The festival in Austin, Texas, expands to two weekends this year, Oct. 4-6 and 11-13, at Zilker Park. Three-day passes go on sale Tuesday for $225.Go here for more information.
DEPECHE MODE | THE CURE | MUSE | KINGS OF LEON | ATOMS FOR PEACE | LIONEL RICHIE | PHOENIX | WILCO | VAMPIRE WEEKEND | THE NATIONAL | ERIC CHURCH | PASSION PIT | QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE | ARCTIC MONKEYS | FUN. | KENDRICK LAMAR | FRANZ FERDINAND | D’ANGELO | KASKADE | TAME IMPALA | LOCAL NATIVES | THE SHOUTING MATCHES | TORO Y MOI | GRIMES | PORTUGAL. THE MAN | SILVERSUN PICKUPS | THE JOY FORMIDABLE | NEKO CASE | DIVINE FITS | GROUPLOVE | JIMMY EAT WORLD | THE BLACK ANGELS | THE BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR | THE MAVERICKS | OKKERVIL RIVER | SHUGGIE OTIS | PURITY RING | DAWES | HAIM | SMITH WESTERNS | JUNIP | WALK THE MOON | VINTAGE TROUBLE | NOAH AND THE WHALE | PAPER DIAMOND | LISSIE | PINBACK | THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION | WILD BELLE | PHOSPHORESCENT | COURT YARD HOUNDS | THAO And THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN | FOXYGEN | LITTLE GREEN CARS | SAVAGES | AUTRE NE VEUT | PARQUET COURTS | FIDLAR | WHITE DENIM | TRUE BELIEVERS | THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA | DELTA RAE | JAKE BUGG | THE LONE BELLOW | ELECTRIC GUEST | DAN CROLL | DEAP VALLY | WILD NOTHING | TYPHOON | HUNDRED WATERS | TWIN FORKS | RED BARAAT | ELECTRIC SIX | SHOVELS And ROPE
REIGNWOLF
MONA
MS MR
WIDOWSPEAK
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL
BEAR MOUNTAIN
GREENSKY BLUEGRASS
JD MCPHERSON
PACHA MASSIVE
VALERIE JUNE
WILD FEATHERS
ROADKILL GHOST CHOIR
JC BROOKS AND THE UPTOWN SOUND
DESERT NOISES
THE BAND OF HEATHENS
HOLLY WILLIAMS
ALANNA ROYALE
CHERUB
THE DYNAMITES FEAT. CHARLES WALKER
SHINYRIBS
JACUZZI BOYS
WICK-IT THE INSTIGATOR
SHAKEY GRAVES
HOUNDMOUTH
WILD CUB
PETERSON BROTHERS BAND
LUELLA AND THE SUN
X AMBASSADORS
SONS OF FATHERS
COURRIER
MY JERUSALEM
NOT IN THE FACE
DANA FALCONBERRY
BOBBY JEALOUSY
WHISKEY SHIVERS
THE PRESERVATION
MAX FROST
LATASHA LEE & THE BLACKTIES
CALEB
SHANNON LABRIE
ANDREW DUHON
KRISTIN DIABLE & THE CITY
COLIN LAKE
BROOKE WAGGONER
TYREE MORRIS & HEARTS OF WORSHIP
ENDURANCE
THE STAPLETONES
HEAVENLY VOICES CHOIR
THE MCCRARY SISTERS
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
THE HENSLEY ENSEMBLE
THE DURDENS
THE WARRIOR GOSPEL BAND
BARTON HILLS CHOIR
THE VERVE PIPE
SCHOOL OF ROCK
TIM AND THE SPACE CADETS WITH MOTHER FALCON
PETER DISTEFANO & TOR
GRACE LONDON
PLAYDATE
THE OHMIES
THE Q BROTHERS
ANDY Z
CASPAR BABYPANTS
Lightning 100 understands that everyone needs a vacation. Sign up now for Ultimate Hangout Music Festival Vacation Pack and you could win two tickets to the festival and hotel stay at Meyers Vacations Rentals for the weekend! Hangout Music Festival is May 17th – 19th in Gulf Shores Alabama featuring Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers, Steve Wonder, Kings of Leon, The Shins, Jim James, and more! The Hangout Festival is the first and only music festival of it’s kind in North America. Located directly on the white sandy beaches of Gulf Shores, AL. The festival treats guests to a unique festival experience and consistently features a diverse selection of top touring artists. Participates must sign up before April 22nd at noon(CST) to be eligible to win.
We’re excited about this year’s Hangout Music Fest lineup, which features Tom Petty, Kings of Leon, Stevie Wonder, The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, Trey Anastasio, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and The Shins, among others…all happening along on the beach of Gulf Shores, AL on May 17th-19th. Click here to get your tickets!
The Cure, Mumford & Sons, The Killers, NIN, Postal Service and many more! Lollapalooza 2013 is happening August 2-4 in Grant Park, Chicago! Lineup, Tickets and more at Lollapalooza.com
Our friends at East Nashville Underground and Moon Taxi finally got together and made a video together. Check out their baby, “All The Rage” from their first season of 2013!
BUKU Music & Art Project official Harlem Shake video 2013.
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Produced by Lightning 100 and Make It Pop Creations
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Filmed and edited by Jared Rauso
Choreographed by Brian Waters and Morgan Yingling
Make-up and motivational speaking by Andalyn Warren
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LOUISVILLE, KY – The Forecastle Festival is excited to announce the initial lineup for its 11th annual three-day music celebration, featuring Grammy Award winners The Black Keys, alongside The String Cheese Incident and the Avett Brothers leading the festival’s rich, eclectic offerings. The event will again take place July 12 – 14, 2013 at Louisville’s scenic, award-winning Waterfront Park.
Tickets for this year’s festival go on sale this Wednesday, March 6th at Noon EST on Forecastle.com. Purchase tickets in full, or opt for one of our special payment plans, available for both General Admission or VIP tickets.
Highlighted in Rolling Stone as a top event in 2012, and acclaimed by Outside as one of the “Top 15 Outdoor Festivals in the USA,” the Forecastle Festival has evolved into one of the country’s premier festival destinations. The event offers an immersive experience that’s distinctly Louisville- beyond the first-class musical lineup—highlighting the region’s burgeoning culinary and arts scene, Kentucky’s unique bourbon heritage and more. The festival continues to emphasize sustainability practices and conservation initiatives, highlighted through the festival’s non-profit organization, the Forecastle Foundation.
You’ve all been waiting, now here it is… the official lineup for Bonnaroo, happening June 13-16 in Nashville’s own backyard. Can you believe the lineup?
Tickets go on sale this Saturday (2/23) at noon EST. For the complete lineup and ticket information, click here.
The traveling rave made its way to Nashville’s Riverfront Park. FOL1 (friend of Lightning 100) Brandon Hammer captured a few of the sights to let the too-cool kids see what they missed.
Mike Doughty covers John Denver’s “Country Roads” at DeLuna Music Festival. Mike also played some of his songs such as “Na Na Nothing” and “Looking At The World From the Bottom of a Well” backstage in the Echo Mountain Recording.
Filmed and edited by Make It Pop
Join us at The Lawn at Riverfront Park where Zac Brown Band & the Southern Ground crew have been mixin’ up the perfect blend of ready-to-serve entertainment. Nightly performances by Zac Brown Band with special sit in performances by Gregg Allman, Alan Jackson, Dwight Yoakam and Sheryl Crow!
Plus additional performances by Amos Lee, Michael Franti & Spearhead, David Gray, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, The Jerry Douglas Band, Sonia Leigh, The Lumineers, Los Lonely Boys, Nic Cowan, John Driskell Hopkins & Brighter Shade, Vintage Trouble, Blackberry Smoke, The James Arthur Band, Clay Cook, Levi Lowrey, Dugas, Coy Bowles & The Fellowship and The Wheeler Boys!
Sarah Jarosz performs for a few fans in front of the What Stage at Bonnaroo. Check out this performance of “Come Around” at Bonnaroo. http://www.lightning100.com
Filmed by Brian Waters and Jared Rauso
Edited by Brian Waters
Wild Cub performs a new track off their upcoming album Youth at Bonnaroo. Check out this performances of the song “Thunder Clatter” backstage at Bonnaroo 2012.
Filmed by Brian Waters and Jared Rauso
Edited by Brian Waters
Here is probably Lightning 100 first and last porta-john performance at Bonnaroo. Check out Moon Taxi performing a Bonnaroo track the guys wrote for their porta-john performance.
After two days of running around taking photos and filming backstage performances, we finally got some down time at the radio compound. Click here to check out photos from the what, where, this, that, and other tent.
Recently transplanted Nashville band The Weeks perform a backstage performance at Bonnaroo. The Weeks debut a new track for us entitled “Brother in the Night” outside of the brewers tent at Bonnaroo.
Lightning 100 has been at every Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival since it began in 2002! Tune in to 100.1 FM or Lightning100.com for backstage performances and a live broadcast Thursday through Saturday from noon to 2pm and a re-cap Sunday at 10pm after Nashville Sunday Night. Visit our festival blog for photos from Lightning 100 artists, backstage performances, video coverage, and show reviews. See you at the Roo! Click here to see every backstage at Bonnaroo videos! Why stop there….check out the videos we did at Hangout and Deluna Fest too!
With less than a week away until Tennessee’s most anticipated annual music festival, it’s time to crack the whip and do your Bonnaroo research. So we thought we’d help you through the long ass list of bands, especially since this year’s lineup is full of up and coming artists that not everyone is familiar. Click here to read the full preview.
Fitz and The Tantrums
This L.A. six piece came out with a hell of a retro soul pop album in August 2010, Pickin’ Up the Pieces. It’s a little Motown, a little Hall & Oates, and a lot of organ, which tends to be the centerpiece to which the songs are constructed. If you happened to miss them at Cannery Ballroom in October, don’t be foolin’ around and miss them again at Bonnaroo.
This guy is the definition of blues. True story. He is known as the “savior of blues” in his hometown of Austin, Texas. He’s not yet 30, but he rips on guitar like it’s an extension of his own body, and howls like a man that sold his soul to the devil down in the Mississippi Delta.
The Swedish indietronica band sounds like sexy, rhythmic synthpop. They are lead by Yukimi Nagano, whose dreamy vocals are a hot commodity, as she has been featured on tracks by Gorillaz, José González, DJ Shadow, and fellow Bonnaroo artist SBTRKT.
DJ and producer from London, AKA Aaron Jerome, fuses together two-step, house, R&B and dubstep to create elegant electro R&B. He performs live with fellow Young Turks artist, Sampha, who sings, plays keyboards and samples, while Jerome plays acoustic and electronic drums and mixes. The live show is super physical, because yes they are actually playing their instruments. Who knows, after such buzz over “Wildfire”, which features vocals by Little Dragon’s Yukimi Nagano, perhaps a live collaboration could be in store.
This quartet from Chattanooga is a synthpop machine. MRP2 originally started as a two-man project with singer Brian Sylvester and JJ Clark doing production. When they added Ivan Garcia on drums and Cain Lassiter on keys, they began touring nationwide with bands like Ghostland Observatory, Miami Horror and Two Fresh.
Psychedelic indie-pop duo from Saratoga Springs, NY—Sarah Barthel makes beats, plays keys, and sings, while Josh Carter sings and plays guitar. They incorporate various rhythms, winding guitars, and echoing effects to give off a dreamy, psychedelic vibe.
The genre-blurring indie-pop duo makes super soul rhythmic pop while actively creating drum loops, and multi-layering with vocals, ukelele, bass, and saxophone. Merrill Garbus’s vocal style is gutteral and off-kilter, as if she were roaring, yet she’s also subtle with cooing falsettos. Live, she is a true performer, ultra-theatrical, and altogether captivating.
Maynard James Keenan’s (Tool) integrated media project started in 2007, and finally became what Keenan had envisioned with Puscifer’s most recent release, Conditions of My Parole. Puscifer is a multidimensional project that intertwines music, comedy, and technology.
Danny Brown is the king of Detroit’s underground hip-hop scene. His style is spastic, visceral, uncensored and raw. His critically acclaimed XXX is a masterpiece concept album about hedonism and his upbringing in Detroit, which proved to be a powerful introduction into the mind of this lyrical genius.
Nashville’s own Colorfeels perform a private performance at Hangout Music Fest on Lightning 100′s hotel balcony. Check out this new unreleased song “Pushover”.
Heartless Bastards did a quick backstage performance with Lightning 100 after their set at Hangout Music Fest. Check out this performance of “Skin and Bones” at Hangout Music Fest.
We ran into The Lumineers backstage at Hangout Music Fest and grabbed them before their interview with the evil corporation known as Sirius Radio. We did a quick performance with the guys on the 5th floor of The Phoenix inside of the Hangout Festival. You’ve been hearing “Ho Hey” on Lightning 100, so we asked the guys to perform a different song from the album. Check out their second single entitled “Slow it Down” live at Hangout Fest. What do you think? Would you like to hear it on 100.1 FM? Let us know.
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