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Post by wompwomp on Apr 26, 2013 8:01:27 GMT -8
Danny Brown and Sweatshirt were fucking awful at Coachella. Danny Brown might have been the worst thing I saw all weekend.
Killer Mike and Shad are going to be awesome.
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Post by stalkinopossum on Apr 26, 2013 8:16:17 GMT -8
Danny Brown and Sweatshirt were fucking awful at Coachella. Danny Brown might have been the worst thing I saw all weekend. Killer Mike and Shad are going to be awesome. Really?? This is disappointing, I was looking forward to Danny Brown.
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Post by rüstü on Apr 26, 2013 8:17:17 GMT -8
Danny Brown and Sweatshirt were fucking awful at Coachella. Danny Brown might have been the worst thing I saw all weekend. Killer Mike and Shad are going to be awesome. Do you actually like Danny's music though? It'd be hard to imagine liking his live show if the recorded stuff you also don't like. My friend said Danny's set was in his top 5 Coachella sets of the whole weekend. Also, I've heard reports from people who absolutely LOVED Earl's set, so it must've been kind of polarizing.
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Post by polecat on Apr 26, 2013 9:17:41 GMT -8
I thought the footage of Sweatshirt at Coachella was pretty disappointing. It was basically him rapping over his album tracks, lyrics and all. And yelling the lyrics, too - it wasn't really that Earl voice that I know and love. But then again, I've seen many a rap show that turn out that way. I'm still stroked for his Sasquatch set, but I just hope that the Coachella show was better than the footage translated to.
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Post by wompwomp on Apr 26, 2013 9:21:41 GMT -8
Yeah, I dig Danny Brown but he did not translate well live.
I don't much care for Earl and the Odd Future clowns, so that probably had something to do with it. Seeing Tyler run around like an idiot didn't help.
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Post by Professor Pancakes on Apr 26, 2013 9:32:58 GMT -8
Killer Mike and Shad are going to be awesome. Truth. The two hip hop sets I'm most looking forward to. I really, really wish Mike wasn't playing right in the middle of Costello. The award for most unlikely musical decision I've ever had to make in my life goes to...
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Post by Pea on Apr 26, 2013 9:40:05 GMT -8
Honest question. Is there some huge untapped contengent of hip-hop fans in the Northwest that Adam Zacks is trying to appeal to? Sasquatch seems to be the only festival on earth that is expanding the hell out of it's rap lineup each year, but so far it doesn't seem to be yielding any fantastic results. I was more than certain that the Maine Stage experiment would disappear like a fart in the wind.
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Post by rüstü on Apr 26, 2013 9:50:15 GMT -8
Sasquatch has always had an affinity for artists from the NW and it's been a great place to learn about a lot of bands from the area you might not have known were from here or have never heard of at all. I think with the Maine stage Snacks was trying to help make NW hip hop more widely known and expand their reach, which is an awesome thing to do for any community.
As to whether or not it's actually doing anything is a different story. I think the festival would be just as strong if the Maine stage/whatever it's called this year was just not there at all. I only plan on seeing one act at that stage, and I might not even make it to that.
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Post by Cbats on Apr 26, 2013 9:54:34 GMT -8
Don't listen to Womp, Danny Brown is fucking killer live. Maybe he was off at Coachella but he's fucking electric most of the time. Honest question. Is there some huge untapped contengent of hip-hop fans in the Northwest that Adam Snacks is trying to appeal to? Sasquatch seems to be the only festival on earth that is expanding the hell out of it's rap lineup each year, but so far it doesn't seem to be yielding any fantastic results. I was more than certain that the Maine Stage experiment would disappear like a fart in the wind. I wouldn't really compare the Maine stage to adding rap artists with national followings. A bunch of different Coachella write ups talked about how packed every hip hop show was, especially in contrast to how little they had booked this year. I would say the same thing about every rap show that I've seen at Sasquatch. It's certainly a risk to book this many rap acts (all of like 3 non-maine stage acts a day) but it's a good time to do it. As a genre, rap is as strong right now as anything besides maybe EDM.
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Post by Professor Pancakes on Apr 26, 2013 10:02:38 GMT -8
Honest question. Is there some huge untapped contengent of hip-hop fans in the Northwest that Adam Snacks is trying to appeal to? Sasquatch seems to be the only festival on earth that is expanding the hell out of it's rap lineup each year, but so far it doesn't seem to be yielding any fantastic results. I was more than certain that the Maine Stage experiment would disappear like a fart in the wind. If anything, I would say it has been expanding because hip-hop was underrepresented at Sasquatch in the past. As far as the "fantastic results" you're looking for, the show sold out in an hour this year. Whether or not that is related to the more balanced lineup or not is debatable, but it is about the most fantastic result Zacks could have hoped for.
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Post by scough on Apr 26, 2013 10:12:41 GMT -8
Macklemore is the first hip hop headliner since the Beastie Boys way back in 2007 (which naturally was the year before I started going). The genre in general has been very underrepresented up until recently. I'm not a big fan of most of the groups in the genre, but obviously Zacks has found the winning formula to help the festival sell out faster than ever before, and because of that we're likely to see an appropriate representation of hip hop in the future as well. Gone are the days that you could stroll up and get a single day ticket day-of-show like in 2008, I think Monday never even sold out.
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Post by Pea on Apr 26, 2013 10:23:50 GMT -8
Sasquatch sold out in an hour because of Mumford & Sons, The Postal Service, The Lumineers, and Imagine Dragons, and Edward Sharpe. I promise you Nacho Picasso had nothing to do with that.
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Post by scough on Apr 26, 2013 10:48:10 GMT -8
Sasquatch sold out in an hour because of Mumford & Sons, The Postal Service, The Lumineers, and Imagine Dragons, and Edward Sharpe. I promise you Nacho Picasso had nothing to do with that. You're forgetting Macklemore.
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Post by rimjobflashmob on Apr 26, 2013 10:48:21 GMT -8
Honest question. Is there some huge untapped contengent of hip-hop fans in the Northwest that Adam Snacks is trying to appeal to? Sasquatch seems to be the only festival on earth that is expanding the hell out of it's rap lineup each year, but so far it doesn't seem to be yielding any fantastic results. I was more than certain that the Maine Stage experiment would disappear like a fart in the wind. PNW hip hop has always been a big deal, but the Seattle hip hop scene in particular has been getting bigger and bigger for years. Champagne Champagne, Mad Rad, Grieves, Common Market, Blue Scholars, Dyme Def, THEEsatisfaction, Shabazz Palaces, Macklemore... the list goes on. They sell out shows and they're really popular locally. Makes sense to me.
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Post by Cbats on Apr 26, 2013 10:51:01 GMT -8
Wait, you're telling me that this isn't the reason Sasquatch sold out?
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Post by Professor Pancakes on Apr 26, 2013 10:56:31 GMT -8
Sasquatch sold out in an hour because of Mumford & Sons, The Postal Service, The Lumineers, and Imagine Dragons, and Edward Sharpe. I promise you Nacho Picasso had nothing to do with that. Macklemore, Killer Mike, Shad, and P.O.S were major factors in my deciding to go again this year. I had never even heard of The Lumineers, Imagine Dragons, or Edward Sharpe at the time I bought my ticket. My point is no one act sells out an entire festival, but having a more genre balanced lineup is good for everyone.
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Post by Geoff on Apr 26, 2013 10:59:50 GMT -8
I had never even heard of The Lumineers, Imagine Dragons, or Edward Sharpe at the time I bought my ticket. How have you managed to avoid them for so long?
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Post by emptyfox on Apr 26, 2013 11:03:43 GMT -8
YES, WE MUST KNOW YOUR SECRET!
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Post by Professor Pancakes on Apr 26, 2013 11:11:43 GMT -8
I live in the middle of nowhere and I never listen to the radio unless I'm forced to at work. Unfortunately though, he magic is over and I am thoroughly sick of them now because one of my coworkers insists on playing the "Today's Hits" station on Slacker all day at work. Honestly, I'm pretty sure I probably heard The Lumineers and ID before hand, but didn't know who they were until I started my Sasquatch homework.
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Post by polecat on Apr 26, 2013 11:21:00 GMT -8
I had never even heard of The Lumineers, Imagine Dragons, or Edward Sharpe at the time I bought my ticket. How have you managed to avoid them for so long? Truth be told, I'm almost in the same boat. I've known about Edward Sharpe for a few years, but only heard about Imagine Dragons when the name popped up over here. And I refuse to listen to them on the grounds that the biggest douche canoe I know, who has absolutely atrocious taste in music, has repeatedly told me that they're amazing. I realize how obtuse that sounds, but it's a personal thing. And as for the Lumineers... I'm being totally serious here... I thought that the "Hey Ho" song was by Phillip Phillips. Or possibly Mumford. I just didn't care; to me it's just something that gets softly played everyday on the pandora station that my office's secretary listens to. Do they have other songs?
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