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So, Greta Van Fleet are cancelling dates due to health issues. Health is important, and these young men need to think about their well-being. Instead of simply cancelling dates through March, they should play it safe and cancel all dates through the end of May.
So, Greta Van Fleet are cancelling dates due to health issues. Health is important, and these young men need to think about their well-being. Instead of simply cancelling dates through March, they should play it safe and cancel all dates through the end of May.
The grandiloquence of this statement is hilarious, to me. Dude's got a respiratory infection, and we get, "It now feels necessary for the entire band to recalibrate our balance, both physically and mentally," and, "It will be extremely satisfying to reconcile this calamity by making the most of our time together in a healthier state." Somebody broke out the thesaurus for this one.
If you've got cable TV w/ video on demand, you've got an opportunity to check out a rare TV appearance by Black Star. Comedy Central VOD has now made the 1st season of Dave Chappelle's show available and Black Star is featured in the season finale. I believe that this is circa 2003.
The Wilbur Theater just announced a Jenny Slate show on Friday, May 25, following on the heels of the Pod Save America crew doing a show at the Wang right before the festival last year.
What's different here is that the Wang Theater is owned by MSG Company, as is Boston Calling, and that show took place before the festival started. That's not the case, on either count, here.
(Hopefully, Fred Armisen will similarly announce a headlining show in Boston.)
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For anyone traveling to Boston from elsewhere and staying an extra day or two for some sightseeing and such, there's a good show at the Middle East Upstairs in Central Square, Cambridge (one stop down the Red Line from Harvard Sq.) on Monday night (Memorial Day).
If you dig the whole Leon Bridges/St. Paul/Sharon Jones/Curtis Harding modern-day soul thing, you'll probably dig The Sh-Booms:
Their debut album drops later this month and, I assure you, you'll likely never get another chance to see them in a room this small again.
Boston Calling could learn a thing or three from the 2019 RBC Bluesfest lineup. This is as musically diverse a lineup as I've ever seen (and that's not even getting into the heap of local/regional acts on the bottom half of the poster), including a lot of acts you never see in festival lineups. No one's going to love the entire lineup, but everyone who likes music will find something to like here.
Boston Calling could learn a thing or three from the 2019 RBC Bluesfest lineup. This is as musically diverse a lineup as I've ever seen (and that's not even getting into the heap of local/regional acts on the bottom half of the poster), including a lot of acts you never see in festival lineups. No one's going to love the entire lineup, but everyone who likes music will find something to like here.
The top 10 names are: The Killers Eric Church Backstreet Boys Kygo Alexisonfire Logic Jessie Reyez Snoop Dogg Kane Brown The Glorious Sons
EDIT: I don't get what point you're really trying to make. This fest takes place over 11 days, and most of the good artists are ones Boston Calling has already booked or would book.
Boston Calling could learn a thing or three from the 2019 RBC Bluesfest lineup. This is as musically diverse a lineup as I've ever seen (and that's not even getting into the heap of local/regional acts on the bottom half of the poster), including a lot of acts you never see in festival lineups. No one's going to love the entire lineup, but everyone who likes music will find something to like here.
The top 10 names are: The Killers Eric Church Backstreet Boys Kygo Alexisonfire Logic Jessie Reyez Snoop Dogg Kane Brown The Glorious Sons
I was gonna say, this looks like absolute garbage lmao. Praying Osheaga doesn't get The Killers and/or Lumineers and especially none of those top 10 except Alexisonfire.
Boston Calling could learn a thing or three from the 2019 RBC Bluesfest lineup. This is as musically diverse a lineup as I've ever seen (and that's not even getting into the heap of local/regional acts on the bottom half of the poster), including a lot of acts you never see in festival lineups. No one's going to love the entire lineup, but everyone who likes music will find something to like here.
The top 10 names are: The Killers Eric Church Backstreet Boys Kygo Alexisonfire Logic Jessie Reyez Snoop Dogg Kane Brown The Glorious Sons
EDIT: I don't get what point you're really trying to make. This fest takes place over 11 days, and most of the good artists are ones Boston Calling has already booked or would book.
What's great about this lineup is that it manages to balance not only a wide range of genres, but they also manage to hit the sweet spot of acts people know and like within most genres. If you don't think that Snoop Dogg and Wu-Tang Clan are bigger draws than Denzel Curry and Sheck Wes, you're nuts.
They're also unafraid of booking acts which we're actively recording or touring for a decade or two in the previous century. Guided By Voices, The Psychedelic Furs, and Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul are all great bookings (Do you really think Boston Calling would book any of them?)
BTW, Eric Church is about as good as it gets for mainstream radio country. There's more rock in his sound than a lot of what passes for rock these days.
Plus, Boston Calling always has a couple of "way too soon" return bookings. Booking Brandi Carlile was an inspired choice in 2017, but it's too soon to bring her back (especially when they could have booked an Americana act who hasn't played Boston Calling as recently or hasn't played the festival yet, in that spot.)
Really, I'd take a top line of The Killers, Eric Church, and Backstreet Boys over this year's Boston Calling top line. Face facts, Tame Impala is only interesting if you've never heard The Flaming Lips, 21 Pilots is children's music, and Travis Scott is a hack who relies upon auto-tune and the Kardashians for whatever buzz he's got.
The majority of acts come to Boston anyway, unlike in Ottawa.
Maybe attending an unlimited number of local shows is fine for the independently wealthy, but some of us work for a living and have rent and bills to pay. A good local festival lineup is a very cost-effective way to see live music, when they book acts you'd be likely to buy tickets to see headline. When theater, arena, and large club shows run $35 - $135 each (and that's not counting the "down in front" super-expensive tickets), it only takes a few bookings you like for a festival to end up saving you money.
The majority of acts come to Boston anyway, unlike in Ottawa.
Maybe attending an unlimited number of local shows is fine for the independently wealthy, but some of us work for a living and have rent and bills to pay. A good local festival lineup is a very cost-effective way to see live music, when they book acts you'd be likely to buy tickets to see headline. When theater, arena, and large club shows run $35 - $135 each (and that's not counting the "down in front" super-expensive tickets), it only takes a few bookings you like for a festival to end up saving you money.
You don't think everybody else on this forum has rent and bills to pay?
None of us gets to see every single show we want, and festivalsets are not automatically the equivalent of separate concerts. This conversation sounds strangely familiar...
Really, I'd take a top line of The Killers, Eric Church, and Backstreet Boys over this year's Boston Calling top line. Face facts, Tame Impala is only interesting if you've never heard The Flaming Lips, 21 Pilots is children's music, and Travis Scott is a hack who relies upon auto-tune and the Kardashians for whatever buzz he's got.
And the Backstreet Boys somehow aren't children's music?
The top 10 names are: The Killers Eric Church Backstreet Boys Kygo Alexisonfire Logic Jessie Reyez Snoop Dogg Kane Brown The Glorious Sons
EDIT: I don't get what point you're really trying to make. This fest takes place over 11 days, and most of the good artists are ones Boston Calling has already booked or would book.
What's great about this lineup is that it manages to balance not only a wide range of genres, but they also manage to hit the sweet spot of acts people know and like within most genres. If you don't think that Snoop Dogg and Wu-Tang Clan are bigger draws than Denzel Curry and Sheck Wes, you're nuts.
They're also unafraid of booking acts which we're actively recording or touring for a decade or two in the previous century. Guided By Voices, The Psychedelic Furs, and Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul are all great bookings (Do you really think Boston Calling would book any of them?)
BTW, Eric Church is about as good as it gets for mainstream radio country. There's more rock in his sound than a lot of what passes for rock these days.
Plus, Boston Calling always has a couple of "way too soon" return bookings. Booking Brandi Carlile was an inspired choice in 2017, but it's too soon to bring her back (especially when they could have booked an Americana act who hasn't played Boston Calling as recently or hasn't played the festival yet, in that spot.)
Really, I'd take a top line of The Killers, Eric Church, and Backstreet Boys over this year's Boston Calling top line. Face facts, Tame Impala is only interesting if you've never heard The Flaming Lips, 21 Pilots is children's music, and Travis Scott is a hack who relies upon auto-tune and the Kardashians for whatever buzz he's got.
Ok, let's dissect this...
Of course Snoop and Wu are bigger draws than those two, that's why they're billed high on that lineup. I won't defend Sheck Wes, imo he's billed too high and isn't a good booking to begin with, but that ottawa fest has far more egregious bookings. Not sure why we're talking about Denzel Curry given how low he's billed but he'll almost definitely put on a better set than Snoop will... and fwiw I'd say Anderson Paak is a bigger draw right now than either Snoop or Wu.
Boston Calling has always aimed it's lineups at a younger demographic. At some point you're just going to have to accept that. They do throw a fair amount of bones though and I wouldn't be surprised to see GBV on a future lineup. The other two probably not, but there aren't a lot of people waiting for Little Steven to play Boston Calling...
I've got nothing against Eric Church, but BC isn't about to go booking a mainstream country headliner because that would be a silly thing to do at a music festival in Boston
Brandi Carlile's last performance was before she released an album and had a year that completely changed her career. That's a perfectly good reason to invite someone back in my book. I know you're dying for Wilco to play this, and I'd love it to happen too, but they've got Solid Sound so it just wasn't going to happen this year at least. Not sure what other Americana act you're thinking for that spot. the only other repeat who's played the new venue is Mitski, who also released a critically acclaimed new album that significantly boosted her popularity. Don't see the problem there. If you want to hit 'em on repeats, why is Marina back?
And yeah, I can't help you on those top line opinions. Tame Impala make fairly different music than Flaming Lips and there's a reason they've gotten more popular. Flaming Lips have been a gimmick masquerading as a band for the better part of the 21st century. 21 Pilots are far less childish than Backstreet Boys. I'm not the biggest fan, but they're at least relevant and not tied to some weird ass nostalgia for shit pop. Travis Scott also isn't my thing, but he's earned his popularity and trying to hit him on the auto-tune thing is pretty cringey
So, to return to my earlier point, this festival repeatedly demonstrates that it's meant for people who are not like you. If you can't find enough you like to attend, then don't. But I cannot understand why you continue to come here and post about a festival that you never seem able to connect to...
Really, I'd take a top line of The Killers, Eric Church, and Backstreet Boys over this year's Boston Calling top line. Face facts, Tame Impala is only interesting if you've never heard The Flaming Lips, 21 Pilots is children's music, and Travis Scott is a hack who relies upon auto-tune and the Kardashians for whatever buzz he's got.
And the Backstreet Boys somehow aren't children's music?
Not in 2019...their audience is now well into their 30's.
