APW Festival

further details/confirmation/embarrassment, from brooklynvegan.com:

The ALL POINTS WEST MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL LINE-UP (as of 2/21) is as follows: Radiohead, Jack Johnson, Underworld, Kings of Leon, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Cat Power, The Roots, The New Pornographers, Youssou N'Dour, Animal Collective, Andrew Bird, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Metric, CSS, Girl Talk, Chromeo, The Go! Team, Amadou & Mariam, The Black Angels, Sia, The Felice Brothers, K'Naan, Jason Isbell, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Alberta Cross, The Virgins, Black Kids, Mates of State, Duffy, Forro in the Dark, Nicole Atkins, Juana Molina, Little Brother, Rogue Wave, Neil Halstead and Your Vegas.

Tickets for ALL POINTS WEST go on sale Friday, February 29 at 12 Noon (ET) via www.ticketmaster.com only. Single day passes are $89 and three-day passes are $258. A portion of the event's proceeds will benefit "Friends of Liberty State Park."

Here's the lineup for each day!

I'm there Friday and Saturday…

http://www.apwfestival.com/event/lineup

Originally posted by Cash is King:
Everybody in charge of Virgin Fest would have to die, and then their replacements die at the funeral, in order for V-Fest to not top this.

Cash is King, meet Radiohead. Radiohead, meet Cash is King.

looks like there will be 3 stages.

the "getting there - by train" page states The Newark Penn Station stop directly connects to NJ Transit's Light Rail, which will bring concert goers directly to the festival grounds. i'm pretty sure this is wrong. from newark penn, one can take the PATH train to grove street and it's walkable from there (10-15 minutes) - but that's not "directly to festival grounds". alternately you have to transfer again to the Hudson Bergen Light Rail line and pay another fare. again, not direct.

Meh.

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
Here's the lineup for each day!

I'm there Friday and Saturday…

http://www.apwfestival.com/event/lineup

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
Here's the lineup for each day!

I'm there Friday and Saturday…

http://www.apwfestival.com/event/lineup

Is it worth $89 + the drive to see Radiohead, Underworld, and the Go! Team on Friday… hmmm…

i'll probably buy one-days for friday and saturday too, and be ready to sell them off should VFest bring the goods. good thing that VFest is only sat + sun, 'cause friday's underworld –> RH would be pretty damn tough to beat.

breakdown by day and by stage:

Friday:

Blue Commet Stage:
Radiohead
Underworld
Spearhead
The New Pornographers
The Go! Team

Bullet Stage:
Girl Talk
CSS
Forro in the Dark
Juana Molina
Little Brother

Queen of the Valley Stage:
Andrew Bird
Mates of State
Nicole Atkins


Saturday

Blue Commet Stage:
Radiohead
Kings of Leon
Animal Collective
Metric
Chromeo
The Black Angels

Bullet Stage:
The Roots
The Virgins
The Felice Brothers
Alberta Cross

Queen of the Valley Stage:
Sia
K'Naan
Duffy
Your Vegas


Sunday

Blue Commet Stage:
Jack Johnson
Cat Power
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Amadou & Mariam

Bullet Stage:
Youssou N'Dour
Black Kids
Jason Isbell

Queen of the Valley Stage:
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Rogue Wave
Neil Halstead

These are bands doing the festival circuit. Virgin Fest is right on top of this one as far as the dates go. The lineups are going to be similar. Radiohead is great, but I'll wait until I see the VFest lineup.

$258 for this?
I hope they're planning on some heavy additions.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Speculated line-up

August 8th
Headliner: Bjork
Sub-headliner: The Strokes
Others: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Broken Social Scene, The Rapture

August 9th
Headliner: The Flaming Lips
Sub-headliner: Sonic Youth
Others: My Bloody Valentine, Portishead, Mogwai

August 10th
Headliner: Radiohead
Sub-headliner: Sigur Ros
Others: Bright Eyes, Mars Volta, LCD Soundsystem

Source

Feel free to make this a starting point for the Virgin lineup

I'm probably in for Friday and Saturday, barring some huge surprises from Lollapalooza or V Fest.

callat, i assume you're throwing lolla into the mix b/c of cost considerations, or because you can only handle one festival per month? (old man… :) )

lolla is the preceding weekend, 1-3 Aug.

The lineups on the second two stages are much better than the headlining stages. Too bad they don't sell discounted tickets for people who don't give a shit about the bands whose presence drives up the cost of the tickets…

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
The lineups on the second two stages are much better than the headlining stages. Too bad they don't sell discounted tickets for people who don't give a shit about the bands whose presence drives up the cost of the tickets…

oh dang nabbit I'm agreeing with Charlie on this one… also preferably presented at some time other than the middle of summer…

That would be great if you could buy a time-allotment for tickets, or just prove your too cool for school to like the headliner. I've probably go to a lot more of these things…

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
Too bad they don't sell discounted tickets for people who don't give a shit about the bands whose presence drives up the cost of the tickets…

Originally posted by sweetcell:
callat, i assume you're throwing lolla into the mix b/c of cost considerations, or because you can only handle one festival per month? (old man… :) )

lolla is the preceding weekend, 1-3 Aug.

Yeah, mostly just having to pick and choose. I can't really do two big weekends out of town in the same month.

re: jack johnson he once played iota… apparently it was a zoo because he on the verge of breaking to the masses at that point.

If Rogue Wave plays at V-Fest, I'll be thrilled!

damn! $258 for this. I live here and wouldnt have to worry about finding a place to stay but that still seems ridiculous! now im just hoping radiohead plays somewhere in the city and ill be happy.

i would so love to go to this because of the convenience but just trying to justify the cost on that ticket is impossible.

xNWx - if you buy single-day passes for friday and saturday (skip sunday's jack-johnson-o-thon), that brings it down to $200 with all the fees. dunno if that's any less scary for ya.

Originally posted by lomein:
$258 for this?
I hope they're planning on some heavy additions.

supposedly not. they might add a band or two to each day, but the idea is to have all performers do full sets - which means they can't pack too much more into the lineup.