Elton John – “A Town Called Jubilee,” Nirvana – “Serve The Servants,” Elton John – “Can’t Stay Alone Tonight,” Great Lake Swimmers – “Still,” Jennifer O’Connor – “Always In Your Mind,” Haim – “Go Slow,” Explosions In The Sky & David Wingo – “An Old Peasant Like Me,” Hellogoodbye – “When We First Met,” Morcheeba – “Make Believer,” Black Gold – “Detroit,”
The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.
Cut Copy – “Lights And Music,”
London Grammar – “Wasting My Young Years,”
Frank Ocean – “Acura Integurl,”
Nine Inch Nails – “While I’m Still Here,”
Daft Punk feat Panda Bear – “Doin’ It Right,”
Father John Misty – “This Is Sally Hatchet,”
Vintage Trouble – “Jezzebella,”
Makano – “Traición,”
Nirvana – “Heart Shaped Box (Live & Loud),
Cimorelli – “Made In America,”
Björk – “All Is Full of Love [Plaid Mix],”
Dave Matthews Band – “Write A Song,”
Lenny Kravitz – B-Side Blues,”
Pretty Lights – “Around The Block,”
Anthony Hamilton – “Woo,”
Zaki Ibrahim – “Black And Grey,”
Bengala – “Nunca Digas Nunca,”
Mùm – “One Smile,”
Lenny Kravitz – “Good Lovin,'”
Pearl Jam – “Yellow Moon,”
Explosions In The Sky – “Snow And Lights,”
Nine Inch Nails – “Vessel (Mix 2) (Appendage Only),”
Ayo – “Milky Way,”
Sky Sailing – “A Little Opera Goes A Long Way,”
Suff Daddy – “Beate,”
Zola Jesus – “Night,”
Thirty Seconds To Mars – “City Of Angels,”
Public Enemy – “Harder Than You Think,”
Anita Tijoux – “Despabilate,”
Le Butcherettes – “Kiss & Kill,”
Paulina Rubio feat 3BallMTY – “Me Gustas Tanto,”
Noble Society – “The Swarm,”
The xx – “Fiction (Pearson Sound Remix,”
Meshell Ndegecello – “Beautiful,”
Foster the People – “Helena Beat”
The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.
A “Best of… Foto Fridays” Essay of 2012’s Music Festival travels.
2012 Ranking:
1) Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA)
2) Music Midtown (Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA)
3) Outside Lands: Music, Food, Wine, Beer, Art (Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA)
A combination of Porta-Potties, Hot sun, VIP Showers, compressed hot bodies, cold, fog, band reunions, amazing covers, crowd surfing, 90’s classics, dirt, dubstep, car camping, road trips, bad artist scheduling, vacation, plane flights, MARTA, BART, gravel, fun!
A super-hot weekend in the California desert where NBA Basketball jerseys seemed to be the uniform, water was the best thing, and music was unbelievable. Enjoy.
San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival is one that combines music, food and arts into a weekend playing out at Golden Gate Park.
Based on last year’s lineup, it was virtually a no brainer. This year’s lineup, though, included headliners who were more established and had decades of success. Stevie Wonder rounded out a group including Metallica, and Neil Young. The major highlight was Foo Fighters Friday performance on the Land’s End stage, where they performed Aurora, from the 1999 album There Is Nothing To Lose. Dave Grohl stated that they performed it especially for Outside Lands, and it was speculated that they added it to their setlist due to the recent tragedy in Aurora, Colorado. Again, Foo Fighters were the shining star of the weekend, spending time listening to my favorite band for the first time, with a fave.
Using Coachella as a measuring stick, the pros were definitely the cooler weather, though by Sunday night the fog easily made one glad that the event was ending. The app was definitely better, and the spacing of the stages was tremendously better than Coachella, where I remember rocking to The Black Keys on the Coachella Stage, and during breaks in play, I heard Explosions In The Sky (who I got to see at OLF) playing on the Outdoor Theatre which was steps away. Only two stages (Twin Peaks Stage and the Panhandle Stage) closely bordered each other at OLF. However, the sets that neatly fit between the hours of 12 noon until 10 left you wanting for more, and the commute back and forth was taxing, as opposed to walking back to your tent and crashing.
Coachella’s car camping, and sets that ran well into the wee hours of the night, morning…take your pick, were a definite added bonus. Also, the diversity of Coachella’s acts compared to Outside Lands 2012 were a bonus that ranked Coachella higher. Other than a sprinkling of Atlanta’s (yeah) Big Boi (likely making up his set from 2011) and a lack luster Santigold set (she killed her set at Coachella in the heat with her energy, but she has me NOT anticipating her Atlanta debut next month), most other acts were similar in genre and nothing really separated the acts.
Listening to people I ran into after the festival, who had been to Coachella, Outside Lands, Bonaroo, and some others, they were not as high on this year’s OLF, due to the lineup, length of show, and the crowds (that they said were the biggest they had seen) though reports said after a certain point fans rushed the entrances and jumped the gates (which would explain why people were running/pushing there way through the crowds.
I cannot rate the festival, simply because on this level, I have been to two, and with the exception of the Foo Fighters, I had seen Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, and Metallica in their own shows prior to this festival.
I am glad that I was able to enjoy the festival. Would I go again, and go without knowing the lineup, yeah, I’d do it, hopefully it will mirror 2011 more than 2012. Just change some of the particulars to better fit the fun.
The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school
A group of artists I discovered in the film Friday Night Lights. “Your Hand In Mine,” like most of their music is instrumental, and from their 2004 album “The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place.” A few years back, we would run football drills to workout, and I would listen to it to get ready. A sound simliar, but more mellow than Mogwai, I subsequently got their entire catalogue and listened to them a great deal while researching “Final Goodbye” in Chicago. Luckly, I will get to see them at Coachella this year! Enjoy.
The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.
