Another year, another BFD! It was the least exciting lineup in years since I had heard of very few of the Festival Stage bands, but I was looking forward to making new discoveries. My companions this year were Jamie, Rick, and Cortney! Follow along in pictures!

Bonnie + The Bang Bang: The lead singer wore a funny hat, and they had handclaps and a ( Read more... )

I've been a Hey Ocean! fan since November 2008. The bassist is my friend's brother, and she convinced me to come see them, and I had a great time, despite getting vodka in my hair (you should read that post). Do I get to claim some sort of superiority for loving them before the bronies discovered them? Because I do.

I could copy and paste ( Read more... )

Since I don't listen to Live105 anymore, BFD is where I hear the bands they've been playing! This year, my companion was Tavis (and, briefly, paraleipsis). Follow along in pictures!

I the Mighty: For the first time, we made the very first band at 11:30! And they were just plain okay, nothing special. B

Imagine Dragons: Tavis and I agreed they had an awesome ( Read more... )

Even though it was the least exciting BFD lineup in years, Rick and I were still excited to hear lots of music. AND IT DID NOT EVEN RAIN.

Young the Giant: Our favorite Indian-Persian-British-French-Canadian band! Is it wrong to like a band a little more because they're multicultural? I only knew "My Body," but their radio-friendly single was ( Read more... )

Last Saturday, I saw Green Day at Shoreline, and it was an amazingly awesome show. Bigger and better than when I saw them last year! Especially since this time I actually knew the songs from 21st Century Breakdown. Billie Joe does still love asking the audience to repeat, "Heeeeeey-ooooooooh," thirty thousand times, but he varied the call-and- ( Read more... )

Thursday morning, I wake around 6:30 but don't crawl out of bed until 7:30. I try not to wake anyone as I shower and sneak out for breakfast. I check out the nearby Broken Yolk, but it looks too expensive to eat at alone. So I walk to the Cheese Shop, recommended to me by Cat, who grew up in San Diego. The prices are actually kind of similar, but ( Read more... )

I will have epic posts with pictures next month, but I'm not even done writing down notes to refresh my mind grapes! I'm sure you all want to know how totally awesome Comic-Con was, though, so here goes. Even though I will totally be ruining any suspense and surprise in the longer story, as told.

I totally met taraljc and heard her unplaceable accent. We ( Read more... )

This year, I won free tickets to BFD! I repeatedly texted while driving (traffic was slow!!) and then I got a victory text that said they would call me and then they didn't so I e-mailed Menace and he said he would call me and then he didn't so I e-mailed him more and I sent him a picture of my text message to prove I actually won and then he ( Read more... )

Back in The Day, as we like to call it, my friend Alanna introduced me to Rose Polenzani. I was not really into her at first, but then a couple years later, thanks to my friend Steph, I grew into my female singer-songwriter phase and became a huge fan and bought all her CDs and saw her when she came to Ann Arbor in 2004. I have since grown out of ( Read more... )

A couple months ago at the AMWA conference in Dallas, I made a couple friends nom de plumed Jimmy Pop and Pogo. We had similar musical tastes, and Jimmy Pop even remarked that he really wanted to see Muse live, as I did. So when I discovered that they were headlining Not So Silent Night, we were on those tickets like brown on rice. Rick (ellric) was also ( Read more... )