Enter Rhapsody’s Best Fest Sweepstakes for a chance to win a trip to see two-thirds of Lollapalooza 2009 on August 7-9 in Chicago. The winner will receive:
- round-trip airfare for the winner and a guest
- 2 nights of hotel accommodations
- 2 tickets for 2 days of the festival
- $500 for incidental expenses
- Linksys Wireless Home Audio System
Lollapalooza is a 3-day festival so you’ll have to pay out of your own pocket to attend the entire event and for the much needed extra night at the hotel. Is that what they mean by “incidental expenses”?
The contest is being sponsored by Linksys by Cisco to promote their new, brilliantly-named wireless home audio system, “Wireless Home Audio“. WHA consists of multiple components (the Player, the Director, the Conductor, and the Controller) that can be purchased separately or as part of various kits. Spend an hour on their confusing website and I’m sure you’ll be able to sort out all of the company and product names. Good luck to the branding and advertising folks on this one.
Nine Black Alps have made a track from their upcoming, untitled third album available on their website. Sign up for their mailing list to receive “Buy Nothing” free.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs released their third album, It’s Blitz, last month and they’re promoting it on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Their first single “Zero” is very good, but I prefer “Heads Will Roll”.
Metric is touring the US in June to support the April 14th release of their 4th album, Fantasies.
6/4 Seattle, WA – Showbox
6/5 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
6/6 San Francisco, CA – BFD
6/7 San Diego, CA – Independence Jam
6/8 Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern
6/11 Denver, CO – Ogden Theater
6/12 Lawrence, KS – Granada
6/13 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
6/14 Chicago, IL – Metro
6/15 Detroit, MI – St. Andrews Hall
6/17 New York, NY – Terminal 5
6/18 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
6/19 Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero
The All Points West Music & Arts Festival will be returning to Liberty State Park in New Jersey on Friday, July 31st through Sunday, August 2nd. Beastie Boys, Tool, and Coldplay are the headliners for each night but I’m not interested in seeing any of them. Beastie Boys will attract all of the meatheads just as Rage Against the Machine did at Coachella in 2007, TOOL has a devoted following but I never got into them, and Coldplay just sucks ever since Chris Martin announced his mission to be in the biggest band in the world. See below for my favorites from each day.
Friday: Fleet Foxes, the National, Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Saturday: The Ting Tings, Arctic Monkeys, My Bloody Valentine
Sunday: We Are Scientists, Mogwai, Silversun Pickups, Elbow, MGMT, Echo & The Bunnymen
Saturday is my least favorite day especially since I’ve alreadh had my ears blown out by MBV last year so I’ll be going on either Friday, Sunday, or both. The pre-sale starts tomorrow at noon (password: WRXP) with the public sale starting at noon on Friday. 3-day passes are $199 (+fees) and 1-day passes are $89 (+fees).
