Well its that time of year again. The time where festival lineups start rolling out. I've realized that there seems to be less of an interest with festivals on here then on other places I discuss musical interest with (Average ages of people here? Lack of interest?); but its always fun thinking who is playing what.

Anyhow Coachella looks excellent, http://www.coachella.com/ , but I can't make it to California in April.

10000 Lakes looks pretty good too, http://www.10klf.com/artists.php . The venue for that also looks a bit more interesting.

I am curious to see what pitchfork media has in mind for their smaller type festival thing. It is much cheaper and in Chicago, a city I have not visited in years.

I have no ideas about festival lineups in belgium, but it probably won't be worthed anyway. I might go to Peer, the bluesfestival.

I would love a good bluesfestival since I am really not up to date on modern blues artists.

Being in Europe now I was thinking I might catch a couple shows, or festivals even, but doesn't look like much is lined up in my area except for a Pink Martini show and Paco De Lucia performance.

Maybe I just don't know how to look that sort of information up.

Here's a couple of sites I came across last year when I was looking for a festival to go to. These sites are all based in the US, so I know it doesn't help you being in Europe. You might be able to find something similar for your area.

http://www.southfest.com/northcarolina.shtml

http://www.festivalfinder.com/

The best festival I've been to in a couple of years is Shakori Hills here in NC.

http://www.shakorihills.org/

That Shakori Hills festival looks really interesting. Nobody I have ever heard of but still probably a really intimate setting.

I did find one festival I am kind of interested in here. It is called Garorock festival, the lineup is here:

Vendredi 6/04
Line-up : Un Air Deux Familles, Trust, Tété,Ojos De Brujo (Espagne), Wriggles, Tinariwen (Mali), Babylon Circus, Expérience : Www, Debout Sur Le Zinc, Loic Lantoine, Émilie Loizeau, Karpatt, Mademoiselle K, Pierre Guimard,Gecko Palace Vainqueur Du Tremplin Chanson

Samedi 7/04
Line-up : Vitalic, Dj Shadow, Deftones, Les Ogres De Barback, Babylon Circus, Expérience : Dirty Babylon, Breaker, Vitalic Présente Citizen Crew, The Penelopes, JohnLordFonda et Teenage Bad Girl, Puppetmastaz vs Maniacx, JoeyStarr, Svinkels, CSS, Yelle, Alec Empire, New Bomb Turks, Les Hurlements D’Léo vs l’Enfance Rouge, Undirector, Izia Higelin, The Lost Communists, Dj Moule, Cosmik, Connection, Tilly And The Wall, Darga, Galaxie 500, Spooky Jam Vainqueur Du Tremplin Rock

Dimanche 8/04
Line-up : Laurent Garnier, Asian Dub Foundation, Public Enemy, Sanseverino, Olivia Ruiz, Hexstatic, !!!, Q.Bert, H Kayne, Ministère Des Affaires Populaires, Standard, Missill, Babylon Circus, Play Time, Zzz, 5678’s, Nevrotic Explosion, Nelson, Uht°, Undergang, I Love Ufo, L’Enfance Rouge, 0800 (vainqueur du Tremplin Groove), Adam Kesher Dehors


Definitely some people I have heard of but so many I have not.

Here's the lineup for one of the few festivals that I've always wanted to go to (for obvious reasons), but have never been able to make.

I'm seriously considering making the extra effort this year, if only because of the headliner:

NEARfest 2007:

Magma (France)
Hawkwind (England)
Magenta (Wales)
Pure Reason Revolution (England)
La Maschera di Cera (Italy)
NeBeLNeST (France)
Indukti (Poland)
IZZ (United States)
Robert Rich (United States)
Bob Drake (United States)

http://www.nearfest.com/

Bonnaroo announced today, although I am sure they will add more. Looks pretty good but nothing too crazy.

The Police · Tool · Widespread Panic · The White Stripes · Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals · Wilco · The Flaming Lips · Manu Chao · The String Cheese Incident · Franz Ferdinand · Bob Weir & Ratdog · Damien Rice · Ween · Gov't Mule · Ziggy Marley · The Decemberists · Kings of Leon · Michael Franti & Spearhead · Wolfmother · Regina Spektor · The Black Keys · Galactic · DJ Shadow · Gillian Welch · Spoon · Keller Williams (WMD's) · Sasha & John Digweed · STS9 · Old Crow Medicine Show · The Hold Steady · North Mississippi Allstars · Fountains Of Wayne · Hot Tuna · Feist · Hot Chip · John Butler Trio · Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys · Aesop Rock · The Richard Thompson Band · Dierks Bentley · Xavier Rudd · Gogol Bordello · Junior Brown · Tortoise · T-Bone Burnett · Mavis Staples · Clutch · Cold War Kids · Dr. Dog · Paolo Nutini · Brazilian Girls · RX Bandits · The Nightwatchman · The Slip · Girl Talk · Railroad Earth · Martha Wainwright · Rodrigo y Gabriela · Annuals · Tea Leaf Green · Sam Roberts Band · Elvis Perkins in Dearland · Charlie Louvin · Sonya Kitchell · Mute Math · Apollo Sunshine · Uncle Earl · James Blood Ulmer · The National · The Little Ones · Black Angels · Ryan Shaw

That looks like a great line up Ween, Jr Brown, Sasha & John Digweed, The Flaming Lips and others would be great.

yeah, Bonnaroo is just 2-3 hours down the road from me actually, but I'm not paying 200+ for that lineup.

Hey Pops, what do you think about James Blood Ulmer being lumped in with everyone there...he seems like an odd one. I'd be cool to see him though.

What about Graspop Metal Meeting? http://www.graspop.be

Line-up this year (just what I like, see the rest on the page): Life Of Agony, Iron Maiden, Black Label Society, Brutal Truth, Cannibale Corpse, Amorphis, and so much more to be announced.