If you’re like me, you often fantasize about magical music festivals that’ll never exist (or that you can’t afford to go to… coughGlastonburycough). But oh how it would make your heart melt to see this band and that band and that old favorite from your formative years all share a stage. Well, that feeling of BLISS is exactly what came over me when I heard that HOT CHIP, SLEIGH BELLS AND JAMES MURPHY (yes, that James Murphy of DFA/LCD Soundsystem/Cale’s wet dreams) were teaming up for a tour and coming to Merriweather Post Pavilion on Juny 22nd!! I mean, look at how picture perfect this is:
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Pretty fucking excellent, right? Well, tickets may be going on sale tomorrow @ 10AM, but we’ve got one pair for one very lucky person to snag before then. All you have to do is tell us in the comments what your ideal “trifecta of awesomeness” tour would be. Here, I’ll even go first: Paul Banks (of Interpol, playing solo mind you) + The XX + The Smiths for me and 1,000 of my closest friends at the 930 Club, duh.
Winner will be selected by 9AM tomorrow! Use a real email address when you comment!
Phantogram/RaRaRiot/SleighBells
Ben Folds + Coldplay + Temper Trap. Random, I know… ;o)
My trifecta: Stars + The Jezabels + Lykke Li, at the Kennedy Center (seats removed, haha)
You’d have to break out a ouija board for this line up….and of course it would be at the 9:30 club
1. The Cramps – Headliner
2. Liberace
3. Dolly Parton
4. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
5. Morrissey
6. Peaches
7. The Horrors
Hosted by a laser light projection of Jackie 0.
I’m not drunk, it’s 11;16 am and this is just how I think
are we talking living or dead? maybe ill give you a dead (hologram??) edition first. hendrix on guitar, morrison on vocals, entwhistle on bass and bonham on drums playing the 930 club! and for the living id love to see death from above 1979/test icicles/rage against the machine at the rock n roll hotel so i can get drunk and walk home:-)
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA_+ THE AVETT BROTHERS+ RADIOHEAD.
BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE THE WEIRDEST BUT MOST AWESOME CONCERT EVER.
AT MERRIWEATHER. ALL OF MY FRIENDS AND I WILL TAKE THE PIT, AND THE SEATS AND LAWN WILL BE FILLED WITH DIE HARD FANS.
AND MERRIWEATHER MAY POSSIBLY HAVE A BEER SPECIAL THAT NIGHT…
oh god I’m getting really excited about this fantasy…
jenny lewis+mirah+cat power
Tom Waits/David Bowie/Neutral Milk Hotel (or just Jeff Mangum)
Wolf Parade + Spoon + Daft Punk. In that order. In my living room. We’re going to need to take out some walls and ceilings to fit the pyramid.
P.S. I will settle for Hot Chip + Sleigh Bells + Murphy at MPP!!!
Ratatat + Explosions in the Sky + Radiohead
Godspeed You Black Emperor! / They Might Be Giants / Ween. In that order at Strathmore. (can you imagine that sound!)
Too easy:
Justice + Friendly Fires + Radiohead
The Shauna Trifecta Tour is hard to top, though my Interpol would bring back the original lineup, with The Great Carlos Dengler on bass.
Do all the members still have to be alive and nonfictional? If not, then I’ll take the Ghost of Michael Jackson, Thriller Era; the Beatles, circa Seargant Pepper; and Intergalactic-era Beasties with MCA reincarnated as a raspy-voiced, billygoat-bearded Tibetan monk with sick flow.
Otherwise, I’ll take LCD Soundsystem (b/c I never got to see them while they were kicking it), the original Interpol (whom I also never got to see in original form), and The Cure, whom I’ve also never seen but really, really must.
…at Merriweather Post, for me, you and everyone we know.
Daft Punk – Pharell – James Blake outside. in a public park or something. Crazy day party. please.
While a lovely festival indeed, trifecta means pick three!
Brand New, Fun. and Radiohead. Performing upstairs at the Black Cat.
The Shins + Gotye + Future Islands @ the national mall with millions
Metric/Temper Trap/Cut Copy
my perfect trifecta – Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bright Eyes, and Beach House at some secret rooftop location with a perfect view of DC. Everyone’s invited.
Sounds so FUN! I’d love to make a splash!
A Tribe Called Quest x Daft Punk x Outkast
Seeing as though you swept my end all, be all using Paul Banks as an example..:
Broken Social Scene + Animal Collective + Explosions in the Sky
(with a Thom Yorke/Flying Lotus DJ set, ideally)
Janelle Monae/Gorillaz/LCD Soundsystem Reunion
Daft Punk + Gorillaz + Kate Nash = me in heaven
Azealia Banks / St. Vincent (STAGE DIVING!) / Crystal Castles = covering all the awesome bases
DUM DUM GIRLS + THE DANCE PARTY + SANTIGOLD @ 9:30 club
can i pick a dance party trifecta and a more chilled out/drink a brew on the lawn trifecta?
for the former: azealia banks + lcd soundsystem (reunion!) + robyn
for the latter: avett bros + dirty projectors + lykke li
Whitney Houston + Donna Summer + Chuck Brown = The R.I.P. in 2012 tour @ National Cathedral
Whitney Houston + Donna Summer + Chuck Brown = The R.I.P. in 2012 tour @ National Cathedral
(Whitney has to open cuz of her “antics” )
Crystal Castles / Machinedrum / Simian Mobile Disco
Childish Gambino + Lykke Li + The Weeknd
at the newly renovated Howard Theatre!
Already happened a couple years ago at Sasquatch (I was not in attendance)
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Soooo many acts. Let’s go with Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, and hell, Janelle Monae since she’s a killer opening act. Seen J. Roddy open for both THS and DBT, but it’d be great to see all three on the same bill together. There are probably a ton of others I’m not thinking off.
I would be beyond thrilled to see Die Antwoord, the Offspring and MIA. It’s never gonna happen, but what an awesome, high energy show!!
Joy Division. NIN. Beck.
It would have to be George Clinton, Talking Heads, and DangerMouse/Broken Bells
Satyricon + Cradle of FIlth + Behemoth at 9:30!
Sun Airway + Owl City + Angels and Airwaves – This should be conducted outdoors under a starry sky.
My future space and happy music play list!
Apparat + Nicolas Jaar + Thom Yorke
…At the National Cathedral, followed by DJ sets at U Hall for the after party.
MUSE_THE MARS VOLTA_QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
^[would cause heart-attack]