Special Virgin Fest Edition of Any Given Tuesday: Interview with Ben Kenney of Incubus!

You all know that Virgin Festival is this weekend (Saturday and Sunday). Now, I have a special surprise for all my loyal readers and listeners: a special interview with Ben Kenney of Incubus! And the fun doesn't stop there. Stay tuned after the fest, but for now . . .

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Virgin Festival Stage-by-Stage Schedule

For those who have those uber-expensive tickets to Virgin Festival (anyone? anyone?), the stage-by-stage timetable and lineup is available.

I wasn't planning on going to Virgin Fest at all, not because I was turned off by the lineup but the price, but I will be there for at least one day and will have a special report coming up for you, dear readers. Stay tuned!

Has anyone else noticed that billboards and ads abound for the fest? Looks like ticket sales are a bit lackluster. Hint to organizers: it's too expensive!

Virgin Fest Goes Green; Get Free Tickets

Like a lot of concerts and festivals this summer, Virgin Fest is going green in Baltimore. Festival-goers are being encouraged to help eliminate trash by bringing a bottle of water and using the 'filling stations' to refill that bottle. The festival organizers are using compostable plates, cups, even the trash bags. And, as is becoming the vogue thing to do, Virgin will practice carbon offsetting. I, for one, didn't know the phrase 'carbon footprint' before An Inconvenient Truth.

To add the icing to the eco-friendly cake, if you volunteer to help clean up, you can go to Virgin Festival free of charge.

Virgin Festival Baltimore 2007: LINEUP

The lineup for Virgin Festival at Pimlico Race Course on August 4 & 5 in Baltimore is official:

August4:

The Police
Modest Mouse
Peter Bjorn & John
Sasha & Digweed
The Fratellis
Danny Tenaglia
Incubus
Amy Winehouse
LCD Soundsystem
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
TV On The Radio
Sander Van Doorn
Beastie Boys
Shout Out Out Out Out
Cheap Trick
Felix da House Cat
Paolo Nutini
Booka Shade
Miguel Migs
Fountains of Wayne
Fiction Plane

August 5:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Crystal Method
Bad Brains
Deep Dish
Velvet Revolver
Regina Spektor
311
The Smashing Pumpkins
Spoon
Wu-Tang Clan
Dieselboy & Andy C
M.I.A.
Infected Mushroom
Interpol
Girl Talk
CSS
Chris Cornell
Matisyahu
James Zabiela

Tickets go on sale May 5 at 10AM.

Virgin Festival 2007 Back In Baltimore

The US Virgin Festival will take place August 4-5, 2007, right here in Baltimore, MD, again! As last year, the event will be at Pimlico Race Course.

Confirmed to play are The Police, Beastie Boys, and Smashing Pumpkins. I'm also predicting a Sutherland Brothers & Quiver comeback full on with Tim Renwick, along with Tupac pulling off a collab with Biggie, but I'm dreaming.

The best news about this so far is that the festival is expanding to two days. More acts, as well as the ticket on-sale date, are TBA.

Last years Virgin Festival at Pimlico was one day, had twenty bands, and 45,000 fans showed up.

I.M.F., a company formed by the principals of I.M.P., owners of DC's 9:30 Club, are handling promotions and plan to "[put] together the lineup that will just be A-list from start to finish, on both stages and in the dance tent."

Even Mayor Sheila Dixon got in on the Festival fever, saying "On behalf of the City of Baltimore, I'd like to say thank you to Mr. Branson and Virgin for bringing this world class event back to our city. We are excited and proud to, once again, host the Virgin Festival By Virgin Mobile and some of the music industry's biggest talent."

Bjork 2007 North American Tour Dates

Bjork has a fair number of upcoming tour dates, including (as you all know by now) Coachella and Sasquatch Music Festival. Here is a list of the dates, including a trio in New York:

04-01 Reykjavik, Iceland - Forma @ Nasa
04-27 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella)
05-02 New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
05-05 New York, NY - United Palace Theater
05-08 New York, NY - Apollo Theater
05-12 Chicago, IL - Auditorium Theatre
05-15 Denver, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
05-19 San Francisco, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
05-23 Vancouver, British Columbia - Deer Lake Park
05-26 Gorge, WA - Gorge Amphitheatre (Sasquatch!)
06-22 Pilton, England - Glastonbury Festival
06-28 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter
07-01 Gdynia, Poland - Open'er Festival
07-05 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-25 Nyon, Switzerland - Paleo Festival
09-08 Toronto, Ontario - Virgin Festival