Nothing says summer like outdoor music festivals, and though there are plenty of heavy hitters spanning the country and beyond in the next few months, Los Angeles is celebrating early with the Jubilee Music and Arts Festival – a two-day all-ages event that includes indoor and outdoor live performances by emerging and touring musicians,
We’re in Montreal. Lots of banging on casseroles and getting naked! Life is certainly crazy, but our festival is HAPPENING this year, from September 19th to the 23rd. POP is Serious, it’s a totally curated affair, that will entertain, enliven and educate the hip and the needy. Get ready for a lot of mind blowing
From BILLBOARD: Although CBGB officially closed its famed New York location in 2006, the shuttered club — founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973 — has lived on through CBGB fashions and radio. Now, the first ever CBGB festival will take place July 5-8 at venues across the city. The New York Times reports that the
Ok, I’ll be honest. I’m a little bitter about not going to Coachella this year. Having gone the past two years, I’m no stranger to that pre-Coachella feeling: in a few weekends I’ll be yearning for the desert sun, the overpriced food, the kick-ass people, and, most importantly, the kick-ass music. So, while I’m busy
SXSW is getting closer! As their web site says: ‘The list of invited acts is growing by each day’. The list is already huge and they’re still adding bands. There’s a lot of new faces (Bruce Springsteen notwithstanding – but Yay Bruce). They already booked BestNewBands.com favorites Grace Potter + The Nocturnals (shown above), Letting
Halloween weekend sparks the second annual Moogfest, a festival dedicated to Robert Moog, the man whose musical creativity and inventiveness changed the path of music and pioneered the electronic genre. When his first Moog synthesizers were introduced in the 60’s, they were among the first electronic instruments to gain international appreciation among musicians and were
Fellow Angelenos, this upcoming Sunday fruitfully offers us some killer options for entertainment. First, we have Abbot Kinney Festival. Here’s what the website has to say: “Since its founding in 1984, the Abbot Kinney Festival has grown in size and popularity to become one of the largest community events of its kind in the country.
If you live in Los Angeles, you might have seen those janky little blue banners spraypainted with block letters reading “PACIFIC FESTIVAL AUGUST 13″ that flap on chain-link fences above freeways. But, where they lack in marketing budget and strategy, they make up for in lineup. So if you’re in the Orange County area,
Photo by Rachele Johnson I was pretty hesitant to head over to see Biffy Clyro headline the main stage at Sonisphere last night. I didn’t think anything could top the intimate, mainly acoustic performance I’d been lucky enough to witness at the Bootleg Theater in L.A. back in March. Nonetheless, I followed about a trillion