Little Steven (Steven Van Zandt) from the E-Street Band and Silvio from the Sopranos has his own show on regular radio and a full channel on Sirius, Underground Garage. He takes the Garage on the road with the Underground Garage Festival, coming to AC and Philly on Friday and Sat.
I've been to one of these, and let me tell you, its a great time. No matter if you've heard of any of the bands you'll still have a better time here then you would doing whatever the hell you have planed. Go Go Girls dance during all sets and every band on tour rocks it. Its a nice mix of rock bands from the last 3 decades as well, so check it out.
The Doors for the Borgata show don't even open til 10:00pm and the show starts at 11:30pm, so you can head to AC and make a long night of it. Party!
Check out the bands pages below, you'll like what you hear and most likely recognize it.
The only bad part about this weekend was the HEAT. Almost 100 degrees all 3 days, and out in the sun it felt like 120. Other than that they put on a great Festival. Everyone out in Texas was so nice. If they held a Fest like this back East, in excessive heat like this, I can almost guarantee there would be fights and basically organized chaos. Not here, everyone made this weekend an great experience.
BIG THANKS to: -ACL Festival -AT&T (2 stages and the Digital Oasis offered internet access, college and pro football coverage, and AIR CONDITIONING all weekend long) -The Library on 6th St. (Great Tunes after the festival, cheap drinks, and they welcomed NJ with open arms) -The Aquarium on Sixth (Water filled walls and $13 for 2 Sapphire Tonics and 2 beers. Game Over.) -Latitude 30 ($2 Jager Bombs!? Are you serious? That's all I remember, Yes this place is a GEM)
Highlights: -Ben Kweller's nose bleed during his set that he plugged with a tampon -Kings of Leon play 3 new songs -MUSE play an AMAZING set (my first MUSE experience, so I might be bias) -Tom Petty plays during a classic Texas rain -TV on the Radio=really good -AT&T Digital Oasis Tent-AC and Football games on Sat and Sunday saved a lot of people from the heat and football withdrawal. -Wolf Parade play a good set despite their bassist missing the trip due to Ecoli -Ben Harper played well and did some nice covers of Neil Young -Damian Marley played some of his Dad's songs, which was unexpected since I'd never seem him before either -The Raconteurs shot down any negative hype brought on by the horrible editing of the MTV Awards, by putting on Zeppelin-esqe set.
Kings of Leon
The Kings of Leon came out just as the sun started to set on Day 2. The wind picked up and cooled thing off a bit, and the Kings got things rolling. They played 3 new songs (Charmer, My Party, On Call) and then ran though songs off of both albums. Great set, and everyone seemed to really enjoy them. The new songs are a huge step up for them as far as musicianship. You want to hear what I'm talking about?
Rock this out.And keep in mind, is the audio that is the best part about these, now the video.
Real quick update from the festival. AT&T has a great tent set up with internet access and 4 flat screens with college football and NFL on Saturday and Sunday. and its air conditioned. Its been almost 100 degrees here but the bands have been great.
pictures and video when we get back.
Kings of Leon played a great set and we recorded 3 new songs that we'll share with you when we get back.
Damian Marley, Kings of Leon, Ted Leo, Willie Nelson, Wolf Parade, The Raconteurs were all great. I know I'm missing tons of info but I gotta run.
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Little Steven (Steven Van Zandt) from the E-Street Band and Silvio from the Sopranos has his own show on regular radio and a full channel on Sirius, Underground Garage. He takes the Garage on the road with the Underground Garage Festival, coming to AC and Philly on Friday and Sat.
