Three-dozen bands were announced today; they'll be part of the four-day festival that runs May 30-June 2 at Mulberry Mountain in Ozark, Ark. Among the names: Widespread Panic, Of Monsters and Men, Son Volt, Yonder Mountain String Band, RJD2, Rebelution, Allen Stone, Zeds Dead and Kansas City''s own Quixotic Fusion. Two more announcements coming on Jan. 10 and Jan. 17. For tickets and more information, go here.
January 03, 2013
I read that list and it feels like you are cussing at me in some foreign language.... what the who huh?
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Posted by: English please | January 03, 2013 at 07:43 PM
I always chuckle when people complain about the silliness of new band's names, as if bands hadn't always had silly names. Anyway, with that lineup I wouldn't bother going even if it was still in Lawrence (yes, I know there are still more to be announced).
Posted by: LiveMusicFan | January 04, 2013 at 11:33 AM
What LMF, you mean you pass up the 30th variation of The Samples? Alas, me too with what's been announced so far. Savoy? Maybe it they added the Brown.
Posted by: pellboy | January 04, 2013 at 11:44 AM
I thought you were a WSP guy, PB although I admit one is better off waiting for them to come back to the Midland.
There's actually a few acts here (The Motet, Mountain Standard Time, etc). It's just that most have never played or received airplay in KC before. The line up makes me think "Boulder/Nederland goes on a field trip to Arkansas" since that is where many of the bands are from.
I think it's fair to say that Pipeline is not aiming Waka at KCs tastes. Instead, it is aimed at the festival crowd making the trek between Bonnaro and Telluride.
Posted by: NEW | January 04, 2013 at 12:05 PM
Yeah, I'm down with Panic and have never seen Son Volt, but that's just not enough to get me to take that roadtrip. Yet.
Posted by: pellboy | January 04, 2013 at 12:17 PM
Okay, so I see this Allen Stone that some of B2R has been touting is on the bill and notice that he was also on Ellen Degeneres yesterday so I decide to check out what all the fuss is about. My conclusion, amazingly talented, I'll grant him that but something just didn't quite click with me. I just get the white guy/girl trying too hard to be black/soulful ala Mayer Hawthorne/Joss Stone/Robin Thicke and that all just rings a little too Simply Red for me who prefers his soul music a little less slick. Maybe a grittier, sweaty, actual live club performance might sway me another way, but I guess I'm just not feeling it like Ellen was.
Posted by: pellboy | January 04, 2013 at 02:36 PM
It is aimed at the festival crowd making the trek between Bonnaro and Telluride... otherwise known as gadmaned hippies.
I really realy hate them gadamed hippies, and their drum circles.
Posted by: Cartman | January 04, 2013 at 11:20 PM
I don't plan to go to the festival but, have been close to Ozark, AR before. It was in May 1990 I was near Pruitt and Jasper, AR floating the Buffalo national river. I floated the upper section of this amazing river. It's not spring fed like a lot of Ozark streams are but, the scenery is second to none.
Posted by: Kurt | January 06, 2013 at 02:25 PM
"Maybe a grittier, sweaty, actual live club performance might sway me another way"
Posted by: pellboy
It probably will, but a festival set might not. I've downloaded all of his shows from the Live Music Archive and most of them are festival sets and the show from The Granada blows them away. I've also watched most of his official videos and tv appearances on YouTube and I haven't been impressed with any of them, so I think I know what you're talking about...but I've never heard the music of the people you mentioned, so maybe I don't.
Posted by: LiveMusicFan | January 07, 2013 at 10:50 AM