Search:

Yeah, this was my 12th one and it's definitely up there in my favorites. Nothing was too crowded, never had to wait long for shuttles or to get through security, all the acts I wanted to see started...

Okay, this Moby set looks crazy fun. A nice antidote to all the slowwwww trap and dubstep.

Holy &@^# that's a lot of people at Bassnectar. That new Sahara tent must be absolutely huge.

I think Janelle Monae is going to be crazy packed. Especially the second half of her set when basically the *only* other stage going is Hawtin in Yuma.

I'd also say Grimes is going to get crazy...

There will probably be significant overlap in the lineups of this new fest and Osheaga (which is a fantastic festival) up in Montreal, which runs 8/2-4. I guess if bands schedule it right they could...

Ra Ra Riot are from Syracuse, so there's a bit of local-esque homerism at play. They generally sell out the Palladium every time they play here. Although now that their smoking hot cellist has left...

So this just got announced:

http://bostoncalling.com/
http://bostoncalling.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbnail.jpg

Right in the middle of downtown Boston at City Hall. Hmm.

(I'll definitely be...

In one of the earlier years I remember Ant (the DJ in Atmosphere) get increasingly pissed that the heat was warping his records, to the point where he started throwing them ninja-star style at the...

Yup. And even with the ticket fiasco last year, it was *trivial* to find face-value-to-below-face Burning Man tickets in SF and LA in the week leading up to the event.

Now i've got my choice to...

Man, I would give anything to see an Evens "kid show" where he berates the child audience in full-on Fugazi fashion.

"I saw you two guys earlier at the consumer truck and you were eating your ice...

Infected Mushroom's new touring setup is pretty cool. I saw it last week and it looks better in person than it does in the YT clips.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AvjTkExkgM
They also upgraded...

I'm going to skip all the acts I've seen that I thought were just "OK", and instead focus in on the ones that were way above or way below expectations.

Do. Not. Miss.
- Sigur Ros. They destroy...

Yeah, the prices will fall to reasonable levels very quickly. You could get tix at face value for weekend 1 in the week leading up to it last year, and tix for below face value for weekend 2 in the...

yeah, got past billing page, then it crashed, then it told me I was completely logged out, and now i've had to completely start over, and it's frozen looking for tickets that almost certainly aren't...

Now I just got a page telling me I have been logged out. DOUBLE BUSH LEAGUE, GV

yup, got past billing page, then delivery page wouldn't load, system timed out; can't get anything to load now.

BUSH LEAGUE, GV

got past the billing page, delivery page wouldn't load, and now the system appears to have crashed. awesome.

I think we need to pick one of them and become some sort of unofficial fan club with signs and chanting. Let's make U-God's day. Maybe we all wear golden armbands or something?

But yeah, Wu-Tang...

Saw them do a headlining set at Osheaga festival up in Montreal last August, and I was really pleasantly surprised at how well they filled a "main stage" / "headliner" sort of set. Felt like they...

Saw them live at Osheaga last August, a pretty fun set. Dual drummers live give it a nice foundation.

I wish I was making this conversation up

friend: "Stone Roses? That'll be cool. I think I saw a clip of them playing Glastonbury where they had a whole black chorus up there, and this massive...

I'll bite:

http://i.imgur.com/t6b67ZY.jpg

Just as the Coachella message board doesn't represent 99% of the average Coachella-going populace, eplaya doesn't represent 99% of the average burner. It's a great resource, but it's not necessarily...

This was a great Coachella all-around, it's hard to pick 5:

- Refused
- Dre & Snoop
- Hives
- Pulp
- Company Flow

DEMF/Movement for techno and house goodness with relatively little cheese. Drawback is you lose the visual spectacle.
If you want really abstract / experimental stuff along with surreal A/V...

I'd actually advise against it. For the full ISAM effect you actually want to be a little bit back. Too close and the video projections are too... video-projection-y. Kind of like how you don't want...

Man, if they made a Nate Dogg hologram, they need to commercialize it ASAP. Imagine having a portable Nate Dogg Hologram you could bring with you everywhere do sing hooks and random breakdowns now...

"I was in the Sahara all weekend, and I never heard 'Levels' once! What the hell?"

Pulled the trigger and bought a ticket today, even though none of my normal festival friends sound all that interested in coming along (Coachella is enough for them I think). Luckily it's just a...

Oh man, I may be seeing half these bands at Coachella anyway, but I am so down for Osheaga. I've never been, but I love Montreal, and

(a) Montreal in August is quite nice
(b) festival + poutine =...

We've been using the "Secret Garden" lot the last few years (don't mind a little extra walk at the beginning of the day to avoid the total traffic cluster@&#% getting out of the official lots at the...

Dave Clarke's "Fabric 60" mix is also super-choice. It's a bit all over the place, with some straight up techno, some really dark techno, even some darkwave-y gothic sort of tunes, but it all flows...

This is just the same stuff as Jupiter's Ring, or Whitestarr, any number of really small, "doing someone a favor" acts that always end up playing at 12:30. It happens every year.

Anyone heard anything about this?

http://rocknrollresort.com/v2/

It's held at some resort in New York, basically you get a room, meal plan, and then everything happens on-site.

Some new...

Mal*Mart is coming back this year, that crazy 6-story tall multi-purpose thing that might have skipped 2011. Playa Surfers are definitely going to be there with the motorized surfboards.

They need to bring the Flaming Lotus Girls art projects back. Serpent Mother was totally jaw-dropping.

Argh, I'm still waiting for some good news on the lottery but starting to lose hope. I've already paid my theme camp dues so I'm committed to going: I really hope I dont have to hit up the secondary...

Seems like time to put the 2011 thread to rest and kick off the thread for Burning Man 2012?

It seems like a bunch of us are in the ticket lottery!

Notice the lack of Steve Aoki. It can get worse.

I'd say the **** Pong Bitches back in 2004, but if only because they were one of the first bands on, were on the second stage, there were maaaaaybe 50 people, and they were f-ing terrible. In terms...

(looking at the bottom 2 lines for each day, let's see...)
They're not going to change the world or anything, but Sleeper Agent will be a fun "straight-ahead rock" set for a mid-afternoon sort of...

Totally random James Q:

So I was crashing at a friend's place, and his roommate had some non-stop mix of stuff playing while I was trying to sleep. One of them was a live version of "Sit Down"...

Anyone know if, with the changes in the festival layout and traffic patterns, is that Secret Garden private lot still going to be an option?

Black Moth Super Rainbow will be fun given how druggy this festival seems to be. Hood Internet are always fun too. Is it just me or does this lineup get pretty "small" pretty quickly? Is this just...

and James Holden! And Amon Tobin!

Methinks I need to take the drive up from Boston to hit this.

Plus... poutine!

I've used the Etymotics for the last 2 Coachellas and like them alot. Especially at their price point they work really well.

My advice if you're looking to turn this into a bigger trip is to explore wherever you're flying into. If you're flying into LA (2-3 hrs from fest), you can check out LA and San Diego. If you're...

I think there was an interview with the guy who made this a few years ago where he said that the economics of putting together another DVD made it near impossible.

I love this band so much I actually pre-ordered the UK special edition, which showed up a few weeks ago. I actually got a piece of her shattered guitar with it! The spec. ed. is fantastic, it comes...

Can anyone describe the festival environment? Sounds similar to Wakarusa. Is at all jam-bands and jam-band fans? More diverse crowd? Are the festival grounds beautiful like Waka, or just blah...