Alumni Band Music Download

Shuffle diplomacy 2011

The annual summer diaspora – when friend groups are torn apart, the heat and humidity get worse than Gallettes on a Friday night, and many of us are forced to prostitute our ethics in far-flung corners of the world for a pitiful wad of cash – is nearing the end of its third grueling month.  As I sit here at my desk in Birmingham on a Tuesday morning, consuming cup after cup of bad break room coffee and making excruciating small talk with my corporate shill coworkers, my thoughts are inevitably drawn to my final return to the Capstone.

Like most University of Alabama students flung around the state and the nation this summer, I am looking forward longingly to the marquee event of the fall semester.  As students begin return to campus a few short weeks from now, a national title winner will take the stage in Tuscaloosa, cheered on by thousands of screaming fans, some of them lifelong diehards and some of them watching for the very first time.  Two talented superstars supported by a team of solid playmakers will delight, thrill and entertain us with their collective prowess.

That’s right: Grammy Award-winning band Steely Dan is scheduled to perform at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater.

The self-proclaimed “jazz-rock ambassadors to the galaxy” will be landing in our very own T-Town on Aug. 20, bestowing upon us happy few, us band of concert-goers, the tripartite blessings of super groovy sounds, way cool beats and really smooth music.

Now, I’m well aware that perhaps a dozen or maybe even more of you do not share my undying devotion to The Dan, and other shows taking place at the amphitheater – My Morning Jacket, Widespread Panic (bro!) and Pretty Lights, among others, may make watching the finest two musicians ever produced by New York City a relatively low priority; but allow me a moment to change your mind.

Pretty Lights and Widespread Panic are perennial players on the Alabama (and indeed the Tuscaloosa) music scene; the average bro is afforded dozens of opportunities to grind it out with Pretty Lights or sway in a substance-induced haze with Panic in a given year; Steely Dan comes to this state once every never.

FEST 10 announces more bands, Free download comp, and pre-FEST ...

THE FEST 10 recently announced more confirmations on their website for their big 10 year anniversary of their annual multiple day, multiple venue party down in Gainesville, Florida.

Added to the massive roster of bands will be onikers, Kyle Kinane, The Emotron, The Forthrights, Scum of the Earth, Worlds, Rivernecks, Alligator, Mouthbreather, John-Micheal Bond, Billy Wallace, Greys (Canada), Pujol, Kite Party, Teenage Softies, Wet Witch, The Fucking Wrath, Arms Aloft, Despite Everything (Greece), the Ex-Boogeymen, Over Stars and Gutters, Unfun (Canada), Liquid Limbs, Nato Cole and the Blue Diamond Band, Sister Kisser, Dig It Up (Canada), Luke Fields, Chicken Little, Charles the Ospery, Nightmares For A Week, Hold Tight, Vena Cava, Timeshares, Rose Cross, Post Teens, Nightlights, Douglas Shields and the X-Factors, Saint Alvia, Die Hoffnung, Chotto Ghetto, Sister Kisser, Evan Rocha, Luther, Party Drag, International Dipshit, Young///Savage, Kevin Seconds, Mauser, Wavelets and  Creepiod.

You can read below for a complete list of bands performing including Hot Water Music, Against Me, Less Than Jake, Bouncing Souls, Lifetime, Dillinger Four, Samiam, Youth Brigade and many many more.

The festival will take place Oct 28,29,30 of 2011 . Weekend passes are currently SOLD OUT but organizers are trying to find more venues willing to participate so they can open more weekend passes up for sale.

FEST 10 also launched a Bandcamp page where anyone can grab a free downloadable comp featuring some of the artists performing. This will be the first of a 6 comp series being released over the weeks leading up to the festival. You can go here to download.

Even though the FEST is SOLD OUT organizers have been working with bands and local venues to help organize two PRE-FEST shows to happen on Thursday Oct 27 .

Bands performing incluide Cobra Skulls, Nothington, Banner Pilot, Worn in Red, Bridge & Tunnel, Moutherbreather, Spanish Gamble, O’ Pionerrs, Shores, Caves, Pure Graft, Landmines, and Fellowship Project. There are also two TBA “Special Guests” to be added at a later date.

Head to the FEST 10 website for venue and ticket information.

Bands confirmed so far include Hot Water Music, Against Me!, Less Than Jake, Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Touring Company, Samiam, Ted Leo + The Pharmacists, Defiance Ohio, Franz Nicolay, Lifetime, Bouncing Souls, Youth Brigade, Dillinger Four, Smoke or Fire,  None More Black, Paint it Black, Small Brown Bike, Dead to Me, Teenage Bottlerocket, Toys That Kill, Lemuria, Tim Barry, A Wilhelm Scream, Polar Bear Club, Circle Takes The Square, Off With Their Heads, The Holy Mountain, Cobra Skulls, Magrudergrind, Bomb The Music Industry, No Trigger, P.S. Elliot, Trap Them,  Dear Landlord, Underground Railroad to Candyland, The Menzingers, The Copyrights, Broadway Calls, La Dispute, Fake Problems, The Soviettes, Cheap Girls, Ninja Gun, Nothington, Good Luck, Shook Ones, Paul Baribeau , The Arrivals,  Banner Pilot, RIVIVR, Static Radio, Rehasher, Armalite, Screaming Females, Coliseum, The Swellers,  Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves, We Are The Union, Grabass Charlestons, Iron Chic, Mikey Erg,  Ampere, Worn in Red, The Measure (sa) [FINAL SHOW], Burning Love (Canada), Tiltwheel, Bridge and Tunnel,  Dan Padilla, Blacklist Royals, The Snips (Canada), The Brokedowns,  The Bomb, The Catalyst, Algernon Cadwallader, Red City Radio, New Bruises, Shores, Future Virgnis, The Riot Before, Make Do and Mend, We Were Skeletons, Pianos Become Teeth, The Flatliners (Canada), Young Turks, Campaign, OK Pilot (UK), Look Mexico, Dirty Tactics, The Dopamines, The Arteries (UK), Bent Left, SSSSNAKES(UK), How Dare You, Comadre, Grown Ups, Such Gold, Tigers Jaw, Touché Amoré, The Great Explainer, PJ Bond, Carpenter (Canada), Annabel, One Win Choice, Amateur Party, Cynics (UK), Sexy Crimes, Greenland is Melting, Spanish Gamble, Captain We’re Sinking, Senders, O Pioneers! Pure Graft (UK), Caves (UK), Mixtapes, Vultures United, Living With Lions (Canada), Mose Giganticus Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, Whiskey & Co., Protagonist, Dukes of Hillsborough, Max Levine Ensemble, Big Eyes, No Friends, Failure’s Union, 1994!, Landmines, Heartsounds, After the Fall, Cletus, Coffee Project, Savage Brewtality, King Friday, Fellow Project, Gateway District, Worthwhile Way (Japan), Calvinball (UK), Leagues Apart (UK), Glocca Morra (Canada), Slow Death, The Anchor, Punch, Goddamn Doo Wop Band, , Banquets, Old Man Markley, Red Collar, Weak Teeth, Deep Sleep, No More, Reverse the Curse, Assassinate the Scientist, Army of Ponch, Naïve, Capsule, Jeff Rowe, Koji, Go Rydell, Pine Hill Haints, A Great Big Pile of Leaves, Former Thieves, Elway, The Wild, Pygmy Lush,  Too Many Daves, Joey Briggs. City of Ships, INxSANE (Slovenia), Spraynard, Vacation Bible School, …and many more alumni to come!!!