2011 will be remembered in the festival community as the year of the sellout. Coachella sold 75,000 tickets in 124 hours. Seattles Sasquatch festival moved its 100K tix (25,000 per day) in similarly fast fashion, while Pitchfork Festival managed to move all of their three-days passes while only announcing a small portion of the scheduld performers. And it’s all but certain that later mega-fests like Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo will also be overwhelmed by demand over supply. So what do you do it you want to spend a weekend in the sun, but not lose a morning clicking refresh on the ticketmaster website? Fortunately, there’s plenty of more low-key, but not lower quality, summer music festivals on offer.
LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE / May 27-30, 2011 (Orange County)
Regular Coachella-goers can attest to the ever increasing popularity of the Do Lab village, so why not spend an entire weekend camped out at a mini-festival where the latest in bass-centric dance music meets the newest in cyberpunk headdresses. This year’s Lightning in a Bottle features Thievery Corporation and Pretty Lights as it’s headliners, which gives you a pretty good idea of the classic electronica meets nouveua jamtronica music policy.
Here’s a preview of the Mission Creek Festival with founder and producer Andre Perry and Craig Eley:
http://patv.tv/blog/2011/03/24/talking-with-yale-cohn-mission-creek-2011-preview-with-andre-perry-and-craig-eley/
Camp Bisco announced their initial lineup yesterday. http://www.campbisco.net
Hey Urb! Craig from Mission Creek here. We’re flattered for the coverage, and we love the folks at Noise Pop, but we’re not affiliated with them in any way. Except that they’re our heroes! If you could make a correction here that would be awesome; I couldn’t find any other way to contact you guys or the post’s author.
Do you know if they’re doing HARD SUMMER on governors island again this year? I cant find any info on it. I see the one for l.a. but not new york.
No HARD Summer fest this year. Looks like Gov Ball replaced it almost. Personally think Gov Ball looks way cooler