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No Country’s Guide to Riot Fest 2019
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What began as a modest multi-venue club festival in Chicago 15 years ago, and has, over the years, grown to become the city’s second-largest music fest, just behind Lollapalooza, the punk-centric Riot Fest is now a certifiable institution, spawning spinoffs in various other cities across North America, while doubling down on its Chi-Town roots, with jaw dropping,…
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Festival Arms Race Heats Up; Kings of Leon, Moon Taxi, COIN, Civil Twilight More Announced for 2016 Firefly Fest
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Just a day after Gulf Shores, AL-based Hangout Fest dropped their full 2016 lineup shockingly early, Dover, DE’s annual Firefly Music Festival has heated up the 2016 festival arms race, unveiling their entire lineup a staggering seven months ahead of the event, presumably to put pressure on holiday ticket buyers, and to benefit from a…
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Bonnaroo’s Roo Clues ’15: Numbers 1-6
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For the last several years, Bonnaroo has been running a social media (and sometimes real world) clue campaign dubbed Roo Clues, providing hints of varying difficulty about its lineup in anticipation of the official announcement. While, historically, Roo Clues have begun in January and have occurred once or twice a week for six or so weeks, this…
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New Release Spotlight | December 2012, Part 2
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Now that the holidays have settled and everyone’s back in the swing of things, I wanted to go ahead and bring you the second part of our December Release Spotlight. As I mentioned in our New Release Spotlight | December 2012, Part 1, December is the slowest month for record releases. Rather than scrape together…