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"the reason for not posting any rumors is that it's cool to know things and not post them but post about knowing them."

3/26/2012 10:47:04 PM

i can't tell if you're agreeing with me or berating my attempt at constructing a sentence

3/26/2012 10:52:07 PM

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"vinylbandit All American 43162 Posts user info edit post let's say it's still on the table, but someone says something about it and it becomes public knowledge and the band decides they're definitely not doing it since it's out in the open that would be a big deal when we found out about the archers of loaf show, it was made very clear to us that if it became general public knowledge, they'd cancel granted, pretty much everyone knew by the time the show rolled around, but no one said it explicitly until the day before, and even that was in slightly cryptic tweets by locals 3/9/2011 8:04:45 PM"

this applies to this year

(I know absolutely nothing about any bookings)

3/26/2012 11:00:49 PM

Sebadoh/Lou Barlow, or the Frogs or some other matador/merge band mid-level nobody's heard from in 18 years more than likely...


Aka let them eat cake; who really gives much of a fuck? Ps, it is pretty damned pretentious. Take Bonaroo, Moog, Coachella, etc and people know plenty about the lineups. Don't think that's why little dragon or yacht or glassed cancelled last year tho...

[Edited on March 26, 2012 at 11:10 PM. Reason : K]

3/26/2012 11:08:43 PM

if the flaming lips had backed out last year because someone leaked the booking rumor onto brentroad.com then whoever leaked it would have done everyone a huge fucking favor.

although that scenario actually happening is completely absurd.

3/26/2012 11:10:22 PM

hindsight being 20/20, of course

booking the Flaming Lips was a big deal and nobody expected their set to suck

3/26/2012 11:11:48 PM

Lol @ Archers canceling that show when they've booked 532478 shows since then, having their catalogue repressed by Merge and oh yeah, Crooked Fingers. Lol indeed. I guess that one dude we talked to ghat came from TN woulda been pissed...

3/26/2012 11:24:54 PM

^^I expected it to be a normal flaming lips performance which I guess it was. I just hated it more than when I saw more or less the same one 5 years ago. But that's beside the point.

i'm not arguing in favor of sieve-like leakage, I'm not clamoring to know who it is, but "I know but I'm not telling" just gets old.

3/26/2012 11:36:25 PM

oh man it's TOTALLY going to blow your minds

3/26/2012 11:47:02 PM

3/26/2012 11:49:10 PM

Anyone weaseled their way into Raleigh's Upper Crust yet? It'd be nice to know these things before they become public knowledge, if for no other reason than to annoy people on TWW.

3/27/2012 12:16:27 AM

that Flaming Lips show at Disco Rodeo a few years ago was pretty good. they played way more songs and way less bullshit existentialist rants and CMONMOTHERFUCKERS.

did anyone even watch their set at Moogfest? I can't imagine that it was good

3/27/2012 12:19:44 AM

Moogfest also was, apparently, a lot of the same and CMONMOTHERFUCKERS

I did not see it, but people who went to both Hopscotch and Moogfest said it was similar

That being said I still had a fucking fantastic time at the Lips show last year.

3/27/2012 12:28:06 AM

it ruled for the first ten minutes when I thought I was in the middle of A Moment

but after that?

I've never been as exhausted and in need of spark and gotten the exact opposite

it was a complete snoozer of a set

3/27/2012 1:04:33 AM

i'd pay $200 to see the frogs play a show on fayetteville st.

3/27/2012 2:14:46 AM

So basically you guys keep bumping this for no real reason

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

3/27/2012 5:30:06 AM

I'd be down with Lee or Thurston.

3/27/2012 8:34:25 AM

Considering I have to go to a wedding in Pittsburgh during Hopscotch this year, you guys are in for a fucking treat. No doubt it'll be incredible since I can't go.

3/27/2012 8:43:48 AM

oh great, it's Widespread.

3/27/2012 9:49:43 AM

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" can't tell if you're agreeing with me or berating my attempt at constructing a sentence"

agreeing. i liked the way you worded it actually, haha

3/27/2012 10:04:23 AM

Its analagous to a 4 year old in a sing-song voice going "I know a seecreettt"

I'm Krallum and I approved this message

3/27/2012 11:18:35 AM

sunn o))), ladies and gentleman. sunn o))).

Now they need !!!, ...and you will know us by the trail of dead, tUnE-yArDs, , etc.

[Edited on March 27, 2012 at 11:33 AM. Reason : d]

3/27/2012 11:27:10 AM

lulz

3/27/2012 11:31:59 AM

in case you weren't satisfied by Earth playing 30 minute long ambient noise songs in King's last year...

3/27/2012 11:39:53 AM

I mean, I like sunn o))), but I don't want to see that kind of thing when I'm trying to have fun at a festival.

3/27/2012 11:44:34 AM

Fuck yeah.

3/27/2012 11:45:07 AM

Can't wait for people to start pretending like they're excited about this news.

3/27/2012 11:47:43 AM

^hahahahaha

I was thinking what if the festival is nothing but stuff like this and a bunch of local bands. Biggest troll ever on the pre-lineup sales.

3/27/2012 11:52:50 AM

yeah, boo

bring on the p4k acts already

3/27/2012 12:09:58 PM

From a marketing perspective, I also don't understand having the first announcement two years in a row be a challenging niche band.

3/27/2012 12:17:48 PM

What was last year's first?

3/27/2012 12:21:56 PM

I'm glad Sunn O)))) is playing. I have some pants that need to be pressed.

3/27/2012 12:22:50 PM

^^ Swans

3/27/2012 12:24:21 PM

too many )'s, bro.

3/27/2012 12:27:13 PM

Nah, they changed it when they bought more amps. Kinda like when Godspeed moved the exclamation point.

3/27/2012 12:29:19 PM

Anybody else going to the ( ) girls this Friday?

3/27/2012 12:30:59 PM

could have just booked The Hem of His Garment for way cheaper

(a joke 3 people will get)

3/27/2012 12:33:23 PM

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"did anyone even watch their set at Moogfest? I can't imagine that it was good"

Friend and I went through when they were going on, and was able to catch a "C'mon Motherfucker" and both started laughing. It was most likely the same show as Hopscotch and at the Charlotte show a couple months prior to Hopscotch. The dude that drew that sticker I posted a while back is from Charlotte and that show is probably where the idea from the sticker came from...

EDIT: Just realized Wayne Coyne was on Mellow Gold:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybRdZeKgffE

[Edited on March 27, 2012 at 12:44 PM. Reason : d]

3/27/2012 12:38:28 PM

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"bring on the p4k acts already "

p4k loves Sunn O)))

3/27/2012 3:33:16 PM

Standing around listening to one note for 30 minutes and expecting people not to talk...what's not to love?

3/27/2012 3:36:03 PM

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"could have just booked The Hem of His Garment for way cheaper"

ZING!

3/27/2012 3:47:34 PM

Not sure who was talking about Hot Chip, but they will be in the UK during Hopscotch.

Grizzly Bear I'm still banking on being one of the bigger acts to play the festival. They have an album coming out really soon.

3/27/2012 3:51:49 PM

I want Boris

3/27/2012 4:05:32 PM

I know that they wanted to focus on getting more electronic acts this year. or at least this is what I was told.

3/27/2012 4:19:03 PM

You can't discount everybody from that Festival, really, but I wouldn't imagine them going from Ireland to here to the UK in just several days...

3/27/2012 4:32:05 PM

Meh, a band I don't care about, but I'll be patient.

3/27/2012 11:33:02 PM

Confirmed Lineup:

Mountain Goats
Samantha Crain
Sunn O)))
Young and in the Way
Stephen Malkmus

Sure I can find more if I spent more time with simple searches. There's probably also a website out there to blow it up with...

[Edited on March 28, 2012 at 12:26 PM. Reason : k]

3/28/2012 12:12:59 PM

^I saw the others, but where did you see Malkmus? God, I sure hope he isn't one of the two main headliners.

[Edited on March 28, 2012 at 1:17 PM. Reason : g]

3/28/2012 1:16:35 PM

Malkmus I actually heard through a pretty reliable source. I thought that's who people were talking about. Would seriously doubt he'd be a headliner. Pretty sure he'd play Hopscotch Willie, though...

[Edited on March 28, 2012 at 1:42 PM. Reason : k]

3/28/2012 1:36:14 PM

Could've been who vinylbandit was talking about. I don't know because I haven't heard a thing other than seeing those four names on various websites.

3/28/2012 1:41:46 PM