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Festivals
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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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05.25.09Spencer Moody, you picked the wrong girl to fuck with[caption id="attachment_1594" align="alignnone" width="700" caption="Spencer Moody being an ass"][/caption] So, I'm happily shooting the main stage at Sasquatch, minding my own business. I'm shooting the Murder City Devils. There are about 20 of us photographers in the pit. I should have known that things could get a little crazy after Spencer Moody, the Lead singer, starts on a log-ass heterosexual rant. He's clearly quite agitated. I can't remember the whole thing, but it ended with, "A lot now, we play these shows in front of a lot of people, and I see a lot of gross, disgusting high school jocks in the ...
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05.24.09Sasquatch Day One Photo PreviewI won't process all 2,500 images from yesterday till I'm at home next week, but here are a few favorites from yesterday. Continue Reading...
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05.24.09Sasquatch: Day One in PicturesSasquatch Day 1 is a done deal. The weather was hot, the music was cool, and I saw over a dozen bands. While I sleep, my poor little card reader will be working all night to suck down the 1,600 images I took today. I'm completely exhausted, but did want to share a couple images. Enjoy! Animal Collective @ Sasquatch Karen of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Sasquatch Caleb of Kings of Leon @ Sasquatch Alexandra Lawn of Ra Ra Riot @ Sasquatch
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05.21.09Sasquatch Bound: Step One – Dispose of Young ChildrenI'm headed north to Seattle today, the begining of my journey to Sasquatch. Step one was geting the wee one on a plane to San Deigo for his stay with the grandparents. You can follow my Sasquatch adventures via
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05.12.09Confirmed: I’m Shooting Sasquatch!No, I'm not going postal on Bigfoot. I'm shipping my six-year-old off to the grandparents and then I'm flying north to help Phil celebrate his Birthday and then I'm headed to the Gorge to photograph the Sasquatch Festival for three days. I'll be photographing for one of my favorite guys, Ice Cream Man. We're even going to try some new toys for live blogging and photo coverage from the festival. My shooting schedule is quite ambitious, 10 bands Saturday, 14 Sunday and 16 on Monday. I'm most looking forward to The Doves, M83, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Animal Collective. ...
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05.11.09The Wanderlust Festival: Yoga + Music + moreHave you ever day-dreamed about what your own version of "a perfect music festival" would be like? My version would be small (like Treasure island), in a beautiful natural setting (like Rothbury), with a luxury hotel within walking distance (like Lollapalooza), musical acts and shows till the wee hours (like Bonnaroo) great organic food, yoga and massages during the day, and childcare available throughout. Well I'll be damned. Wanderlust has come amazingly close to my "dream festival." Other than the child care, it's all there. A boutique, three-day experience, Wanderlust brings together the world"s leading yoga teachers and awesome indie ...
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05.08.09Presale: Phoenix at the Spectrum FestivalPhoenix is playing The Spectrum Festival in San Francisco. I'm ever so bummed that I'll be out of town, but all of our readers can still take advantage of today's presale, ending at 10pm tonight. $60 will get you a two day ticket. The presale code is: SPECTRUM Friday's headliner is Major Lazer, the new collaboration by Diplo & Switch. Major Lazer will perform together along with a live dance ensemble. On Saturday night, Spectrum goes till 4am, headlined by one of The Color Awesome's current favs, Phoenix. It's unusual to have an SF festival go so late, so there's sure ...
