Lolladays: Day 3
Saturday’s final consensus: I’d definitely gotten too much sleep. Seven hours is a lifetime at Lollapalooza—much less at any music festival. With heightened resolve, I tumble out of bed couch at 8:30am, a mere four hours after being let in from the hallway I had settled on calling a resting point for the evening. The ringing in my ears, bleariness in my eyes, and general emptiness in my head: everything felt just right for a successful final festival day. (more…)
This entry was written by , posted on August 9, 2010 at 9:28 pm, filed under Live and tagged Arcade Fire, Eleven City Diner, Hayden Panetierre, Lolladays, Lollapalooza 2010, MGMT, The National. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Lolladays: Day Two
Festival pace picks up as Day 2 rolls in, and we’d already been rolling on grueling pace and meager rations. I check in at the Hard Rock’s press area for a much-needed bite, and find myself to be just the right amount of exhausted to justify a $4, 3-minute cab ride from the hotel to the festival grounds. The concierge and cab driver both look at me like I’m crazy—as if the growing rainbow of wristbands on my right arm (currently sitting at 7) wasn’t already a dead giveaway.
This entry was written by , posted on August 8, 2010 at 11:25 am, filed under Live and tagged Foursquare, Foxy Shazam, Grizzly Bear, Lollapalooza, Party in Hell!. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Lolladays: Day One
Lollapalooza weekend presents us Eleven staffers with a very special challenge: can one three-day span of music and parties be better than Christmas? At either, one finds camaraderie, family, feasts, and a heightened thirst for life and joy. It’s just that Lollapalooza’s serving on the order of a hundred thousand music zealots in one sitting.
This entry was written by , posted on August 7, 2010 at 2:36 pm, filed under Live and tagged Billy Mays, Burrito, Hot Chip, Lady Gaga, Lollapalooza. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Record Club Thursday: Cosmic Rememberance
This week’s Record Club entry was mailed to us (figuratively) by Euclid Records
“In ballad and verse, Kali tunes in a delightful, whimsical world of fantasy and slips into the transparent land of wide-eyed forest children, including: Leprechauns, dwarfs, witches, warlocks, gremlins, gnomes and trolls.” (more…)
This entry was written by , posted on July 22, 2010 at 3:49 pm, filed under Vinyl and tagged Euclid Records, Kali Bahlu, Record Club Thursday. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Record Club Thursday: Early D
This week’s Record Club entry was mailed to us (figuratively) by Vintage Vinyl
Josh: From the second we press “Play” on our record player, Julie and I know one thing for sure: We’re about to get schooled.
This entry was written by , posted on July 15, 2010 at 9:03 am, filed under Vinyl and tagged Early D, St. Louis Hip Hop. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Follow Friday: Eric Woods
Photo by Dionna Raedeke.
Printmaker Eric Woods is a cultural scene veteran. His enterprise, The Firecracker Press (@FirecrackerP), resides in the heart of Cherokee Street: the unofficial (but certainly eligible) print capital of St. Louis, where it’s been since (in Cherokee terms) the Paleozoic year of 2008. Eric is now in the captain’s chair in the neighborhood’s business association, and Eleven took a minute to catch up and to talk about his experience, his work, and his ideas for the future. Check out his prints at http://firecrackerpress.com/, and read on past the jump for our interview.
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This entry was written by , posted on June 25, 2010 at 9:44 am, filed under Local Profile and tagged Eric Woods, The Firecracker Press. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Bonnaroo Day 4
The culinary experience at Bonnaroo is something totally unique to the festival. We talked with Lincoln, our tent-neighbor, about how many veteran Bonnaroo-ers bring their own portable grills and coolers, and for the most part prepare all of their meals themselves. I wish I could’ve woken up to the smell of his freshly cooked eggs and bacon, if only the sun and heat wouldn’t get to me first.
This entry was written by , posted on June 14, 2010 at 2:54 pm, filed under Live and tagged Bonnaroo Day 4. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Bonnaroo: Nights
I’m thinking about the craziest things I’ve learned about Bonnaroo over the past few days. The rules of time only seem to apply as a guide for artists to encourage everyone here to get their share of time on stage. I’m getting a steady 3.5 hours of sleep per day since arrival, and I’m hardly the last one to bed or first one to rise. Maybe energy drinks gets more powerful after they’ve been slow-cooking in your trunk.
This entry was written by , posted on June 13, 2010 at 12:34 pm, filed under Live and tagged Bonnaroo Nights. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Bonnaroo: Day 2
Morning at Bonnaroo is the devil. They call these mesh tapestries “tents,” but at Bonnaroo, they function primarily as cooking utensils used to marinate human flesh in its own sweat. I’m surprised to wake up before 9am and find that most of the Bonnaroo community is already up and about. They must have even less tolerance for these makeshift saunas than I do.
This entry was written by , posted on June 12, 2010 at 2:52 pm, filed under Live and tagged Bonnaroo Day Two. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Bonnaroo: Day One
Bonnaroo is a weekend-long, camping-based music festival based in an otherwise-obscure town outside of Nashville, and right now, it’s very happy to greet us.
We landed in Manchester, Tennessee at around 7:00 in the morning for check-in, and it’s now getting close to 5:00pm. We haven’t left the car yet, but instead, find ourselves at mile marker 126: a good five or six markers beyond the festival’s entrance – all of which we’ve crawled in the car, one inch at a time. And I should hardly complain – compared to the journeys of most everyone else attending, St. Louis is a paltry 6 hour drive.
This entry was written by , posted on June 11, 2010 at 3:47 pm, filed under Live and tagged Bonnaroo Day One. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.