Worst ever festival line up?

https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2019/03/Woodstock-50-Poster-1553037094-640x852.jpg

Can't decide if this is the 50th anniversary of 1969 or 25th anniversary of 1994 or 20th anniversary of 1999.

Came here to post the same poster (but probably different joke).

I mean there are some great artists on that bill... but the cumulative impact is very WTF.

There isn't an act on that poster that I'd wanna see. The closest is The Zombies, but not in 2019.

I guarantee Courtney Barnett’s band live is better than whatever your current favorite band is.

Lollapalooza's lineup includes all 3 of Coachella's headliners this year https://t.co/zm2i8wPZTo

— BrooklynVegan (@brooklynvegan) March 20, 2019

I know Tame Impala has been on the steady rise, but Lolla/Coachella headliner is ... huh. Have the Black Keys been on vacation or something?

back to prog in the park for a moment, it's quite something that they got none other than thee roger dean to design the festival font!

And his mother to do the layout.

Josh, are you going to Lolla?

You know, I haven't gone in years, tbh. It's become such a gross scene of bros and bad smells. Plus it's a red flag when there are something like 170 different acts but usually only 5 or so I'd want to see it, while at the same time the scale and layout more or less makes it impossible to easily discover new things.

So no, likely no. My kids have asked about it, but only in the context of fashion. They've never mentioned the music.

Have the Black Keys been on vacation or something?

Pretty much. They went on hiatus after the last album bombed. Auerbach's been doing solo stuff and producing. Drummer dude married Michelle Branch or something, and toured w/her.

The Black Keys just announced a large arena tour.

xxp Took my daughters to Lolla last year. Four days of Chicago heat and sun was too much: we arrived at 2 on Thursday and immediately saw kids getting taken to the medical tent. And only a handful of bands that really interested me.

My daughters though had a much longer list and loved it. Really friendly and well run for such a big fest (and, yes, drunken teens and bros in basketball jerseys).

lmao Shaq is on the lolla lineup this year

https://i.imgur.com/YhKSQAr.jpg

lol Tarquins Gin Terrace

No idea if that's Alex James' new band or not

I know, I know... Not a festival but...

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk summer concert series:

June 14: The English Beat
June 21: Smash Mouth
June 28: Everclear
July 5: Pride & Joy
July 12: Foghat
July 19: Taylor Dayne
July 26: Bad Company's former lead singer Brian Howe
August 2: Y&T
August 9: Living Colour
August 16: 10,000 Maniacs
August 23: Journey's former lead singer Steve Augeri (lol what?)
August 30: Papa Doo Run Run

Yo & Tengo

James is sitting this tour out.

Living Colour though!

I'd love to see Y&T assuming Dave Meniketti is still in

Uh there seems to be a problem because BOC is not on the Beach Boardwalk lineup

man I never make it to those Santa Cruz shows but I think I might just see the Beat given Rankin' Roger's death. I'd see Living Color too.

Taylor Dayne is playing some fucked up venues on what I assume is her comeback tour. Her other bay area show is at some family run theater in San Leandro.

setlist.fm has her averaging 11 clubs and county fairs and casinos a year for the last four years (fewer, but some, every year from 2008). presumably she has a fanbase that don't care very much about that website and some gigs go unrecorded.

Fuck me, this is the saddest festival I've ever seen pic.twitter.com/LZg6SqYqzX

— Mike Jennings (@mikejjennings) April 11, 2019

breakfast v much looking like the highlight there

missed that important lollapalooza update

some friends who went to a lot of festivals a decade ago used to joke that lollapalooza's headliners were usually the headliners from the previous year's coachella. we're apparently at full parity now

I hope they've DNA authenticated that old random bloke without mullet is actually Pat Sharp!

i dunno about bad necessarily but this is a mess typographically, conceptually and intellectually
http://i.imgur.com/ikWqKj4.jpg

finally the pod save america/lil wayne collabo we've all been waiting for.

Also apparently lord huron gets top billing over toto and toto gets top biling over CRJ?

Who cares if it's a mess "conceptually and intellectually"? My gf and I are probably going to go. Went last year, it's a good time.

as long as the actual festival logistics are good I can appreciate a shotgun-style approach for booking

hoping for that long-awaited cirque du soleil/desus & mero collaboration

Who cares if it's a mess "conceptually and intellectually"?

do you know what thread you clicked on

toto and carly rae jepsen has a lot of potential though

if there's not a hipster africa cover duet as an encore, did this festival even really happen

just shuddered as I remembered attending lollapalooza the year gnarles barkley hit and a ton of bands covered “crazy”... when they were playing the festival

who did they
who did they
who did they who did they who did they think they were?

that sounds really fun tbh. song of the summer!

it was good for the first two or three covers tbh!

after that, you might say it started making me
craaaaazy

i would say that crj is more suited to “i’ll be over you” tbh

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The other three join T-Pain onstage for an encore of “Sounds Bad”

This may not fit the thread topic, as they're all good bands, but I don't really think of any of these headliners (the familiar acts listed on first four lines) as having fans in common?: https://pasadenadaydream.com/

The first 2 played together 30 years ago, too bad L&R isn't around anymore:

http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/1989-09-08.php

this probably would have been canceled because of the heat anyway

https://www.boston.com/culture/entertainment/2019/07/10/mad-decent-block-party-canceled

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!).