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Festivals
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08.09.10
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07.13.10Treasure Island 2010 LineupI won't say how or where I found out, but here's The Treasure Island 2010 lineup, a day early. Continue Reading...
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06.30.10Treasure Island Music Festival 2010 Lineup Leaks & Rumors: LCD Soundsystem, Belle & Sebastian, Ra Ra RiotThe Treasure Island Music Festival, otherwise known as my-favorite-music-festival-on-the-plant is happening October 16th and 17th. If you live in the bay area and you're into indie music YOU ARE A FOOL IF YOU DON"T GO. Just being honest. Continue Reading...
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06.24.10Blonde Redhead reveal details of new album, Penny SparkleYesterday, we shared "Here Sometimes", the first new Blonde Redhead song in years. Turns out it's the opening track from Penny Sparkle, a new Blonde Redhead album. The New York trio's follow-up to 2007's 23, arrives on our shores September 14 and a day earlier in the rest of the world, via 4AD. According to Pitchfork, The band recorded Penny Sparkle in New York and Stockholm, working with Fever Ray producers Van Rivers and the Subliminal Kid, whose synth-heavy background should have an interesting effect on Blonde Redhead's luxuriant guitar clangor. Shoegaze legend Alan Moulder mixed, just as he did ...
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06.23.10Lollapalooza After Shows-a plenty: Phoenix, Gogol Bordello, The National, The Black Keys, DEVOYou know all that griping you did about the schedule conflicts at this year’s Lollapalooza? Well, you knew this day was coming, and hopefully it will solve some of your Lolla dilemmas. Lollapalooza announced its lauded Aftershow lineup this week and it features the literal bulk of the 2010 Lollapalooza lineup, including headliner Phoenix and upper echelon bands like New Pornographers, Hot Chip, MGMT, The National, Devo, and The Black Keys. Also getting some more time with fans are Parry Farell, Rusko, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, The Walkmen, Gogol Bordello, and Cut Copy. Continue Reading...
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06.01.10Belle & Sebastian announce fall tourToday, June first has already featured a surplus of massive U.S. tour announcements, it should come as no surprise that there's been yet another great tour announced. For the first time in four years, Belle & Sebastian have announced plans for a North American tour. Currently a nine-date affair, the trek will launch in Brooklyn, New York on September 30th, where the Glasgow outfit will perform with countrymen Teenage Fanclub. After that, they’ll hit Los Angeles on October 3rd for a performance with Jenny and Johnny and then Mexico, Chicago, Toronto, Washington, DC, Boston, and end up in San Francisco for ...
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06.01.10Outside Lands 2010 complete lineup announcedThe complete Outside Lands 2010 Lineup was announced a few minutes ago. There really aren't many surprises. As we reported last month, most of the headliners had been leaked in cryptic riddle form by Outside Land's Ranger Dave twitter account. Without further ado, here's the complete 2010 Outside Lands lineup. Continue Reading...
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05.27.10Matt Groening Simpsonsizes Joanna NewsomMatt Groenig, if you've been living under a rock, is "that guy" who does The Simpsons and Futurama, and recently curated All Tomorrow's Parties in Minehead, U.K. He drew pictures of the musicians that played. After ATP, The Guardian talked to Joanna Newsom, about her newly bestowed honor: "Holy shit! I'm a Simpson! I made it!" She giggles, and there is a trace of that famous squeak. "I don't need a damn Grammy or anything. That's the sort of magic all this madness is for." Hundreds of celebrities have been "Simpsonized" over the years. This post got me wondering how many musicians ...
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05.15.102010 Outside Lands Lineup: Phoenix, Kings of Leon, My Morning JacketThis past week the Outside Land sFestival announced dates: August 14+15 2010. The outside Lands mascot, Ranger Dave, has also been tweeting clues about the lineup. The clever folks over at bohemian.com have been disecting recent tweets from Ranger Dave, and have a list of possible acts that may appear. These include: My Morning Jacket Kings of Leon Phoenix Social Distortion Pretty Lights Levon Helm Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Chromeo Bassnectar Dirty Dozen Brass Band Devil Makes Three Al Green Tokyo Police Club Vieux Farka Toure Nneka Temper Trap Gogol Bordello Complete clues after the jump. Continue reading...
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04.16.10Volcanic erruption strands UK Coachella artistsIs there insurance for this type of thing? An Icelandic volcano has grounded all air traffic in the UK, stranding many Uk and Scandinavian music artists scheduled to perform at this year'sCoachella. Surprisingly, there has been no official word on cancellations from Coachella organizers. Bands like Echo & The Bunnymen, 2ManyDJS, Hot Chip and Fever Ray are yet to confirm they can make it to the California music fest, while Frightend Rabbit, Bad Lieutenant, The Cribs, and Delphic are among those stranded in the UK. Bad Lieutenant has already canceled their Friday night show at the Regency in San ...
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02.16.10Sasquatch! 2010 Lineup! Announced!...And now, ladies and gentlemen, what you've been waiting for! The Nationwide craze of music festivals keeps rolling with the announcement of the 2010 Sasquatch lineup. It's one of the first festivals of the festival season and happens May 29th-31st at The Gorge in Quincy, Washington. Sasquatch supports the up and comers of the Seattle music scene, which these days is surprisingly hip hop heavy; Shabazz Palaces and Fresh Espresso should expect to make a lot of new friends at the festival. There are no jaw-dropping/mega rock star headliners; Interpol and Soundgarden were some of the rumored names being thrown around in ...
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12.09.09Leaked: Noise Pop 2010 initial lineupThe initial lineup for the 2010 Noise Pop Festival is out, thanks to Pitchfork. So far the following acts are confirmed: The Magnetic Fields, Atlas Sound, Rogue Wave, Four Tet, the Soundtrack of Our Lives, Mark Kozelek, John Vanderslice, Foreign Born, Zee Avi, the Limousines, and We Were Promised Jetpacks. I'm slated to shoot the Noise Pop Festival for the festival organizer, Noise Pop Industries, and also for Ice Cream Man, and I'm really excited about the bands so far. The 2010 festival will take place February 23rd – March 1st across a bevy of San Francisco music venues, including long-time favorites such ...
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11.04.09Treasure Island – Tunes With A ViewIt's great to see music festivals popping up all over the country, and Treasure Island in San Francisco is filled with promise. And it has, arguably, the best view of any festival I've ever been to! With its indie minded approach Treasure Island is the closest you'll get to left of the dial when it comes to a music event of this size. Continue Reading...
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10.21.092009 Treasure Island Music Fest in 20 photosThe Flaming Lips and MGMT headlined the 2009 Treasure Island Music Festival. Phil and I will eventually have some words for ya, but for right now, here are a few pictures. Continue reading...
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09.03.09Outside Lands: Matt & Kim knock one out of the park!Outside Lands was phenomenal. I think the sleeper show of the weekend was Matt & Kim. Continue Reading...
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08.26.09The Outside Lands Festival is Friday!The second annual Outside Lands Music Festival takes place this weekend. I'll be shooting the festival for both Stereogum and for Ice Cream Man. You can get a rough idea of where I'll be and who I'll be shooting from the Outside Lands personal scheduler. I'm really looking forward to seeing The National, Os Mutantes, Band of Horses and Tom Jones. I've managed to miss John Vanderslice at the last four festivals and I'm really hoping to catch his set, too. You can follow my Outside Lands shooting adventures realtime via twitter: @paigekparsons I'd love to seet some of our readers - see ...
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07.12.09LEAKED: Official Treasure Island 2009 LineupI won't say how or where I found out, but here's The Treasure Island 2009 Lineup, a day early. Saturday: MGMT, MSTRKRFT, Girl Talk, Brazilian Girls, The Streets, Passion Pit, LTJ< Bukeum Feat Mc Conrad, DJ Krush, Murs, Federico Aubelle, Dan Deacon, Crown City Rockers, The Limousines. Sunday: The Flaming Lips, The Decemberists, Beirut, Grizzly Bear, Yo La Tengo, The Walkmen, Bob Mould, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, Vetiver, Spiral Stairs, Sleepy Sun, Tommy Guerrero, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes.
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07.09.09Free 15 Track iTunes Lollapalooza SamplerGot an update from the folks at Lollapalooza today. They're promoting the festival by giving away a 15 track sampler from iTunes. It's pretty sweet - tracks from Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Deerhunter, White Lies and the Ravonettes to name a few. Just follow the link below and you'll get your own code for the free iTunes download. Sorry to our international readers - it's the US iTunes store only, through August 30th. Lollapalooza takes place in Grant Park August 7th-9th. Download: Free iTunes Lollapalooza Sampler
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06.12.09Treasure Island 2009 Rumors + ConfirmationsThe Treasure Island Music Festival, otherwise known as my-favorite-music-festival-on-the-plant is happening October 17th and 18th. If you live in the bay area and you're into indie music YOU ARE A FOOL IF YOU DON"T GO. Just being honest. Treasure Island Music Festival 2009 has just a few acts confirmed so far, but it's looking great already: * The Flaming Lips — * Girl Talk — * Miike Snow — * MGMT — * Beirut — * Dan Deacon — * The ...
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05.30.09Coming Soon: Sasquatch Fan PortraitsIt's the fans that make a festival. I was inspired and captured over 100 portraits of fans at Sasquatch this year. It's going to take me some time to crop, edit and color correct them, but they will all be posted. Here's the first in the series. You can find this shot and eventually all of the fan portraits set on my flickr account.
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