Warning: the following post contains more Phish geekery than journalistic integrity…but, really, who cares what you think? Ten years ago today the popular rock band Phish set off for a
Add Langerado to the growing list of festivals remaking themselves so as to benefit from economies of scale. Or something. We don’t know really know what that means.
For better or worse, the big outdoor festival scene continues to diversify from what were typically jamband-dominated affairs to more varied lineups capable of drawing both hippies and hipsters. We’re slowly phasing out free hugs, nitrous tanks and grilled cheese while simultaneously ushering in silent contempt, post-ironic T-shirts and [something hipsters eat].
This one’s a bit more curious, but for the most part the trend continues: Five days after missing the initial artist deadline, Langerado promoters finally confirmed REM, the Beastie Boys and Phil Lesh will headline the 2008 Langerado Festival alongside 311, The Roots, Ani DiFranco, Thievery Corp. and more. Now settled at Big Cypress on March 6th – 9th, Langerado aims to double the size of last year’s crowd at Markham Park in Sunrise, which hosted the festival for the last three years.
Tickets go onsale this Friday at 12pm and include camping as well as late night shows on site. Read on for the full lineup, and look for more artists to be added soon:
Col. Bruce Hampton & the Quark Alliance release their debut album Give Thanks To Chank today featuring all new originals songs written by the esteemed Colonel and Jeff Caldwell. The
The first time I ever saw Tom Petty was when I caught the trippy Don’t Come Around Here video on MTV back in 1985. I was eight at the time
Fourteen years, two days and one untimely death after Nirvana recorded the salad-days soundtrack of so many lazy college afternoons, the first-ever DVD release of Unplugged in New York will hit online and actual shelves. On November 20th, it’ll be time to break out the flannel.
The new release will feature the complete, unedited 66-minute concert, and if Ron Popeil were here right now he’d tell you that’s not all: The DVD also includes Something In The Way and Oh Me, two performances not aired during the original 44-minute broadcast. But wait, there’s more…if you act now, they’ll throw in five previously unreleased rehearsal performances and MTV News interviews with the band and audience members. Super.
Now as part of our Everybody Wins When I Plug Something And In Return They Offer Me Free Shit To Give Away contest, we’ll send you a free copy of this DVD if you chime in below and answer this query from Lake of Fire, obviously the best track from the evening: Aside from this so-called lake of fire, where do bad folks go when they die if they don’t go to heaven where the angels fly?
If I could enter, I’d guess they go to a cold, secluded room where they’re tag-teamed by the stand-up comedy stylings of Elayne Boosler and Rita Rudner while highlights of Jm J. Bullock‘s best Hollywood Squares jokes run on an A Clockwork Orange-type projector screen in between sets. But I can’t enter, so go get ’em. This contest ends on Friday, November 16th, so sound off early and often…
Bruce Springsteen loves Joe Torre, so when the former Yankee manager asked him to play a few songs at his Safe At Home benefit on Friday night, The Boss gladly
Your ol’ Ace Cowboy heads out on a four-city, five-day work junket at 6:20 AM. I’ll be away from my regular station all week and checking in only periodically, but
It’s been football all day and it’ll be football all night following two straight evenings of live music. Friday night brought me to my first Phil & Friends show of
It’s been a long fucking week here at HT HQ — longer than the last note in A Day in the Life — so let’s head into the weekend on
It turns out Prince is not suing his fans: “…[Prince] is simply looking to provide Prince fans with exclusive music and images entirely free of charge, and bypassing unofficial and unauthorised phoney fan sites that exploit both consumers and artists.” Still, it was fun to see an artist fuck over his fans that royally, even if the whole wispy mustachioed episode now seems to be a big understanding.
