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It sucks to be an Australian Rage Against The Machine Fan!
Ticket scalpers are out of control online. Take this story for example. Tickets to Rage gigs in Melbourne and Sidney went on sale and minutes later, scalpers were already listing them for sale at expensive prices online. People who camped out for tickets and who were fifth in line when they went on sale didn’t get tickets. Scalpers got them all in minutes and Aussie fans are pissed. Rage is set to play Auckland’s Big Day Out Fest – if you can get a ticket, or have a ticket, let me know.
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It’s week one of London’s Oxjam Festival. It goes on all month with gigs being played all over town to benefit Oxfam. Looks like there’s something for everyone and everyone should amount to around 300,000 by the end of this.
The Frisco Bluegrass Festival is going on in Dallas this weekend. It’s a baby festival, only in its second year. Acts include Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, the Lonesome River Band, Carrie Hassler and Hard Rain, and local bands Cadillac Sky and Beatlegras.
Time for some podsafe music now before I tell you who sold out the Bermuda Music Festival. They’re called The Beautiful Girls and they are touring all over right now. With a reggae vibe and what has been called a “genre blurring sound,” here are The Beautiful Girls with “She’s Evil.”
http://www.thebeautifulgirls.com
http://www.myspace.com/thebeautifulgirls
The O’Jays Sold Out Bermuda. The O’Jays are playing the sold-out Bermuda Music Festival and it’s hosted today by Steve Harvey. Harvey has been broadcasting his radio show from there all week long.
Funniest Article of the Year! Thing is this came out in February in Australia, before we even started the MelodyTrip podcast, so we just found this. It’s hilarious.
The highlights of San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival are John Prine and Gillian Welch. That’s according to InsideBayArea.com. This totally FREE festival goes on all this weekend, October 5-7th. You can’t miss a FREE festival. Not with the problems concertgoers around the world face today like the Australian scalpers or the high prices for Neil Young tickets. Go see the FREE show!
Of course, I say any concert in Golden Gate park is not to be missed. Just dress in layers so you can stay warm. I’ve frozen my ass off seeing shows there. I remember freezing like a soldier just to see Elvis Costello at the Guinness Fleadh back in the day… Remember the Fleadh? That was the best!
Time to break for more podsafe music before I come back with some news about Mick Jagger talkin’ smack about one of our favorite music festivals. Our last song was reggae, so let’s hit a different genre now for some blues and the podsafe music of Chuck E. Weiss. The song is called “Saturday Nite Fish Fry.”
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Whatsup with Mick Jagger? He doesn’t want to play Glastonbury. What’s wrong, Mick? Afraid of the mud? It’s not like Jagger can’t afford a pair of Wellies. But can he dance in them? So what? Did Glastonbury ever NEED Mick Jagger and The Stones?
How about a homo hip hop festival? Because there is one! It exists! It’s L.A.’s only *** music festival and it’s called HoMosaic 2007. I give ‘em points for a creative name.
Midpoint Music Festival in Ohio is all about networking. But you knew that. Sounds like the festival is a full-time job because you can’t just go and play. You also have to shake babies and kiss hands. A future favorite band may have just networked a deal out there, you never know.
Show Notes Bonus: More Midpoint highlights about bands to watch.
It’s my favorite time again – podsafe music time. Here’s John Taglieri with “Starring Role.” Taglieri is another artist touring all over the place. His sound is more along the lines of the pop-rock or Third Eye Blind or Vertical Horizon.
http://JohnTaglieri.com
http://myspace.com/johntaglierimusic
7,000 Showed up for the San Francisco Blues Festival at Fort Mason. You go to get some good Bay Area blues, experience the perfect weather, and enjoy it all along with spectacular Golden Gate Bridge views. Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Nick Moss and the Flip Tops, Allen Toussaint, Tommy Castro, and more.
Next FREE festival is the National Folk Festival. It’s October 12-14th in Richmond, Virginia. As you can imagine, the lineup is huge. Bluegrass, gospel, Latin – you name it and the style of music will be there. If it celebrates American culture, you’ll hear it at the National Folk Festival.
The Echo Project is also coming up October 12-14th. It’s just outside of Atlanta with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Phil Lesh, Thievery Corporation, and The Flaming Lips headlining. It’s a three-day camping festival complete with a Chattahoochee River clean-up and other green-conscious events.
A website called Matador has put together a top-ten list of music festivals worldwide. Glastonbury is on there of course. Sonar and Festival au Desert also make the cut. Sonar is in Barcelona and Festival au Desert is in the Sahara of Mali. Coachella and Fuji Rocks are also mentioned – as are a couple other no brainers. But Matador, a travel site, also highlights EXIT in Serbia and Iceland Airwaves too.
Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival Replaced with Shakespeare. WTF? The successful Brooklyn Hip Hop fest has been upstaged by –kid you not—a Polish version of Macbeth if I’ve read this article right. The festival’s organizers feel as though this is a racially motivated move to keep brown folks away from the million dollar condos in the neighborhood.
Jeez, if hip hop can’t play Brooklyn, what’s next?
More podsafe music, this song from music.podshow.com. I’ve played this song for you before in the podcast, it’s “Arms Outstretched” by Rilo Kiley. They’ve made the big time now because I just saw their video for “Silver Lining” on VH1.
http://www.myspace.com/rilokiley