Riot Fest owes Humboldt Park $182,000 in repairs

We all know music festivals are expensive to coordinate and plan, thus making unwelcome weather a costly aspect. The Chicago Tribute reports that Riot Fest owes Humboldt Park $182,000 in repairs from the festival this year. This is triple the amount the festival owed in 2013.

Rain was a factor in this year’s Riot Fest making Humboldt Park a muddy mess. Park district spokeswomen Jessica Maxey-Faulkner stated that there are currently repairs in progress, park district spokeswoman Jessica Maxey-Faulkner said.

There are some stretches where grass seed was put down and are fenced off in order to let the grass grow. However, according to the park district, the park should be ready for the public in the spring.

Officials estimate that the landscape repairs to the park would make Riot Fest organizers owe $182,000, which is more than triple the $54,300 that was estimated to have costed the organizers in grounds repairs last year.

This year, organizers say that Riot Fest was twice the size of last year’s site. The festival was on park property which has borders on North Avenue to the north, Division Street to the south, California Avenue to the east and Kedzie Avenue to the west.

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. The Human Condition – Jhameel

2. Tongues – Joywave

3. Kids – Lady Danville

4. Into the Wild – LP

5. Walk On By – Noosa

6. The Way We Touch – WE ARE TWIN

7. Breathing Electricity – The Electric Sons

8. Crystalize – Fire in the Hamptons

9. High – Sun City

10. Keep Pace – Christopher Norman

11. Crystal Ball – Emil & Friends

12. Pyramid – Nightbox

13. 1978 – Germany Germany

14. Grande Comore – Southern Shores

15. Autumnal – Teen Daze

16. Heat – MMOTH

17. Fame or Shame? – Amtrac

18. Home and Consonance – Tropics

19. Moonstruck – Two Inch Punch

20. Changes – LOL Boys

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Stream Foo Fighters’ new album, Sonic Highways

Foo Fighters are releasing their new album, Sonic Highways, on November 10th. The album can be streamed in full on iTunes Radio in anticipation for the release.

Sonic Highways is the follow-up to Wasting Light, and the band recorded each song on the album in studios in different cities across the country, which was documented by the HBO series with the same name. Each song is lyrically inspired by each location and has collaborations with a local musician. These collaborations include Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen (Chicago), Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard (Seattle), Joan Jett (New York City), Gary Clark Jr. (Austin), The Eagles’ Joe Walsh (Los Angeles), and New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band (New Orleans).

Pre-order the album via Amazon.

Sonic Highways Tracklist:
01. Something From Nothing (feat. Rick Nielsen)
02. The Feast and The Famine (feat. RDGLDGRN)
03. Congregation (feat. Zac Brown Band)
04. What Did I Do?/God As My Witness (feat. Gary Clark Jr.)
05. Outside (feat. Joe Walsh)
06. In The Clear (feat. New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band)
07. Subterranean (feat. Ben Gibbard)
08. I Am A River (feat. Joan Jett)

 

Gotye’s political group, the Basics, gains official party status in Australia

The political group that singer-songwriter Gotye is a part of, The Basics, has received official party status in Australia.

The Victorian Electoral Commission granted the party status after they gathered the 500 registered members required by officials. Kris Schroeder and Tim Heath were put forward by the group as upper house candidates for the northern metropolitan region in the upcoming election.

Schroeder and Heath are the bandmates of Gotye, the musician behind “Somebody That I Used to Know.” The Basics have a new EP out in anticipation to the election at the end of the month.

The Basics state that their elements are “innovation, education and rock’n’roll.” Some of their goals are improving indigenous education in Victorian schools, compulsory first-aid training in high schools and having more access to music in rural areas.

Lollapalooza to expand to Berlin

Lollapalooza has expanded from Chicago over the last few years and has had several festivals in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. Lollapalooza was supposed to branch into Israel but was was scrapped for security reasons. The here are rumors that there could be a Toronto incarnation, however, the organizers of the festival are looking to Europe.

Lollapalooza announced that they have plans for a Lollapalooza Berlin which would take place September 12th and 13th at the Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Germany.

The head of William Morris Endeavor’s music division, Marc Geiger, stated: “We have very carefully considered bringing our festival to Europe and frankly, were intimidated by the rich festival history Europe has had for 50 years. Berlin feels like it is ready to explode as a city and cultural center and we want to be there to grow with the city.”

Melvin Benn, Managing Director of Festival Republic, also stated: “Over two decades since its inception, Lollapalooza is more than ready to break new ground and bring the experience to new audiences, offering not just music, but fashion, food, plus an environmental awareness that is so important in the future of music festivals. Working with C3 and Melt! Booking to bring the Lollapalooza brand to Europe gives me great pleasure in not only building upon my relationship with these global partners but allows me to return to the iconic Templehof site in September.”

Details such as artist lineup and ticket info, will be announced soon. The South American Lollapalooza’s festivals will occur during the course of three weekends during March: Lollapalooza Chile in Santiago from March 14th and 15th, Lollapalooza Argentina in Buenos Aires from March 21st and 22nd, and Lollapalooza Brazil in Sao Paulo on March 28th and 29th. Rumored acts playing at these festivals include Jack White, Robert Plant, and Foster the People.

Listen to Phantogram’s Black Out Days remixed by Danny Brown

Having worked with artists on tracks such as Vampire Weekend, Charlie XCX, Purity Ring, and Portugal. The Man, there is no surprise that the MC, Danny Brown, has teamed up with Phantogram for a remix of their single, “Black Out Days”.

With the help of Brazilian producer Leo Justi, the song is turned into a club anthem.Take a listen here.

Sour Patch Kids opens home for musicians in Brooklyn

Brand sponsors have been intertwining themselves with band, especially shown in U2’s most recent partnership with Apple. The latest in corporate sponsorships is Sour Patch Kids with a four bedroom house that shelters touring indie rock bands.

The candy brand opened the Brooklyn Patch, a home in the Clinton Hill neighborhood where bands can stay while touring.

The Mondelez marketing director Farrah Bezner says the company’s “target consumer” is music-loving teenagers, and this house is part of a new strategy. “We wanted to be able to contribute, you have to break culture to make culture,” Bezner explains. As part of the deal with the company, while staying at the four-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom house will be requested to content that can be shared on Sour Patch’s social networks.

Magic Man and Deer Tick are among several bands who have already signed up to stay at the Brooklyn Patch.

Wes Anderson teams up with Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo to create a theme park

Wes Anderson and Mark Mothersbaugh, the co-founder of Devo, have created a large quite the working relationship with each other this last decade. The Devo singer scored half of the Anderson’s films, such as Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. The two are now making their chemistry into a theme park.

Anderson wrote in Mothersbaugh’s book of visual art, Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia that will soon be released, “I hope to soon secure the means to commission the construction of an important and sizeable theme park to be conceived and designed entirely by Mark Mothersbaugh, for 40 years he has set about creating a body of work which amounts to his own Magic Kingdom, where the visitor is amused and frightened, often simultaneously.”

Let’s hope one day that we can ride a Fantastic Mr. Fox-themed ride while enjoying our stay at a hotel similar to that of the Grand Budapest Hotel.

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Everything is Wrong – Interpol

2. We Used to Be Friends – the Dandy Warhols

3. Alright – Supergrass

4. A Ton of Love – Editors

5. I’m Not Part of Me – Cloud Nothings

6.  No Below – Speedy Ortiz

7. Habit – Ought

8. Green Lady – Merchandise

9. Millions – Eternal Summers

10. John Brown – Papercuts

11. Letter of Intent – Ducktails

12. Pretty Wings – Zak Waters

13. Jamaica – Van She

14. Shooting Stars – Bag Raiders

15. Embrace – Pnau

16. Shells of Silver – The Japanese Popstars

17. Full Moon – The Black Ghosts

18. Blitz – Digitalism

19. Classic – The Knocks

2o. Sometimes – Miami Horror

 

 

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Ben Gibbards scores soundtrack for “Laggies”

As the movie gears up to be released this month, producers of the romantic comedy Laggies announced the release date for the score, which has been composed by Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard.

As the most recent work of Lynn Shelton, Laggies features Keira Knightley, the movie is a “coming of age story about a 28-year-old woman stuck in permanent adolescence that lies to her fiancé about going on a retreat and spends the time hanging out with friends instead.” The cast also by Sam Rockwell, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ellie Kemper, Jeff Garlin, and Mark Webber.

With 22 tracks on the soundtrack, it will digitally be available on November 4th and November 10th on CD. This is Gibbard’s theatrical score debut, and I is described as “Seattle-centric,” with a mix of moody and upbeat indie rock that is parallel with the film’s comedic, and gut-wrenching view of friendship, love, maturity and development.