Photos: Voodoo Festival 10-28-07 at City Park - New Orleans, LA

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Voodoo Festival Initial Line-up!

This is a great line-up and now I'm definitely skipping ACLFest for this:

Rage Against The Machine
Smashing Pumpkins
Wilco
Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals
tiesto
Sinead O'Connor
Kings Of Leon
Porcupine Tree
Black Crowes
Fall Out Boy
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Mute Math
Common
MIA
Paolo Nutini
Spoon
La Coka Nostra featuring Everlast and members of House Of Pain
Coheed And Cambria
Galactic featuring Lyrics Born
Ghost
Dr. John
Toots and The Maytals
JJ Grey and MOFRO
many more... (see festival homepage)

Voodoo Fest takes place in New Orleans City Park October 26th-28th. Tickets go on sale for $100 this Friday at 10am, and then get more expensive as they sell. I attended the last one before hurricane Katrina and it was a really great time.

Voodoo Fest Website

Weekday Shows This Week

There's a bunch of great shows to check out this week:

Tonight:

APACHE CAFE: bfd, dj scissor hands, dres tha beatnik 18+ 10PM / $10 (www.apachecafe.info)

DRUNKEN UNICORN: one hand loves the other, the skies we built, kate myers 18+ 9 pm / $7.00 (STICKFIGURE DISTRIBUTION PRESENTS - http://www.stickfiguredistro.com)

Wednesday Night:

DRUNKEN UNICORN: arbouretum (thrill jockey records), david karsten daniels all ages 9:00 (http://www.tightbros.net - ( get advance tickets here: http://www.ticketalternative.com ))

VARIETY PLAYHOUSE: clap your hands say yeah, elvis perkins in deerland All Ages 8:30 pm / $20

Thursday Night:

MASQUERADE - HELL: the locust, daughters, cattle decapitation $12.50 7pm

SMITH'S OLD BAR: rose hill drive, earl greyhound, morning state $10 9pm

THE LOFT: de la soul, rhythm roots all-stars 9pm doors / 21+ with valid ID Tickets cannot be purchased for this show!!! To gain entry, RSVP at www.scion.com/livemetro

Live Show: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2-12-2007)

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will be at the Variety Playhouse Wednesday, April 18th.



Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
La Cigale, Paris

February 12nd, 2007

Simultaneous broadcast on France Inter, program C'est Lenoir

Lineage : FM receiver (stereo) -> CDWAVe -> SoundForge -> wav. -> FLAC -> you

Setlist :

(click to listen)

01. Satan Said Dance
02. Is This Love
03. Love Song N°7
04. Details of the war
05. In this home on ice
06. Yankee go home
07. By the skin of my yellow country teeth
08. Gimmie some salt
09. Over and over again
10. Goodbye to mother and the cove
11. Heavy Metal

Recorded and edited by svp, for you. Only edit is fade in at the beginning and fade out at the end of the concert.
Enjoy, this is a great gig by a great band!
Support the artists and independent (records) stores!

DOWNLOAD LOSSLESS TORRENT HERE

Smashing Pumpkins First US Date: Virgin Festival, plus Lollapalooza Update

As I keep hoping the Smashing Pumpkins will be at their hometown festival, Lollapalooza, they have been announced as a co-headlining spot at a US festival the same weekend. Virgin Festival, happening in Baltimore,MD August 4-5, will also feature The Police and The Beastie Boys. They will announce the rest of the line-up later.

Lollapalooza early-bird tickets go on sale April 3rd, while they plan to announce the full line-up on April 12th. Again, thanks to Sixtimes at the lollapalooza message board, here's the confirmations as they stand:

Lupe Fiasco (http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/40065/Lupe_Fiasco_Announces_Lengthy_Tour)
The New Amsterdams (http://filter-mag.com/index.php?id=13709&c=1)
Jack's Mannequin (http://www.lollapalooza.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=68391)
The Roots (http://news.hiphopsite.com/blogs/newsonthedl/archive/2007/02/20/uestlove-it-s-official-we-are-on-bonnaroo.aspx)
Son Volt (no online reference, but Cosmo says he saw it in an ad in the new Rolling Stone)
Pearl Jam (not officially confirmed: http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/poprock/278176,CST-FTR-lolla01.article)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (unofficial: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0703020099mar02,1,5001378.story?ctrack=1&cset=true)
Daft Punk ("Another Message Board," http://www.lollapalooza.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=70847)
Charlie Musselwhite (http://www.rosebudus.com/tourdates/musselwhite.html)
Ghostland Observatory (http://www.lollapalooza.com/forum/fb.aspx?m=77000)
Peter, Bjorn & John (http://somethingglorious.typepad.com/somethingglorious/2007/03/peter_bjorn_joh.html)
Rhymefest (http://idolator.com/tunes/lollapalooza/for-vedder-or-worse-heres-your-lollapalooza-2007-headliner-240748.php)
David Vandervelde (http://idolator.com/tunes/lollapalooza/for-vedder-or-worse-heres-your-lollapalooza-2007-headliner-240748.php)
LCD Soundsystem (http://www.myspace.com/lcdsoundsystem)
Peter DiStefano (http://www.myspace.com/peterdistefano)
!!! (http://www.myspace.com/chkchkchk)
Annuals (http://pollstar.com/tour/searchall.pl?Content=A-ANNUA1&StartSearch.x=10&StartSearch.y=18&Date_From=Today&Date_To=03-21-2009&By=All&PSKey=Y)

Keep it here for all Smashing Pumpkins and Lollapalooza Updates.

Lollapalooza Line-up Confirmations, Rumors and Speculations

Thanks to Sixtimes at the Lollapaooza message board, Here's some confirmations:


Lupe Fiasco (http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/40065/Lupe_Fiasco_Announces_Lengthy_Tour)
The New Amsterdams (http://filter-mag.com/index.php?id=13709&c=1)
Jack's Mannequin (http://www.lollapalooza.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=68391)
The Roots (http://news.hiphopsite.com/blogs/newsonthedl/archive/2007/02/20/uestlove-it-s-official-we-are-on-bonnaroo.aspx)
Son Volt (no online reference, but Cosmo says he saw it in an ad in the new Rolling Stone)
Pearl Jam (not officially confirmed: http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/poprock/278176,CST-FTR-lolla01.article)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (unofficial: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0703020099mar02,1,5001378.story?ctrack=1&cset=true)
Daft Punk ("Another Message Board," http://www.lollapalooza.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=70847)

Obviously the biggest rumor is Smashing Pumpkins because they do now officially have tour dates in Europe and this is their hometown.

More updates as we get more info.

Releases of the Week

Youth Group : Casino Twilight Dogs

Norah Jones : Not Too Late

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah : Some Loud Thunder

Lily Allen : Alright, Still

Busdriver : RoadKillOvercoat