Music Snitch

With all the music festivals going on this summer it’s difficult to keep track of who’s playing where, but the folks at Pitchfork just made it a bit easier.  You can check out their summer festival guide here.

Austin City Limits Festival 2010: October 8th-10th @ Zilker Park

Lineup includes artists like: Muse, The National, Flaming Lips, Band of Horses, Vampire Weekend, The xx, Monsters of Folk, Broken Bells, Yeasayer, Beach House, The Strokes, Girls, Local Natives, Gaslight Anthem, Pete Yorn, LCD Soundsystem, Spoon, The Black Keys, Phish…etc.

You can check out the complete roster here.

The Lollapalooza 2010 line-up guessing game just concluded and you can now check out the entire roster.  The line-up is pretty stacked!

Here are a few of this year’s Lolla artists: The Strokes, Phoenix, Hot Chip, The Black Keys, The National, Spoon, Grizzly Bear, Wolfmother, Yeasayer, MuteMath, The xx, Drive-By Truckers, Frightened Rabbit,  F**k Buttons, Deer Tick, Blitzen Trapper, Stars, The Antlers, The Soft Pack…

For more details head over to the official Lollapalooza site.

Apparently competitive eaters, like Kobayashi, eat small amounts of food prior to their huge pig-out session in order to stretch their stomach muscles.   It’s no secret that SXSW is right around the corner, but did you know about the two festivals taking place this coming weekend (start tomorrow)?

There is the second annual fundraiser, ‘Harvest of Hope Foundation Music and Arts Festival’, which takes place on March 12-14th and located at the St. Johns County Fairgrounds in St. Augustine, Florida.  The line-up includes bands such as: Freelance Whales, Bear in Heaven, Dr. Dog, Broken Social Scene, The Mountain Goats, Rogue Wave, Anti-Flag, Sea Wolf, Delta Spirit, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Dead Confederate, A Wilhelm Scream, Portugal. the Man…and more.  Check out the lineup here.

Than there is ‘Foburg’, the music festival organized by The New Orleans Indie Rock Collective that takes place on March 12-14th at Frenchmen St in New Orleans.  The line-up includes bands such as: Caddywhompus, My Name Is John Michael, Sun Hotel, The Pharmacy, The Bears of Blue River, The Blue Party, Silent Cinema, Brass Bed…and more. Check out the lineup here.

So if you’re heading to SXSW maybe you can stretch your belly with one of these festivals, and if you’re not descending upon the city of Austin on the 17th, perhaps you can fulfill your appetite with either Foburg or Harvest of Hope.

The 2010 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival will take place June 10th – 13th in Manchester, Tennessee.  Here’s the line-up thus far:

For more information head on over to the official Bonnaroo website.

2010 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival Lineup:
April 16th, 17th & 18th @ Empire Polo Club in Indio, California

Friday, April 16th: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Fever Ray, Grace Jones, She & Him, Erol Alkan, The Avett Brothers, Calle 13, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Cribs, La Roux, Yeasayer, Lucero, DJ Lance Rock, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Proxy, Ra Ra Riot, Deer Tick, Wolfgang Gartner, Aeroplane, Iglu & Hartly, Sleigh Bells, P.O.S., Baroness, Hockey, Little Dragon, White Rabbits, Wale, Kate Miller-Heidke, As Tall as Lions, Jets Overhead, Alana Grace, Pablo Hassan.

Saturday, April 17th: Muse, Faith No More, Tiësto, MGMT, David Guetta, The Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo, Coheed and Cambria, Kaskade, 2Many DJ’s, Major Lazer, Dirty Projectors, Gossip, Z-Trip, The xx, John Waters, Les Claypool, The Raveonettes, Mew, Sia, Camera Obscura, Tokyo Police Club, Porcupine Tree, Old Crow Medicine Show, Aterciopalados, Bassnectar, Frightened Rabbit, Dirty South, Flying Lotus, Corinne Bailey Rae, Pretty Lights, Shooter Jennings, RX Bandits, The Almighty Defenders, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Craze & Klever, Zoe, The Temper Trap, Portugal. The Man, Band of Skulls, Girls, Beach House, Steel Train, Frank Turner.

Sunday, April 18th: Gorillaz, Pavement, Phoenix, Thom Yorke & ???, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, MUTEMATH, Deerhunter, Infected Mushroom, Club 75, Matt & Kim, The Big Pink, Gil Scott-Heron, King Khan and the Shrines, Florence and the Machine, Yann Tiersen, Little Boots, Miike Snow, Talvin Singh, Ceu, B.o.B., Babasonicos, Owen Pallett, The Glitch Mob, Mayer Hawthorne, Local Natives, Rusko, The Middle East, Hadouken!, The Soft Pack, Kevin Devine, Paparazzi, Delphic, One Eskimo.

Tickets go on sale this Friday (1/22/10) @ 10am via Ticketmaster. Three-day weekend passes are $269 ( plus surcharges)…single-day prices have not been revealed yet.  This year, for the first time, Coachella attendees will be allowed to come and go from the festival as they please, which is such a bonus!  You can out all the event details here.

The 18th annual Noise Pop Festival will take place February 23rd through March 1st (2010) at venues throughout San Francisco.  Early artist confirmations include: Magnetic Fields, Mark Kozelek, Rogue Wave, Atlas Sound, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Four Tet, John Vanderslice, We Were Promised Jet Packs, Wallpaper, Zee Avi, The Limousines & Foreign Born. More shows will be announced in the coming weeks along with films, art shows, and more.

Industry Noise will take place on Saturday, February 27th, 2010 at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco. Noise Pop’s mini-conference discusses independent music, technology, and the changing industry. Attendees can meet industry pros, listen to influential speakers, advance their artistic and business ventures, and learn more about current possibilities and opportunities. In addition to panels and speakers, there are small discussion groups and individual mentoring. Panelists and Keynote speakers will be announced soon. Industry Noise Badges go on sale on December 9th for $65 or $50 along with the purchase of a full festival badge.

Noise Pop 2010 Festival Badges go on sale Wednesday Dec 9th at Noon for $150. A limited number of badges include access to the Magnetic Fields show at the Fox Theater on Saturday February 27th, or the Herbst Theater on Monday March 1st. Tickets to individual shows go on sale December 12th.

For more information, visit Noisepop.com.

Countless bands will be descending upon Austin’s Waterloo Park this coming weekend (November 7th – 8th) for the 4th Annual Fun Fun Fun Fest. You can check out all the details here.

Line-up includes:
Atlas Sound
The Riverboat Gamblers
Neon Indian
Crystal Castles
Dead Confederate
Of Montreal
Yeasayer
Ratatat
Fuck Buttons
Pharcyde
No Age
This Will Destroy You
WHY?
Mission of Burma
Vega
Crystal Antlers
Many more…