Highlights: Firefly Music Festival @ The Woodlands (Dover, Del.), 6/15-6/18/17

Posted on 04/26/2017 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged Benny Benassi, Bleachers, Capital Cities, Delaware, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Firefly, Firefly 2017, Firefly Music Festival, Franz Ferdinand, Hamilton Leithauser, Kesha, Miike Snow, Muse, music festival, outdoor festival, Phantogram, SHAED, The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway, Twenty One Pilots, Weezer.

Franz Ferdinand (Photo by Andy Knowles)

Parklife DC previously filled you in on the headliners at Firefly Music Festival 2017, scheduled for June 15-18 at The Woodlands in Dover, Delaware. But as festival revelers well know, it’s the acts that lead up to those headliners that make for a complete day at any given music festival. Here then are our picks for acts you shouldn’t miss at Firefly 2017.

Don’t Miss: Moogfest 2016, 5/19-5/22/16 (Part 3)

Posted on 02/10/2016 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged art pop, Durham, electropop, Grimes, Miike Snow, Moog Music Company, Moogfest, Moogfest 2016, music festival, neo-psychedelia, synthesizer, synthpop.

Grimes (Photo courtesy Purple PR)

Moogfest 2016: Grimes and Miike Snow Join the Festival

The organizers of Moogfest 2016, set for May 19-22 across 17 venues in downtown Durham, NC, announced major additions to the electronic music festival’s lineup yesterday.

Art pop musician Grimes and neo-psychedelic trio Miike Snow join the lineup of “more than 250 of the world’s most forward-thinking musicians, artists, and technologists — from GZA, Gary Numan, and Blood Orange to virtual-reality pioneer Jaron Lanier, transhumanist visionary Dr. Martine Rothblatt, and cyborg activist Neil Harbisson — for Moogfest 2016,” said Moogfest in a press release.