Need a Bonnaroo Fix?

Me too...

Thanks to NPR Music's Live Webcast here are some of my favorite Bonnaroo performances thus far:

Dan Deacon

I've seen this guy before so I kind of guessed that he would put on an amazing show. He's probably one of the most joyful musicians around. Standing next to him, you can really feel how much he loves to make music! I mean just LOOK at him...

Photo taken by Me @ Luigi's Fungarden - not Bonnaroo 

The Dodos

@ Bonnaroo by Shantel Mitchell

The Flaming Lips ... duh!

Another great photo by Shantel Mitchell!

Neon Indian???

Pictures splattered the internet after Neon Indian's NSFW performance. Indie blogs like the Brooklyn Vegan and Hipster Runoff reported (FALSELY) that the young electro-pop-rock artist purposefully brought topless girls dressed as "Indians" onto the stage to dance during his show.
Like I said...FALSELY!

Soon after, Neon Indian via Twitter politely asked the blogs that made the false and hasty claim to retract their statements:

"@brooklynvegan @hipsterrunoff Can you guys please correct the posts where you claim I 'brought' or 'hired' topless girls on stage? Untrue"


He continues by adding that: "Theres a rolling stone vid where they clearly say they ran past security. I'd never dream of being that tacky."


From what I can tell, neither blogs have retracted/corrected their posts...NOW who's tacky???


You can watch Neon Indian's performance now on YouTube. 

Next time...I make it a personal goal to write 

more of these bloggie things!

Outside Lands Announces Line Up (Finally)

Personally, I'd say overall the lineup is decent. I've never seen the Strokes, Phoenix, or Al Green. Plus, there are the Wild Beasts, Gogol Bordello, Cat Power, Mayer Hawthorne and the County, Chromeo and JANELLE MONAE to look forward to (<--- Monae will also be in Oakland with Erykah Badu on June 18th).


Not to mention this group who's song "Walking on a Dream" was stuck in my head for almost three months straight:

What I find interesting about Outside Lands is that its one of the only festivals that received such a backlash from followers - and this I think has something to do with the way they released hints about the possible performers:


"ranger dave won't be trespassing on this indian chief."
2:54 PM May 21st via web
"ranger dave is a friend of felines big and small."2:01 PM May 20th via web
"ranger dave is the reverend of love with single stem roses for the ladies."8:36 AM May 7th via web
"ranger dave loves his southern california punk rock from fullerton."6:12 PM May 6th via web
Facebook responses to these hints were especially rude, if not downright mean:
"so basically your going to tell the whole line up in code which really is not that hard to figure out instead of just telling us and saving everyone the hassle ?"
"can you just tell us the line up for screwing us over with tenacious d last year"
...or by far one of my favorites...
"Ranger Dave is effing my s up. I don't wanna play a lame ass game of clues. I call bullshit! Tell us the lineup already!"
I gotta say, I really hate it when someone "f's" my "s" up, but seriously people? It's a game! It's meant to be fun!
And you know what else? I'm pretty sure that Outside Lands is the first festival to have their feelings hurt:
"ranger dave is having a hard time pleasing everyone for outside lands. he has done is best."11:47 AM Jun 1st via web
Chill out everyone. You got your lineup, now let's all be happy that the Black Eyed Peas won't be returning this year for an encore performance!
Next Time...I post photos and tasty tidbits,from the Sasquatch Music Festival.

Best Morning Ever

So I got up this morning, had a few sips of coffee while I scanned through the twittery events that occurred during my slumber and by jove, look what happened . . . !

Yep, The . . . THE Flaming Lips are now following Paduta - Fresh Music Every Day on Twitter! And even if it was an accident, like Wayne sneezed and accidentally hit the "Follow" button with his crazy giant hand, only later to realize his gross error in judgment and immediately deletes us from his list - for now, I am going to bask in the warm glow of the sunshine that is now following Paduta.

Hmmm, what is the best Flaming Lips lyric to end this post? Any ideas Padutans? I'm kind of feeling . . . 

" . . . Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!"