Posts Tagged ‘festival’

Austin City Limits Release 2013 Lineup and Tickets

Posted on May 9th, 2013 by in Festivals, Gig News

2013 sees Austin City Limits ‘do a Coachella’, and host two weekends of the popular festival in the same month – the weekends will feature the same headliners and supporting acts, with only a few changes of local talent.

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Lollapalooza Full Line-Up Announced; Single Day Tickets on Sale This Week

Posted on April 2nd, 2013 by in Festivals, Music News

The monster festival Lollapalooza yesterday announced that The Killers, Mumford & Sons and The Cure will be the three top headliners for the summer event in Chicago, taking place from August 2nd to 4th 2013.

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A.V. Festival 2012

Posted on August 29th, 2012 by in Festivals

The Onion’s A.V. Club successfully threw its hat into the ever growing ring of publication sponsored music festivals last year. They took over the street outside The Hideout and filled it with food trucks, beer, and a strong two-day bill of musical acts. It’s back for 2012, with a twist…

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Summer Set Music & Camping Festival 2012, Wisconsin

Posted on August 1st, 2012 by in Festivals

Summer Set Camping and Music Festival is three days in the beautiful countryside of Somerset, Wisconsin. Check out some of the leading indie, electronic, hip hop, and mash up acts that will be performing there in 2012.

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New Dan Deacon single ‘True Thrush’ from forthcoming ‘America’ LP

Posted on July 11th, 2012 by in New Music

Dan Deacon releases True Thrush, a hip summer anthem and the second single from the forthcoming album ‘America’. Available to buy now, or you can stream it here…

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North Coast Music Festival 2012

Posted on May 2nd, 2012 by in Festivals

Third season for the Chicago summer stage Labor day weekend means many things to many people. For the last two summers, it has meant the arrival of a new festival on the Mid-West scene. Taking place in Union Park, the North Coast Music Festival arrived with a bang in 2010, headlining with legendary acts such [...]

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Lollapalooza 2012 Line-up

Posted on April 11th, 2012 by in Festivals, Music News

The big one hits Chicago on August 3rd-5th. This summer sees the 21st edition of the legendary Lolapalooza festival in Chicago. Today the full line-up was announced through all official channels, and the headliners include funk-punkers Red Hot Chili Peppers, blues-rockers The Black Keys, the ‘everything-i-touch-turns-to-gold’ Jack White, classic rock legends Black Sabbath, reformed post-hardcore [...]

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Coachella 2012 Line-up Announced

Posted on January 11th, 2012 by in Festivals

Twin weekend events in the California desert. Being one of the biggest music festivals in the US, we get very excited for Coachella each year, and we’re obviously not the only ones; the 2011 event sold out in just one week, breaking all records for the previous 11 years.

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2011 Outside Lands Festival Wrap-Up

Posted on August 24th, 2011 by in Festivals

Recently, I attended the 2011 Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco, CA at Golden Gate Park.  For those of you who are unaware of Outside Lands, I suggest you dig yourself out from under your rock and join the rest of the mustache sporting, marijuana indulging, barefoot dancing, cut-off jean shorts wearing Hipsters that [...]

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A.V. Fest: September 10-11, Chicago

Posted on August 19th, 2011 by in Festivals

Simultaneously summarizing their nonchalant, fun attitude and also throwing them into the ‘website-now-hosting-a-music-event’ pool, The A.V. Club of Chicago has announced “Screw it, we’re doing a music festival too.” To be held outside The Hideout (1354 West Wabansia Avenue) over the weekend of September 10th and 11th, The A.V. Fest will see 12 bands play, [...]

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