By Ben Kaye on March 1st, 2011 in
Set to take place over Memorial Day weekend (May 28th to the 29th), this year’s edition will be headed by Weezer and Snoop Dogg. Other notables include Wiz Khalifa, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Coheed and Cambria, George Clinton & The Parliament Funkadelic, The New Pornographers, Against Me!, Best Coast, Wavves, Titus Andronicus, Neon Trees, and State Radio.
But wait, there’s more: Shpongle presents The Shpongletron Experience, HEALTH, RJD2, The Cool Kids, EOTO, Portugal. The Man, Man Man, Dum Dum Girls, The Felice Brothers, Dam-Funk and Freelance Whales are also on the bill. Further acts include Holy Fuck, Daedelus, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Dan Deacon, 12th Planet, Free Energy, Woods, Real Estate, Nosaj Thing, and The Hood Internet.
It keeps going (told you they went big): Toubabe Krewe, ESKMO, Small Black, River City Extension, Big Freedia, David Wax Museum, Roots of Creation, Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez, and Walk The Moon round out the lineup. Also, as mentioned, they’re looking to get at least 25 local artists involved in the festival, and if you’d like to submit your band for a chance to play you can enter at their website here.
Pre-sale tickets are available for $89 GA and $299 for VIP. Pricing jumps to $99 and then $109 for GA once tickets go on regular sale at 6 a.m. on Friday March 4th, so get ‘em while they’re hot. All proceeds benefit Bring Our Music Back, Inc., a group committed to providing music scholarships, music enrichment and education programs, music and healing initiatives and community support and outreach. This year’s charitable initiatives include the formation of an Emerging Artists Scholarship Fun for WCSU. Check out the announcement video below, featuring the festival’s young creator, Frankie Bombaci.
12th Planet, Against Me!, B.O.M.B Fest, Best Coast, Big Freedia, Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez, Coheed and Cambria, Daedelus, Dam-Funk, Dan Deacon, David Wax Museum, Dum Dum Girls, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, EOTO, Eskmo, Free Energy, Freelance Whales, George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic, HEALTH, Holy Fuck, Man Man, Neon Trees, Nosaj Thing, Portugal. The Man, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Real Estate, River City Extension, RJD2, Roots of Creation, Shpongle, Small Black, Snoop Dogg, State Radio, The Cool Kids, The Felice Brothers, The Hood Internet, The New Pornographers, Titus Andronicus, Toubab Krewe, Walk the Moon, Wavves, Weezer, Wiz Khalifa, Woods