Free Press Summer Fest '13

[Kid Charlemagne]

The preliminary lineup for Houston's Free Press Summer Fest has been announced...it's fucking stacked as ever.

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/...est_lineup.php

The Postal Service

Bassnectar

Iggy Pop & the Stooges

TV on the Radio

Passion Pit

Calvin Harris

Alabama Shakes

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Social Distortion

Arctic Monkeys

Gogol Bordello

Of Monsters and Men

2 Chainz

Cat Power

The Head & the Heart

Grace Potter & the Nocturnals

Matt and Kim

Borgore

Dawes

Mavis Staples

Geto Boys

The Bronx

Paul Banks

Soja

Japandroids

Chairlift

Mord Fustang

Devin the Dude

Baroness

Los Amigos Invisibles

Vintage Trouble

Machine Gun Alley

Milo Greene

The Octopus Project

The Men

Ume

[koryp]

I thought this was a fucking joke, then I followed the link. Kinda stepping up the game this year. I'm in.

Link

[Sushov23]

This lineup is ridiculous for the price. Are there set times from other years? I can't seem to find any.

[dekelou]

This lineup is ridiculous for the price. Are there set times from other years? I can't seem to find any.

After seeing the lineup, I just bought tickets.

Set times aren't that different from other festivals, starts around noon with 45min-1hr sets and wraps up around 11 or 12 if I remember correctly. Headliners get about 90 minutes. Main stage is set up at the base of a large incline, so there's a natural arena-type setting.

[hangthedj112]

What an odd line-up, it fluctuates so greatly between good acts and complete and utter shit.

[silver06]

Wow, very impressive. Tickets are as much as FYF Fest was last year.

Obviously the fests don't seem to have the same purpose, but looks like this one would be much more expensive to book.