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Coachella 2012 Line-Up & My Initial Thoughts

Another year of anticipation has come and gone as the 2012 Coachella line-up was released and while it’s pretty awesome they secured all the acts for back-to-back weekends on April 13-15 and April 20-22 I have to say my initial reaction was meh. Don’t get me wrong, there are a ton of phenomenal musicians slated to play the festival but I personally feel they lacked in the bigger acts category but did a stellar job with the smaller ones.

Headliners: Radiohead, great score and definitely one of the most sought after acts this year, The Black Keys love ‘em but bumping them up one slot from last year into the headline act…., Dre and Snoop, ok I get it and Cali kids will probably love this but is this how you really want to close out three days of music (I’ll probably be eating my words as this may end up being the most talked about performance)?

Also this year has so much more EDM and on the main stages, I know its music of the present but I wonder if/how it will influence and change the dynamic of the festival since it’s thrust to the top. I’m a big fan of EDM and these artists but Swedish House Mafia, David Guetta, Avicii, Kaskade, Afrojack, Justice, Sebastian Ingrosso and Madeon all as “main acts” it could get interesting just look at how many other EDM acts are booked.

Now what really excites me about Coachella:

Friday: M83, Jimmy Cliff & Tim Armstrong (oh wow this is going to be awesome), GIRLS, The Rapture, Madeon, Yuck, Dawes, WU LYF, GIVERS, Wolf Gang, Ximena Sarinana, Band of Skulls, honeyhoney

Saturday: Miike Snow, St. Vincent, Manchester Orchestra, AWOLNATION, Azealia Banks, Kaiser Chiefs, The Head and The Heart, Laura Marling, tUnE yArDs, The Black Lips, Childish Gambino, The Vaccines, Grouplove, Gary Clark Jr., We Are Augustines

Sunday: Beirut, The Weeknd, The Hives, Real Estate, Wild Flag, Fitz & The Tantrums, araabMUZIK, Lissie, Gardens & Villa

Something else that I love and hope is a trend for all the festivals this year is the addition of acts from outside the United States. Bands like WU LYF, Wolf Gang, M83, The Vaccines, The Hives and others that are extremely talented will get introduced to so many new fans.

All in will it be fun, heck yeah but what else will be fun is Coachella East aka Las Vegas. With a week in between you better believe Las Vegas is going to be a mid-week retreat with acts popping up for DJ sets in clubs and concerts peppered all over the Las Vegas Strip.

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New Music Tuesday – Holiday Edition

13 Dec

Well this is more of an uneventful New Music Tuesday (The soundtrack to We Bought A Zoo by Jonsi and Keller Williams’ Bass are the two standouts) but if you are looking for something to relatively new to swoop up for the holidays and stocking stuffers, here are some recent albums you may want to consider:

Since it’s the holidays, Michael Buble – Christmas which came out earlier this fall, is of course #1 on the Billboard 200

The Roots last week released undun

The Black Keys dropped the smashing El Camino

Amy Winehouse disc Lioness: Hidden Treasures

Also The Rolling Stones reissue of Some Girls and Adele Live at Royal Albert Hall are two winners

And next week, Common releases the highly anticipated The Dreamer, The Believer

Tags: Adele, Amy Winehouse, Christmas, Common, Jonsi, Keller Williams, Michael Bublé, Rolling Stones, The Black Keys, The Roots, We Bought A Zoo

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New Music: The Black Keys – El Camino

2 Dec

I cannot wait until next Tuesday when The Black Keys drop their seventh studio album, El Camino. While the first two tracks that surfaced on the internet, “Lonely Boy” and “Run Right Back” are killer, they don’t do the album nearly enough justice (do some searches and you can find all the tracks to stream). Holy amazing this is a rocking disc. In my head I hear TBK original sound but also channeling rock legends like the Stones, Peter Frampton and Led Zeppelin. Just listen to “Little Black Submarines” below and prepare to be blown away (*hint: 2:07 mark it gets loud!). If there is a way to close out 2011 with a bang, this is it as El Camino comes cruising into the spotlight.

Tags: Album, Dan Auerbach, Disc, El Camino, Little Black Submarine, Lonely Boy, Music, New, Patrick Carney, Run Right Back, The Black Keys

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Oh Hell Yeah: BlakRoc2

2 Sep

Thanks to the fine folks at Paste Magazine for bringing this to my attention, BlakRoc2. Click HERE to read the story and just who The Black Keys have lined up for the record and watch the video below.

And please if you don’t have the original BlakRoc record, go buy it NOW because you’ve been missing out for quite some time.

Tags: BlakRoc2, Curren$y, Damon Dash, Do You Hear The Music, Jay Electronica, Jim Jones, OC, Sean Price, Talib Kweli, The Black Keys, The Cool Kids, U God, Wiz Khalifa

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Video: My Bonnaroo

18 Jun

It took a week but I was finally able to put my Bonnaroo 2011 photos into a video slide show. Everything is in sequential order from the moment we arrived until the final show. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to capture every band I saw but hope you enjoy what I did capture. Can’t wait until Bonnaroo 2012. Let the countdown begin.

Tags: Anthony B, Arcade Fire, Band of Heathens, Black Joe Lewis, BLues, Bonnaroo, Brothers, Buffalo Springfield, Chancellor Warhol, Childish Gambino, Concert, Deerhunter, disco, Do You Hear The Music, Eminem, Festival, Folk, Funk, Girl Talk, Grace Potter, Hip-Hop, Lil Wayne, Manchester, Mumford and Sons, Music, NOFX, Robert Plant, Rock, Ryan Bingham, Show, slideshow, Soul, String Cheese Incident, Tennessee, The Apache Relay, The Black Keys, Tour, video, Walk The Moon, Warren Haynes, Widespread Panic, X

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Revisited: Bonnaroo 2011

13 Jun

10th anniversary of Bonnaroo is in the books and I’m ready to get tickets for next year. Being a Bonnaroo rookie, it was all about taking in as much of the experience as possible. After an afternoon waiting for everyone to fly in, rent the truck and an off the reservation experience at Walmart, we were on the road. Some 60 miles and one wrong turn later, we arrived. After finding the RV and unpacking enough food and booze to feed the entire stage crew for the festival, it was time to get the party started. Meandering through the festival grounds at night it was hard to capture just how big the Bonnaroo fields are and how over 100,000 people flow in and out. The first time you see it during the day, your jaw drops at the sight of an entire city being created in virtually the middle of nowhere. If that’s what it takes for people to get along, be polite and just have a good time, I can live with that.

I also learned that no matter what bands you plan to see, you can go ahead and throw that plan out, it just isn’t going to happen and that’s a good thing. Getting a chance to pop in and out of shows, listening to some new bands (and some old), wandering around the festival grounds and just kind of going with the flow seemed to be just fine. Photos will be coming soon (I promise) but here are some of my highlights from Bonnaroo X.

My First Show: The Walkmen

My Final Show: Apache Relay

Best What Stage Show: The Black Keys

Best Which Stage Show(s): G.Love/Warren Haynes

Best Tent Show: Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses

Best Overall Show: Walk The Moon

Biggest Surprise: Childish Gambino

Best Legend Show: three way tie – Robert Plant, Dr. John, Gregg Allman

Random Moment Of Awesomeness: blue blinkers dropping from the sky for Arcade Fire’s set

Overall Stage With The Best Performances: On Tap Stage – shows included Band of Heathens, Apache Relay, Chancellor Warhol, Mat McHugh, Pimps of Joytime, JEFF The Brotherhood, Bobby Long and more

Most Entertaining Show: Lil Wayne for the fact that at least 40,000 festival goers/hippies knew all the lyrics to his songs – you had to be there to understand where I’m coming from

Most Disappointing Moment: Terrible sound quality for the Buffalo Springfield show made it almost impossible to listen to (this saddened me more than anyone will ever know)

Next Big Thing: Walk The Moon and Apache Relay

Top Party: the overflowing sea of madness for Girl Talk at 2:30am

Oddest Show That Was A Blast: Primus

Funky Good Time Show: Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears

Band I Was Sad To Miss: GIVERS

Angriest Performer: Eminem

Best Intro: Lewis Black for Warren Haynes

What Would Have Been Great: a late night set from a headlining DJ

Top Roo’er: Guy trying to make the “World’s Biggest Glow Stick” (if you saw/met him, you know what I’m talking about)

Top Sports Bar Moment: Game 6 of the NBA finals was like the March Madness scene in Vegas (video coming soon).

Best Festival Eats: Bear Creek Farms’ hand cut French fries and Gravy

Best Broo’ers Festival Beer: Ashville Brewing Company’s Ninja Porter

Best Place To Cool Off: the cinema (if no line to wait)

Biggest Waste of Time: anything that involved a line

Shocker Of The Festival: no rain

Worst Part: Dust everywhere and if you didn’t have a bandana, you were SOL

Clutch Move: renting a pickup truck

Tip For Next Year: less junk food and more healthy food, bring laxatives and don’t go off the reservation

More Tips: flip flops are your enemy, dust sucks, that fountain water is filthier than Vegas’ Rehab, expect rain, drink water and more water

Tags: anniversary, Apache Relay, Arcade Fire, Band of Heathens, Bear Creek Farms, Black Joe Lewis, BLues, Bobby Long, Bonnaroo, Buffalo Springfield, Chancellor Warhol, Childish Gambino, cinema, Concert, Dr. John, Eminem, Festival, Funk, G. Love, Girl Talk, GIVERS, Glow Stick, Gregg Allman, Hip-Hop, Honeybears, JEFF the brotherhood, Lewis Black, Lil Wayne, Live, Mat McHugh, Mumford & Sons, Music, NBA Finals, On Tap, Pimps of Joytime, pop, Primus, R&B, Robert Plant, Rock, Ryan Bingham, Soul, Sports Bar, Tennessee, Tent, The Black Keys, The Dead Horses, The Walkmen, Walk The Moon, Warren Haynes, What Stage, Which Stage, X

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Countdown to Bonnaroo: 7 Days – Artist of the Day: The Black Keys

2 Jun

Here we go, one week from today the 10^th Anniversary of Bonnaroo commences. The best thing to come out of Akron isn’t Lebron James but The Black Keys. It took a while but Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney finally hit it big with last year’s Brothers and have been riding a high since. I’ve seen the duo twice already this year and the gritty rock riffs from Auerbach and Carney’s wailing on the drums left me craving more both times.

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Tags: Akron, Auerbach, BLues, Bonnaroo, Brothers, Carney, Concert, Dan, Do You Hear The Music, Everlasting Light, Festival, Las Vegas, Manchester, Ohio, Patrick, Rock, Tennessee, The Black Keys, What Stage

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Bonnaroo X Schedule Released Today

13 May

Finally the Bonnaroo schedule has been released! Click HERE to take a look. As expected when the schedule came out, there are many many conflicts and overlaps with artists and set times. Of course for me there are the staple artists that are marked as must sees (Widespread Panic, String Cheese Incident, Buffalo Springfield, Mumford & Sons, Gregg Allman, Robert Plant, G. Love, The Black Keys, Warren Haynes, etc.) and after that, time to figure out the rest. Who knows, my ideal schedule today may end up being completely different when I arrive. All I know is there is a ton of great music and I can’t wait to be surrounded by 90,000 of my new closest friends.

Tags: !!!, 22-20s, 420 Comedy Blaze, Abigail Washburn, Alberta Cross, Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, Allen Toussaint (w Dr. John and The Original Meters), Amos Lee, Anthony B, Arcade Fire, artist, Atmosphere, Band of Skulls, Bassnectar, Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, Beats Antique, Beirut, Ben Sollee, Best Coast, Big Boi, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Black Uhuru, Bonnaroo, Bootsy Collins & the Funk University, Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers, Buffalo Springfield, Cheech Marin, Chiddy Bang, Clare Maguire, Cold War Kids, Concert, Craig Baldo, Daniel Lanois' Black Dub, Dãm-Funk, Deer Tick, Deerhunter, Dennis Coffey, Devotchka, Do You Hear The Music, Donald Glover, Dr. John and The Original Meters performing Desitively Bonnaroo, Eugene Mirman, Explosions in the Sky, Festival, Florence & the Machine, Forro in the Dark, Freelance Whales, Futurebirds, G. Love & Special Sauce, Galactic, Girl Talk, Global Gypsy Punk Revue curated by Eugene Hütz, Gogol Bordello, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Graveyard, Gregg Allman, Hangaii, Hannibal Buress, Hayes Carll, Henry Rollins, Henson Alternative's Stuffed & Unstrung, Iron & Wine, J.Cole, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Joe Vitale, John Waters, Jon Lajoie, Jovanotti, Junip, Justin Townes Earle, Karen Elson, Kathleen Madigan, Kylesa, Lewis Black, Lil Wayne, Line up, Loretta Lynn, Man Man, Manchester, Matt & Kim, Mavis Staples, Mumford & Sons, Music, My Morning Jacket, Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens, Nate Bergatze • Eminem, Neil Young, Neon Trees, Nick Kroll, Nicole Atkins & the Black Sea, NOFX, now playing, Old Crow Medicine Show, Omar Souleyman, Opeth, Paul Scheer, Phosphorescent, Portugal. The Man, Pretty Lights, Primus, Railroad Earth, Ralphie May, Ratatat, Ray LaMontagne, Richie Furay, Rick Rosas, Robert Plant & Band of Joy, Robyn, Ryan Bingham, Schedule, School of Seven Bells, Scissor Sisters, Set Times, Sharon Van Etten, Shpongle Presents Shpongletron Experience, Sleigh Bells, Smith Westerns, Stephen Rannazzisi, Stephen Stills, String Cheese Incident, STS9, Superjam ft. Dan Auerbach and Dr. John, Ted Alexandro, Tennessee, The Black Angels, The Black Keys, The Decemberists, The Del McCoury Band and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, The Drums, The Gregory Brothers, The Head and the Heart, The Knux, The League, The Low Anthem, The Strokes, The Sword, The Walkmen, Tig Notaro, Tim Minchin, Twin Shadow, Wanda Jackson, Warren Haynes Band, Wavves, Widespread Panic, Wiz Khalifa

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49 Days Until Bonnaroo, 49 Reasons To Look Forward to June 9-12

21 Apr

We are 49 days away from Bonnaroo!! Since I’m claiming it as a holiday, here are 49 Reasons to look forward to Bonnaroo June 9-12.

49. Saying you are going to Tennessee just sounds so good

48. GIVERS are going to be going Up! Up! Up! after playing the festival

47. Bonnaroo Buzz from Ben & Jerry’s

46. Getting a chance to hear an amazing talent in Bobby Long

45. A good excuse to go buy galoshes

44. Justin’s Maple Almond Butter packets in tow

43. Donald Glover is part of the comedy line-up

42. Getting a chance to see The Band of Heathens live!

41. The legend, Henry Rollins

40. “Let’s Go Surfing” by The Drums

39. Mud sliding during and after the rain

38. Sonic Stage

37. Florence Welch – I can’t wait to see her perform

36. Grace Potter

35. Matt & Kim’s intro music (Beastie Boys – “No Sleep Til Brooklyn”) and they’re fun live

34. Check out the works on display at the Poster Art Exhibit

33. Portugal. The Man

32. The cinema but only if The Big Lebowski or My Blue Heaven are playing

31. Listening to Ryan Bingham play tracks off Mescalito, his first album

30. Since Jimmy Fallon announced the initial line-up maybe hope that he and The Roots show-up as a surprise guests

29. Old Crow Medicine Show belt out “Wagon Wheel”

28. Les Claypool

27. Checking out Eminem to see if he reaches way back and busts out D12 “Purple Pills”

26. The Black Keys rock out (I’ve been blown away by their performances twice this year already)

25. Grammy Winners Arcade Fire play yet another festival as a headliner and after years on the smaller stages

24. Getting down with Galactic

23. Late night with Bootsy Collins

22. A chance to see The Decemberists before the pack it in

21. Planet Roo

20. The only way I’ll see Lil Wayne because I know I wouldn’t buy a ticket to just his concert

19. Have you ever seen Ray LaMontagne live?

18. Austin’s Finest – Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears

17. The Silent Disco

16. Listen to blues music with G. Love

15. Lewis Black, nuff said

14. Party into the night with Girl Talk

13. Seeing the sun rise

12. Mumford & Sons play their largest show to date

11. The honor of seeing Mr. Robert Plant live

10. Hearing Warren Haynes play “Soulshine”

9. One more time to see Gregg Allman before it’s too late

8. Superjam

7. Late night with Dr. John and the Original Meters

6. Surprise performances that are sure to be in store this year

5. Celebrate 25 years of Widespread Panic

4. Celebrate the 10^th anniversary of Bonnaroo

3. String Cheese Incident do their thing

2. In my lifetime getting a chance to see Buffalo Springfield perform live

1. Four days listening to music and camping with great friends

Of course there are a whole lot more than 49 reasons to look forward to Bonnaroo so feel free to drop yours in the comment section below.

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Just Released: Outside Lands 2011 Line-up

11 Apr

Just released, check out the line-up for Outside Lands Festival August 12-14 in San Francisco. Should be an incredible three days with Phish, Muse and Arcade Fire headlining. Throw in The Black Keys, Deadmau5, The Roots, Foster The People, The Decemberists, Girl Talk, MGMT, Beirut, Arctict Monkeys, STS9, Warren Haynes, Big Boi, The Original Meters, Major Lazer, !!!, Joy Formidable, Toro Y Moi, The Original Meters and a whole lot more, you have yourselves a pretty sick group of musicians.

Tags: !!!, Arcade Fire, Arctict Monkeys, August 12-14, Beirut, Big Boi, Califronia, Craig Nyman, Deadmau5, Do You Hear The Music, Foster the People, Girl Talk, Golden Gate, Joy Formidable, Major Lazer, MGMT, Muse, Outside Lands, Phish, San Francisco, SF, STS9, The Black Keys, The Decemberists, The Original Meters, The Roots, Toro Y Moi, Warren Haynes

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