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Halfway to Forecastle 2011's "Pretty Lights" [Music]
For those of you who don't know, Forecastle is - yes, a music festival - but is designed by JK McKnight to be so much more than that. According to forecastlefest.com, it's a music festival that is trying to establish a cultural entertainment medium equally showcased in a scenic, outdoor environment. It is meant to merge entertainment with education and unite the creative and activism communities of the Midwest.
Forecastle Festival not to return until 2012, and will bring a friend [Music]
The Forecastle Festival tenth anniversary concert has been shelved for a year with the cancellation of the 2011 concert. Forecastle founder JK McKnight announced Thursday morning that Forecastle will not come to the riverfront again until 2012, and when it returns, things will be different. McKnight has partnered with AC Entertainment, founders of Bonnaroo, and have said that now they don’t have enough time to organize a festival of the same caliber as last year’s.
A Louisville year in music: Top 10 for 2010 [Music]
#1 My Morning Jacket performing with the Louisville Youth Orchestra and Wax Fang
As "local" bands go, MMJ is not too shabby. They always put on a killer show and having them christen (for me, anyway) the brand new Yum! Center with our very own Louisville Youth Orchestra and Wax Fang on Halloween eve made for a very special evening. I'll always remember the Colonel Sanders tribute.
A sober look back at the Forecastle Festival [Music]
As the weekend came to a sobering and screeching halt, so did the close of Forecastle, and as I was exiting the gates with the close of the Flaming Lips show I was completely drained. Two days of drinking in the sun, surfing through the crowds of thousands of attendees, and neglecting your normal sleeping patterns will often do that to you. Sometimes the break from normality, the break from reality, and an out the window take on life is needed. Sometimes it's praised, but when it's over, what have you gained from it?
Bassnectar...what a pleasant surprise [Forecastle]
Before this past Saturday I had no idea who Bassnectar was, or why someone that I had never heard of was going on in between such large acts as Devo and The Smashing Pumpkins. Not until I saw the crew setting up the stage did I even realize that this was just a DJ, and not even a band at all. But once the lcds and the bass cut on it was hard to resist dancing, and like Poindexter from the original Nerds movie, my pelvic area just began to gyrate uncontrollably.
How do you hide money from a hippie? [Forecastle]
Press passes were limited for our publication during this year's Forecastle event, so I was only able to get a ticket for the Sunday show, but wanted to catch bands that were playing both Saturday & Sunday. So rather than pay the additional sixty or seventy bucks to get in, I decided to get crafty. I used my ticket late Saturday afternoon, instead of Sunday, and thank god the people at the gate weren't sticklers. The following day I snuck in just right before the Flaming Lips and Against Me.
DEVO fans wave canes, tell youngsters to get off their lawn at Forecastle Festival [Music]
I want to like Devo. I really do. I remember I need to whip it, whip it good. Stephen Colbert taught me it’s time to trade in my red pyramid hat for a blue one. I’m even intrigued by the fact that they based their entire new album on market research. That could be good. Or at least interesting.
Or not.
Free Shakespearean alternatives to weekend madness [Theater]
Forecastle Festival's taking over the riverfront and downtown. Why not head to Old Louisville instead for free Shakespeare shows this weekend?
Audiences of all ages have two more chances, July 10 and 17 at 10 a.m. each day, to see free shows of Twelfth Night. The 45 minute production will take place in C. Douglas Ramey Amphitheatre at Central Park. Central Park is located at 4th and Magnolia streets in the Old Louisville district.
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