Summer Festival Time

With music festivals all over the place, summer is a great time for live music. You pretty much can't lose with all the major ones, like Bonnaroo, Lollapalozza, and Coachella (which already happened), but there are always great smaller festivals too. I just found out about the Nateva Festival in my home state of Maine, which must be brand new because I'd never heard of it before. Killer line-up, including The Flaming Lips, STS9, Passion Pit, Zappa Plays Zappa, and a whole ton more. The Rothbury festival in Michigan was one of the coolest ones I've ones I've been to in terms of how well it was run, the environment/festival grounds, and of course the line-up was pretty stellar as well. Strangely, the powers that be at Rothbury have announced there won't be a festival this year, and didn't really give a reason.

We in The Pass have at least two festivals scheduled for the summer thus far. We'll be appearing at Louisville's Forecastle Festival, which has grown really quickly from a small local event to one of the bigger events on the festival circuit. This year's Forecastle line-up also includes The Flaming Lips, Spoon, DEVO (who I'm by far the most excited about), and festival mainstays like Widespread Panic and Umphrey's McGee. We'll also be making the trek to Brooklyn in June for the Northside Festival, which has been on the cutting edge of new indie music, sort of like the northern version of South By Southwest.

We've also been selected as finalists in an online contest for another festival in Louisville called Hullabalou, which is grounds for a little shameless promotion. If you want to help us out (which would be awesome), go to leoweekly.com/band-vote and vote for The Pass. You can vote once a day for each email address. No spamming here. The email address is only used to confirm votes. Bonus coolness points for voting multiple times by using different email addresses. If you're like me, you probably have a bunch of email accounts: a personal one, one for work, an old one you don't really use anymore, etc. Use all of them!