Exploring our addiction to the live music experience |
Earlier this year we featured the wonders of the 2010 Moogfest and the story behind the festival’s tribute to live music history. Today tickets for the 2011 festival go on sale, and the lineup this year gives us a great opportunity to continue our exploration of several bands — The Flaming Lips, Battles, Umphrey’s McGee [...]
Halfway through the summer Pitchfork Music Festival gave me the chance to experience many of my favorite bands in a live setting for the first time. Over the course of three days, some left my jaw on the ground while others left me shaking my head in disappointing disarray. Not so with the Flaming Lips. [...]
I hope you enjoyed Pitchfork Day One and Two Wrap ups. And now it’s time to wrap it all up. The final day of Pitchfork Music Festival 2009 presented everything from great feets of human determination and strength to gigantic floating bubbles. Pharoahe Monch, The Walkmen, Blizten Trapper and The Flaming Lips all showed why they were in Pitchfork [...]
Union Park continued to rock as Day Two of Pitchfork Music Festival showcased a burly frontman who knows how to completely obliterate the barrier between the crowd and the band. I’m talking about punk rockers F**ked Up who, along with their burly leader Pink Eye, provided the heat while the sun hid behind the clouds. To give you [...]
Today I’ll be heading to Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, Chicago. This will be my third time covering the festival. This will also be a year where there are multiple interesting sub-plots swirling beneath the overall event of enjoying some of the best indie-rock, hip hop and electronica that the world has to offer. It [...]
In the spirit of the SXSW music festival this week in Austin, TX, here’s a historical tribute to the art of live music experimentation as performed by one of its innovators: The Flaming Lips. In 1997, at the eleventh SXSW Music festival, The Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne conducted what he deemed “Parking Lot [...]
