Electric Forest Festival • Rothbury, Michigan • June 30 - July 3, 2011

If I was at that festival I might be tempted to go and see Tiesto just to see what all the fuss was about.

I am planning to go to Boomtown Fair in August though, and that could go one of two ways.

I remember a few years ago having friends who were so psyched for this festival...I think Jack Johnson (!) headlined in 2008

I assume everyone on this line-up falls into one of the following genres:

- Israeli psytrance
- prog
- hippy acid techno/post Steve Hillage ambient
- fifth rate dubstep
- the kind of dub reggae bands who play a small tent at every single festival in the world, all year long

Oh and probably some folk as well.

best festival ever, clearly

Looks like a few jam bands and bluegrass groups too.

I assume one of them is a brass band playing Nirvana and Radiohead covers on a Sunday morning as well.

Y'know, despite all the lolling at this - isn't this kind of what a festival should be about, rather than billions of couch-potatoes drinking overpriced alcopops masquerading as cider watching Coldplay in a heavily gated field etc..?

I assume one of them is a brass band playing Nirvana and Radiohead covers on a Sunday morning as well.

Yeah, they're called Faust Parp

Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band play Charley Pattton/Jimmie Rodgers-era late '20s/early '30s style country blues with tons of energy/humor/hooks/rhythm and lots of songs about food. Voting for them, though I'd go with REO Speedwagon by a mile if they promised to stick to their earliest few albums.

I kinda like that one Edward Sharpe song.

voting Galactic; thanks to j/v/c for alerting me to their presence on here

Ned/cad: are you guys writing in votes for Steez?

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i haven't decided yet!

- Israeli psytrance
- prog
- hippy acid techno/post Steve Hillage ambient

Okay these three descriptions actually make it sound like a festival I'd want to see, espeically the last one.

Eskmo is pretty good.

my vote—saw him open for flying lotus at sxsw 2010 and i was impressed

only band i know on here are REO spedwagon, and i don't wanna vote for them. so skrillex due to their sounding like an alien race w a boss exoskeleton/mandible situation.

drummer for Galactic also played on the weirdo/departure Corrosion of Conformity record six or seven years ago iirc...

Shpongletron takes it in a walk.

Skrillex is the lowest common denominator when it comes to terrible brostep music.

i mean, look at this guy:

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQQnV8yvbQgpaGfYmXuTcro6AmF4pDoKV9ilkjmTcY_yFL_1y3Y

“I’ve been deep into electronic music my entire life. The first records I ever owned were ‘Fat of Land’ by the Prodigy and ‘Come To Daddy’ by Aphex Twin,” raves Sonny Moore, better known as emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX. “Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails were also early influences. I’ve been dabbling in making electronic tracks on programs like Fruity Loops since I was 14 years old.”

loooooooooooooool

emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX

Everyone grows up when they do and that's this dude's context. Why wouldn't he take that path?

are you defending skrillex?

You're not doing a good job of criticizing him.

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^ important results

looooool "lettuce"

Ladies and Gentlemen, your winners:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLwjBTWUtOA

Oh god I heard the new Korn w/ Skrillex song over the weekend, so awful.

lol i heard skrillex for the 1st time yesterday on the jukebox in a pool hall