There is a music festival where I live in the September. It’s similar to SXSW in nature. I was checking out the lineup to see if I might want to go but I am so out of touch that I don’t know who anyone is. I was wondering if you would look over the lineup and see if you spot any good bands.
You are joking, right?
YouTube is your friend.
I know who X, Godflesh, and Dwight Yoakam are.
And of those three bands I can name I think 1 or 2 songs total.
Looks like mostly a bunch of up-and-coming hipster bands. I couldn’t tell you if they’re any good because I have no idea what’s good anymore anyway. I’m pretty sure I would hate 99% of them, though.
If tickets are fairly cheap and you felt like exploring some new music stuff, check it out. Get drunk and walk around eating churros and telling kids their music sucks. I’d join you if I could.
[reply]Looks like mostly a bunch of up-and-coming hipster bands. I couldn’t tell you if they’re any good because I have no idea what’s good anymore anyway. I’m pretty sure I would hate 99% of them, though.
If tickets are fairly cheap and you felt like exploring some new music stuff, check it out. Get drunk and walk around eating churros and telling kids their music sucks. I’d join you if I could.
That’s about what I am thinking. Ticket prices aren’t extreme. I can get a VIP ticket for the whole 3 day thing for $250 which isn’t too bad. I’d definitely want the VIP ticket so that I wouldn’t have to wait in line behind a bunch of hipsters.[/reply]
That’s not bad. VIP is the way to go on these things. You usually get access to the better food and beverage tents with misters and cooling fans as well as some other perks to make some of the awful aspects of concerts and festivals a little less awful.
I saw Godspeed You! Black Emperor open for NIN in Vegas.
Meh.
you two are more lax than I. I hate festivals. I certainly wouldn’t throw down over two bills on a concert with people I knew unless I was guaranteed a meeting with someone I want to meet, Slash, Al, Danzig, etc, let alone a bunch of never heard ofs.
you two are more lax than I. I hate festivals. I certainly wouldn’t throw down over two bills on a concert with people I knew unless I was guaranteed a meeting with someone I want to meet, Slash, Al, Danzig, etc, let alone a bunch of never heard ofs.
I was trying to help DJ-Pon-3 make an informed decision. He was asking about a bunch of bands/artists he was unfamiliar with and is obviously a bit more open-minded to new things than I am. I’m not really a festival guy either, but if it was convenient to go and I had nothing better to do, I could still see myself walking around pounding beers and eating funnel cakes and enjoying the event.
I don’t care too much about meeting rock stars. I’m more into rocking out and people watching. I’ll have to do some homework to see if I can find a string of bands worth seeing each day. I’m wanting it to be worth going to but is keeps coming up lame.
I am with you on the people watching. I don’t care about meeting rock stars either, unless they’re the rock stars I wanna meet. but still you can people watch a club for a five dollar cover and save yourself 245.00
[reply]you two are more lax than I. I hate festivals. I certainly wouldn’t throw down over two bills on a concert with people I knew unless I was guaranteed a meeting with someone I want to meet, Slash, Al, Danzig, etc, let alone a bunch of never heard ofs.
I was trying to help DJ-Pon-3 make an informed decision. He was asking about a bunch of bands/artists he was unfamiliar with and is obviously a bit more open-minded to new things than I am. I’m not really a festival guy either, but if it was convenient to go and I had nothing better to do, I could still see myself walking around pounding beers and eating funnel cakes and enjoying the event.[/reply]
I hear ya’, Gunnar. you have a good time wherever you go. That I envy.
If you are going to drop that kind of cash, join us in Chicago for ColdWavesIV.
You will get to see Godflesh inside at Metro.
OK, you want the lowdown. Here’s what I know:
TV On The Radio: Not bad. They get a lot of good press, and they deserve it, for the most part. Sort of a doo-wop group influenced by the Pixies.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: As has been said here before, they opened for NIN. Stirring instrumental post-rock, but they take forever to get to “the good parts.” Dunno how this is going to sound in an outside setting.
Pusha T: A rapper, better than most.
Deerhunter: Slightly glammy krauty indie rock. The lead singer is a riveting victim of Marfan’s syndrome (look it up). Not a good act to see alone, but a good line-up builder.
Godflesh: I don’t need to go there, do I?
Battles: Complicated instrumental rock in the vein of Pittsburgh’s late-90s “complicated instrumental rock” scene. Includes a former member or two of Don Caballero, and of course, drummer John Stanier has done time in Helmet, Tomahawk, and Mark of Cain.
Eyehategod: Sludge rock at its second-finest. (Finest goes to the Melvins.)
Old Man Gloom: The new metal project from the dude who spearheaded Isis (the band, not the Bush-created terrorist group).
Prurient: Noise act. Most of you probably know about him already.
Tombs: Industrial metal without the cliches. The closest thing to a modern-sounding Godflesh I’ve heard. Highly recommended.
The rest, either you’ve heard of them (X, Yoakam) or, I dunno, I don’t know half of these people. That’s the best I can do.
That’s a really good lineup, but I hate festivals. Still…
TV On The Radio - kind of like an alternative version of The Roots, I guess? I don’t care for 'em, but they opened for Nine Inch Nails.
Dwight Yoakam - you don’t know who Dwight Yoakam is? He’s sort of the last gasp of mainstream country before it went all to hell in the late '80s.
Godspeed You Black Emperor - jammy psychedelic postrock. I think they’re dull, but lots of folks love 'em.
Deerhunter - a modern alt rock band. The kind of band Pitchfork loves to write about. Also opened for NIN.
X - c’mon, you know X, right?
Godflesh - you’ve been here long enough to be familiar with Godflesh.
Roky Erickson - one of my all time favorites. He’s old, and his brain is eaten away with schizophrenia, but at his core he’s an amazing man with an amazing history. Look up the documentary on him. Seriously.
Eyehategod - that metal stuff kids seem to like these days.
Chelsea Wolfe - a folksy chick that metal fans dig. Or something.
Wovenhand - Christian rock. But like, snake handling, strychnine drinking speaking in tongues Christian rock. They opened for Swans in the past. Rootsy and kind of psychedelic and frequently heavy. The guy’s first band was 16 Horsepower.
Dwight Yoakam played the sadistic bastard Doyle in “Sling Blade”.
“Well I don’t understand NONE of it!!! This one begat this one and that one begat that one and begat begat begat and JUST HOW RETARDED ARE YOU ANYWAY???”
I’ll have to let Lowelly know if I’m ever considering a music festival. That was quite a nice little synopsis.
Dwight Yoakam played the sadistic bastard Doyle in “Sling Blade”.
“Well I don’t understand NONE of it!!! This one begat this one and that one begat that one and begat begat begat and JUST HOW RETARDED ARE YOU ANYWAY???”
Yokam played the cool as ice Doctor in Crank, as well
Dwight Yoakam played the sadistic bastard Doyle in “Sling Blade”.
“Well I don’t understand NONE of it!!! This one begat this one and that one begat that one and begat begat begat and JUST HOW RETARDED ARE YOU ANYWAY???”
Reckon that’s a real fine movie, mmmmmm-hmmmm.
[reply]Dwight Yoakam played the sadistic bastard Doyle in “Sling Blade”.
“Well I don’t understand NONE of it!!! This one begat this one and that one begat that one and begat begat begat and JUST HOW RETARDED ARE YOU ANYWAY???”
Yokam played the cool as ice Doctor in Crank, as well[/reply]
Also the lunatic burglar in Panic Room.
I’ve seen Deerhunter a few times live and they’re great live.
So many bands that I lost interest in looking. Yep, 90% hipster garbage from what I could see.
I only listen to Chelsea Wolfe, Godflesh, and Prurient from that lineup.