacists, Teenage Bottlerocket, Teenage Softies, The Anchor, The Arrivals, The Arteries, The Bomb,
The Catalyst, The Copyrights, The Cougs, The Dopamines, The Emotron, The Ex-Boogeymen, The Flatliners, The Fucking Wrath, The Future Now, The Great Explainer,
The Holy Mess, The Holy Mountain, The Magnificent, The Measure (sa), The Menzingers, The Outsiders, The Riot Before, The Slow Death, The Snips, The Soviettes, The Tim Version, The Wild, Tigers Jaw, Tiltwheel, Tim Barry, Timeshares, Tiny Mountain, Toby Foster, Too Many Daves, Touche Amore,
Toys That Kill, Trap Them, Tubers, TV Casualty, Underground Railroad to Candyland,
Unfun, Upright Citizens Brigade, Vacation Bible School,
Vena Cava, Vultures United, Wavelets, We Are the Union, We Were Skeletons,
Weak Teeth, Wet Witch,
Whiskey & Co., Worlds,
Worn in Red, Worthwhile Way,
Young Turks, Young///Savage,
Youth Brigade
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