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Lott's Bandana
5/27/2009, 04:50 PM
Should be fun. Saw Gogol Bordello Saturday at Sasquatch...they are worth seeing:



Tulsa World:

The first round of Dfest headlining and performing music acts was announced this morning from a press conference in downtown Tulsa.

Diversafest, or Dfest, enters its eighth year on July 24-25 in downtown Tulsa’s Blue Dome District, featuring more than 150 bands on indoor and outdoor venues across the area.

With 164 music acts planned for this year’s event, “This is the most music we’ve ever showcased,” said event co-founder Angie DeVore Green during the Tuesday morning announcement.

Headliners announced on Tuesday include a mix of well-established and emerging acts: Black Crowes, Ozomatli, The Knux, Dub Trio, Blue October, Gogol Bordello, Citizen Cope, Bassnectar, Gringo Star, The Uglysuit, Rachelle Van Zanten, Joe Pug, Gil Mantera’s Party Dream, DJ Rekha, Bill Hamel, Delta Spirit and Other Lives, as well as a bumper crop of emerging and local and regional artists.

More will be announced soon, said event co-founder Tom Green.

This year’s theme, “Sea of Sound,” features “the most diverse list of artists we’ve ever had,” added DeVore Green. “You’re going to find your five favorite bands, and in two years, when they’re headlining Coachella, you’ll be able to say, ‘We saw them first at Dfest.’”

Attendance is expected to top 70,000, organizers said. Last year, nearly 60,000 fans packed into the downtown area for Dfest, filling hotels and parking areas to capacity, organizers have said.

Also, the Grammy Foundation joins this year’s music festival and conference with MusiCares and the Music CM8ShowAd("336x280");

Managers Forum, organizers said.

New venues have also been added, including the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, Flytrap Music Hall and Temple join venues El Guapo’s, Dilly Deli, NcNellie’s, Blue Dome Diner, Dirty’s Tavern, Joe Momma’s Pizza, Blank Slate, Exit 6C and Capella’s and two giant outdoor stages for a total of 14 stages, said Green.

For the first time, Dfest will also “go green,” featuring recycling hubs from the Metropolitan Environmental Trust. All solid waste will be handled through the trust, said Shelley Umezawa, MET outreach and volunteer coordinator. A smaller effort last year proved that they could grow the program for this year, she said. The program is also looking for volunteers to help in the effort, sign up is through the Dfest official Web site.

“Dfest is the perfect event to get people used to seeing these blue recycle containers,” she said. “There’s a young and diverse crowd, and they’re interested in going green.”

Tickets and a growing list of performing acts are now available at tulsaworld.com/Dfest09.

HEADLINERS:

More headliners will be announced soon.

The Black Crowes — This band’s newest, “Warpaint,” heralds its trademark brew of adventurous rock, blues, country, soul and gospel, and finds the band in top fighting form. From the start in 1990, The Black Crowes always have been at odds with prevailing commercial trends with its heady mix of '70s inflected rock, funkadelic soul, heartfelt roots, hard rock, gospel, country and psychedelia.

Gogol Bordello — This group combines elements of punk, authentic gypsy music and Brecht-ian cabaret, to wallop fans with its story of New York’s immigrant exodus through debauchery, humor, and surreal dress.

Ozomatli — This Grammy-winning act brews a vital concoction of Latin salsa, ska, urban hip-hop, and jazz-funk, and has been a music festival favorite for years. The 10-piece band erupted from Los Angeles to tweak people’s consciousness with their politicized amalgamation.

The Knux — Brothers Krispy Kream and Rah Al Millio, are retro-rap-attired alternative rappers born in New Orleans. They also perform with a live backing band and DJ.

Dub Trio — Noise metal and club-thumping dub are usually not two genres often heard together. But Dub Trio is no ordinary band.

Blue October — This *Texas* band’s brand of emotive post-grunge rock established it as a word-of-mouth phenomenon across the Midwest through the mid-’90s and well into this decade. Along with Blue October comes a loyal fan base and a busy tour schedule, establishing it as a popular live act, especially in Green Country.

Gil Mantera’s Party Dream — It’s a frenzied dance party with synthesizers, bass, drums, vocals, guitars, mattresses, microwaves and, yes, wrestling. This act will have the awe-inducing “Ghostland Observatory” effect of 2008’s festival and the psychedelic free-for-all “Flaming Lips” effect of 2007’s Dfest. Yep.

Joe Pug — From the southern streets of Maryland, he started — and ended — his short college career in North Carolina, only to move on to Chicago, perform his first rootsy live show and release an EP. He’s a carpenter by day, songwriter by night. He also celebrates the release of his first full-length album this year.

The Uglysuit — This Oklahoma City psychedelic indie folk rocker’s brand of brainy psychedelic folk has been featured in several music mags, including Rolling Stone and Paste. It recently won the Yahoo! Music “Who’s Next” User’s Choice contest, played a dizzying sting at gigs at Austin’s South by Southwest music festival, and was a featured artist in the cutting-edge rock blogs Stereogum’s Decomposed acoustic series and on Daytrotter sessions.

Other Lives — This band’s organic, orchestrated sound incorporates elements of progressive rock, folk and classical music and draws from many a Muse: from historical events to the Stillwater landscape in which the act grew up.

Metro Station — “Basically the band wouldn’t even be in existence if it wasn’t for my sister (Miley Cyrus) getting cast on 'Hannah Montana,’?” band member Trace Cyrus (son of Billy Ray) recently told Pollstar Pro. Don’t believe it. This act, like its name implies, is from all over. And it comes together to write beautiful and infectious pop music that fans adore.

Citizen Cope — This band’s influences run the gamut: Randy Newman, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, Jack Johnson, Nappy Roots, Mat Kearney. A live act to see.

Bassnectar — To quote the band, it’s a “free-form project that merges music, art, new media, social involvement, and community values; dedicated to a constantly evolving ethos of collaborative creation, self reinvention and boundary-pushing experimentation.” In other words, breakbeat-tinged electronic dance music.

Bill Hamel — He’s the founder of Sunkissed Records, America’s leading underground progressive house label. And he’s a DJ best known for his key mixing and for playing upfront, top quality, driving progressive house.

Delta Spirit — This act has roots in San Diego’s emo act Noise Ratchet, but produces music more along the lines of indie rock and alt-country.

DJ Rekha — One of the leading American exponents of bhangra music (dance music originating from Pakistan and India), but also mixes dance hall, dub and hip-hop genres into her lively DJ sets.

Gringo Star — This quirky alt-rock foursome includes multi-instrumentalists who keep fans guessing during live shows, often switching among drums, keys, guitar, bass, accordion and even kazoo and tambourine.

Rachelle Van Zanten — This Canadian singer-songwriter also performs folk and a gut-wrenchingly beautiful slide guitar.

First round of selected emerging artists:

Dozens more will be selected between now and May 8.

Rhino
5/28/2009, 12:27 AM
That's only half of the main stage acts. They keep pushing back the second round of announcements.

Lott's Bandana
5/28/2009, 09:35 AM
That's only half of the main stage acts. They keep pushing back the second round of announcements.


Still filling their "Sea"?

Good, it will be fun to see who else they get. I have some good recommendations after my trip to Sasquatch last weekend.

badger
5/28/2009, 10:45 AM
They've had Flaming Lips and All-American Rejects recently... they are probably saving the biggest name for the last announcement.

Anyone wanna take any guesses? Anyone? Anyone?

Bueller? Bueller?

KC//CRIMSON
5/28/2009, 12:26 PM
http://images.jambase.com/merch/cope_greenwood.jpg

If you don't own it, you should.

Lott's Bandana
5/28/2009, 04:24 PM
http://images.jambase.com/merch/cope_greenwood.jpg

If you don't own it, you should.

I checked it out on iTunes. Thanks for the recommendation.

I'm not a big singer/songwriter fan....however, I would be willing to bet Howzit would love this, if he doesn't already have it...


Here's Gogol Bordello at Coachella:

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Rhino
5/28/2009, 11:15 PM
The rest of the headliners were announced today:
Cake, Mates of State, Ra Ra Riot, Dengue Fever, The Cool Kids, Carney, Ian Moore, Here II Here, Manda Mosher

Lott's Bandana
5/29/2009, 06:31 AM
thanks Rhino. That is a quality group and I will be there, no doubt.

I missed RRRiot at Sasquatch cause they played at same time as The Decemberists.