Review: North Coast Music Festival 2012
Three weeks after the Windy City’s final festival hoorah and we’ve still got North Coast Music Festival on our minds. Check out Erica Treais’s review of the festival and Rad Photos awesome photo gallery below. Hundreds of young raving teens showed up at Union Park to test out their dance moves at the three-day, Labor Day weekend party. The festivals primary musical focus was electronic dance music, though there were quiet a few brass, jam and rock bands in the line-up. We all seemed to luck out with three days of sunshine and nothing more then a bit of drizzle, unlike last years weekend of downpour. Papadosio, a group that spent a hefty amount of…
North Coast Music Festival 2012 Preview
Labor Day Weekend marks a last hurrah for music lovers in the Windy City and the crew running North Coast Music Festival has made sure there is a “little something for everybody” in this years line up. This is the third year of NCMF hosted at Union Park in Chicago, IL and the first act takes to the stage at 2:00 p.m. sharp. If you haven’t already bought your tickets, good luck! All but 3-Day VIP tickets have been sold out; if you’re lucky you can catch some of the after party’s going on throughout the city. Headliners include Pretty Lights, Girl Talk, STS9, and hometown heroes, Umphrey’s McGee. And when I mentioned there is…
Day Three – Electric Forest
Photos by e.Tree Photography It seems as if everyone and their mother went a little too hard on Friday night because everything seemed to run a bit slower come Saturday afternoon. Of course that is to be expected when Steve Aoki and DIM MAK play into the early hours of the morning and its a little difficult to avoid the “WOOP WOOP” when you’re staying in general camping. Yet come 5:30 p.m. on Saturday when Santigold took the stage, the party (including myself) seemed to regain that second wind. Santigold was a must see on my schedule for the weekend though she seemed a bit reserved, flowing lightly across the stage and making hand gestures…
Gallery: Mayan Holidaze by Brian Spady
Mayan Holidaze is a perfect blend of music, atmosphere, and partyin’ peeps. This year’s sold-out experience included The Disco Biscuits, Umphrey’s McGee, STS9, Big Gigantic, Polish Ambassador and Lance Herbstrong. Photographer Brian Spady captured the moments with incredible detail, clarity, and passion for his work and we’re feeling like we were there looking at these photos.
STS9 | NYC | 10.22.2011
Words By: Carly Photos by: Nick Irving NEW YORK, NY – In support of their latest EP When The Dust Settles, Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) made a stop in New York City to visit Times Square’s Best Buy Theater (formally the Nokia Theater) and the scene outside was just as busy as the rest of the Square. Fingers were up for the sold out show and even though police were present, the lot kids designated a corner for smoking and selling wraps adjacent to the venue. Getting in was no problem, security was loose and the spacious theater is quite welcoming. DJ opener Polish Ambassador had over an hour before STS9’s set but unfortunately,…
STS9 Returns to NYC
NEW YORK, NY – Saturday October 22nd Sound Tribe Sector 9 will return to New York City’s Best Buy Theater for their first NYC performance since August of 2010. During that two night stand they treated New Yorkers to an “Axe The Cables” acoustic set at the The Blender Theater before heading to the Roseland Ballroom the following night-(full setlists below.)  Their current 24-city fall tour will be in full swing following 2 sold out performances at Colorado’s famous Red Rocks Amphitheater (saw the two Red Rocks Shows – SICK – ed.) where the band was joined by Snoop Dogg, Savoy and LTJ Bukem. STS9 first played NYC in 1999 at now defunct Wetlands Preserve. …
Live iClips Webcast STS9 at the Classic Center in Athens Georgia
iClips.net is very excited to announce the LIVE broadcasts of STS9′s return to the stage at the Classic Center in Athens, GA on April 20th and 21st. Prices are $14.99 for both shows or $7.99 per show – which includes access to the live broadcasts and archives (when available). They are honored to be working with Rock Against Cancer on these two very special broadcasts and they will be donating 10% of the net proceeds to R.A.C. to help support music therapy for children battling cancer. If you would like to make your own donation to Rock Against Cancer there is a link on the broadcast pages that will take you through the process. You…
STS9 Late-night set at the Barn – Summer Camp 2010
STS9′s inclusion in Summer Camp may have been due to the fact that these old guys create soundscapes on a grand scale. Traditional late-night fare, STS9′s blend of electronica with live instruments makes them doubly enjoyable. They rocked the house past 3AM and even did an encore. The room was a bit too full for my tastes, and the way that this venue handles photo passes meant that there were none – STS9 forbid any media from accessing “the pit” at the front of the stage. I’m not sure why artists/management/show staff do this thing other than for a power trip. It’s not like the drunk girlfriends/jail bait that you miracle’d with passes are worth…
STS9 Live @ The Town Ballroom 10.17.09 | MP3
STS9 is lighting up clubs across the east coast this fall with it’s unique blend of funk, jazz, drum and bass, instrumental rock, and electronic music. We’ve never seen a psychedilic rock experiment of this caliber executed to such perfection as we did this past week at Buffalo’s best indoor venue, the Town Ballroom in Buffalo, NY. Take a listen to a few tracks from the show below. Oh Little Brain: The Rabble: To grab the MP3 files now click HERE. For the lossless files head over to The Archive. Setlist: Set 1: This, Us > One A Day > 118 > The Rabble > Oh Little Brain > Bigs intro > Bigs cont >…
