Weekly Musical Spotlight ::: Late Night Television & Paladia Highlights

Monday 01/27/14
Conan ::: The Strypes
Leno ::: A Great Big World
Letterman ::: Arctic Monkeys
Fallon ::: Barry Gibbs
Daly ::: Capital Cities

Tuesday 01/28/14
Conan ::: Jimmy Vivino and the Black Italians 
Kimmel ::: Motley Crue
Leno ::: Dwight Yoakam
Letterman ::: Bastille
Fallon ::: Liz Warfield
Daly ::: The Blank Tapes

Wednesday 01/29/14
Conan ::: Hard Working Americans
Kimmel ::: Broken Bells
Leno ::: Jennifer Nettles
Letterman ::: Not yet listed
Fallon ::: Sheng Wang
Daly ::: CHVRCHES

Thursday 01/30/14
Kimmel ::: Sara Bareilles
Leno ::: Sarah McLachlan
Letterman ::: Not yet listed
Fallon ::: David Crosby
Daly ::: K. Flay

Friday 01/31/14
Leno ::: Sara Bareilles 
Letterman ::: Eagulls
Fallon ::: Not yet listed
Daly ::: Vanish Valley

Paladia Highlights
Tuesday 01/28/14
11:00a AWOLNation - Live from Denver
12:00p Twenty One Pilots - Live from The LC
 1:00p Grouplove - I'm With You 

Wednesday 01/29/14
11:00a Hangout Festival 2013 - Hour 1
12:00p Hangout Festival 2013 - Hour 2

Thursday 01/30/14
10:00a Storytellers - My Morning Jacket
 3:00p The Doors - Live at the Bowl

Live Spotlight ::: Welcome Back Party in the Park

We can confirm that Party in the Park will return to Centennial Olympic Park for their third edition Saturday, May 17th. We are not sure when the announcement will come; last year the date of event was released on February 28th and the headliners dropped on March 4th. Around March April 24th the additional three artists were announced. 

The inaugural PitP lineup consisted of psych rockers Flaming Lips, Young the Giant, Dawes, AWOL Nation, and Ponderosa. Their follow up lineup was made up of Passion Pit, Ellie Goulding, Grouplove, Yeasayer, and The Electric Sons. 

Typically the Party in the Park lineup has some overlap with Gulf Shores, Alabama's Hangout Festival, including the top three billed acts both years. The fourth artist is usually a one-off show and the last band is a local up and coming group. So what does this mean for 2014? Don't look for any of the four headliners (The Black Keys, the Killers, Outkast, or Jack Johnson) as they typically have a exclusive radius for large shows especially in large markets like Atlanta. Modest Mouse will have just played Shaky Knees, Queens of the Stone Age recently played Music Midtown and are likely to highly billed, and Pretty Lights though he fits the party atmosphere I'm not sure it's the pull they're looking for added to the fact that he plays CounterPoint the month before. Our best guesses from Hangout include Capital Cities (unlikely as they play Philips opening for Katy Perry in late June), Fitz and the Tantrums, Childish Gambino, and/or Andrew WK. As far as local acts go Manchester Orchestra will be in Ohio which also rules out Bad Brooks. Now this just happens to be a pattern we've noticed. There are many things this year that could influence or change things such as the growth of Shaky Knees, CounterPoint moving to April, and Party in the Park could even be looking to grow themselves. 

Other artists we could see gracing Centennial include the Lumineers, fun., Janelle Monae, Twenty One Pilots, GirlTalk, Bastille, MGMT, Sleigh Bells,  Best Coast, the Mowgli's, Atlas Genius, or the Cults. 

Some that fit the bill but seem unlikely or can be ruled out based on tour dates include Foster the People, HAIM, Matt & Kim, Icona Pop, Vampire Weekend, Tame Impala.

Earphunk as Daft Phunk Live at the Georgia Theatre (01-17-14) and my reaction to festivals.

First of all, I would like to take the opportunity to welcome myself back to the blogosphere. My last post here was about The Black Keys show at Lakewood in May of last year, so it's been a while. I've taken some time off, mostly due to the fact that YouTube and I had a little altercation where my account was disabled for a while (I guess they don't like it when Paul McCartney concert video gets posted... my bad). That problem has been rectified and now we can get back to business. This past Friday night, thankfully the Georgia Theatre had an act I wanted to go see. Thanks to the big Festival Lineup drop day that was January 15th, I had been jonesin' to go see a show. Earphunk was a band I hadn't heard that much about, but when I heard that they play a set of Daft Punk covers, I was in. Daft Punk is probably the number one band on my "haven't seen them live" list right now, and unfortunately they have not announced any tour dates any time soon (I still have the "like a little kid believes in Santa Claus" belief that Bonnaroo could do something there). Well, thanks to Earphunk (who will now be referred to as Daft Phunk), I got to see some of these songs live. They played a set of their own stuff, which was pretty solid. Think of Dumpstaphunk without lyrics and a little more jam band like. After they finished their original set, there was an intermission followed by Daft Phunk.

When the band came back out, they were all wearing blue Puma track suits and some were wearing LED sunglasses, as can be seen in the picture from the beginning of this post. They hit a lot of awesome Daft Punk tracks, such as Television Rules the Nation, Robot Rock, Voyager, and others including this little diddy:  

Around the World

It was really interesting to see the "robot voice" done in person and it was done via this tube mic that the lead guy put into his mouth. They definitely played a lot of the classics, but they also got some Random Access Memories in there, including the lead track off the album:

Give Life Back to Music

 

  But they didn't stop there with Random Access Memories, as everyone knew this song was coming...

Get Lucky

I've got to say though that my favorite moment of the night is when they played what is probably my favorite non Random Access Memories Daft Punk song, and the touch pad was definitely needed here:

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

It's amazing to me the flack that cover acts get. FIrst of all with these guys, they have original music too, so that helps take away some of the hate. Here's another great thing about cover/tribute acts. People in smaller towns that wouldn't normally get the big acts in can go see these smaller acts, have a great time, and save a little cash. This show only cost me $12 and I had a blast. They did a great job of adding in their more jam-style influence to these mostly electronic tracks. It was a great blending of styles and they had an awesome laser show to go along with the rest of the production. Overall, this was a fantastic show that I would recommend to anyone that likes Daft Punk or funky jam bands (I actually did tell a couple of friends in Atlanta to go see them the next night when they played Terminal West).  They ended things off with an encore of one of their most known songs:

One More Time

Okay, I'll end this post with a few words on the massive festival lineup drops from last Wednesday. Robert already posted a lot of great information on all of this earlier on here, so I'm just going to drop some opinions. My two favorite lineups were those of Hangout and Firefly. It seems like all the festivals are getting OutKast, so that kind of dilutes the "special" aspect of the OutKast reunion. I'm not complaining, because I really want to see them. Bonnaroo (who aren't dropping their lineup until February 19th) have got a challenge in front of them after the other lineups dropped. Here's to hoping that they too can amaze. Right now, I'd like to go to Counterpoint (mainly for OutKast and Foster the People) and one other festival. I'd imagine it will be Bonnaroo, but if that lineup disappoints then who knows. All we can do now is wait for the 19th of February, so watch this space.  

Weekly Musical Spotlight ::: Late Night Television & Paladia Highlights

Monday 01/20/14
Conan ::: Workaholics
Kimmel ::: Vampire Weekend
Letterman ::: Glen Hansard
Leno ::: Pati LaBelle
Fallon ::: Disclosure
Daly ::: The Flaming Lips

Tuesday 01/21/14
Conan ::: Sarah Jarosz
Kimmel ::: Young the Giant

Letterman ::: Ellie Goulding

Leno ::: Sheryl Crow
Fallon ::: Wild Cub
Daly ::: Broad City

Wednesday 01/22/14
Conan ::: Trombone Shorty
Kimmel ::: Danny Brown

Letterman ::: Not Listed

Leno ::: Neon Trees
Fallon :::Run the Jewels
Daly ::: Two Door Cinema Club

Thursday 01/23/14
Conan ::: Not Listed
Kimmel ::: Jason Derulo
Letterman ::: No AgeLeno ::: Not Listed
Daly ::: Hudson Valley Ballers

Friday 01/24/14
Letterman ::: Devon Avenue
Leno ::: Celine Dion with Ne-Yo
Fallon ::: Schoolboy Q
Daly ::: White Denim 

Paladia Highlights
Monday 01/20/14 
11:30p ::: London Live! - A$AP Rocky
Tuesday 01/21/14
2:30p ::: Elton John - In Concert
4:00p ::: Paul McCartney - Something NEW
Thursday 01/23/14
12:00p ::: London Live! - The Shins
12:30p ::: London Live! - Foster the People 
1:00p ::: Unplugged - Young the Giant
1:30p ::: Unplugged - Silversun Pickups
4:00p ::: Foo Fighters - Live at Wembley 
Friday 01/24/14
9:00a ::: Sound City - Documentary 
9:00p ::: Grouplove - I'm With You

FESTIVAL LINEUP OVERLOAD ::: We Break it Down

The past two days have been an overwhelming with festival lineups crashing wave after wave. We've tried break it down for you and help bring you everything you need to know.

CounterPoint Music Fest
April 25-27
Kingston Downs ::: Rome, GA
Tickets on-sale NOW
Ticket Price (Next Pricing Tier)
General Admission $180 ($199)
GA Plus Camping $205 (($224)
VIP $800 ($999)
Camping Festival with non-camping car parking options
Highlights ::: Outkast, Foster the People, Flux Pavillion, Matt & Kim, Chance the Rapper, Phantogram
YouOughtToKnow ::: Dan Croll, XXYYXX, Five Knives, School Boy Q, Minnesota
Connect with CounterPoint
www.counterpointfestival.com
https://www.facebook.com/cntrpntmusic
https://twitter.com/cntrpntmusic
http://instagram.com/cntrpntmusic
http://www.pinterest.com/cntrpntmusic/



Shaky Knees 
May 9-11
Atlantic Station ::: Atlanta, GA
Tickets on-sale Friday, January 17th
3-Day Advanced $150 ($169)
3-Day VIP $475 ($575)
Single Day $84
Non-Camping
Highlights ::: The National, Modest Mouse, Portugal. the Man, Local Natives, Lord Huron
YouOughtToKnow ::: Wake Owl, Apache Relay, Man Man, Paper Bird
Connect with Shaky Knees
www.ShakyKneesFestival.com
https://www.facebook.com/shakykneesfest
https://twitter.com/ShakyKneesFest
http://instagram.com/shakykneesfest/#



Hangout Music Fest
May 16-18
The Beach ::: Gulf Shores, Alabama
Tickets on-sale Thursday, January 16 10am EST
3-Day GA $229, plus $29 fee
3-Day GA with Shuttle $279, plus $29 fee
3-Day VIP $999, plus $51 fee
3-Day VIP with Shuttle $1049, plus $51 fee
Non-Camping, On-beach, Hotel need
Highlights ::: Outkast, Black Keys, Queens of the Stone Age, Childish Gambino, Capital Cities, Andrew WK
YouOughtToKnow ::: Chance the Rapper, Shakey Graves, Wild Cub, Little Green Cars, Allen Stone, the 1975, Reignwolf
Connect with Hangout
www.HangoutMusicFest.com
https://www.facebook.com/hangoutmusic
https://twitter.com/Hangoutfest
http://instagram.com/hangoutfest
http://www.pinterest.com/hangoutfest/



Governors Ball
June 6-8
Randalls Island ::: New York City
Tickets on-sale January 15 at 3pm EST
General Admission $230, plus $20 fee
VIP $500, plus $30 fee
Manhattan Ferry Ride $45, plus $5 fee
Brooklyn Shuttle Ride $55, plus $5 fee
Non-Camping, Hotel needed
Highlights ::: Outkast, Jack White, Vampire Weekend, Foster the People, TV on the Radio, Broken Bells, Sleigh Bells, The Head and the Heart, Washed Out
YouOughtToKnow ::: Haerts, RJD2, Tanlines, Earl Sweatshirt, Half Moon Run
Connect with Governors Ball
http://governorsballmusicfestival.com/
https://www.facebook.com/GovBall
https://twitter.com/govballnyc
http://instagram.com/govballnyc
https://www.youtube.com/user/GovBallMusicFestival
http://govball.tumblr.com/


Firefly Music Festival
June 19-22
The Woodlands ::: Dover, Delaware
 Tickets on-sale Monday, January 20 at Noon EST
Early Bird 4-Day General Admission $249, plus fees
Advanced 4-Day General Admission $279, plus fees
Regular 4-Day General Admission $299, plus fees
4-Day VIP $699, plus fees
4-Day Super VIP $1999, plus fees
Highlights ::: Foo Fighters, Outkast, Lumineers, Young The Giant, Childish Gambino, Girl Talk, Twenty One Pilots, Phosphorescent, Band of Horses
YouOughtToKnow ::: Wild Child, Kodaline, the White Panda, High Highs Typhoon, Smallpools
Connect with FireFly
http://fireflyfestival.com/
https://www.facebook.com/FireflyMusicFestival
https://twitter.com/LiveAtFirefly
http://instagram.com/fireflymusicfestival
https://www.youtube.com/user/FireflyMusicFestival


DON'T FORGET ABOUT BONNAROO!!!

Our best stab at a mock Bonnaroo Lineup, over a month out...

OUTKAST• FOO FIGHTERS •ELTON JOHN

MY MORNING JACKET •THE AVETT BROTHERS• BASSNECTAR •THE FLAMING LIPS• THE KNIFE

NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS• BROKEN BELLS •DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE•DAVE CHAPELLE

BEN HARPER AND CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE• LORDE• HAIM•TI

RICK SPRINGFIELD •BAND OF HORSES •GOODIE MOB • KID CUDI•THE HEAD AND THE HEART 

2 CHAINZ • JANELLE MONAE• EARL SWEATSHIRT•FITZ AND THE TANTRUM•CAKE

CHVRCHES •DISCLOSURE • UMPHREYS MCGEE•BEN HOWARD•

CHILDISH GAMBINO•BUSTA RHYMES•PHANTOGRAM•CAPITAL CITIES

JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS•SKREAM AND BENGA •ANDREW BIRD•SLEIGH BELLS 

BAAUER•CUT COPY•FEAR•KEANE• RYHE •WASHED OUT•CHANCE THE RAPPER

CAGE THE ELEPHANT•SAVAGES •RUN THE JEWELS•FOXYGEN• MOE•THE HEAVY•MS MR

KAISER CHIEFS•THE WHITE PANDA• MIMOSA•DANNY BROWN•PHOSPORESCENT

YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND•CHROMEO•THE NAKED AND THE FAMOUS•SLEATER-KINNEY

TYLER THE CREATOR•TYPHOON•DOG BLOOD•JAGWAR MA•MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA

•RJD2 •DEEP PURPLE•DAUGHTER•BLACKBERRY SMOKE•THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

SLEEPY BROWN•PUSHA T•COLIN MELOY•AUGUSTANA•DELTRON 3033•DIANE COFFEE

BLOOD ORAGNE•COM TRUISE•NIGHT BEDS•JOSE JAMES •KODALINE•THE APACHE RELAY

THE MOWGLIS•GOVT MULE FEAT ROBBY KRIEGER PLAYING THE DOORS•LUCIUS

BRICK MORTAR•CHURCHILL•THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA•REIGNWOLD

THE HOLD STEADY•FUTURE•SMALL POOLS•SPEEDY ORTIZ

HAERTS•SHOVELS AND ROPE•WILD CHILD•HAMMOCK• ELF POWER•KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS

CHAOS CHAOS•SEASICK STEVE•LAURA MARLING•BLUE HAWAII •TALL TALL TREES

ANAMANIGUCHI•XAIVER RUDD•THAO AND THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN•KITTEN

EARPHUNK•SAVOIR ADORE•KOPECKY FAMILY BAND•RUN RIVER NORTH

CONNER YOUNGBLOODED•ROLAND AND THE SWEET TEA PROJECTS