With two hours ’til the tourbus arrives, the DBs share an oral history punctuated by a stolen 8-track cassette recorder, seed money from a pool shark, their first drummer leaving the band for med school, and, somewhere along the way, sartori: Marc: “One hippy dude followed us round –“ ‘Davey Jones’ recalls Jon – “for ten shows, and we were like, alright we got it, this is us: Disco Biscuits, ten-show tour [with] one hippy dude doing the whole thing, that was the start of it; that was the moment I knew we could have 40 hippie dudes, or 60 modern hippy dudes, or 500 modern hippy dudes coming ’round.”
Ultra Music Fest has announced the third and final phase of their line-up, adding artist such as LMFAO, Afrojack, Josh Wink and Hybrid to their ginormous line-up. Florence from Florence and the Machine will perform with Swedish House Mafia on the Ultra Main Stage Saturday, March 27, and Kelis is set to team up with Benny Benassi for several songs as well.
The event promoters have also announced the addition of four new arenas to the festival grounds: the UMF Ibiza Tent presented by Space Ibiza, the UMF Brasil Tent presented by We Love Brasil & Green Valley, the Root Society Dome and the Heineken Dome Experience. The UMF Ibiza Tent is the result of a new partnership between UMF Ibiza and Club Space Ibiza, bringing the Space Ibiza party to Miami. The party is set to continue throughout the summer as UMF travels to Ibiza to host the Space Ibiza Opening, Anniversary and Closing Parties.Ultra’s promoters have also announced the addition of four new arenas to the festival grounds: the UMF Ibiza Tent presented by Space Ibiza, the UMF Brasil Tent presented by We Love Brasil & Green Valley, the Root Society Dome and the Heineken Dome Experience. The UMF Ibiza Tent is the result of a new partnership between UMF Ibiza and Club Space Ibiza, bringing the Space Ibiza party to Miami. The party is set to continue throughout the summer as UMF travels to Ibiza to host the Space Ibiza Opening, Anniversary and Closing Parties.
Another addition to UMF 12 is artist/composer Christopher Janney’s installation Sonic Forest which provides an interactive, aural and visual component that will entice festival goers into a unique environment. Triggered by both public interaction and electronic instruments, Sonic Forrest is composed of 16 eight-foot tall aluminum poles that contain audio speakers, lights and photo-electric cells. As people move closely by these “electronic trees,” they trigger both melodic and environmental sounds, in a sense playing the forest.” When no one is moving in the space, the piece generates a seriesof preprogrammed patterns. During various parts of the installation, independentdrummers join the environment, turning the Forest into a dance festival unto itself. Overthe past five years, Sonic Forest has been featured at Bonnaroo, All Points West andCoachella in the US, as well as the Download Festival, Hyde Park Calling, Wireless andGlastonbury Festivals in the U.K., the Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands and the Zaraga World’s Fair in Zaragoza, Spain.
Tickets for the world’s leading two-day electronic and alternative music experience are available now exclusively through http://www.ultramusicfestival.com.
One of America’s most underrated (and I like it that way) festivals is quietly approaching the decade mark, which was NOT an easy thing, make no mistake about it…but the mighty Camp Bisco, with it’s wacky color wars and exquisitely muddy DJ tent (which they promise will be high and dry in 2KX, and I’ll believe THAT when I see it, tho’ I don’t care either way, so long as it stays funky) is BACK ON, and they’ve got a brilliant and affordable payment option. I’ll be loading up ‘09 festival highlights from SXSW through Coachie through Bisco and APW to my beloved Bonnaroo in the coming weeks, and for now, here are three stone-cold classic moments from Biscos past, featuring beautiful hula-hoopers (altruism lives!), Lyrics Born, STS9, a legendary Girl Talk set and of course, the mighty Disco Biscuits. If you’ve never been to Bisco, espesh if you’re near NY/NJ/CT/PA, I daresay the pre-sale discount tickets they’re offering is one of the most ridiculous summer festival bargains on the planet.



























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