CAMP BISCO
As the sun rose over the hills of Mariaville, NY on Thursday, July 7th, 2011, a great thing began to happen... the gates of Camp Bisco X opened. With a back-up of already four and a half hours at the early time of 8a.m. it would still be half a day until many were able to set up camp and tune into the music. Some lived close enough to have a mere 45 minute drive to the Indian Lookout Country Club. Others, ranging from all over the nation, took to the roads for up to days on end just be a part of the action. There was Holly, a yoga instructor who had journeyed from Boulder, Colorado; a Clemson graduate student named Yates drove with his buddy for 16 hours from South Carolina; and Marcus, who had come from further still, taking in the full American landscape all the way from Sacramento, California. But despite how long or short the journey was, , how many thousands of miles you stuck your thumb out, how many hundreds of minutes you sat in the sluggish line (a slew of people ran out of gas or resorted to turning their vehicles off and pushing them in neutral) once inside those gates and through the security checkpoint – another two hour wait – none of it mattered. All that mattered was that it was time to dance.
In just under 18 hours, Mariaville, New York will be over run with color totting maniacs ready to dance their faces off for three days. Camp Bisco is set and promises to be a weekend of epic proportions. A few changes have been made to the performance list, however. First off, Rusko has seemingly encountered some scheduling issues and will not be attending the festival. Brett Keber of MCP Presents said, "Due to circumstances outside of our control, Rusko has been forced to cancel his performance at this year's Camp Bisco. We did everything in the festival's power to re-arrange the schedule in an effort to make this work for the fans, but could not make it work."
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As the humidity approaches unbearable and the summer days officially press on, we wanted to give you all a chance to chill out with the cooling sounds of a few dance worthy notables. With only ten days until Camp Bisco X, the anticipation and excitement surrounding the tenth annual, 3-day festival is growing at an immense pace. Thousands upon thousands of music lovers of all ages will gather at Indian Lookout Country Club on July 7 – 9 for intensive, 72 hour crash course on dance, jam and electronic music. Tickets and camping passes are still available on the CBX, so grab yours today and don’t miss this legendary event. In the In the meantime, while you're waching the clock tick at work or wherever you are, here’s some of our top draws for the upcoming weekend.
In less than two weeks the Indian Lookout Country Club in Mariaville, NY, will be taken over by Camp Bisco 10 Music and Arts Festival. The 200 acre property of rolling, flat, grassy fields will be the weekend home to over 100 performances, spinning roughly 15,000 + fans into the stratosphere. Thursday, July 7 through Saturday, July 9 will be packed with national and international artists looking for nothing more than to feed the frenzy of sweaty, smiling dancers and heady thinkers.
With still more details to come, the official Day-by-Day lineup has been announced with, naturally, the Disco Biscuits headlining each night. Directly from the CBX Press Release, the artists included are:
Approaching it's tenth year, Camp Bisco is an intimate electronic music festival catering to roughly 10,000 attendees each year. As the annual numbers steadily grow, the rolling hills - streamlined with tress, grass and dirt - of Indian Lookout Country Club, in Mariaville, New York, seems the perfect fit to house the sea of tents, RV's, and dirty, smiling festival goers. This year, the 3-day, 3-night event will take place on July 7 - 9.
The weekend long event is curated by Philadelphia natives, the Disco Biscuits. Their blended genre of electronic and jam music coined, "Super Jamband", by Biscuits guitarist Jon Gutwillig, attracts a rather specific flavor of persons effectively referred to as 'Wooks'. Wook isn't exactly a friendly term. In fact, no one would out right call themselves a Wook as it tends to exemplify a dirty, grimy hippy - not the muddy kind of dirty, more the scummy sort (or a combination of both) - but that's a part of the vibe and what sets Camp Bisco apart from other festivals. There's a darkness inside of the light that is gut-wrenchingly beautiful.
Already feeling that summer buzz-kill from missing out on Coachella and Sasquatch this year? Don’t worry, there are still plenty of festivals fixing to satisfy that music-hungry appetite at a much lower price than Bonnaroo or Lollapalooza. Check out these upcoming music festivals that will tune your ears in to some audio bliss.
What: Pitchfork Music Festival
Where: Chicago, IL
When: June 15-17
Who: Animal Collective, Fleet Foxes, Cut Copy, TV on the Radio, Neko Case, Thurston Moore, No Age, Gang Gang Dance, Deerhunter, Superchunk, Ariel Pink, Curren$y + more!
James Murphy's electro gang LCD Soundsystem is finally going to give the fans what they want, a new record. Set for a May 18th release for the as-of-yet-untitled third album, Murphy stated on the bands blog, "Looks like we added another Paris gig. Oh, and something else. The fucking record is done." Murphy sent it off to be mastered by Bob Weston and by the looks of his comments; it seems to be a relief. Murphy spoke to Rolling Stone about the struggles of recording and coming up with song titles, "You ever listen to a song 40 times?" he asks. "That's why I don't write the lyrics until as close to the day I sing it as I can, so I don't get sick of them." And when it comes to the titles Murphy thinks it should be, "the most repeated, obvious phrase... because that's what people are going to say anyway!"
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