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High Sierra Music Fest final lineup and late night schedule
High Sierra Music Festival in Quincy, CA is less than two months away and they’re STILL announcing fantastic lineup additions and a stellar late night schedule for this year. Twenty years and still going strong, this roots-oriented festival situated in a quaint mountain town (which offers opportunities to hike, bike, swim and more) runs on community support, generous volunteers and non-corporate sponsors. –> Buy tickets to the fest NOW!
NEW Lineup Additions include:
Matisyahu (in his High Sierra debut)
Mocean Walker
Rubblebucket
Dead Winter Carpenters
Silent Frisco
Big Light
The Nibblers
Living Folklore… see the full and fantastic lineup for more!
And to sweeten the deal a bit, they’ve released their much anticipated Late Night Schedule… and it’s a doozy! Lotus, Big Gigantic, Paper Diamond, STS9 and more will keep your ears and body happy with more musical awesomeness late into the night. Buy tickets to the late night events before they sell out!
Lollapalooza 2012 Lineup Announced!
On Wednesday, Chicago’s own Lollapalooza announced the lineup for this year’s music fest that’s chock full of rock, EDM, hip-hop, and indie favorites. It’s sure to be a hit with any music fan trekking to the festival this summer.
Headlining this year are Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Keys, a reunited (and much anticipated show by) Black Sabbath, and Jack White.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
For the first time in festival history, electronic music has become an important player of Lolla with main stage headliners AVICII, Justice, Bassnectar, and Kaskade.
AVICII
Florence + the Machine, The Shins, a reunited At the Drive-In, Passion Pit, The Weekend, and Sigur Ros are also featured headlining acts.
Florence + the Machine
A couple of other highlights from the lineup that I am pretty stoked about are:
Get your Lolla passes here and check out the Lollapalooza website for the entire list of artists and to create and share your own custom lineup!
Erin L., Marketing Intern
SXSW tuneage and ATX goodness
Oh SXSW… we meet again. You, delectably raucous and mad. Me, grimy sweat cementing my already-sticky bangs to my forehead and glowing with a giant musical smile on my face. You always offer too much fun and so little time, and the rare opportunity to glimpse our musical heroes trekking the dusty downtown streets alongside us on their way to the next big show. You bring us the best of the best, an ever-evolving (and impossible to follow) lineup of bleeding-edgers and lauded mainstays. We’re glad you’re back… we’re just steadying ourselves for your onslaught of awesome.
Excited about all of this SXSW hullabaloo? Want to delve into our carefully curated playlist of bands you may not have heard before but will be rocking your world come two weeks from now? Coming in from out of town (or are a hardy ATXer yourself) and need a little advice on the best Austin has to offer? Yes, yes… and YES!
Go no further. Scope our excellent Spotify playlist of exciting artists playing the fest this year AND pin your little heart away with our SXSW + ATX Pinterest board. You’re welcome.
Metallica launches music fest, Orion Music and More
Metallica are no strangers to huge music festivals OR massive global tours. This time, they’re flipping the tables and launching their own music fest, Orion Music and More, in partnership with C3 Presents. The festival will go down in Atlantic City, New Jersey (Jersey?!) at an abandoned airport, Bader Field.
Metallica will cap off each day of the two-day shindig with a headlining set, playing the Black Album one night and Ride The Lightning the next, in their entirety. But Orion isn’t just about music… along with multiple live music stages there will also be several lifestyle elements that represent each of the band member’s particular interests. Specific details to be disclosed soon.
The lineup is still developing, but so far the confirmed acts are Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, Modest Mouse, The Gaslight Anthem, Cage the Elephant, Fucked Up, Best Coast, Hot Snakes, Titus Andronicus, Gary Clark Jr., Lucero, Roky Erickson, The Black Angels, The Sword, A Place to Bury Strangers and Liturgy. See further event details below.
Orion Music and More
June 23 – 24, 2012
Bader Field
Atlantic City, NJ
Tickets on sale for the public Saturday February 11th at 10am ET
$150 for a 2 Day pass, fees included
BUY TIX HERE!
Coachella 2012 Lineup Announced
The long awaited, and much estimated, Coachella 2012 lineup has finally been announced. Refused and At The Drive In’s return to musical splendor is causing quite ruckus on the interwebz. Some people are touting this year as spectacular, while others are a bit disappointed (per the usual). Tickets go on sale this Friday the 13th at 12pm central –> Weekend One and Weekend Two.
Some that we’re excited about (in no particular order) are:
Black Keys
Yuck
Neon Indian
WU LYF
Jeff Mangum (!!!)
St. Vincent
Flying Lotus
A$AP Rocky
Big Pink
Gary Clark Jr.
La Roux
Wild Flag
Modeselektor
Company Flow
Gardens & Villa
Who’s setting your ears abuzz this year at Coachella?!?!
We Were Promised JammyPacks
So you’re cruising the town on foot, headphones in ears, listening to the raddest album you’ve ever heard. You can’t HELP but want to blare this greatness to the world, but long gone are the days when it was totally acceptable (and soooo fashionable) to tote along a boombox on top of your shoulder.
Enter the JammyPack. JammyPacks are mobile boomboxs positioned inside a fanny pack that you can sport ’round the waist. Yeah, I know.. I want one too!
You can educate the general public on your musical musings, engage strangers in mind-blowing conversation and look REAL cool doing it.
Where would you sport your JammyPack? Yes, you’re going to buy one. And don’t worry, you’re not going to be exiled underground like those ‘I WEAR MY SUNGLASSSES AT NIGHT’ jerks. Here a list of spots where you could sport this rad little bumpin’ pack:
• at Lollapolooza blaring Bob Marley as you’re walking across beautiful Grant Park on your way to see your favorite band play…
• at Occupy Wall Street amplifying corporate jingles because no ‘entity’ could’ve have produced something so awesome…
• at Muscle Beach humming to the tunes of Right Said Fred (truthfully, we can’t think of anything that gets us more amped)…
• at EVO establishing dominance with haudokens and anticipating the next DROP during the Flux Pavilion playlist…
Do YOU want to win a JammyPack AND a pair of tix to SnowGlobe Music Fest? We thought so! Like our Facebook page here to enter!
3 days of pure country at the Capital Hoedown!
Tickets for Canada’s biggest and best country fest are on sale starting Wednesday November 30th at 9am central! Capital Hoedown Country Music Festival will feature some of country’s biggest and brightest stars, including Reba, Taylor Swift, Ronnie Dunn, Terri Clark and Brad Paisley… with more to be announced!
After two extremely successful years, Capital Hoedown Festival is moving to the Walter Baker Park in Ottawa, Ontario. Tickets are very reasonable, starting at only $99 a pop. Various 3-Day Front and Centre VIP passes, as well as single day passes, are available and kids 6 or under attend for FREE!
Check out the Capital Hoedown Country Music Festival Facebook page and their website to get the scoop on this rad festival set for August 2012.
Our fave ACL sets
Here at Front Gate Tickets we worked really hard during this year’s Austin City Limits Festival but we ALSO played really hard. We met some celebs, worked the box office like WHOA and generally sweated our tushes off… oh, and we saw some super rad bands!
A few of us put together short lists of our absolute most FAVE performances of the whole festival. We didn’t get to see EVERY show (we did have to work after all!) but we did manage to squeeze in some killer sets.
Jeff Kreinik – Director of Sales and Marketing
- Gomez
- Coldplay
- Empire of the Sun
- Hayes Carll
Shrie Spangler – Marketing Assistant and Community Manager
- TV on the Radio
- Phosphorescent
- Wanda Jackson
- Skrillex
Jamie Keyes – Ticketing Assistant
- Gillian Welch
- MilkDrive
Foster Jordan – Developer
- Mariachi El Bronx
- Bells of Joy
TV on the Radio
Brendan Moore – Product Manager
- The Head and the Heart
- Fitz & the Tantrums
- TV on the Radio
- Fleet Foxes
- Christian Bale (did you see him too!?)
Dean Mono – Web Developer
- Beardyman
- My Morning Jacket
- Fleet Foxes
- Fitz & the Tantrums
- Christian Bale!
Wanda Jackson
What were YOUR absolute fave sets of the whole festival? Check out our Flickr page to see more photos of the fest, and our Facebook and Twitter pages to read our recaps of celeb sightings and other festival fun!
ACL Fest, the Aftershows, and you
Austin area (and beyond!) fest-goers, the glorious Austin City Limits Music Festival is almost upon us! There is a proverbial s#!%-ton of shows and events going on surrounding the week, and the wonderful people over at Austin Post are making it a little easier on us. Behold, their guide to the ACL Aftershows!
Jonesin’ for some more ACL lineup and aftershow info? No fear. And don’t forget to check back in the coming days to see OUR Top ACL picks for this year’s AWEMAZING lineup!
- 2011 Aftershows via ACLFestival.com
- Buy tickets to the aftershows here!
- Top picks via Music Emissions
- KGSR Top Picks
- Culture Map’s Top 5 Picks
