2008 MONOLITH Artists, The Ting Tings are featured in the brand new
ipod / itunes tv commercials with their song “Shut Up and Let Me Go”
They’re not the first Monolith artist to be featured in an Apple commercial…
Sub Pop artists CSS (Cansei De Der Sexy), also playing the 2008 Monolith Festival
have also been featured on Apple commercials recently. (with the track ‘Music is My Hot Hot Sex’).
Check out the full schedule at:
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Neko Case
The 2008 Monolith Festival is getting mountains of amazing press, check it out…
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“Monolith Festival improves for its second year” — Denver Post Headline
“Officials have unveiled the bill for the second annual Monolith Festival… and it’s a Heavy Hitter-Packed Whopper” — SPIN
“And, as befits a fest named after a really big thing that rocks, well, check out this bill” — Pitchfork
“This is only the second year for the ever-improving Monolith Music Festival at Red Rock Amphitheatre in Colorado and I think the lineup has taken a big step forward from last year’s.” — My Old Kentucky Blog
“The lineup for the 2008 Monolith Festival at Red Rocks is sizzling hot.” - Fuel/Friends
“If you thought the inaugural edition of Monolith last year was pretty kick ass, wait until you get a load of this year’s line-up, which comes even closer to living up to the festival’s name.” - Dave Herrera, Backbeat Editor, Westword
“Summer festivals, take note, Monolith is doing it right” — Someone to Love More than Music
“Very excited about this… The first day is really solid but man, that second day will be the most epic thing that’s hit red rocks in 2008.” — Comment on Denver Message Board
“I just booked a ticket to Colorado. Why? the annual Monolith Festival… has put together a lineup that just made me wet myself” — Limewire
“The hippest festival all year” - tim duncan, comment on gorilla vs bear
“Monolith Festival, which will hit Red Rocks Ampitheater on Sept. 13 and 14, is keeping the scale kind of small, but kind of awesome as well.” - idolator.com
“If you remove Radiohead, this festival beats APW easily, at a fraction of the cost.” — Comment on Brooklyn Vegan
“Any two-day festival at Red Rocks in September is extremely inviting. But this lineup puts together some of the best and brightest of the indie rock set, making it all the more tempting.” — LiveMusicBlog.com
“Monolith > Coachella”, from the Coachella Messageboards
“Wow, this is a fantastic lineup.”, another comment from the Coachella Messageboards
“Sweet! I will def be at this festival! the line up is great! much better then last year”, another comment
from the Coachella Messageboards
“A deceptively awesome Monolith Festival.” - Cultural Aggregation
“This week saw the lineup announcement of Colorado’s best music festival: the Monolith Festival at Red Rocks.” - Music is My Girlfriend, (KBUT Blog)
“Monolith Festival Line-Up Is Dope, I told myself I wouldn’t do anymore festival posts after this massive compilation I put together, but when this little line-up showed up in my inbox I decided to bite my vow against more festival banter..
“Imagine the Monolith festival, now in it’s second year…. All the best indie rock bands” — Charley
Rogulewski Blog
“Is Red Rocks in Colorado? This lineup seems like it was curated by NME” - Mollifire, MOG
“This was great last year, though I only went on Sunday. I think I’ll be hitting it up both days this
time” - goodmusiconly, mog
“I’m definitely going! Band of Horses! Silversun Pickups! Tokyo Police Club! …and my favorite 90’s
band EVER reunited with their original lineup: Superdrag!” — Comment on the Denver Message Board
“My hat is tipped in the direction of the Monolith organizers. So far it looks great!” — MerrySwankster
“You can keep your Jack Johnson and your Radiohead. The Monolith Festival, set for Sept. 13-14 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver, unveiled a decidedly indie-focused lineup today.” — MP3.com
“One of the best lineups I’ve seen this year.” — Comment on the A/V Club (ONION)
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Plus, features in Billboard, A/V Club, Pollstar, Daily Camera, Aversion, NME, Fuel.tv,
Paste, Filter, All Music Guide, MySpace News, Rocky Mountain News and more…
Tickets for the 2008 Monolith Festival Presented by Esurance ARE ON SALE NOW.
We encourage you to purchase your tickets early. With only 9000 tickets available each day and with the success of last year’s festival, we are confident these tickets won’t be around for long. In addition to the single and two-day tickets, our VIP Gold Passes are back with new benefits for 2008. See you in September!
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THE NIGHT MARCHERS will be appearing at the 2008 MONOLITH Festival, www.monolithfestival.com
Check out this great interview with them in Today’s Westword Blog:
John Reis, the subject of the following Q&A as well as a May 1 Westword profile, is the leader of a new band called the Night Marchers – but the group is hardly his first. He made his initial ripple as part of Pitchfork back in the ‘80s, after which he’s served as a member in acts such as Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, the Sultans and, most notably, Rocket From the Crypt, often simultaneously. However, he brought the last three groups to an end within recent years to concentrate on the Marchers, whose new CD, See You in Magic, recently materialized.
The conversation begins with Reis describing his decision to focus on one band. He then details the reasons he shut down Rocket, the Sultans and Hot Snakes; shares his musical philosophy, which emphasizes good times over angst; looks back on the Drive Like Jehu legacy; measures the benefits associated with major labels and their independent counterparts, including his own imprint, Swami; and admits to being a musical lifer.
That’s one sentence he’s eager to serve…
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MONOLITH FESTIVAL, SEPT 13-14, 2008 at RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE
www.monolithfestival.com
It’s finally here, the first round of bands to play the biggest Festival at RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE, to be held Sat-Sun, Sept 13-14, 2008.
JUSTICE
TV ON THE RADIO
DEVOTCHKA
BAND OF HORSES
SILVERSUN PICKUPS
NEKO CASE
MICKEY AVALON
CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy)
VAMPIRE WEEKEND
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
Del tha Funky Homosapien
The Avett Brothers
Superdrag
The Fratellis
The Ting Tings
Tokyo Police Club
Akron/Family
The Heavy
Bright Channel
Tilly and the Wall
Get the Full Lineup Now:
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Feb 21, 2008
Monolith has partnered with the Hot Freaks collective to host the Ultimate Good Time you can have in Austin, TX this year. Two Days and Three Stages and more Hot Bands than you can Stand!
Date: March 14 & 15 – 12pm – 6pm each day
Venue: Mohawk & Club DeVille (3 stages)
Performances By: Jens Lekman | British Sea Power | Crystal Castles | Jason Collett | Peter Moren (of Peter, Bjorn & John) | Lyrics Born | Fleet Foxes | Lykke Li | A Place To Bury Strangers | Peelander-Z | Islands | The Acorn | Cadence Weapon | Blitzen Trapper | Nicole Atkins & The Sea | The Dodos | White Denim | Evangelicals | Ola Podrida | Bowerbirds | Cameron McGill | Bad Veins | The Whigs | Film School | Le Switch | David Bazan | Frankel | White Rabbits | Bodies of Water | Jealous Girlfriends, and more.
DJ’s Between Sets: DJ Amplive, Kevin Barnes, The Hood Internet
Visit MonolithFestival.com For RSVP Info:
http://www.monolithfestival.com
Additionally Sponsored by: WOXY, GigBot.net, Insound, Zazzle, Sims, 91.7 Koop
Editors Rocked the 2007 MONOLITH Festival
If your band would like to play MONOLITH at RED ROCKS, you can submit your music through Sonicbids now:
http://sonicbids.com/monolith2008
Note: No physical submissions by mail will be accepted, please submit electronically through Sonicbids now to be considered for MONOLITH 2008 at Red Rocks!
We know you can’t wait till September 2008 for all the rock,
so let’s get it started early …
MONOLITH MADNESS with THE CRIBS (UK)
FRIDAY, MARCH 28 @ Bluebird Theater| Denver, CO | Ages: 16 & Up
Tickets only $5 Advance or $10 Day of Show!
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Happy New Year!
Coming up in January 2008 …
MONOLITH Recommends:
DENVER
REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND
Friday, Jan 4 @ Bluebird | Sat, Jan 5 @ Fox Theatre
INDIANAPOLIS
MONOLITH FESTIVAL &
MY OLD KENTUCKY BLOG PRESENT:
CLOUD CULT w/ MASON PROPER & GRAMPALL JOOKABOX
JAN 17 @ RADIO RADIO
Radio Radio | Indianapolis, IN |21 & Up | $10 | Doors at 8:30 pm</span>
EVERYTHING, NOW! // CAMERON MCGILL // DAVID MOORE
JAN 18 @ RADIO RADIO
Radio Radio | Indianapolis, IN | 21 & Up | $5 | Doors at 8:30 pm
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Our friends at CMJ are throwing their annual soire this weekend. If you are in NYC or traveling be sure to check out bands like Justice, M.I.A., Band of Horses, Unkle, Xiu Xiu and more, alongside Monolith alumni Hot IQs, Tim Barry, Broken West and Born in the Flood! Click here to register for |
