Music Festivals in 2011

2009 music festivals
They get bigger and bigger and more plentiful every year. Plan a weekend (or week) getaway around one these festivals. Below is around-up of a handful that we recommend through the next couple of months. Many have other components attached such as film festivals, comedy line-ups, digital showcases and more. Where furnished, click on the artist links below for more information and free MP3s.




Mountain Jam Music Festival

Mountain Jam
June 02 - 05
Hunter Mountain, New York

[website]

COST: $79 per day, $177.50 three day pass

Currently in its seventh year, Mountain Jam Festival is produced in association with New York's infamous Radio Woodstock. The four-day, multi-stage festival will host over 50 bands on four stages in Hunter Mountain's natural amphitheater. Attendance is limited to 15,000 people, camping to 5,000.

Line Up:
Gov't Mule
My Morning Jacket
Michael Franti & Spearhead
The Avett Brothers
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros
Electric Hot Tuna
Portugal. The Man
Dawes
Carbon Leaf
Kung Fu
Bobby Long
Timbre Coup
Aliza Hava
RoyalHeartSound
Livingston Leo







The Roots Picnic

Roots Picnic
June 04
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

[website]

COST: $65

Curated entirely by The Legendary Roots Crew, The Roots Picnic is a unique, genre-bending all day festival in the city of Philadelphia that boasts multiple stages, eclectic collaborations and the latest and greatest of what music has to offer.

Line Up:
*Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti     
Black Thought and DJ J. Period Live Mixtape        
Donn T      
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros        
Esperanza Spalding      
Hank & Cupcakes        
J. Period      
*Little Dragon     
Mac Miller      
Man Man      
Nas      
Nicos Gun      
OCD/REDA        
Railbird        
T.MiLLz        
The Dismemberment Plan      
The Roots      
Wiz Khalifa      
Yelawolf      
Young Vipers







Free press Summerfest Music Festival

Free Press Summer Fest
June 04 - 05
Houston, Texas

[website]

COST: $45 - $2092

Free Press Summer Fest is held at Houston’s Eleanor Tinsley Park, located within the beautiful rolling hills of the greater Buffalo Bayou Park. Situated on the very outskirts of downtown, Tinsley Park marries the very best of city and natural settings with its natural grass amphitheater set on the bayou overlooking Houston’s impressive skyline.

Partial Line Up:
Beirut        
Big Bang      
Big Boi        
Black Dahlia Murder      
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears      
*Cut Copy   
*Girls    
HEALTH    
Indian Jewelry      
Iron Age      
Junior Brown
*Neon Indian 
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings      
The Black Angels      
Ween      
Weezer      
Wild Mocassins      
*Yeasayer    







Bonnaroo Music Festival

Bonnaroo
June 09 - June 12
Manchester, Tennessee

[website]

COST: $209.50 - $249.50

Bonnaroo is an annual music festival that was first held in 2002. The main attractions of the festival are the multiple stages of live music, featuring a diverse array of musical styles including indie rock, world music, hip hop, jazz, americana, bluegrass, country music, folk, gospel, reggae, electronica, and other alternative music.

+ RELATED ARTICLE: Bonaroo: the Heat, the Highs, the Music

Partial Line Up:
!!!      
Alison Krauss & Union Station      
Amos Lee      
*Arcade Fire    
Atmosphere      
Beirut      
Bobby Long      
Cold War Kids      
*Deerhunter    
DeVotchKa      
Donald Glover      
Eminem      
Fences      
Florence and the Machine      
Freelance Whales      
Gogol Bordello      
Loretta Lynn      
Matt & Kim      
Mumford & Sons      
My Morning Jacket      
Portugal. the Man      
*Ratatat    
Ray LaMontagne      
Robert Plant and the Band of Joy      
School Of Seven Bells      
*Sleigh Bells    
*Smith Westerns    
The Black Keys      
The Decemberists      
The Head and the Heart
*Twin Shadow   
*Wavves






NXNE Music Festival

North by Northeast
June 13 - June 19
Toronto, Ontario

[website]

COST: $100 - $250

Now in its 16th year, The North by Northeast Music & Film Festival and Conference (NXNE) is Canada’s number one showcase for the best new music and music-related films. For five days and nights every June, NXNE takes over Toronto with the hottest bands, the coolest films, and the freshest music-related ideas—all within a few km of each other. Last year, 70,000 fans, artists, and industry pros flooded Toronto’s famous club district for the festival.

Partial Lineup (650 bands scheduled):
Art Brut      
BRAIDS      
*Crocodiles
*Deerhoof
Devo      
Dum Dum Girls
*Fucked Up      
Handsome Furs
*Horse Feathers    
Hot Water Music
The Dodos
The Luyas
The Pharcyde
*Twin Shadow
Ty Segall













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Index of Reviews A-I
• 31Knots - Trump Harm
• 1990s - Kicks
• Federico Abuele - Amatoria
• Aderlating - Spear of Gold and...
• Air - Love 2
• Alex B - Moments
• Altar of Plagues - Mammal
• Alucidnation - Get Lost
• An Horse - Rearrange Beds
• Ancient Astronauts - We Are to...
• Animal as Leaders - Animals...
• The Antlers - Burst Apart
• Antonymes - A Licence to...
• Apparat - DJ-KiCKS
• Apostle of Hustle - Eat Darkness
• Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Before...
• Arthur’s Landing (self-titled)
• Asobi Seksu - Fluorescence
• Atlas Sound - Logos
• Austra - Feel it Break
• Bachelorette (self-titled)
• Bachelorette - My Electric Family
• Balmorhea - Constellations
• Nat Baldwin - People Changes
• Aidan Baker - Liminoid/Lifeforms
• Band of Skulls - Baby Darling...
• Barn Owl - Ancestral Star
• Basement Jaxx - Scars
• Beirut - The Rip Tide
• The Besnard Lakes
• Best Coast - Crazy for You
• The Big Pink - A Brief History...
• Birds & Batteries - Up to No Good
• Black Moth Super Rainbow
• James Blackshaw - All Is Falling
• Blank Dogs - Land and Fixed
• Blitz the Ambassador
• BLK JKS - After Robots
• Blockhead - The Music Scene
• Blue Water White Death (self-titled)
• Bon Iver (self-titled)
• Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & The Cairo. ..
• The Books - The Way Out
• Botany - Feeling Today
• Bowerbirds - Upper Air
• Braid - Frankie... (reissue)
• Braid - Movie Music Vol. 1 (reissue)

• Bright Eyes - The People’s Key
• British Sea Power - The Man...
• Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness...
• Richard Buckner - Our Blood
• Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
• Anna Calvi (self-titled)
• Camera Obscura - My Maudlin...
• Caribou - Swim
• Casiokids - Topp stemning...
• Cave - Pure Moods EP
• Celestial - Hong Kong Dub...
• CFCF - Continent
• The Chapin Sisters - Two
• Charles Manson - Sings
• Chiddy Bang - Opposite of Adults
• Chikita Violenta - Tre3s
• Luke Cissell - Noise in the Street
• The Clientele - Bonfires on...
• Nicolas Collins - Devil's Music
• Colourmusic - My _____ is Pink
• Communist Daughter - Soundtrack...
• Country Mice - Twister
• Crocodiles - Summer of Hate
• Cut Copy - Zonoscope
• Crystal Antlers - Tentacles
• Crystal Antlers - Two-Way Mirror
• Dag för Dag - Boo
• Dark, Dark, Dark - Wild Go
• Dark Meat - Truce Opium
• Dawes - North Hills

• Deerhoof - Deerhoof vs. Evil
• Deerhunter - (3 albums)
• Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
• The Delta Mirror - Machines That...
DERT - Talk Strange: A Beat Tape...
• Destroy All Monsters - Bored
• Discovery - LP
• DOOM - Born Like This
• Dominant Legs - Young at...
• Double Dagger - More
• Dreissk - The Findingz
• The Drums (self-titled)
• EAR PWR (self-titled)

• Ekca Liena - Slow Music For Rapid...
• Jets Overhead - Bystander
• Julius Eastman - Unjust Malaise
• Elk - Let’s Get Married
• Elk City - House of Tongues
• Epstein Y El Conjunto - When Man...
• Exray’s - Ammunition Teeth
• Exray’s (self-titled)
• Extra Golden - Thank You...
• Fever Ray - Fever Ray
• Figurines (self-titled LP)
• Frankie Rose and the Outs (self-titled)
• Fridge - Early Output 1996-1998
• Nik Freitas - Saturday Night Underwater
• Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
• Foals - Total Life Forever
• Fol Chen - Part 1: John Shade...
• Foxes in Fiction - Swung from Branches
• Four Tet - There is Love In You
• Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing
• Gaida - Levantine Indulgence
• Diego Garcia - Laura
• Guillaume Gargaud - Lost Chords
• Gayngs - Affiliyated
• Gayngs - Relayted
• Givers - In Light
• Girls - Album
• Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
• Ernest Gonzales - Been Mean...
• Grand Hallway - Winter Creatures
• Grand Lake - Blood Sea Dream
• Grasscut - 1 Inch/½ Mile
• A Grave With No Name
• Grizzly Bear - Veckatemist
• Tommy Guerrero - Lifeboats and Follies
• Heartless Bastards - The Moun...
• The Heavy - The House That...
• Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
• Here We Go Magic - Pigeons
• James Holden - DJ Kicks
• Holy Fuck - Latin
• Holy Ghost! (self-titled LP)
• Horse Feathers - Thistled Spring
• Hotels - On the Casino Floor
• Hush Arbors - Yankee Reality
• Hyperpotamus - Largo Bailon
• In Lunar Blue - One Hundred...
• Inlets - Inter Arbiter
• Rafael Anton Irisarri - Live
• Rafael Anton Irisarri - The North Bend
• Irepress - Sol Eye Sea I


• J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid
• Japandroids - Post-nothing
• Janaka Selekta - Pushing Air
Javelin - No Más
• Jesu - Opiate Sun
• Joan of Arc - Flowers
• Joan of Arc - Life Like
• Jogger - This Great Pressure
• Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps
• The Juan MacLean - The Future...
• Jungle Maps (self-titled)
• Kartick & Gotam - Business Class...
• King Creoste & Jon Hopkins
• The King Khan & BBQ Club
• Kong - Snake Magnet
• Roberto Carlos Lange - Music for...
• LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
• La Sera (self-titled)
• Lazer Sword-(self-titled)
• Les Savy Fav - Root for Ruin
• Letting Up Despite Great Falls
• Lightning Dust - Infinite Light
• Lindstrom and Christabelle
• Little Dragon - Machine Dreams
• Loch Lomond - Little Me Will...
• The Lovemakers - Let's Be Friends
• Lovers - Dark Light
In Lunar Blue - One Hundred...
• Lusine - A Certain Distance
• Los Campesinos! - Romance is...
• The Maccabees - Wall of Arms
Machinarium Soundtrack
• Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts
• Manchester Orchestra - Means...
• Maps & Atlases - Perch Patchwork
• Marnie Stern (self-titled)
• The Mary Onettes - Islands
• Melvins - Sugar Daddy Live
• Memory Tapes - Player Piano
• Mexicans with Guns - Me Gusto EP
• Kristin Miltner - Music for Dreaming...
• Mono/Poly - Manifestations EP
• Monotonix - Not Yet
• of Montreal - False Priest (1)
• of Montreal - False Priest (2)

• The Most Serene Republic
• Motorifik - Secret Things
• Mount Kimbie - Crooks and Lovers
• Murder by Death - Good Morn...
• Mux Mool - Skulltaste
• Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
• The New Pornographers - Together
• Nightlands - Forget the Mantra
• Nobunny - First Blood

• Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts
• Nosaj Thing - Drift
• Nurses - Apple's Acre
• Ocote Soul Sounds - Coconut...
• Oneida - Rated O
• The Orb - The Dream
• Other Lives - Tamer Animals
• The Pains of Being Pure at...
• Pale Sketcher - Jesu: Pale...
• Owen Pallett - Heartland
• Panda Bear - Tomboy
• Papercuts - You Can Have...
• Papercuts - Fading Parade
• Cale Parks - To Swift Mars
• Passion Pit - Manners
• Peaches - I Feel Cream
• People Like Us - Welcome Abroad
• Pepper Rabbit - Beauregard
• Phantongram - Eyelid Movies
• The Phenomenal Hand Clap...
• Pictureplane - Thee Physical
• The Picturesque Episodes
• Sam Phillips - Solid State
• Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus
• The Phoenix Foundation - Buffalo
• Pontiak - Living
• Priestbird - Beachcombers
• Quadron - self-titled
• Questioner (self-titled)

Index of Reviews R-Z
• The Radio Dept. - Clinging to...
• Railcars - Hounds of Love
• Ratatat - LP4 
• The Raveonettes - In and Out of...
• Regina - Puutarhatrilogia
• Rishloo - Feathergun
• Rodriguez - Cold Fact
Rosetta - A Determinism of Reality
• The Ruby Suns - Fight Softly
• Arthur Russell - Sleeping Bag...
• Evan Russell Saffer - Neon Gas
• Samiyam - Sam Baker’s Album
• Swans - My Father Will...

• Say Hi - Oohs & Ahs
• Shigeto - Full Circle
• Shigeto - Semi-Circle EP
• The Sight Below - It All Falls Apart
• Silversun Pickups - Swoon
• Liam Singer - Dislocatia
• Sleigh Bells - Treats

• The Slew - 100%
• Smith Westerns - Dye it Blonde
• SMOD - (self-titled)
• Sole and the Skyrider Band - Hello...
• Someone Say Something
• Sorry Bamba
• Spirituals (self-titled)
• Spoon - Transference
• The Spy from Cairo
• STRFKR - Reptilians
• Starfucker - B-sides
• Stereolab - Not Music
• Marnie Stern (self-titled)

• Colin Stetson - New History...
• Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
• Still Life Still - Girls Come Too
• Subway - Subway II
• Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi
• Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
• Syntaks - Ylajali
• Sweet Electra - When We...

• Take - Only Mountain
• Taken by Trees - East of Eden

• The Tallest Man on Earth
• Tarun Nayar - 22° of Beatitude
• Tennis - Cape Dory
• Terakaft - Aratan N Azawad
• Terminal Sound System - Heavy...
• The Thermals - Personal Life
• Tiga - Ciao!
• Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin...  

• Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre
• Tiny Masters of Today - Skeletons
• Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
• Tobacco - Maniac Meat
• Shugo Tokumaru - Port Entropy
• Tokyo Police Club - Champ
• Tomorrow’s Tulips - Eternally Teenage
• Loga Ramin Torkian - Mehraab
• Toro y Moi - Causers of This
• Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine
• Trans Am - Thing
• Tu Fawning - Hearts On Hold
• tUnE-yArDs - WHOKILL
• Twin Shadow - Forget
• The Two Koreas - Science Island
• Tyler, The Creator - Goblin
• Typhoon - Hunger and Thirst
• Vampire Weekend - Contra

• Various Artists - Black Rio 2
• Various Artists - Fuck Dance, Let’s Art
• Various Artists - Horse Meat Disco III
• Various Artists - Milky Disco 2
• Various Artists - Nigeria 70: Sweet Times
• Various Artists - Labrador Spring...
• Various Artists - Next Stop, Soweto...
• Various Artists - Oliver Peoples 6
• Various Artists - Oxytocin
• The Very Best - Warm Heart...
• Vetiver - Vetiver
• Luke Vibert - We Hear You
• Various Artists - Disco Not Disco...
• Vieux Farka Touré - Fondo
• Vieux Farka Touré - The Secret
• Vivian Girls - Everything Goes...
• Vondelpark - nyc stuff and nyc bags
• Warlus - Songs
• Warpaint - The Fool
• Washed Out - Life of Leisure
• We Are Trees - Boyfriend
• When Saints Go Machine - Konkylie
• White Denim - Exposion
• White Fence (self-titled)
• White Hills - H-p1
• White Hills - Heads on Fire
• The Whitsundays - Saul
• Why? - Eskimo Snow
• Wild Beasts - Smother
• Wolf Parade - Expo 86
• Women - Public Strain
• Woodpigeon - Die Stadt Muzikanten
• Woods - Songs of Shame
• Woodsman - Rare Forms
• Working for a Nuclear Free City
• Graham Wright - Shirts vs. Skins
• Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen
• Wye Oak - My Neighbor/My Creator
• X-Ray Press - UVB-76
• The xx - XX
• YACHT - See Mystery Lights
• YACHT - Shangri-La
• Yeasayer - Odd Blood
• Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs

• Young Widows - In and Out of Youth...

• Yuck (self-titled)
• Zeus - Say Us