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Jay-Z to Headline and Curate Festival in Philadelpha

Posted on14. May, 2012 by .

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Jay-Z attends the YouTube Upfronts Presentation at the Beacon Theatre in New York.Jason Kempin/Getty Images for You Tube Jay-Z will headline the Budweiser Made in America festival in Philadelphia this Labor Day weekend. The festival, curated by Jay-Z himself, will feature a roster of nearly 30 acts from many different genres on three stages at [...]

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Alejandro Escovedo Debuts New Songs at Pachanga Latino Music Festival

Posted on14. May, 2012 by .

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Alejandro Escovedo performs at Pachanga in Austin, Texas.J. Dennis Thomas After giving Austin fans an early live look at close to half of his new album, Big Station, on Saturday, Alejandro Escovedo took a few minutes to deliver a sort of mini-memoir, recounting his boyhood travels from Texas to California (“I was the only Chicano [...]

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Paid Dues Festival Reignites with Mix of Big-Name Acts

Posted on09. Apr, 2012 by .

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Tyler, the Creator of Odd Future preforms at the Paid Dues Independent Hip Hop Festival at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California. Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images) “OK: Backpacks. No: Grills.” You could find these statements on the “Permissible Items” list outside the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, but if you consider the alternate [...]

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Festival Alert: My Morning Jacket to Headline Newport Folk Festival

Posted on02. Mar, 2012 by .

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Jim James of My Morning Jacket Erika Goldring/WireImage Newport Folk FestivalMy Morning Jacket, Jackson Browne and Bright Eyes songwriter Conor Oberst will headline the 2012 Newport Folk Festival at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island on July 28th and 29th. The bill will also include performances by Tom Morello, Iron and Wine, Tune-Yards, [...]

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Sunset Junction Festival Officially Canceled

Posted on25. Aug, 2011 by .

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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros perform at last year's Sunset Junction Street Fair Jonathan Leibson/FilmMagic The Sunset Junction Street Fair, a music festival that has been running annually in Los Angeles since 1980, has been officially canceled after the city's Board of Public Works denied organizers permits to hold the event this weekend. The [...]

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Psychedelic Furs, Vaccines, Edward Sharpe Rock Escape to New York Festival

Posted on10. Aug, 2011 by .

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Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros Mason/Getty The inaugural Escape to New York festival – hosted on the wooded and remote Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton, N.Y. this past weekend – had been a long-time dream of curator Fred Fellowes (the creative mastermind behind the U.K.’s Secret Garden Party) who had been [...]

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Watch Performances from Kanrocksas Festival

Posted on06. Aug, 2011 by .

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Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips Lyle A. Waisman/Getty Images The first-ever Kanrocksas Music Festival will kick off tonight at the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. The two-day event will be headlined by Eminem and Muse, and will feature performances by the Black Keys, the Flaming Lips, A Perfect Circle, Ween, Kid Cudi and [...]

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Prince performs first UK festival

Posted on04. Jul, 2011 by .

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4 July 2011 Last updated at 03:48 GMTBy Mark Savage BBC 6 Music Prince has played his first UK festival, with a two-and-a-quarter-hour set at the Hop Farm Festival. Playing to 30,000 fans in rural Kent, he stormed through hits like Purple Rain, U Got The Look, 1999 and Kiss. The 53-year-old star came back [...]

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Pitchfork Announces Paris Festival

Posted on02. Jul, 2011 by .

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Bon Iver Wendy Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images By Christopher R. Weingarten July 1, 2011 2:25 PM ET Tireless review website and increasingly rabid festival booker Pitchfork announced today that they will be bringing their curating talents to the land of Daft Punk for the first annual Pitchfork Music Festival Paris. The two day fest will take place [...]

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Radio 1 unveils Olympics festival

Posted on23. May, 2011 by .

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Leona Lewis and Plan B are among the artists already confirmed for the event BBC Radio 1 have announced that they will hold their annual free music festival in east London in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics. Leona Lewis and Plan B are among the artists confirmed for the two-day event at Hackney Marshes. [...]

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