Voodoo 2017: LCD is not EDM (official)

Looks like I'll be in New Orleans this weekend, when are daily lineups usually released?

LCD has their new album coming out in a couple of weeks. Murphy says it's a mix of sunshine and oppression. Dark. Apparently the two songs they played on SNL (Call the Police and American Dream) are not representative of the album that much. I don't know. Release is 9/1 so two weeks from Thursday.

Ghostland Observatory is playing the night before Voodoo (Thursday, October 26, 2017) at House of Blues. Presale is now through tomorrow night at 10:00pm w/ pw of CHORUS Public on sale Friday 8/18 @ 10:00am. I saw them last time they were in town for Jazz Fest 2016, but I'm already going to Tauk the night before. So I'm not sure about this one.

wow this one just keeps delivering. i may show up on estebans door step.

Got an extra platinum. 2 large.

Btw, I don't know if you saw it in the stream thread, but Metallica is closing their tour tonight from Edmonton with a free webcast of that show. I watched Outside Lands on Saturday but that was a festival setup. I'm looking for that stadium show. 9:45 Central on their YouTube channel.

Poor Charles. Book him one more time next year. Third time's the charm.

Last year was my first year and I really enjoyed myself.


This year, I get to check off two bucket list bands (The Killers and Brand New) and I am a fan of the "bleep bloop". Long Live Voodoo.

The headliners are coachella sized for a fraction of the price. Ill be shocked if this doesn't sellout.

Agreed but look at the Stubhub prices and the secondary market demand. Not good.

There's a market, but the city doesn't want and won't support generic festivals.  That's a mistake C3 will make and correct in time.  You can't just throw a bunch of the same undercard as Lolla or ACL.  Voodoo being one of the longer lived rock festivals (Year 18 I think) was formed on alternative rock.  It always had an edge because Rehage would throw bookings in that other festivals didn't necessarily book.  And prior to C3, you pretty much could jam on brass and other NOLA stuff when you had schedule gaps.  C3 said they didn't want to continue that because they're always here anyway and feel like why have some acts you could see sometime that month.  They kind of missed the point there, and in years when they cater to younger people (many of whom would just be at the EDM area anyway), the older crowd who would show up for Metallica or Ozzy or whatever would tend to be disinterested.  Jazz Fest is the big festival in the city (35-100k on a given day).  Voodoo spans like 25k to 55k on a given day.  I think another mistake that C3 is making is trying to change bookings too much toward the multi cultural side with the R&B they booked this year.  Some people will enjoy that, but it's not really going to draw out the demographics they aim for.  Additionally, I don't know any 21-25ers that are particularly psyched about the EDM lineup outside of a few acts like G. Jones or RL Grime (e.g. instead of bringing in eclectic stuff, they brought in DJ Snake and Dillon Francis).  Galantis is going to sell tickets to 16-20 year olds, but they would be there anyway.


I think the setup they have can handle 60k.  They won't sell that many tickets, but there will probably be 35-50k each day.  You went last year, so you already know a lot of the movement between stage problems at other festivals don't exist.  I prefer it that way because it is more laid back in that regard.  Prices will probably go up in the next couple of weeks, so it should be no problem for zaj to recoup his money easily enough.

Ghostland Observatory is a House of Blues the Thursday 26th prior. Cant think of a better way to walking into Friday hungover and tired as fuck from dancing.