Univision Radio recently announced that their H20 Music Festival’s second location would be Los Angeles. The festival will take place August 25 at the Los Angeles State Historic Park. Acts include Snoop Dog, Alejandro Sanz, Paulina Rubio, Alex Cuba, Chino y Nacho, Romeo Testa and more acts (lots more) to be announced The Los Angeles State Historic Park has a main stage emerging bands, local artists and top acts. There has been a contest, ongoing, to choose some of the emerging artists. Bands can upload a video or mp3 ont H20MusicFestival/YourBand in the Chevron Brings Your Band to the Stage” promotion. And they promise to not spill any oil. On May 14 30 finalists will be featured online and listeners can vote for the five who will appear at the festival There will be vendors, cool down tents, food and more—as well as DJs from Univision Radio, This fest follows the earlier one in Dallas. To check out the complete line ups head to www.H2OMusicFestival.com. Add Comment Wow, the Outside Lands Festival line-up looks pretty impressive. All of the best bands playing Lollapalooza AND MORE. I mean if you are going to travel to one or another, no offense to the big festival in my adopted home but…I’d have to grab a flight to San Francisco. Confirmed bands are listed below. This is the fifth Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival. It is the world’s only gourmet music fest and it takes place in Golden Gate Park August 10-12. Tickets are on sale Thursday, April 19 at noon (Pacific time). Amazing! You even know who is playing BEFORE you buy. Go HERE for tickets. Part of the ticket price benefits San Francisco’s Recreation and Park Department. As to the gourmet part—over 50 restaurants gather in A Taste of the Bay Area. Likewise Wine Lands will feature over 30 regional wineries. And I think we all know that the area wineries rock. Here is the line up (more to come) Stevie Wonder Metallica Neil Young & Crazy Horse Jack White Foo Fighters Beck Skrillex Sigur Ros Justice Norah Jones Dispatch The Kills Regina Spektor Passion Pit Andrew Bird Grandaddy Big Boi Bloc Party Explosions In The Sky Franz Ferdinand Mstrkrft Rebelution Die Antwoord Fitz and The Tantrums Portugal. The Man Amadou & Mariam Wolfgang Gartner Fun. Dr. Dog The Walkmen Washed Out City and Colour Two Gallants Of Monsters and Men Mimosa Alabama Shakes Reggie Watts Trampled By Turtles Tame Impala Jovanotti The Be Good Tanyas Geographer Sharon Van Etten Yacht Sean Hayes Bomba Estereo Dirty Dozen Brass Band Big Gigantic Thee Oh Sees Wallpaper Tennis Zola Jesus White Denim Allen Stone The M Machine Michael Kiwanuka Tanlines Father John Misty Electric Guest Caveman Yellow Ostrich Papa Honey Island Swamp Band Animal Kingdom So what are you doing July 13-15 this year? If you have plans cancel them and head over to the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park in Chicago. The three day passes are gone but single day tickets, for $45, are still available. That is around half what a single day Lollapalooza ticket costs. And if you go to Pitchfork you can act superior to all the folks who go to Lollapalooza because you are more “real” too. It is a win-win thing. Pretty super duper line up that you can see below. To get tickets head to www.pitchforkmusicfestival.com. And keep in mind there are other activities aside from music—specialty fairs and a slew of vendors. The bands Friday A$AP Rocky Willis Earl Beal Big K.R.I.T. Clams Casino Dirty Projectors Feist Tim Hecker Lower Dens Olivia Tremor Control Outer Minds Purity Ring Saturday The Atlas Moth Atlas Sound Danny Brown Cloud Nothings Cults Flying Lotus Godspeed You! Black Emperor Grimes Hot Chip Nicolas Jaar Liturgy Lotus Plaza The Psychic Paramount Schoolboy Q Sleigh Bells Wild Flag Youth Lagoon Sunday A Lull AraabMUZIK Beach House Chavez Dirty Beaches The Field Iceage King Krule Kendrick Lamar The Men Milk Music Thee Oh Sees Oneohtrix Point Never Real Estate Ty Segall Unknown Mortal Orchestra Vampire Weekend Tired of the “usual suspect” Festivals? How about a new one, with a new angle? The H2O Music Festival takes place in Dallas, June 9th in the Cotton Bowl (there will be another event elsewhere latter in the summer too apparently). The event is bilingual, bicultural and features established and emerging artists. There will, as you might expect, be vendors, food, a family section, a gaming section and more The line-up includes Snoop Dog, Juanes, Weezer, Paulina Rubio, Damian Marley, Gym Class Heroes and many more. There will also be a free showcase of local artists in the early afternoon in the plaza of the Cotton Bowl. Tickets are on sale now at H2OMusicFestival.com. The Forecastle Festival is an event about music, art and activism that takes place yearly in Louisville, Kentucky. The initial lineup for this year’s festival was announced earlier and is below. The festival takes place from July 13-15, 2012. Ultimately there will be over 70 bands playing on five stages. This is a pretty big event compared to the early days as a small, free, outdoor neighborhood event. This seems like a great line-up and Louisville really is a nice city to visit. Forget everything you saw on Justified. Kentucky is perfectly civilized. The list below will have addition acts added and there will be art installations, environmental activities, outdoor extreme sports part, food and a slew of other activities. There will also be separate parties (with separate fees) after hours as well. Fifty cents from every purchase go to the Forecastle Foundation which is dedicated to local education and international environmental conservation. To find out more about the foundation go HERE. For details on who plays when, costs and more head to www.forecastlefest.com. Lineup My Morning Jacket Bassnectar Wilco Girl Talk Andrew Bird Sleigh Bells Atmosphere Neko Case Clutch A-Trak Galactic Flying Lotus Beach House The Head and the Heart Stax! Soul Revue Dr. Dog Deer Tick Preservation Hall Jazz Band Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires Beats Antique Real Estate Justin Townes Earle Washed Out Walk The Moon Dean Wareham Plays Galaxie 500 Wye Oak Atlas Sound Fruit Bats Daedelus Ben Sollee Orchestre Poly-Rythmo JEFF the Brotherhood The Features Mike Doughty Tanlines Zion I Sleeper Agent Floating Action Wick-It The Instigator James Vincent McMorrow Wax Fang Daniel Martin Moore King's Daughters & Sons Houndmouth Cheyenne Marie Mize The Ravenna Colt Rachel Grimes Nerves Junior Cabin Scarlet Smile Lydia Burrell Bonnaroo is a festival that you have probably heard about and possibly attended. Most folks do not know that during the festival’s ten year run they have donated more than five million dollars to local, regional and national charities. This year festival partner Rick Farman says that they plan to surpass that amount in the next ten years with new programs and upgrades to current charitable outreach through the Bonnaroo Works Fund , Bonnaroo’s charitable arm. BWF is administered by the East Tennessee Foundation which identifies (and vets) organizations looking for assistance. They help BWF get money to where it can do the most good. Some of the organizations helped include; Doctors Without Borders, the American Red Cross. Head Count, MusiCares, Boys and Girls Club of America, Habitat for Humanity ,Rock the Earth and the Sierra Club and others. Assistance has also been provided for disaster relief in the USA and abroad—help for victims of Hurricane Katrina, the Haitian earthquake, the recent floods in Nashville and during the Gulf oil spill. Good for Bonnaroo. Other festivals like this should do more as well. Chuck Ragan’s Covering Ground comes out September 13 (CD, vinyl and with some limited edition stuff you can find out about HERE. You can also download a track, Nomad By Fate, free at Ragan's website. This is Ragan’s third record and he has toured all over the place for years. This year’s tour dates will begin after playing at Dropkick Murphys’ first Shamrock-N-Roll Festival at Fenway Park. I am sure there will be no drinking going on THAT night. The early part of his tour is apparently a tour of the Shamrock-n- Roll thing with Dropkick Murphys, Street Dogs and others. The tour that follows, The Revival Tour will feature Ragan, Dan Andriano (Alkaline Trio), Dave Hause (The Loved Ones) and Brian Fallon (Gaslight Anthem) all playing acoustic. Ragan wrote the record while on tour and he considers them to be “road songs.” Good long tradition of that. Check out the dates below. Tour With Dropkick Murphys, Street Dogs etc. Sep 8 - Boston, MA @ Fenway Park Sep 9 - Boston, MA @ Fenway Park Sep 10 - Bangor, ME @ Bangor Waterfront Sep 11 - Altamont, NY @ Altamont Fairgrounds Sep 12 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Trib Total Media Amphitheatre Sep 13 - Columbus, OH @ LC Pavillion (indoor) Sep 15 - Portsmouth, VA @ Harbor Center Sep 17 - Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory Sep 18 - Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory The Revival Tour With Brian Fallon, Dan Andriano, and Dave Hause Sep 27 - Bristol, UK @ Academy Sep 28 - Manchester, UK @ Academy 2 Sep 29 - Dublin, IRL @ Academy Sep 30 - Glasgow, SCT @ ABC Oct 1 - Newcastle, UK @ Northumbria Students Union Oct 2 - Nottingham, UK @ RockCity Oct 4 - Amsterdam, NL @ De Duif Oct 5 - Hamburg, DE @ Gunspan Oct 6 - Berlin, DE @ Postbahnhof Oct 7 - Wien, AT @ Arena Oct 8 - Munchen, DE @ Backstage Werk Oct 9 - Zurich, CH @ Dynamo Oct 11 - Wiesbaden, DE @ Ringkirsche Oct 13 - Munster, DE @ Skaters Palace Oct 14 - Antwerp, BE @ Trix Oct 15 - London, UK @ Shepherds Bush Oct 16 - Cardiff, UK @ Uni Souls Oct 17 - Portsmouth, UK @ Pyraminds The PDX Rock Fest has a special purpose, to save the rock. The festival takes place at the Washington County Fairplex in Portland, Oregon on August 28, 2011 and will include performances by Queensryche, Korn, Chevelle, Hinder and others. There is also a local band component. This fest has a Native Noize Battle of the Bands component. Bands can enter HERE. Winners will play the pre-show on August 27. Top ten bands get tickets to the show and all bands get a 30 person guest list to the pre-show. Fans can also sign up to be judges. Voting begins July 25. Head HERE for special ticket deals. Among the artists appearing at moe. this year are Bob Weir, Levon Helm, Ween and TV on The Radio. If you are wondering why it is “moe.” and not “Moe” is because that is the proper spelling and there was even a note to editors to this effect in the press release. moe. Not Moe, not Moe. Nor MOE…but rather moe. But apparently also called Moedown. Go HERE for more info. Are we clear on that now? Anyway. It is a pretty neat festival and it occurs Labor Day Weekend at Gelston Castle Estate in Mohawk, NY. The line-up, in addition to the bands above, includes, moe. (unsurprisingly), Slightly Stoopid, Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers, Ozomatli, Railroad Earth, The New Mastersounds, Rubblebucket, Danger Muffin, The Ragbirds, Empire Sound, Band and Gary Clark Jr. moe. (who are playing hell with my spell/grammar check crazy) also have released a Greatest Hits Volume 1 and are playing some dates to support it. moe. Tour July 21 - Party In The Park - Rochester, NY July 22 - Lowell Summer Music Series - Lowell, MA July 23 - Gathering of the Vibes - Bridgeport, CT Aug 27 - Dave Matthews Band Caravan - Governor's Island, NY Sept 2-4 - MOE.DOWN 12 Gelston Castle Estate - Mohawk, NY Riot Fest just keeps getting more riotous. Headliners this year include Weezer, Social Distortion and Descendents (and another big announcement is coming June 24). In addition to the Chicago version of the fest from October 5 to 9 there will be, this year, a Red Bull Riot Fest in Philadelphia on September 24. Bands include; Descendents, Dead Milkmen, X, Plow United, Hot Water Music, Naked Raygun, Suicide Machines, Weston, Samiam and others. The fest began in 2005 and it has just gone crazy every year since. Up and coming bands and legends appear. And it is all about the rock. This is not an easy listening festival. In addition to bands mentioned others include X (play "Los Angeles"),Youth of Today, Suicide Machines, ALL (Scott, Chad and Dave), Helmet, D Generation, Down By Law, The Business, Strike Anywhere, The Tossers, Macabre, Nachtmystium, The Flatliners, Flatfoot 56, The Menzingers,Banner Pilot,The Pavers, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Shot Baker, The Copyrights,Cheap Girls, Larry and His Flask,Chines and tons more to be announced. Multi-day passes and individual tickets go on sale Friday, June 24 at 10 am (CST). Tickets are available at www.ticketfly.com. The fest is at multiple venues in Chicago. Check out the Riot Fest website for all the details. The Philadelphia Fest takes place at Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing. Tickets on sale Friday, June 24th at 10am EST at Ticketmaster. If you want to avoid service charges you can pick them up at Theatre of Living Arts (334 South St. in Philadelphia), the Live Nation Box Office (111 Presidential Blvd, Suite 111 in Bala Cynwyd) & Creep Records (1050 North Hancock Street in Philadelphia). |












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