Events
Treasure Island Music Festival
Initially I was less than impressed with the lineup at Treasure Island this year. Everyone was asking how can LCD Soundsystem, while great live, can compare to past headliners like Justice, Modest Mouse and The Flaming Lips? Yet the lineups at Treasure Island have never been about getting the biggest headliners possible. It’s about filling out an entire weekend with diverse, high-quality bands and artists who have strong fan followings, regardless of their mainstream status.
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Matador @21: Day Three
Matador Records celebrates 21 years with three nights of band showcases at the Palms in Las Vegas. … read more
Matador @21: Day Two
Matador Records celebrates 21 years with three nights of band showcases at the Palms in Las Vegas. … read more
Matador @21: Day One
Matador Records celebrates 21 years with three nights of band showcases at the Palms in Las Vegas. … read more
Dew Tour Day 4
Sunday, Sept. 19 marked the last day of Dew Tour here in Salt Lake City for 2010. It was also the day I was waiting for to see the skate vert finals. The Arena was packed almost every seat filled fans watched in awe as the pros warmed up. As an intro Gatorade put on the grom demo where some super little kids shredded the ramp, there was even a seven year old who did cork 540s! I’d give him his props and shout out his name but due to regulations names of the kids weren’t released. … read more
Dew Tour Day 3
Saturday, Sept. 18 was day three at the Dew Tour and by far the busiest of the four-day event. I checked out the Gatorade Free Flow skatepark finals where Salt Lake City local Tyson Bowerbank held it down and pulled off third place overall. … read more
Dew Tour Day 2
Friday, Sept. 17 was day two at the Dew Tour here in Salt Lake City. If you still haven’t checked it out, you’re running out of time. So hurry up! When I got to Dew Tour today, the first event I scoped out was the skateboard vert prelims where Bob Burnquist was able to work his way past last month’s winner Shaun White. … read more
Dew Tour Day 1
Thursday Sept. 16 marked the first day of the Dew Tour—a four-day contest series for some of the big dogs of skateboarding (park and vert), BMX (dirt, vert and park) and freestyle motocross. Salt Lake City is the final stop before the athletes head to the championships in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival @ Golden Gate Park,...
The third annual Outside Lands, held in the Polo Field and Speedway Meadows in Golden Gate Park, featured an extremely slimmed down lineup than the previous years. Without the big names from 2008 and 2009, the festival was much smaller, and many people in the community were disappointed with the “biggest” headliner, Kings of Leon. I read an article in SF Weekly prior to the event that began, “Kings of Leon…really?” … read more
Cleanflix
Whenever residents of Utah make headlines, 9 times out of 10 it’s for some reality series where our favorite local is announced the runner-up in the season finale. However, in the last decade, a Utah-based business caused such a national media fr … read more