Indie Acts Gear Up For Festival Season
Yahoo! Music, Jul 2, 2008 8:00 pm PDTRock festival season is underway, with Coachella and Bonnaroo already over, the Warped and Ozzfest tours traveling from coast to coast, and Chicago's Lollapalooza and New Jersey's All Points West events around the corner in early August.
But many even more indie-leaning festivals are also planned for this summer, including the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago July 18-20 (with Sebadoh, Mission Of Burma, Animal Collective, Jarvis Cocker, the Hold Steady, Vampire Weekend, Dizzee Rascal, Fleet Foxes, Spoon, et al); the electro dance party Hard Summer Fest in Los Angeles on July 19 (with Kid Sister, Steve Aoki, Spank Rock, N.E.R.D., and more); and All Tomorrow's Parties in New York September 19-20 (curated by recently reunited shoegaze veterans My Bloody Valentine).
The Download Festival, now four years old, also expands to three cities this year, taking place in San Francisco on July 19, Los Angeles on July 20, and Philadelphia on August 2. This year's Download Festival lineup will include alt-rock pioneers the Jesus & Mary Chain and Gang Of Four, as well as newbies like Mute Math, M83, Mates Of State, Tapes 'N' Tapes, Datarock, the Duke Spirit, Caribou, and Kaki King.
For more festival info and blogs this summer, check out Yahoo!'s Maximum Performance live music blog.
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