Sorry kids, Rothbury ain’t unveiling its lineup quite yet…

By Alex Young on February 9th, 2009

Sure, between recapping the Grammys and news from all our favorite high-school outfits, today has already been quite eventful. But festival enthusiasts will tell you that February 9, 2009 was also supposed to bring something else: the lineup for the 2009 edition of the Rothbury Music Festival. Of course, nothing was ever officially confirmed, but [...]

Rothbury to return in 2009, Pemberton will not…

By Alex Young on January 9th, 2009

For all that went down in the music world over the last 12 months, 2008 will likely best be remembered as the year the summer music festival all but took over the United States, let alone the world. But as evident by the increasing number of festivals that have been scrapped in recent weeks, nothing [...]

Rothbury 2009: almost officially a go

By Alex Young on January 5th, 2009

With numerous bankruptcy and site issues, there’s been much speculation in recent weeks that the Rothbury Music Festival may never bd be able to offer a follow up to its inaugural edition, which brought Dave Matthews, Widespread Panic, Trey Anastasio, and more than a hundred others acts to Rothbury, Michigan last summer. However, it now [...]

Festival Outlook (Part XVIII)

By Alex Young on October 8th, 2008

With the exception of a few lucky southerners, the cool sounds, overwhelming crowds, tired feet, and everything else the 2008 summer festival season brought with it, are now but all distant memories. The stages have been disassembled, the bands have moved onto smaller, much more intimate venues, and no matter how hard we try to [...]