Bonnaroo 2013 Lineup

    So here I am announcing the lineup for this year's Bonnaroo Music& Arts Festival, another huge Festival that I have no possibility in attending…but some of you might so I'll go through this massive list of performers and select the acts that I would watch if I was going. I've never seen him so I'd add Paul McCartney to the list, also I've never had the chance (or $) to see Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers live so I'd stick around for him. The rest would be as follows… Björk, Wilco, Nas, Tame Impala, Billy Idol, Matt & Kim, Swans, Four Tet, Calexico, Japandroids, Death Grips, Jeff The Brotherhood, The National , Father John Misty.

    So if you are driving down to Great Stage Park, Manchester, Tennessee (it's only a 13 hr & 28 min journey) and you have an extra ticket and some space in your car I'll be more than happy to go for the ride.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

Coachella 2013 Lineup Announced

    The lineup for this year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival has been announced, some of the bands playing over the two weekends are: The Stone Roses, Blur, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wu-Tang Clan, New Order, Japandroids, Spiritualized, Dinosaur Jr, Grimes plus many many more. I'm afraid that the rumors about offers from the organizers to make the festival all-vegetarian to entice the Smiths to reunite was just a rumor, the closet you will get is seeing Johnny Marr live.

   The festival takes place over two weekends, April 12th-14th and 19th-21st, at Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, California.

You can purchase your passes here.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

2012 Polaris Prize Shortlist

 The 2012 Polaris Prize shortlist was announced today in Toronto, the following is a list of the bands on the list and a video off of each of the nominated albums…I'll let you make up your own mind…I already know who I want to win.....I also now have Oblivion by Grimes stuck in my head....thanks Claire

Drake-"Headlines" from the album Take Care




Handsome Furs - "Serve the People" from the album Sound Kapital




Cadence Weapon – "Conditioning" From the album Hope In Dirt City (Upper Class Recordings)






Cold Specks - "Blank Maps" from the album I Predict A Graceful Expulsion




Kathleen Edwards-"Change The Sheets" from the album Voyageur




Feist - "How Come You Never Go There" from the album Metals




Fucked Up - "The Other Shoe" from the album David Comes To Life




Grimes – "Oblivion" from the album Visions




Japandroids – "The Nights Of Wine and Roses" from the album Celebration Rock





Yamantaka // Sonic Titan- "Hoshi Neko" from the album 
YT//ST…(This album was Limited to 500 copies on white vinyl and 1000 copies on CD) 

If these awards do anything they get some lesser known acts names out there and some really good music that might normally be missed is enjoyed. 

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS