So Sunday, the last and most exciting day of the festival is also calling for thunderstorms and 20mm of rain. When have mudfights and soggy clothing ever slowed concert goers down before?
Here’s who I will be checking out Sunday, as they are far more important to name than others.
1) Doe Paoro – Playing the earliest slot, this girl’s talent promises that she will be a headliner in no time.
2) Zola Jesus – Not much needs to be said about her, gothy, ethereal, beautiful voice.
3) Aloe Blacc – Rocketed to popularity when his song was used as the title sequence for the now defunct How To Make It In America (RIP)
4) The Airborne Toxic Event- Heard them on a show that will remain nameless (guilty pleasure), interested to see what their live show holds.
5) Tame Impala – I describe them as genre and decade bending psychedelic 60s indie… How could you miss that.
6) Austra – While I despised Katie Stelmanis as an outfit, Austra is smooth danceable electronic, Paper Bag Records newest success.
7) Santigold – Not much needs to be said about her. Always brings it, great stage presence and her song featuring Karen O is one of the best on the new album.
8) The Shins – Stoked to cross these guys off the bucketlist. Mercer’s voice sounds impeccably clear on all live videos I’ve watched.
9) Buraka Som Sistema – My go to exercise album at the gym. African based EDM trumps dubstep any day.
10) Bloc Party – Kele! Yes! Excited to see these guys back together. Sunday promises to be a day of dancing.
11) The Black Angels – Listening to these guys is like traveling back to the 70’s. It’s grungy, dirty psychedelic. I also heard they killed it at Lee’s Palace their last tour.
12) M83 – In torrential downpour, lightning and whatever else that day will throw at us, I will fight tooth and nail to get to the front at their set. M83 created one of the best albums of the year and the best way to describe their sound is “cinematic”, and “epic”.
Notables: Zeus, Common, Black Keys, Dan Mangan, Metric.