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  Thanks Obama! Beer Drones May Come to a Festival Near You

  May 9, 2013 – In August, South African festivalgoers will get a chance to test out the world's first booze delivery service executed by an unmanned aerial vehicle. Capetown's Darkwing Aerials will use the four-day OppiKoppi outdoor music gathering to debut the OppiKoppi Beer Drone, an octocopter that is capable of air-dropping parachute-affixed cold ones to fans who've prepaid via a GPS-enabled smartphone. …
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  Lollapalooza Won't Go to Israel This Summer, After All

  January 23, 2013 – The Mideast conflict has been putting an end to good intentions for decades, if not millennia, and unfortunately Lollapalooza has turned out to be no exception. Last summer Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell announced plans to bring the festival to Israel. The event was scheduled to take place August 20 to 22 this year in Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park, and it even had a Hebrew-language website. Well, hold that thought. …
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  16 Fall Festivals You Need to Know, From ACL to Voodoo

  September 19, 2012 – People still refer to "the festival season" like that's a thing. Used to be massive music meet-ups mostly took place in the summer, but these days you can find a park full of dirty bands and dirtier fans just about anywhere, anytime, in any town with a population above 80,000 and a proclivity for parties. …
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  Festival Nomads Follow a Not-So-Golden Road

  September 11, 2012 – It's 10:30 PM on a Saturday night at Atlantic City's Bader Field and I'm in pain. Metallica are solidly into their headlining set at the Orion Festival, but they're not the problem. Insofar as it's possible to pay any attention to the band, the music sounds fine. …
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  Death at Global Gathering Fest Caps Tragic Week for Live Music

  July 31, 2012 – A 24-year-old man was found unconscious Saturday afternoon in a tent at the Global Gathering Festival, which drew a reported 50,000 people to see a lineup led by Skrillex, Tinie Tempeh, and Armin Van Buren, in Stratford Upon Avon, England,  …
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  Festival Tragedies: Why Did They Happen?

  June 13, 2012 – With economies around the world struggling in recent years, the live-concert business inevitably has declined and adjusted. As a result, music festivals have proliferated, allowing attendees to see multiple acts, and promoters to charge lofty ticket prices. …
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  Up In It: Greg Dulli Talks Afghan Whigs Reunion

  February 27, 2012 – While last week’s announcement that the Greg Dulli-curated 2012 edition of All Tomorrow’s Parties in New Jersey would be capped off by the first Afghan Whigs shows in 13 years may not have been a shock to anyone minding the indie-rock rumor mill, or keeping track of which beloved ‘90s bands had yet to give into reunion fever, big questions still abound: Why now? What else is in the works? …
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  Jack White, Skrillex, Dave Matthews Band: Your Hangout Fest '12 Lineup

  February 7, 2012 – The Hangout Music Fest is only two years old, but it's already got some big lineup scores: The 2012 event features Jack White, Skrillex, and Dave Matthews Band, as well as Wilco, fest mainstays String Cheese Incident, the Flaming Lips performing Dark Side of the Moon, and Yelawolf. …
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