Recent Articles in Music Festivals
!!! and Lee Fields at Jelly Pool Party, 8.15.10
On a gloomy Sunday in Brooklyn, they came out to dance, and they came in droves, despite the depressing weather and 40% chance of precipitation. They were told that if they danced really hard in the rain, it would feel good.
Cut Copy, Memory Tapes at Jelly Pool Party, 8.08.10
Australia’s Cut Copy may have just rolled bleary-eyed off of the plane from Lollapalooza and over to the Brooklyn waterfront for Sunday’s Jelly Pool Party, but you never would have known it since they could barely contain their energy on stage.
Lollapalooza 2010 Day Three: Frightened Rabbit, Yeasayer, The National, Arcade Fire
Chalk it up to a heart-on-sleeve pre-determined route, dragging my feet to as much angst as possible between Frightened Rabbit, the National and Arcade Fire, but Lollapalooza’s final day was ready to tug on some sentimental strings from the get-go…
Lollapalooza 2010 Day Two: The XX, Grizzly Bear, Cut Copy, Empire of the Sun, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
The Lollapalooza juggernaut continued to impress in Day Two, as previously reported capacity and space increases gave stages room to build a little character.
Lady Gaga at Lollapalooza and Other Highlights: The Big Pink, Dirty Projectors, Mumford and Sons
It’s Friday August 6th, the big kick off for Chicago’s much-anticipated Lollapalooza weekend. Musicians and their followers have been at it since 11:15 am, but it’s now 3 o’clock and the Grant Park grounds have already become flattened with beaten paths, muddy patches, and empty cans, the remnants of B.o.B and The Walkmen crowd.
Lollapalooza 2010 Day One: The Strokes, Black Keys and Cymbals Eat Guitars
The corporate music jewel of Chicago’s Grant Park launched large this Friday, August 6th, flooded by 20,000 more hearts to push capacity from last year’s 75,000 to 95,000 (minus fence jumpers), making the decision to head to The Strokes or Lady Gaga that much more of a clusterfuck.
Murder City Devils and Obits Take the Big Stage, Jelly Pool Party 07.18.10
Sunday’s second Jelly NYC Pool Party of 2010 sure brought on the rowdy, despite the heat. The youthful joy and enthusiasm of seeing one’s favorite band was well displayed en masse when Seattle’s Murder City Devils took the stage.
Pitchfork Music Festival 2010, Day Three: Lightning Bolt, Major Lazer, Big Boi, Sleigh Bells and Pavement
As Pitchfork Day Three starts, I am tired, my feet are numb and my back isn’t even speaking to me. It has been a long festival and the sense that I’m gathering while traversing the festival grounds is that we are all waiting for… something. For greatness. For that elusive something that makes us stand up and say, “Yes!”
Siren Music Festival 2010 Makes ‘Em Sweat in Coney Island with Screaming Females, Harlem and Matt & Kim
Saturday on the Boardwalk, we thought it was the Fourth of July as indie-loving concertgoers, the usual rabble-rousers, and families hit up Coney Island for mango sticks and hot dance licks in the shadow of the Cyclone. The raison d’être for many, however, was the tenth annual Siren Music Festival…
Pitchfork Music Festival 2010, Day Two: Delorean, Titus Andronicus, Raekwon, Panda Bear, LCD Soundsystem
Day Two of Pitchfork 2010 started out slow and sleepy with a number of acts that caused much head and chin scratching, and the age-old question of, “What’s all the hype about?”
