virgin music festival, here i come!

i'm at the virgin music festival this weekend and won't be doing any music updates until at least tuesday. so enjoy yourselves and expect a nice review of the whole event when i get back!
if you're going and see a bespectled asian bloke bopping around, say 'hey' will ya?

choose the opening act for virgin festival 2007

yes as bigger festivals such as bonnaroo and lollapalooza are getting all the press, my appreciation for the festival newbie virgin festival continues to grow.

with a really wonderful spectrum of acts (amy winehouse vs MIA vs lcd soundsystem vs the police vs the smashing pumpkins!) virgin festival is now holding an online competition with MTV2 called book the band in which five indie 'buzz' bands duke it out to be the opening act for the festival based on your votes.

here are the nominees and well... my very skewed opinions on them.

aiden - we sleep forever
[any band that claims that hell is a nice place to visit doesn't really get my vote since that whole 'darkness rocks' thing is so 2005]

the higher - insurance
[this vegas act isn't sure if they want to entertain cabaret style or rock it out. i'm not sure if i like them either]



say anything - woe (acoustic)
[there's something kind of soulful about this punk rock band, which is probably why this band stands out against the dreck out there at the moment. plus there is a nice tone to the lead singer's voice]




mutemath - transformers (theme song)
[i actually like mutemath quite a bit and the fact that they got roped in to do the theme song to the transformers film is a total hoot!]


cold war kids - hang me out to dry
cold war kids - tonight, you belong to me (live, benefit at district 6)
[um... can you tell i saved the best for last? i just LOVE these boys! one of my fave bands of 2006 deserve to break into bigger and better things this year. vote for them already!]

live wongie: virgin festival 2007 full lineup announced

i actually had a really fun time last year at the inaugural virgin festival in which my friends and i hung out, danced, watched the killers and gnarls barkley back to back, laid out on blow up mattresses (i think i actually fell asleep during the brazilian girls performance) and went loopy when the flaming lips ended our evening.

imagine my pleasure to find out that this years V fest is not only two days worth of musical celebrations, but packed with diverse acts that span the return of the police to my darling amy winehouse! if you see a wongie sleeping on a mattress come over and say 'hey' will ya?

FULL LINEUP for august 4th/5th (*denotes headliners)
311
Amy Winehouse
Bad Brains
(*4th) Beastie Boys
Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals
Booka Shade
Cheap Trick
Chris Cornell
CSS
Danny Tenaglia
Deep Dish (Dubfire & Sharam)
Dieselboy & Andy C (w/ MC QG and MC Messinian)
Felix Da Housecat
Ficton Plane
Fountains of Wayne
Girl Talk
Incubus
Infected Mushroom
Interpol
James Zabiela
LCD Soundsystem
M.I.A.
Matisyahu
Miguel Migs (Petalpusher)
Modest Mouse
Paolo Nutini
Peter Bjorn and John
Regina Spektor
Sander Van Doorn
Sasha & John Digweed
Shout Out Out Out Out
(*5th) Smashing Pumpkins
Spoon
The Crystal Method (DJ set)
The Fratellis
(*4th) The Police
TV on the Radio
Velvet Revolver
Wu Tang Clan
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Tickets for the two-day festival go on sale May 5, 2007. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.com or 1-800-551-SEAT). Single day tickets, if still available, will go on sale May 19. Virgin Mobile USA customers can take advantage of a promotional pre-sale period during which a limited number of tickets will be available for purchase. More information about Virgin Festival By Virgin Mobile can be found at http://www.virginfestival.com.

music festival alert: v festival 2007 announce the police, smashing pumpkins and beastie boys as this years headliners

the 2 day weekend V festival 2007 announced the police, the smashing pumpkins and the beastie boys as their headline acts for this year. once again the music festival will be held at baltimore MD's pimlico racetrack and is set to be a fully green event.

i had a blast last year with my friends as we moved back and forth from the mainstage (the killers, gnarls barkley) to the indie stage (clap your hands say yeah, scissor sisters, the flaming lips).

since this year is spread out to two days, i'm hoping that there will be alot more interesting acts performing this year. i'll keep you posted as i hear more.