A few weeks ago, the Austin City Limits and Austin Kiddie Limits lineup was announced, now comes the hard part -- figuring out what shows you're gonna see at this year's ACL Festival.
Austin Kiddie Limits lineup after the jump. Now updated for a totally revised schedule. Oh, and I hope you're not a big fan of both Beck andRobert Plant and Alison Krauss, 'cuz your Saturday night will now be fraught with confusion...
Disney Music Block Party Tour. Finally.
The Disney Music Block Party Tour took for. freakin'. ever. to get their site up and running. I mean, news of the tour has been floating around for at least a couple months now, and it became almost amusing to see the "Full Site Launches May [insert date here]" change every couple days, but midday today they finally came through on their promise.
Dan Zanes, They Might Be Giants, Barenaked Ladies, Imagination Movers, and Choo Choo Soul is a pretty sweet lineup, though they won't all be appearing at each concert. $36 a person is a bit steep, though kids under the age of 3 are free, and some of the other activities (the PLAYSKOOL play areas, NAMM-sponsored areas with musical instruments for the kiddos) look nice. (I'm a little dubious about having a tent with nothing but Playhouse Disney TV -- just stay at home if you're gonna do that -- but, hey, don't tell me that place won't be packed after the kids have been there an hour or two.)
No, They Might Be Giants and Barenaked Ladies will not be playing at the same show. Value for money, the last show in the Nassau Coliseum is your best bet. As for you Canadians, the good news is that you get a show. The bad news? The Toronto show gets one less act than everyone else.
Aaaand, of course Phoenix (not to mention the entire country west of the Mississippi) doesn't get a single show.
Full details (dates, locations, hours) after the jump.
Kidzapalooza 2008 Lineup Set. I Think.
It's a little hard to tell because the only place it's available is a less-than-helpfully-formatted Myspace page, but here's the lineup for the Chicago edition, set for August 1-3, 2008.
The Jimmies
Tiny Masters of Today
The Dream Jam Band
Homemade Jamz
The Q Brothers
The Terrible Twos
Perry Farrell
Peter DiStefano & Tor
G Love
Suzy Brack and the New Jack Lords
Paul Green School of Rock All Stars
John Yost's Rhythm Revolution
Considering one of the few bands I'm not familiar with - Suzy Brack and the New Jack Lords - is pegged as "tiki-punk," it's safe to say the stage will bring no small amount of rock.
Another Kids' Concert I Can't Go To
Attention Phoenix-area peeps: Eric Herman continues his worldwide tour (OK, perhaps not worldwide, but it's been going on for more than a month, so that's impressive enough). This Saturday Herman will be playing at Sunset Library in Chandler (location), starting at 11 AM. Herman's been honing his show for a long time now (more than just a month), and it should be lots of fun.
We'd try to go, but we have two kids with two separate parties to go to at the same time. You do the math.
Kidzapalooza Branches Out
When I first saw this weekend's press release announcing the announcement of the Kidzapalooza 2008 lineup, I was somewhat confused. Lollapalooza and its Kidzapalooza stage is scheduled for CHICAGO August 1-3. The Paul Frank Store Los Angeles is, uh, located in LOS ANGELES. As the poster announcing the announcement says, "Of course!" What better place to announce a lineup for a Chicago show than in LA? Perhaps they can also tell us what's coming to the Art Institute of Chicago in early 2009.
But then came this announcement (hat tip: Idolator) that Kidzpalooza is getting its own stand-alone concert at the Hollywood Bowl September 28, with pre-show activities starting at 4:30 PM and the show starting at 6:30 PM. The only artist currently announced is chief Lollapalooza poobah Perry Farrell.
While I think this is a great idea, and one producer Tor Hyams had previously suggested would happen, two concerns:
1) Ticket prices are $12 to $70 (!) dollars. I know, I know, a bunch of people can afford that on the upper end. And that's a pittance compared to, say, Hannah Montana tickets. But I gotta tell you, it was hard enough convincing people to plop down $20 for a Dan Zanes ticket. Anything more than that, even for more multiple artists, is going to be hard...
2) 6:30 PM on a Sunday night? Monday morning's going to be a pain getting the kids ready...
I'd also note this is the same weekend as Austin City Limits Festival, which will certainly make Tor a busy man that week.
Anyway, tickets for the Hollywood Bowl show go on sale Saturday morning at 10 AM. And once you've done that (or not), go over for the events at the Paul Frank Store Los Angeles (which also includes a raffle for a trip to the festival in Chicago). Schedule is after the jump.
Stuck in Flyover Country
Sigh... while Bill and Audra stink it up with a whole bunch of people out in Brooklyn this weekend (in a good way), there are bunch of artists headed out to Stagecoach to play their Half-Pint Hootenanny.
I've got a full weekend myself planned, but, y'know, Indio is pretty darn close...
For those of you interested in Half-Pint Hootenanny, the schedule's after the jump, plus details on the special something organizer Karen Rappaport McHugh promised for the weekend....
