Red Hot Chili Pepper Taps Dylan, Raconteurs & More For New Pittsburgh Festival
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I hate Pittsburgh. Never am going back there. I was only there for about 3 hours. And only at the airport. But the trauma from being on a Jet Blue flight en route to Chicago from New York City that had to emergency land (with the whole fire trucks on the jetway) with grown men crying and babies screaming is enough of a bad experience with Pittsburgh to never want to go back....but you should go there, especially for the inaugural New American Music Union festival.
The tow day festival will be held August 8th-9th at SouthSide Works and is a mash-up of fresh college talent and huge mainstream acts. Best part about it is the ticket prices: $25 for students, $49.50 for general admission. The second best part about the festival is that none other than Anthony Kiedis will be curating it. Kiedis has lined-up 15 college bands from around the USA, who will then play next to headliners like Bob Dylan, the Raconteurs, Gnarls Barkley, the Roots, Spoon, Black Keys, Black Mountain, the Duke Spirit, NASA and Tiny Masters of Today and more. The young guns will get to see what its like to play with the big boys.Third best part of the festival is that you get a free shirt when you buy a ticket cause the whole sha-bang is being sponsored by prep station American Eagle outfitters.
"Music is still the most inspiring creative force that I know of," Kiedis said in a statement, "and this seemed like a prime opportunity to let it shine."Here is a list of all the college acts and their retrospective college scenes, courtesy of Billboard.com. Anyone heard of any of them?Bears (Kent State University)Flying Machines (The New School)Gospel Gossip (Carleton College)Magic Bullets (College of San Mateo), Math the Band (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)My Dear Disco (University of Michigan), Nothing Unexpected (Robert Morris University) the Black Fortys (University of Southern Illinois)the Company Kang (Whitman College)the Delicious (Indiana University)the Depreciation Guild (New York University)the Elizabethan Report (Brigham Young University)the French Horn Rebellion (Northwestern University)the Royal Bangs (University of Tennessee) the Steps (University of Texas Austin).
The tow day festival will be held August 8th-9th at SouthSide Works and is a mash-up of fresh college talent and huge mainstream acts. Best part about it is the ticket prices: $25 for students, $49.50 for general admission. The second best part about the festival is that none other than Anthony Kiedis will be curating it. Kiedis has lined-up 15 college bands from around the USA, who will then play next to headliners like Bob Dylan, the Raconteurs, Gnarls Barkley, the Roots, Spoon, Black Keys, Black Mountain, the Duke Spirit, NASA and Tiny Masters of Today and more. The young guns will get to see what its like to play with the big boys.Third best part of the festival is that you get a free shirt when you buy a ticket cause the whole sha-bang is being sponsored by prep station American Eagle outfitters."Music is still the most inspiring creative force that I know of," Kiedis said in a statement, "and this seemed like a prime opportunity to let it shine."Here is a list of all the college acts and their retrospective college scenes, courtesy of Billboard.com. Anyone heard of any of them?Bears (Kent State University)Flying Machines (The New School)Gospel Gossip (Carleton College)Magic Bullets (College of San Mateo), Math the Band (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)My Dear Disco (University of Michigan), Nothing Unexpected (Robert Morris University) the Black Fortys (University of Southern Illinois)the Company Kang (Whitman College)the Delicious (Indiana University)the Depreciation Guild (New York University)the Elizabethan Report (Brigham Young University)the French Horn Rebellion (Northwestern University)the Royal Bangs (University of Tennessee) the Steps (University of Texas Austin).
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