Looks like i'm off to this for the day

Field Day

Mogwai! Whoop!

Four Tet and Toumani Diabate are on the bill too. Nice!

Would i like? I'll be investigating most of the acts there as i haven't heard a great deal of them. Skream and Santigold are some other highlights.

Toumani Diabate is an African artist. I have an album of his with the legendart Ali Farka Toure which is excellent. I am sure you will. I didn't notice skream but that's another highlight for sure.

Die!!!

Next Month:
Free Press Summer Fest :|: August 8th and 9th, 2009 :|: Eleanor Tinsley Park
Acts of Intrigue:
Of Montreal, Explosions In the Sky, Broken Social Scene, Voxtrot

October (pretty epic line up):
Austin City Limits Music Festival : October 2-4, 2009 : Austin, TX : Zilker Park

Acts of Interest:
Arctic Monkeys, Sonic Youth, Decemberists, Daniel Johnston, Mos Def, Lilly Allen, !!!, Bon Iver, Dead Weather, Beastie Boys

Die!!!!

Edit: You missed some more artists of interest for the ACL: Kings of Leon, Andrew Bird, Phoenix (they're fun), Devotchka, OMG GRIZZLY BEAR I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU DON'T GO SEE THEM!!!, Clutch, Passion pit, White lies...

Diabate's a bit hard to describe. He plays a much more chilled style than a lot of the rougher-edged desert blues you've got coming out of Mali at the moment. That and it sounds a lot more like classical music than blues.

If you're up for a link, just let me know :)

Why the damn hell not?

I went down for the Ottawa Bluesfest last Saturday actually. I mainly went to see Philip Sayce (who if you haven't heard of, look up, he's an incredible guitar player), but I also caught Rachael Yamagata, Loreena McKennitt, Doyle Bramhall and Cotton Jones. I hadn't heard of any of them except Doyle Bramhall, but they were all really great. I caught a lot of other acts intermittently throughout the day too, 10 hours of music is just a lot of fun. It was a hell of a trip actually; I had to leave at 5 am to catch a Greyhound to Ottawa so I would be there for noon, I watched music until midnight, then caught another Greyhound at 12:30 so I was back in the city at 6 am. Wandering around Toronto at 6:00 am on a Sunday when the streets are literally empty is quite a cool experience too.