Dizzee Rascal News:
News: Pitchfork Music Festival Three-Day Passes Sold Out!
From feeds.pitchforkmedia.com at 16/05/08 08:15 PM. 0 comments.
Let the stampede continue! As of right now, three-day passes for the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival are no longer available. Those suckers sold out! That'll happen with tickets to the only festival that offers the remote possibility of witnessing an interaction between Les Savy Fav frontman Tim Harrington and Public Enemy jester/VH1 reality star Flavor Flav.
But never fear, dear snoozers, you haven't lost out. Still available are $50 two-day passes for the Saturday and Sunday portion of the festival as well as $30 individual tickets for all three days. We recommend making your way to TicketWeb sooner rather than later.
Just a reminder: The festival takes place July 18-20 at Chicago's Union Park. Just like last year, the whole shebang kicks off with an ATP/Don't Look Back night, featuring Public Enemy, Mission of Burma, and Sebadoh each performing one of their classic albums in its entirety.
For a refresher course, here's the full lineup (note: Fuck Buttons are now performing on Saturday and Occidental Brothers Dance Band International are now performing on Sunday):
Friday, July 18:
Pitchfork Music Festival and All Tomorrow's Parties present "Don't Look Back"
Public Enemy performing It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Sebadoh performing Bubble and Scrape
Mission of Burma performing Vs.
Saturday, July 19:
Animal Collective
Jarvis Cocker
Vampire Weekend News:
Vampire Weekend, Animal Collective for Toronto day-fest
From www.nme.com at 16/05/08 07:04 PM. 0 comments.
Vampire Weekend, Animal Collective and Tokyo Police Club are among the acts lined up to play this year's Rogers Picnic festival in Toronto.
Radiohead News:
Rainbow warriors rated
From blogs.guardian.co.uk at 16/05/08 04:09 PM. 0 comments.
Radiohead have launched a new initiative encouraging fans to consider how they travel to their forthcoming gigs, after their survey of a previous tour showed fans travel has the greatest impact on the CO2 impact. So we asked carbon...
Dizzee Rascal News:
News: Cat Power, Vampire Weekend Play Rogers Picnic
From feeds.pitchforkmedia.com at 16/05/08 11:00 AM. 0 comments.
With Animal Collective, Dizzee Rascal, Tokyo Police Club, Born Ruffians
Whoever this Roger is, he'd better have a pretty big fucking lawn. We just got our invite to the Rogers Picnic in Toronto on July 20, and once everybody hears about the evening's entertainment, he might wanna think about packing enough plastic cutlery to go around.
Joining Roger at this year's bash are Animal Collective, Cat Power, Vampire Weekend, Dizzee Rascal, Tokyo Police Club, Born Ruffians, Chromeo, the Carps, and only-in-Canada headliners Alexisonfire side project City and Colour.
Oh, so it's not at some dude named Roger's pad, but rather at downtown Toronto's Fort York? And Rogers is actually not a dude but a cell phone company? Really?! What, are you now going to try to tell me that the O2 Wireless Festival isn't named after oxygen or something?
The Raconteurs Video:
The Raconteurs on Later... with Jools Holland
From bbc.co.uk at 16/05/08 10:59 AM. 0 comments.
The Raconteurs Link:
5 out of 5 review of Hammersmith gig on Daily Mail website
From www.dailymail.co.uk at 16/05/08 10:47 AM. 0 comments.
The Raconteurs Photos:
Jack White meeting the fans
From www.flickr.com at 16/05/08 10:01 AM. 0 comments.
Vampire Weekend News:
Vampire Weekend play intimate Great Escape show
From www.nme.com at 16/05/08 06:51 AM. 0 comments.
Vampire Weekend played a headline show at the Great Escape festival last night (Thursday May 15) at the Concorde 2 venue.
Radiohead Photos:
Radiohead, 5\11\08, Bristow, VA, Nissan Pavillion
From www.flickr.com at 15/05/08 11:05 PM. 0 comments.
The Raconteurs News:
The Raconteurs announce surprise Los Angeles gig
From www.nme.com at 15/05/08 09:10 PM. 0 comments.
The Raconteurs have announced that they will play a one-off intimate club gig in Los Angeles this weekend.
Dizzee Rascal Video:
Fat Boy Slim Dirtee Stankin......
From youtube.com at 15/05/08 08:46 PM. 0 comments.
Radiohead News:
News: Radiohead, Live Nation Respond to Virginia Washout
From feeds.pitchforkmedia.com at 15/05/08 08:15 PM. 0 comments.
Live Nation offers New Jersey gig tickets to fans who missed Radiohead's VA show
"Huge disappointment."
"A disaster."
"The worst concert-going experience of my lifetime."
"Total heinousness!"
Those are just a few of the colorful comments sent in by Pitchfork readers regarding Radiohead's May 11 gig at the Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Virginia. They're not talking about the quality of the band's performance, mind. Most of them, in fact, never got to see it.
As a Washington Post report indicates-- echoing what confused and upset fans wrote to Pitchfork and posted to blogs and message boards this week-- torrential rainfall flooded access roads leading to Nissan Pavilion, resulting in a traffic jam that stranded more than a few of the gig-bound within miles of the venue, left only to imagine how awesome "Bodysnatchers" sounds live.
A Post review of the show even notes that Thom Yorke dedicated "Fake Plastic Trees" that night "to those who missed the show because of the rain and traffic."
Some flustered folks report having been directed to drive in circles for hours before giving up and going home, and all seem to agree that the Live Nation-run Nissan Pavilion-- apparently no stranger to lousy weather-- could have handled the situation much, much better. Nearly all who were given the run-around (drive-around?), understandably, want their money back.
The Raconteurs News:
Bob Dylan, Raconteurs for New American Music Festival
From www.nme.com at 15/05/08 05:48 PM. 0 comments.
Bob Dylan, The Raconteurs, Gnarls Barkley and Spoon have all been lined up to play the very first New American Music Festival this summer in Pittsburgh, PA.
The Raconteurs Link:
Good review on Gigwise of Hammersmith gig
From www.gigwise.com at 15/05/08 03:49 PM. 0 comments.
Tapes 'n Tapes Link:
Acoustic video of 'Hang Them All' on Fake DIY
From www.thisisfakediy.co.uk at 15/05/08 12:28 PM. 0 comments.
Vampire Weekend Link:
Good review of Edinburgh gig on New Noise
From www.new-noise.net at 15/05/08 10:55 AM. 0 comments.
Cajun Dance Party Link:
5 out of 5 for The Colourful Life on Subba Cultcha
From www.subba-cultcha.com at 15/05/08 10:20 AM. 0 comments.
The Raconteurs News:
The Raconteurs return to London
From www.nme.com at 15/05/08 09:32 AM. 0 comments.
Jack White's 'other' band The Raconteurs made their return to London last night (May 14) after a two-year absence.
Vampire Weekend News:
News: Battles, Diplo, Lidell, Vamp Weekend Do SummerStage
From feeds.pitchforkmedia.com at 14/05/08 08:35 PM. 0 comments.
Plus: Afrika Bambaataa, Seun Kuti, A-Trak, Kid Sister, Black Dice, Sharon Jones/Dap-Kings
A small sampling of the artists playing Central Park's Rumsey Playfield between June 13 and August 17 looks like this: Battles, Jamie Lidell, Vampire Weekend, Kid Sister, Afrika Bambaataa, Diplo, A-Trak, Mavis Staples, Seu Jorge, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Black Dice, Santogold, Born Ruffians, Gang Gang Dance, Plastic Little, Los Lobos, Bebel Gilberto, Alejandro Escovedo, Thievery Corporation, Vieux Farka Touré, Los Lonely Boys, Kinky, Richard Price, Stephanie McKay, Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, Gilles Peterson, Kid Cudi, Skatalites, and the Roy Hargrove Big Band.
Since all SummerStage events are free of charge, City Parks Foundation is also hosting benefit concerts to raise money for the performing arts festival. Those benefit shows include appearances by the National, Yeasayer, Mark Knopfler, Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Sonny Rollins.