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DC to BC presents: Trillectro Music Festival
Trillectro Music Festival is back, and even bigger than last year. The good folks at DC to BC have put together a stellar lineup of local and national talent to rock the Half Street Fairgrounds, August 17.
Tickets are on sale now. Check out Trillectro.com for more info.
The DMVicious Guide to Firefly Festival: Sunday Edition
The DMVicious Guide to Firefly Festival: Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Alas, here is the final installment of our Firefly guide. The festival is just days away, and the weather forecast looks amazing. The only thing left to do is pack up your camping gear and figure out how to schedule your days. We have given you the scoop on Friday and Saturday, now it is time to breakdown the Sunday schedule.
Sunday lacks some of the bigger names of the previous two days, but there is still a lot of quality music to be heard. We went ahead and skipped the early bands, because you might need to sleep a little later after two nights of partying–also, there are no real must sees in the first couple of slots.
Rock the Bells festival returns to D.C.
In honor of the touring hip-hop festival’s 10th anniversary, Rock the Bells will pull into D.C.’s RFK Festival Grounds, September 28-29.
This will mark the festival’s triumphant return to the D.C. market after a two-year hiatus. The festival had become a summer staple at Merriweather Post Pavilion, but after Lauryn Hill nearly derailed the entire show in 2010, the touring mega-fest has not returned.
This year, Rock the Bells is back at a bigger venue for two days, and the initial artists announcement is enough to have us sold: Wu-Tang Clan (with an Ol’ Dirty Bastard hologram), Bone Thugs n Harmony (With an Eazy-E hologram), Black Hippy (Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Jay Rock), Kid Cudi, Common, Tyler the Creator, Juicy J, E-40 & Too $hort, Danny Brown, Talib Kweli, Flatbush Zombies, Hopsin, Bodega Bamz and more.
Check out RockTheBells.net for more information.
Playlist: Firefly Festival 2013
Festival season is in full-swing and we are just over one month away from the best festival on the East Coast. Check out our playlist of Firefly artists and get pumped for June 21-23.
Related: New Additions to Firefly Lineup! | Firefly Festival 2013 Lineup!!
New additions to Firefly lineup!
Firefly Festival announced this morning that the Royal Concept had dropped out of the lineup. Festival organizers also announced that He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister and Earl Sweatshirt have been added to the lineup. We’ll take that trade any day of the week!
Re-Cap: Sweetlife Festival 2013
Shark Week opens up Sweetlife Festival 2013.
There is an unwirtten law of the universe somewhere that says every time we go to a show at Merriweather Post Pavilion, it has to rain for at least 40-percent of the time we are there. Not just sprinkle either, like at least one extended period of monsoon-esque conditions is required.
Despite the weather being a schizophrenic asshole (we came home sunburned AND soaked), it was a pretty good time. This was our first foray into the salad-centric world of the Sweetlife Festival and the quality of the whole production was quite astounding.
This festival makes much better use of the space at Merriweather than the larger–also freer– Virgin Mobile FreeFest. There was a coherent, whimsical theme all throughout the festival grounds Saturday. The whole place felt like a big, loud farmer’s market. There was an emphasis on local vendors (food trucks, DC Brau and Chocolate City beer vendors) and everything just seemed to work better.
As for the music, here’s a blow-by-blow of our day at Sweetlife: Continue reading
Lineup announced for Austin City Limits 2013
You are probably just as sick of reading these festival posts as we are sick of writing them, but ACL 2013’s lineup is off the chains, y’all.
Highlights: Depeche Mode, the Cure, Muse, Kings of Leon, Atoms for Peace, Lionel Richie, Phoenix, Wilco, Vampire Weekend, Passion Pit, Arctic Monkeys, Queens of the Stone Age, Fun., Kendrick Lamar, Franz Ferdinand, D’Angelo, Tame Impala, Local Natives, Shouting Matches, Toro y Moi, Grimes, Potugal. the Man, Divine Fits, Grouplove, Jimmy Eat World, Purity Ring, Haim, Smith Westerns, Wild Belle, Foxygen, FIDLAR, and a shitload of other bands too.
Check the ACL 2013 website for the full lineup and event information.
RDGLDGRN brings it back home for DC101’s Chili Cook-Off
On what turned out to be a beautiful Saturday afternoon in Washington, D.C., thousands of people from all walks of life flocked to RFK Stadium for DC101’s Chili Cook-Off. We got there real nice and early, because the only band we had any interest in seeing was the opener, RDGLDGRN.
Hailing from Fairfax, Va., RDGLDGRN are enjoying a recent run that includes standout performances at SXSW and the band’s television debut on Jimmy Kimmel, Live! That recent run of accomplishments will continue this week as the band embarks on its first European tour and jumps on-board the Van’s Warped Tour later this summer.
The band’s set Saturday afternoon was far beyond what is expected out of the “local band who opens a festival” slot. Frankly, looking at the rest of the bill, RDGLDGRN could have easily filled a late-afternoon slot.
What really sets RDGLDGRN apart from any other band that is out right now, is the band’s ability to seamlessly blend go-go beats with pop-rock and hip-hop. It ends up creating a sound that is distinctly D.C. and brings a totally different kind of energy to an event like the DC101 Chili Cook-Off.
After the band left the stage to chants of “Red-Gold-Green,” we got a chance to catch up with Red (guitar), Gold (bass) and Green (vocals) backstage. The guys discussed the origins of RDGLDGRN and how they ended up working with Dave Grohl and Pharrell Williams.
Lineup announced for Moonrise Festival
Steez Promo’s Moonrise Festival brings Baltimore a pretty epic weekend of EDM artists with a few rappers sprinkled in the mix.
This year’s headliners are Pretty Lights and Snoop Dogg/Lion.
Other notable acts include: Borgore, Crookers, STS9, Datsik, Eric Prydz, Flux Pavilion, Flosstradamus, the GZA, Infected Mushroom, Krewella, NERO, Paul Van Dyk, Porter Robinson, Hopsin and many more.
The festival will invade Baltimore’s Sun Park, June 8-9. GA passes are available for $149 at Ticketfly.
Budweiser Made In America 2013: Complete lineup
Jay-Z and Budweiser began slowly announcing this year’s lineup at 12 p.m. via Spotify. All the artists have now been announced. Made In America managed to score a couple big-ticket acts that are otherwise absent on the festival circuit this year: Beyonce, Nine Inch Nails, Deadmau5 and Wiz Khalifa.
Other highlights include: Phoenix, Calvin Harris, Black Hippy (Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Jay-Rock), A$AP Rocky, Queens of the Stone Age, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Solange, 2 Chainz, Imagine Dragons, Walk the Moon, Fitz and the Tantrums, Haim, Feed Me, Public Enemy, Nero, Alunageorge and more.
With Queen Bey headlining the festival, and Jay-z curating the lineup, you can probably bank on a HOV sighting at some point as well.
The festival will return to Philadelphia, August 31-September 1.
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