Saturday, June 28, 2008

Contests:: Win 2 passes to Evolve 2008 (!!!, Man Man, Battles)

Festival Web site

I'm actually not sure how this festival got such terrific acts, but Evolve 2008 is fixing to be like a scaled down, East Coast version of the Pitchfork Festival. Somehow, the hard working organizers got !!!, Man Man, Battles, Mark Farina to agree to show up in Antigonish and play in a field in the middle of Nova Scotia, and then sweetened the pot by getting a lot of East Coast talent to fill out the bill.

Not only do you get to see some huge International acts, probably more importantly you get a heavy dose of Canadian indie rockers (at least for my enjoyment level) like Two Hours Traffic, Brent Randall, Rebekah Higgs, Skratch Bastid, Hey Rosetta! and our good friend DJ Bones will all be there having fun. Don't you think you should be too?

All you have to do is drop us an email or a comment, and you can snag a Festival pass that is good for the whole kit and kaboodle. We will be taking entries until July 14th.

The festival runs for three days - July 25,26, & 27th - and should be a pretty amazing time. Just peep the lineup:

!!! / DJ Mark Farina / Battles / DJ Falcon / Man Man / Benevento - Russo Duo / That 1 Guy / MO7S/ Slowcoaster / Sonny D / Skratch Bastid / Jay Hamilton / Jimmy Swift Band / Steve Nurse / Grand Theft Bus / Nick Nonsense & Aaron Collier / Two Hours Traffic / DJ Atmosphere / Hey Rosetta! / Mizz Maxine / DJ Bones / Rebekah Higgs / Lee Fraser / De Lano / Scientists of Sound / Sleepless Nights / Tomcat Combat / Brent Randall and his Pinecones / Gratefully Deadicated Sound System / Chameleon Project / Logan Hudak / Share / Soundsyster / Isis / The Superfantastics / Tommy Knuckles / Christina Martin / Eclectic Heat / DVD / Steve The Viking / Kim Wempe / Brian Talbot / DJ Dono

MP3::

Man Man - Hurly Burly
Two Hours Traffic - Better Safe than Sorry (live @ the Horseshoe)
Battles - Race In

Posted at 8:53 AM by ack :: 9 comments

At 10:40 AM, marc xavier leblanc (aka bones) did sayeth:

thanks for the mention in your post. yeah they seem to have got a cool lineup this year. should be fun.

At 2:44 PM, Jerry Boudreau did sayeth:

this will be my 5th year going
and nothing would make it better then getting a couple free tickets

but in all seriousness , jonas and the evolve tribe have done such a wonderfull job year after year , these guys/gals rule !!!

thanks for putting something like this on in the maritimes

At 2:53 PM, Meghan Lanteigne did sayeth:

I have yet to experience this festival, and would love to attend and especially see Battles perform. I also really enjoy the Halifax acts on the bill. It would make my Summer if I could get to go to this festival : )

the.asparagus@gmail.com

At 3:25 PM, Shawn did sayeth:

I haven't been to Evolve since 2005. But this year's line up is crazy. Man Man's Rabbit Habits is one of my favourite albums of the year. !!! will be crazy too. If only I could afford it. shawnp902@gmail.com

pz out folks

At 3:58 PM, Andrew Robinson did sayeth:

Battles' plane better not crash.

Andrew%$#^%$&#^!

At 10:38 PM, Dwaine Dixon did sayeth:

Been on the fence about going the last few years (never been) but the organizers have put together a really dynamite lineup. Suffice it to say, I have booked that weekend off work. Cell phone bill can wait til next month.

cheers,
dwainedixon@hotmail.com

At 4:16 PM, Tj Peters did sayeth:

I haven't made it out to evolve since '06 and I always had a blast, I have a few friends going this year it would be wicked to surprise them and say I'm coming too

tj_peters20@hotmail.com

At 4:15 PM, Tj Peters did sayeth:

I haven't made it out to evolve since '06 and I always had a blast. I have a few friends going this year, it would be wicked to surprise them and say I'm coming too

At 9:41 AM, Anonymous did sayeth:

Would love to check out Evolve this year, I've never been. Cheers.

jbrchrd@mta.ca