Saturday, August 30, 2008

street scene 2008: most lopsided lineup ever?

(image courtesy of wikipedia commons)
street scene announced their daily lineups recently and the disparity between the friday lineup (beck, spoon, justice, tv on the radio, vampire weekend, mgmt, hot chip, new pornographers, diplo) and saturday (um... ghostland observatory?) is staggering. guess i need to listen to the national again, and brush up on some of the other day 2 acts. i've heard good things about man man, but unfortunately nothing is going to get me worked up about tegan and sara or the black crowes.

the fact that friday got all the good artists is unfortunate, since people have work that day. nothing like showing up late for a festival, only to have all your favorite bands playing at once. do all the friday acts have saturday plans that weekend, like beck and mgmt do at the hollywood bowl?

speaking of beck, he played the outside lands festival in foggy and cold golden gate park last weekend (video). i posted a track from his new cd, modern guilt, below. it has a gnarls barkley 60's-style beat to it, which is no surprise given that danger mouse produced this largely mellow affair. 2 cd's in a row now (and three out of four) where beck's dropped the electric guitar, hammering yet another nail in the alternative rock radio coffin...

Gamma Ray - Beck

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At Mon Sep 01, 12:40:00 AM PDT, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I agree, Tegan and Sara are the only ones I'd want to see on Sunday.

 

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