I’ve been waiting for this day for quite some time now: my first-ever Lobsterfest. I put on a nice layer of sunscreen, grabbed a blanket and a pillow, and brought my laptop like the geek I am. I am ready for the day. I hope you’re ready for the rundown in the form of a live blog.
Lollapalooza is in Chicago, Illinois. Bonnaroo is in Manchester, Tennessee. Coachella is in Indio, California. These festivals may be fun, but they come complete with a lengthy drive and steep prices. A free alternative is right here; Ohio Univesity students, prepare yourself for Lobsterfest 2009.
Surprise! When interviewed, male students chose Palmerfest as the unanimous winner among the street fests at Ohio University.
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Every spring, Robbins Crossing at Hocking College gets littered with tattoos, puffs of smoke, tie dye, floor-length skirts and floor-length hair in what is known to most as the Nelsonville Music Festival.
Mudhoney, Jolie Holland and senior splendor Willie Nelson (among other artists) will rip away a pair of Speakeasy editors’ NMF abstinence this year. Krisi [...]
Palmerfest 2009 turned from a bright beautiful day of drinking and music into a dark and shameful night of riots, violence, and arson. Why?
Every spring, Robbins Crossing at Hocking College gets littered with tattoos, puffs of smoke, tie dye, floor-length skirts and floor-length hair in what is known to most as the Nelsonville Music Festival.
Mudhoney, Jolie Holland and senior splendor Willie Nelson (among other artists) will rip away a pair of Speakeasy editors’ NMF abstinence this year. Krisi Nehls (Assistant Entertainment Editor) and I (Courtney Baldasare, Music Editor) will provide live coverage below, carefully documenting our endeavors, discoveries and sensations about this year’s artists and festival quirks.
OU students have anxiously been awaiting the start of the fest season, and this past weekend was the Mama of all: Palmer Fest.
After a long night at the bars, you awaken at 10 a.m. with a hangover from hell while your roommate yells at you to get up and start again: it’s High Fest!
Columbus lo-fi indie-rockers Times New Viking headlined the first night of Blackout Fest 2009, held April 17-19 at The Union. Speakeasy caught up with the band, who are signed to Matador Records, at their second Athens performance in a year to discuss their influences and how their pop sensibilities mix with the noise scene.
It is that time of year again - spring has a’sprung, and the Ohio University music scene is no longer confined to the dingy walls of the bleak indoors. It’s mid-April in Athens, and if the trill of guitars and sweaty drunkards stumbling out of bars are not enough, Blackout Fest 2009 is officially underway. There to join the the musicians and party-goers alike will be a staff of Speakeasy bloggers, filling you in along the way.