Wednesday, 16 May 2007
Ahh summer, a time for baseball, grilling out, staying up late, drinking more than usual, and enduring days and days of live music courtesy of the plethora of festivals taking place across the US this summer. We’ll do our best to cover the majority of those, especially ones we’re most interested in. We won’t be making in back to Austin this year for ACL, but below you’ll get a flavor for where we’re going and who we’re looking forward to seeing.
As more and more of the major festivals compile similar headliners and musicians it’s our intention to seek out and catch bands we have yet to see live and report on those – so we’ll do our best to hold ourselves to that.
Sasquatch Music Festival
When: May 26th & 27th
Where: The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington
Highlights: M.I.A., Spoon, Grizzly Bear, Patrick Wolf, St. Vincent, and of course Björk and Arcade Fire.
Bonnaroo
When: June 14th – June 17th
Where: Manchester, TN
Highlights: Wilco, The White Stripes, LCD Soundsystem, Manu Chao, The Roots, The Hold Steady, Hot Chip, Feist, Rodrigo y Gabriela, & The National.
Pitchfork Music Festival
When: July 13th – July 15th
Where: Union Park – Chicago, IL
Highlights: Sonic Youth, GZA/Genius, Battles, Califone, Twilight Sad, Beach House, Fujiya & Miyagi, De La Soul, Of Montreal, The Sea & Cake, Deerhunter, and Jamie Lidell.
Lollapalooza
When: August 3rd – August 5th
Where: Grant Park – Chicago, IL
Highlights: Daft Punk, Muse, Modest Mouse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lupe Fiasco, Amy Winehouse, Yo La Tengo, Blonde Redhead, !!!, The Rapture, CSS, Viva Voce
May 16th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I’m jealous that you’re heading to Sasquatch 2007. Be sure to check out the Beastie Boys instrumental set. I *imagine* it’ll be one of the sets of the weekend, and you won’t get any poli-rap on Darfur or Tibet or anything like that.
May 16th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Enjoy the Gorge trip. That’s the one I’d love to be at too. Just don’t wander too far south toward the Hanford Nuke site (just downriver). That place is spewing nuclear waste into the groundwater at some crazy levels. Are you flying into Seattle or Portland? Midwest is servicing Seattle now, finally!! Have fun.
May 17th, 2007 at 3:34 am
on your shows page, interpol is 7.30 not 6.30
May 18th, 2007 at 12:05 am
I’m stoked for Sasquatch too.. although the traffic getting there is going to be a debacle. I wish they’d announce the times each act is playing at soon though!
May 18th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Actually, Travis will be holding down our Sasquatch coverage and recaps. I’ll be here in Madison running a marathon.
May 20th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
ok…i’m as big a fan of indie bands as the next guy, but how do you not include Pearl Jam on the list of bands playing Lollapalooza?
May 20th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Or My Morning Jacket for that matter?
May 20th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Damon, we definitely won’t be missing Pearl Jam as they were THE most important band of my teenage years. As I stated in the post the majority of our focus at these festivals will be to see acts we haven’t seen very much.
We were fortunate enough to see Pearl Jam and My Morning Jacket several times last year, and will most likely catch them both at Lollapalooza.
Thanks for the comment and keeping us in line! You going?
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:49 am
i would not be a true e6/hhbtm fan if i failed to mention
athens popfest
when: august 8-11th
where: athens, georgia
http://hhbtm.com/popfest/main.html
Daniel Johnston, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Circulatory System, Elekibass, Dark Meat, Casper & the Cookies, High Water Marks, Red Pony Clock, Bunnygrunt, the American Revolution, Cars Can Be Blue, M Coast, Darren Hanlon, We Versus the Shark, Ideal Free Distribution, Poison Control Center, Cinemechanica, How I Became the Bomb, the Smittens, Velcro Stars, Kite Flying Society, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Fishboy, Ryan Anderson, Birds of Avalon, Violet Vector & the Lovely Lovelies, Yellow Fever, New Sound of Numbers, Titans of Filth, Patience Please, Venice is Sinking, Hat Company, Christopher’s Liver, Black Kids, Jerk Alert