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Top 5 shows of the weekend

June 1, 2017 By Chris Quartly

Top 5 shows of the weekend

I hope everyone had a good long weekend last time around (thanks to Pete for covering), I’m still in the UK and am looking forward to seeing Slowdive in Oxford and Justin Currie in London this weekend, but if I were here, I’d be hitting some of these up.

Filed Under: Events, Music Tagged With: Berlin, Big Bliss, Chocolat, Color Me Bushwick, Governor's Ball, Parquet Courts, The Glove, TOOL, villain

Governors Ball announces by day lineup and single day tickets

January 31, 2017 By Josh Morrissey

Governors Ball has announced their by day lineups as pictured above. Chance the Rapper and Lorde are kicking things off on Friday, with Phoenix and Childish Gambino performing on Saturday and Tool closing out the weekend on Sunday. They also announced there will be single day tickets again this year for $105 + fees. Tickets […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Governor's Ball

REVIEW: Governors Ball Music Festival 2016

June 7, 2016 By Megan Venzin

Kanye may have lost his chance to curse the press this time, but the 60,000 people who attended the sixth annual Governors Ball Music Festival on Randall’s Island this weekend still managed to make the most of it. This year’s festival boasted headlining names like hometown favorites, The Strokes, dance floor diva Robyn, French electro […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Governor's Ball, kanye, rain, the strokes

Top 5 shows of the weekend

June 2, 2016 By Chris Quartly

You spend half the year waiting for summer and then you go to the beach and get terrible sunburn that still hasn’t gone away 5 days later. I’m here to tell you that summer is awful and you should just stay within 4 walls and listen to some live bands instead.

Filed Under: Events, Music Tagged With: Baby's All Right, Beth Israel, cake shop, Cheena, Color Me Bushwick, DAME, Dentist, Governor's Ball, Modern English, Mrs Magician, Shadow Age, shea stadium, the men, US Weekly, Writer

Gov Ball Eats Lineup Is Made For Brooklyn Foodies

April 28, 2016 By Josh Morrissey

Can you smell that? Crisp beer, good eats, hot bodies and the overwhelming scent of fun. It’s festival season, and it’s right around the corner! This week, we

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Governor's Ball

Top 5 shows of the weekend

June 4, 2015 By Chris Quartly

It seems like Spring decided to show up just as Summer officially started, and those with outdoor plans such as Governors Ball are set to perform all the anti-rain dances they can muster. Rain or shine, like Maru the cat, we do our best. Here are the top 5 shows of the weekend.

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Ash, charles bradley, Color Me Bushwick, Dead Stars, Governor's Ball, Ride

Governor's Ball After Dark: late night shows announced from Harlem to Brooklyn

April 14, 2015 By Carly McAlpine

Just when you thought Governor’s Ball couldn’t get any better, they go and add a slew of post-festival, Bacardi-sponsored performances that are not to be missed. Ranging in venue from classics (Apollo Theater) to brand new (Verboten) and a handful of old standbys in between (Webster Hall, Irving Plaza), it’s going to be hard to […]

Filed Under: Events, Music, News Tagged With: Big Gigantic, chromeo, Clean Bandit, Deadmau5, Flying Lotus, Gorgon City, Governor's Ball, Hot Chip, Little Dragon

Bonnaroo 2015 Lineup

January 8, 2015 By Megan Venzin

UPDATE 1/13/15 The official Bonnaroo lineup is here, and WHAT A LINEUP INDEED! For headliners you’re looking at the Piano Man Billy Joel, returning acts Mumford and Sons and one of rap and hip-hops finest, Kendrick Lamar. For the first time ever, it’s been said that an EDM act will also be taking a coveted […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Events, Music, News, Videos Tagged With: BassNectar, belle and sebastian, Ben Folds, Bonnaroo, coachella, Deathcab for Cutie, Earth Wind and Fire, Flume, Glass Animals, Governor's Ball, Gramatik, Modest Mouse, Moon Taxi, My Morning Jacket, Odesza, Pokey Lafarge, Punch Brothers, robert plant, run the jewels, st. vincent, Tears for Fears

Governors Ball 2015 Lineup, now with day schedules

January 7, 2015 By Megan Venzin

UPDATE 2/17/2015 The by-day lineup has been released, which you can see above. Drake will headline Friday (and Florence + the Machine, who are playing their first NYC show since 2012!), Deadmau5 (and Bjork!) Saturday, and The Black Keys and Lana Del Ray on Sunday. Single day tickets will be on sale this Friday, the […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Events, News Tagged With: a-trak, Big Gigantic, bjork, chromeo, Deadmau5, Flying Lotus, Governor's Ball, Lana Del Rey, Odesza, randalls island, the black keys, The Decemberists, The War on Drugs, Weird Al Yankovic

REVIEW: Governors Ball 2014

June 10, 2014 By Megan Venzin

Three days and at least 19 Red Bulls later, I’m here to give you the rundown on this year’s Governors Ball. The favorable weather forecast was a happy omen for what would inevitably be a fantastic (albeit bro-heavy) weekend. There was something for everyone. Whether you were coming just to see Outkast for the first […]

Filed Under: Events, Music Tagged With: Alunageorge, axwell ingrosso, bastille, disclosure, empire of the sun, Frank Turner, Governor's Ball, jack white, janelle monae, Julian Casablanas, outkast, phoenix, rjd2, skrillex, spoon, the bloody beetroots, The Glitch Mob, the strokes

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