By bandweblogs on Dec 16, 2008 in Bands, Press Releases | Tags: Australia, Festivals, Going Green, Sydney, The Rising Tide | 0 Comments

Sun, surf and this summer’s coolest boutique festival. Sydney’s northern beaches have got it all! The Rising Tide will be held at Rat Park, Pittwater Road, North Narrabeen, Sydney, Australia on Saturday, 21st February 2009 …
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By bandweblogs on Dec 2, 2008 in Bands, Featured, Press Releases, Videos | Tags: Bonnaroo, Comedians, Festivals, Tickets | 0 Comments

Superfly Productions and A.C. Entertainment are proud to announce the dates for the eighth annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Confirmed to take place June 11 - 14, 2009, the four-day festival will once again be held on the same beautiful, 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, 60 miles southeast of Nashville …
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By bandweblogs on Oct 23, 2008 in Bands, Press Releases | Tags: 4Talent, Channel 4, Einstellung, Festivals, Gigbeth, Guillemots, Icarus, Keyboard Choir, lain Woods, Richard Batsford, The Young Knives | 0 Comments

Gigbeth is Birmingham’s biggest celebration of music. From November 6th-8th, 2008, Gigbeth will host a diverse lineup of established artists such as Guillemots, The Young Knives and The Sugarhill Gang alongside breakthrough acts The Keyboard Choir, and Iain Woods …
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By bandweblogs on Oct 16, 2008 in Bands, Press Releases | Tags: Festivals, Hellfire Festival | 0 Comments

The organizers of the Hellfire Festival 2008 are absolutely gutted to announce that this year’s festival has been rescheduled due to the sudden closure of the venue …
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By bandweblogs on Oct 16, 2008 in Press Releases | Tags: Festivals, Janis Kelly, Manchester International Festival, Opera, Rufus Wainwright | 0 Comments

Manchester International Festival, the world’s first festival of original, new work, announces the first three commissions for its 2009 event, including Rufus Wainwright’s debut opera Prima Donna …
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By bandweblogs on Oct 3, 2008 in Bands, Press Releases | Tags: Dan P Carter, Exit Ten, Festivals, Hellfire Festival | 1 Comment

London’s inaugural Hellfire Festival has confirmed the final band to the lineup will be Exit Ten. The five piece metal band from Reading released their first full-length album this year …
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By bandweblogs on Oct 2, 2008 in Albums, Bands, New Releases, Press Releases, Videos | Tags: Festivals, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Jazz, Tour Dates, youtube | 1 Comment

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey return to Europe in October. Touring in support of ‘Lil Tae Rides Again’ (Hyena), JFJO will perform in Great Britian, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, Germany and Sweden over the course of the three week tour …
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By bandweblogs on Sep 11, 2008 in Bands, Press Releases | Tags: Festivals, Hellfire Festival, London | 0 Comments

London’s inaugural Hellfire Festival taking place 31st October - 1st November, 2008 has confirmed the latest line up …
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By bandweblogs on Sep 2, 2008 in Bands, Press Releases | Tags: Altamont Fairgrounds, Festivals, MGMT, New York, SoCo Music Experience, Southern Comfort, The Whigs | 0 Comments

Southern Comfort has announced Altamont Fairgrounds near Albany, NY will be the new venue for the SoCo Music Experience on Saturday, September 13, 2008 …
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By bandweblogs on Aug 26, 2008 in Bands, Press Releases | Tags: Built to Spill, Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker, Festivals, Quasi | 0 Comments

In what started out as a live-in Old West motion picture set built in the 1940s, where a number of Westerns and early television shows were filmed including The Cisco Kid, Pioneertown, CA will be hosting a different breed of entertainer …
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By bandweblogs on Aug 20, 2008 in Press Releases | Tags: Festivals, Reverend and the Makers, The Enemy | 0 Comments

The Big Reunion Festival 2008 announces more acts including The Enemy and Reverend and the Makers to headline this year’s Rogue Stage …
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By bandweblogs on Jul 31, 2008 in Bands, Music, Press Releases | Tags: Black Kids, Burt Bacharach, Canada, Elyse Weinberg, Events, Festivals, Irma Thomas, Music, Nick Cave, Pop Montreal, Sirius Satellite Radio | 0 Comments

2008 is sure to be a year like no other for POP Montreal. This year’s festival will feature artists like the legendary Burt Bacharach and New Orleans Soul Queen Irma Thomas, alongside poetic-punk troubadour Nick Cave, the seminal and brilliant WIRE, and the godfathers of experimental electronic psych Silver Apples …
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By Lindsey Davis on Jul 28, 2008 in Bands, Music, Reviews | Tags: Dodgy, Emmy The Great, Festivals, Laura Marling, Live Reviews, Magic Numbers, Music, Oxford, Oxford Bands, Romeo Stodart, Truck Festival | 0 Comments

Truck Festival - Photo: Gina Policelli. 2008 marked the eleventh Truck Festival in the normally sleepy Oxfordshire village of Steventon. Not to be mistaken for an event celebrating all things of the vehicular variety, Truck represents one of the precious few independent music festivals …
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By bandweblogs on Jul 21, 2008 in Bands, Music, Press Releases, Videos | Tags: Billboard, Events, Festivals, Heavy.com, Music, Music Blogs, Networking, Pitchfork.tv, SoCo Music Experience, Southern Comfort, Tour Dates | 0 Comments

Southern Comfort has announced that it is partnering with several music and lifestyle sites to bring the SoCo Music Experience to the web in the form of custom episodic content …
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By bandweblogs on Jul 16, 2008 in Bands, Music, Press Releases | Tags: Caldicot Castle Rock Festival, Festivals, Get Vegas, Magnum, Man, Music, Rattlesnake Remedy, Shows, Wales | 1 Comment

Pictured: Magnum. Caldicot Castle Rock Festival is set to take place over August 1st and 2nd, 2008 in the beautiful grounds of Caldicot Castle in Wales! Headlining the first night are Rock legends Australian Pink Floyd …
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