Bowling Green, Kentucky has never been a hot spot of start-up rock bands, but Cage The Elephant, led by brothers Matt and Brad Shultz have garnered a worthwhile buzz as garage rockers, making them Kentucky’s second most popular rockers behind My Morning Jacket.
On the Broken Social Scene website, Kevin Drew has announced that the Canadian collaborative has started record their first record in four years and have decided to do it with
It’s been one of the most hotly anticipated albums of 2009 since it was first announced: “Dark Night of the Soul,” a collaboration between the producer Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley,
Wayman Tisdale, the one-time Oklahoma star and NBA player who recorded several jazz albums, died at 44 after a two year battle with cancer, the Associated Press reports. Tisdale, a
The Disco Biscuits have announced the addition of eight performances to their Summer 2009 tour dates. “The Road to Camp Bisco Tour” will feature a string of late June performances
The first volume of the long awaited Neil Young Archives series of box sets, produced by Neil Young himself. Volume I covers the period from his earliest recordings with The
The extremely hot Disco Biscuits have added eight shows to their Summer Tour Schedule leading up the band’s Camp Bisco three-day festival at Indian Lookout Country Club near Albany. Check
In our never-ending quest to dig up some great bands that cost less than a corned beef sandwich at Katz’s Deli, we bring you another round of Blips. Blips highlights some great bands that are largely still in their larvae stage, but will soon morph into their beautiful butterfly. In this edition, we have some really cool new music, so take a sec, poke around their various websites, and see what you think of these four under the radar musical groups…
BuzzUniverse
If you caught BuzzUniverse’s eye opening set at Mountain Jam last year you probably aren’t surprised that the eclectic group from New Jersey has been invited back to perform at this year’s festival. BuzzU gets people dancing with their high energy originals and diverse cover selections, a quality that acts as an aural shot of espresso for festival attendees.
READ ON for more about BuzzU and Nashville’s The Sways…
While Jon Hochstat enjoys The City of Lights this week, I thought I’d chime in about one of my favorite food-related events of year – The Ninth Avenue Food Festival.
As some of you may recall, last summer we ran a post detailing the work that goes into the upstart of a music festival. While the increasing incidence of music festivals – and the seemingly infinite corresponding announcements therein – across the nation makes it seem like an easy task; an awful lot goes into each and every one of these festivals. The idea behind this article was to befriend some entrepreneurial music fans in the infancy of creating their own festival. Thus, we met Jimmy Hunt and Wes Hight, the braintrust behind North Carolina’s Music on the Mountaintop music festival.
Continuing on with the series, we caught up with Wes and Jimmy yet again this year, now with a year’s experience under their belts, to look back at the trials and tribulations of last year’s event as well as to check in on how they plan to approach year two of their festie. Hopefully, for those interested in the business side of things, this annual series will provide a transparent ongoing look at the festival scene.
Hidden Track: In terms of scope of the project, are you looking to grow it significantly or keep about the same size? Any plans to go the camping route?
Jimmy: Well, the most exciting thing is this years festival. Our lineup is – in our opinion and all our fans that we’ve spoken – much better! This years lineup is: Keller Williams, Sam Bush, Acoustic Syndicate, The Steep Canyon Rangers, Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, Jon Scales Fourchestra, Do it to Julia, The Naked Gods, Mike Alvarado, Uncle Mountain, The Lost Ridge Band, Hope Massive, The Moderate, Major Magick, Ample Example, Ascella Vega, Native Sway, Bafoodus, and more; w/ a very, very special guest appearance by someone which we can’t announce until closer to the date.
READ ON for more on what exactly goes into running a festival…
