this probably would have been canceled because of the heat anywayhttps://www.boston.com/culture/entertainment/2019/07/10/mad-decent-block-party-canceled
― maura, Thursday, 25 July 2019 04:31 (four years ago) link
I don't really think of any of these headliners (the familiar acts listed on first four lines) as having fans in common?
The Cure and Pixies are two enormously popular indie bands of the late 80s and early 90s; I'd be more surprised at people who liked the work of one and had active antipathy toward work of the other of the same period.
Robert Smith famously hired the Deftones' producer for one of their two 21st century albums, and even signed to his own label for it (to be fair to you, the Cure's bassist hated the experience, the person, and the record), and booked the band at Meltdown last year.
And the Cure took Mogwai as one of the mainstage headliners on their touring Curiosa festival - both bands play long, dirgey-but-developing-and-dynamic guitar-driven music, so surely plenty of people are capable of enjoying both (hello!).
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 25 July 2019 05:13 (four years ago) link
Ok, “uncle”! Lol
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Thursday, 25 July 2019 05:27 (four years ago) link
Lol is your uncle?!
(the Deftones connection doesn't work for me either, but even if Robert's the only Cure fan who likes 'em, there's plenty of precedent by now!)
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 25 July 2019 05:32 (four years ago) link
The Pixies and Cure feel to me like they occupy (obviously) adjacent but largely separate universes (like, I’ve never personally known anyone who was a big fan of both) — but that Dodger Stadium bill does seem to make sense in context (Love and Rockets feels like a link between the two).
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Thursday, 25 July 2019 05:35 (four years ago) link
I'd be more surprised at people who liked the work of one and had active antipathy toward work of the other of the same period.
I live only 15min away from the venue and would probably go to this, but I've consistently been anti-Pixies over the years. I was at that Dodger Stadium show and skipped most of their set.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 25 July 2019 05:43 (four years ago) link
i was also at the Dodger Stadium show, Shelleyan Orphan was also on that bill. see The Cure: Classic or Dud? for my night.
c'mon morrisp, you are better than this and this is ILM goddammit. there is no need to call people "“uncle”! Lol. tho your last post sort of saves you a bit but the Pixies and the Cure connection is obvious. Throwing Muses playing again at a Cure show also seems right as well in 2019.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 25 July 2019 05:56 (four years ago) link
Lol!I guess Throwing Muses and Pixies also have certain historical connections that I wasn’t thinking about
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Thursday, 25 July 2019 05:58 (four years ago) link
A: the mad decent festival seems like it was a trolling/fake thing since the beginning but I wont lie, it seems stupid fun and would have probably been a success considering everyone involved on the music-side.
I’ll say this, if one music label/collective could be branded into an amusement park / festival of sorts, mad decent would be it. Diplo and friends are in the very comfortable spot of influencing both the mainstream and the counter-cultural aspect of it, whatever that means.
The point is that if asked for investment money on a mad decent festival, I would have blindly said yes. Diplo alone has a connection with fucking everyone from Justin Bieber to Alan Vega.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 25 July 2019 06:25 (four years ago) link
B: I know a lot of people who are fans of Cure, Pixies and Deftones. I don’t see how those headliners are controversial in the same slot.
If we change those three headliners to something similar but not quite, likes let’s see:
Pet Shop BoysJack JohnsonPerfect Circle
Then yeah, I would have said: “this is a fucking terrible idea”, even though I wouldn’t mind seeing them in a different setting. However Cure, Deftones and Pixies together seem like it would attract a more common crowd than what you may think.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 25 July 2019 06:33 (four years ago) link
I can picture a white jeep circa 1999 with stickers on the back for Cure, Pixies, Deftones. And of course NIN. Likely RHCP or Jane's Addiction too.
― bendy, Thursday, 25 July 2019 11:51 (four years ago) link
I can definitely imagine my friends who were into the pixies in the early 90s rolling their eyes at The Cure, but yeah by the end of the decade those two constituencies seem to have merged.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:06 (four years ago) link
that mad decent fest was definitely not a “troll.” it was heavilypromoted at the big festival here (boston calling) and the billie eilish show in june (she was one of the headliners and i’m betting she fueled a lot of ticket sales). the stadium where it was held was likely banking on it being huge as its concert schedule this year was much more sparse than 2018’s, which had taylor, beyoncé/jay-z, and two kenny chesney shows as its high points (this year there were only five shows total counting mad decent). that said the heat this past weekend would have likely put the kibosh on it like it did with ozyfest in nyc. miguel can’t catch a break!
― maura, Thursday, 25 July 2019 14:08 (four years ago) link
never underestimate the festival promoter with "ideas" who books a bunch of different acts hoping they'll attract several distinct groups and bump up ticket sales
― untuned mass damper (mh), Thursday, 25 July 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
not to mention the world’s largest bouncy house
― maura, Thursday, 25 July 2019 14:24 (four years ago) link
tunes on the sand upthread has nailed the 'regional lib dem' aesthetic
― devvvine, Thursday, 25 July 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
given the 80k capacity (and less than gushing publicity), i am suspicious that the ozyfest cancellation was a lucky case of them being able to make more money through insurance than ticket sales but what do i know.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 25 July 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
I keep getting Amazon email spam for this festival, even though I've clicked "Unsubscribe" several times. Therefore, it is the worst festival:
https://intersect.aws/AWS_IntersectFest_LineupFlyer_FullLineup_homepage_4x5.png
― paris geller spinoff pitch (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-black-madonna-furious-over-appearing-on-amazons-music-festival-lineup
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
really gonna miss out on what's going on with Beeple and Ouchhh and "a drone light show celebrating women in tech"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
I have a lot of feelings on this from multiple directions, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it doesn't seem like that compelling of a festival proposition
― mh, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
can't wait to see Kacey Musgraves (?!) perform as drones spell out ADA LOVELACE in the sky
― mh, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
looks fun and there's cheap tickets with various promo codes floating around out there. i'll be there.
― DT, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
I posted last year's lineup last year up above.I think this one is less bad but a lot actually, but still...
http://i0.wp.com/inkcarceration.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/INKcarceration_Poster-FINAL2.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&ssl=1
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 19 December 2019 00:18 (four years ago) link
jeez at sliding mastodon in on the second tier below limp bizkit
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 19 December 2019 06:26 (four years ago) link
the amazon fest was great in case anyone cared
― DT, Thursday, 19 December 2019 09:05 (four years ago) link
http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/eclipse/sun18.jpg
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 21 December 2019 06:04 (four years ago) link
Compared to everything upthread that one looks like good fun actually. Except for Snow Patrol. But why are they so far down the bill? Is this an old one?
― everything, Saturday, 21 December 2019 07:52 (four years ago) link
"Mushroom & DJ Milo" suggests this is a vintage '90s festival, not a retro '90s festival.
― insecurity bear (sic), Saturday, 21 December 2019 08:29 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_11,_1999
― insecurity bear (sic), Saturday, 21 December 2019 08:32 (four years ago) link
Not strictly a music festival, but still https://www.alostweekend.com/
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 10:45 (four years ago) link
That is where you go if you've done a lot of bad things in your life
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 11:28 (four years ago) link
*cringe*
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
this is almost too easy but it's kind of amazing
https://assets.blabbermouth.net/media/rocklahoma2020poster.jpg
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link
http://assets.blabbermouth.net/media/rocklahoma2020poster.jpg
where the turds come sloshing down the plain
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 January 2020 06:32 (four years ago) link
I caught The Hu a few months ago and they were excellent live. But probably better experienced in a club half-filled with every Mongolian-American in the metropolitan area instead of the middle of the day in a field with a bunch of Staind fans.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Thursday, 23 January 2020 11:53 (four years ago) link
Florida’s Sunfest consistently wins the title
http://www.sunfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/PressReleaseBlogGraphic.jpg
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:26 (four years ago) link
^moded billing for Melissa Etheridge, imo
― Ticket Tout (morrisp), Thursday, 20 February 2020 17:57 (four years ago) link
Wow i can see Kevin Gates AND Tower of Power!
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 February 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
melissa etheridge back to back with sean paul sounds good
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 February 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
you can hear come to my window then shake that thing LIVE and in quick succession
Come to my windowGal dem lookin hype and I got to know
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 February 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
it's like a buffet including buffalo wings, sushi, lasagna, waldorf salad, and a basin filled with M&Ms.
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Sunday, 23 February 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal) at 12:10 20 Feb 20Wow i can see Kevin Gates AND Tower of Power
this is actually really awesome
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 23 February 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
^^ that thought actually crossed my mind!
― mh, Sunday, 23 February 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
would actually pay to see tower of power backing gates
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 23 February 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
Wish they still had Lenny
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 23 February 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
the thread where all the tower of power fans pop out of the woodwork
― mh, Sunday, 23 February 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
Not a festival but omg ew
https://dannywimmerpresents.com/aaronandsully/#
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link