Whatever! Who Cares!?

So Pitchfork announced today that they're hosting a summer music festival in Chicago featuring 36 independent artists on 3 stages for 30 dollars. As I scrolled down their other listings taking note of the tours that are occurring on the EAST side of the country and NOT over here in Oregon or Washington (the states that I call home) we here at Discord/Harmony decided a unified statement was due. To Pitchfork's Music Festival, and all y'alls that's touring on the OTHER side of the country (and that goes for YOU too Andrew Bird!!!!!!) we have this to say:

Whatever man! Who cares about y'alls anyway!

We here in the West Coast already have our own music festival, and we like to call it BUMBERSHOOT! So HA! And we have way more than 36 artists there. Along with a SMALL HANDFULL of independent artists, in past years we've boasted such great mainstage acts as Third Eye Blind, Nickelback and erm.... and a bunch of guys that are not the Roots, pretending to be the Roots (no, really... this actually happened). In addition, Bumbershoot also has the great feature of taking your favorite bands and booking them on separate stages at the same time! Does Pitchfork promise such fun? I thought not. So there! That's all I've got to say to y'alls in Chicago.

In actuality Bumbershoot isn't all that bad, but it involves some weeding through to find what you're looking for, and all too often, it is scheduled for the same chunk of time and you have to choose between going with your friends who want to see Ani Difranco, or standing alone watching a show that they've never heard of while they go off to see Ani Difranco.

That's it! Screw this crap! We're starting our OWN Festival. It'll go somethin' like this:

Mainstage: Saturday: Andrew Bird, Brian Wilson, Petra Haden and Iron and Wine, Sunday: Andrew Bird, Andrew Bird aaaaaaand lemmethinkaboutit... Andrew Bird.

Secondary Stage: Who gives a crap, cuz I'll be at the maintstage.

And OUR festival is going to have free beer, and no drum circles whatsoever! So y'alls just hang tight while we get that going. Once we've got a date and a venue, we'll post it here and watch y'alls flock to our way-cooler-than-Pitchfork's festival.

(stupidmusicfestivalsmumblegrumble)