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Sasquatch! Music Festival Announces Lineup
Indie music followers have one more festival to lust over this year with Sasquatch! Music Festival releasing its 2012 lineup.
The unexpected heavyweights this year incorporate headliners Beck and Jack White, Bon Iver, Woman Talk, The Shins, Beirut, The Head and the Heart, St. Vincent, Kurt Vile, enjoyable. and Stroll the Moon.
The announcement came Thursday, Feb. 2 at Seattle, Wash.’s The Neptune, with a launch celebration and efficiency by Jose Gonzalez’s Juniper, the Physics and Matthew Caws of Nada Surf.
Sasquatch requires spot at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Wash on Memorial Day Weekend (May possibly 25-28). Tickets went on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. Pacific Time (one p.m. Eastern Time) at $ 315 for all 4 days and contain camping and followers can buy them through the internet site.
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Started out in 2002 by Adam Zacks, the festival is acknowledged for supplying listeners with a mixture of establish and up-and-coming eclectic indie bands. The festival has 4 various phases, Sasquatch! Major Stage, Bigfoot Stage, Rumpus Area and Yeti Stage.
Carter Hulsey Announces Dates For Spring Tour
Carter Hulsey announced he will be kicking off a new spring tour to kick-off in his hometown of Joplin, Missouri.
Hulsey was first acknowledged by buddy/tour mate/and fellow Joplin-native Christopher Drew Ingle, lead singer for NeverShoutNever, and rapidly grabbed the focus of listeners. Hulsey signed to Christopher Drew Ingle’s very own record label, Loveway Records, and released the album A Note in Your Pocket in 2010.
Hulsey is described as an substitute nation folk singer with indie influence. He modified the name of his musical outfit to The Carter Hulsey Band immediately after acquiring a strong band lineup to carry out live. The Carter Hulsey Band members incorporate, Carter Hulsey, Isaac Duncan, Tof Hoglen, and Thom Hoglen. The band’s independently released their debut album, What You Carry, May possibly of 2011.
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This will be the initial time Hulsey has been on tour because a string of unfortunate occasions set the band back in 2011. He survived a tornado that hit his hometown of Joplin, Missouri, and caused $ two.2 billion in damages like, drummer Caleb Denison’s studio. $ 14,000 of Hulsey’s equipment was also ripped off whilst on tour in Seattle.
Hulsey pushed through and now is bring himself back on to the road for followers to appreciate. The tour kicks on March twenty in Joplin and will continue right up until April 1 in Omaha, Nebraska.
Weekend Rock Question: Who Should Play Next Year’s Super Bowl Halftime?
By Rolling Stone
February 3, 2012 3:50 PM ET
Beyonce, David Lee Roth, and Jay-Z
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This weekend Madonna will join the ranks of an elite group of superstars which includes Michael Jackson, U2, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Diana Ross and Tom Petty who have performed at the Super Bowl halftime show.
Weekend Rock Question: Who Should Play Next Year’s Super Bowl Halftime?
By Rolling Stone
February 3, 2012 3:50 PM ET
Beyonce, David Lee Roth, and Jay-Z
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‘American Pie’ critic gets some pie in the face
Ron Antonelli
It was an outdated Chevy, like this 1957 model belonging to Bruce Springsteen, that ‘American Pie’s’ narrator drove to the levee — or must that be the Levee, a bar in New Rochelle, N.Y.?
Drake Scores Billboard Record For Most Chart Topping Rap Singles
Post by Alex Stone, Feb 3, 2012 at 7:43 pm
Drake helps make background on the Billboard charts becoming the 1st rapper to hold 11 amount one rap singles.
Canadian superstar Drake continues to take his profession to new ranges. The Youthful Money rapper-singer dropped his ‘Take Care’ sophomore album to a hugely receptive audience just a handful of months ago netting himself a platinum plaque, and just not too long ago surpassed the million copies sold mark for his Lil Wayne assisted smash single ‘The Motto.’
It appears like Drake can add another accolade to his prolonged list of achievements as he breaks the Billboard record for most range 1 rap singles on the billboard charts with 11. The record was previously held by Terrible Boy Records CEO Diddy with ten singles.
Drake’s list of singles contain his breakthrough single Very best I Ever Had, Forever, Say Some thing, Above, Fancy, Appropriate Over It, Aston Martin Music, Moment 4 Life, I’m On One, and his recent hit off of the ‘Take Care’ album Headlines.
