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lawrence.com Guide to Wakarusa music and camping festival 2008

Wakarusa 2008 + + + + + + + on http://mobile.lawrence.com/ Full show schedule | Event reminders via text messaging Thursday : 6/5/2008 Friday : 6/6/2008 Sun Down Revival Sun Down Revival Sun Up Stage The Porch Prairie Stage Sun Up Stage The Porch Prairie Stage Stage Tent Stage Tent

10:00 10:00 am That Damn Sasquatch (10:00 - 11:00)

11:00 am 11:00 am Poor Miner's Union Potcheen Folk Band Noon (11:30 - 12:30) Noon Star Death (11:30 - 12:30) Fatty Lumpkin & the White Dwarfs Family Groove Company (12:00 - 1:00) (12:00 - 1:00) HipHopotamus (12:00 - 12:45) Rich Berry (12:30 - 1:30) (12:30 - 1:30) 1:00 pm Shady Lane String Band 1:00 pm Apollo Sunshine Mr. Baber’s Neighbors (1:00 - 2:00) (1:15 - 2:00) (1:00 - 2:00) Big Smith South Austin Jug Band PAW Trombone Shorty (1:30 - 2:30) (1:30 - 2:30) 2:00 pm (1:30 - 2:30) Archetype 2:00 pm (1:30 - 2:30) Billy the Squirrel (2:00 - 3:00) (2:00 - 3:00) Head for the Hills Mountain of Venus PAW 3:00 pm Truckstop (2:30 - 3:30) 3:00 pm (2:30 - 3:30) (2:30 - 3:45) Del Tha Funky Dynamites Honeymoon (3:00 - 4:00) Donna the Buffalo (3:00 - 4:00) (3:00 - 4:15) Turbine Homosapien Grimy Styles (3:00 - 4:15) 4:00 pm (3:30 - 4:30) Uncle Monk 4:00 pm (3:30 - 4:30) Whitewater Ramble (4:00 - 5:00) Robert Bradley’s (4:00 - 5:00) Robert Bradley’s Apollo Sunshine (4:15 - 5:30) Blackalicious Blackwater Surprise 5:00 pm (4:30 - 5:30) 5:00 pm (4:30 - 5:30) Blackwater Surprise Papa Mali (4:45 - 6:00) Home (4:45 - 6:00) (5:00 - 6:00) Deadman Flats (5:00 - 6:00) DeWayn Brothers 6:00 pm (5:30 - 6:30) 6:00 pm (5:30 - 6:30) Trombone Shorty Buckethead Delta Nove The Station Hunab (6:00 - 7:15) (6:00 - 7:15) Arrested (6:00 - 7:15) 7:00 pm (6:30 - 7:30) 7:00 pm (6:30 - 7:30) (6:30 - 7:45) Brent Berry Band Development Calamity Cubes (7:00 - 8:00) (6:30 - 8:00) (7:00 - 8:00) Bettye LaVette Pete Francis 8:00 pm 8:00 pm (7:45 - 9:00) Dirtfoot Cake (7:45 - 8:45) Wisebird Steel Train (8:00 - 9:00) (7:45 - 9:15) Panjea (8:00 - 9:00) (8:15 - 9:30) (8:30 - 9:45) 9:00 pm 9:00 pm Limbeck Donna the Buffalo BUMP (9:15 - 10:15) Grazgrove 10:00 pm (9:30 - 10:30) (9:30 - 10:30) 10:00 pm (9:30 - 10:30) Buckethead New Monsoon Flaming Lips (10:00 - 11:30) (10:15 - 11:30) Heavy Pets 11:00 pm 11:00 pm (10:00 - 12:00) Back Door Slam Cosmopolitics (10:45 - 11:45) Prism (11:00 - 12:00) (11:00 - 12:00) (11:00 - 12:00)

Midnight Midnight Lotus Galactic (midnight - 1:30) Everyone Macpodz (midnight - 1:30) Ozric Tentacles Oakhurst 1:00 am Orchestra (12:30 - 1:30) 1:00 am (12:15 - 1:45) (12:30 - 1:30) (12:30 - 2:00)

2:00 am Heavy Pets 2:00 am Madahoochi (2:00 - 3:00) Everyone (2:00 - 3:00) DVJ Mike Relm Orchestra EOTO 3:00 am (2:00 - 4:00) Future Rock 3:00 am (2:15 - 4:00) (2:30 - 4:00) (2:00 - 4:00)

Saturday : 6/7/2008 Sunday : 6/8/2008 Sun Down Revival Sun Down Revival Sun Up Stage The Porch Prairie Stage Sun Up Stage The Porch Prairie Stage Stage Tent Stage Tent

10:00 am Sustainability Town 10:00 am Hall Meeting Heebie Jeebies (10:00 - 11:00) (10:00 - 11:00) 11:00 am 11:00 am Drum Circle Galapagos (11:00 - 12:00) Jenny Arnau Jervis Jort (11:30 - 12:30) (11:30 - 12:15) (11:30 - 12:30) Noon Cooper’s Orbit Afrobeat Project Noon Dr. Dog Truckstop Honeymoon (12:00 - 12:50) (12:00 - 12:45) Pete Francis (12:00 - 12:45) Robots vs. Dinosaurs (12:00 - 12:45) Hayes Carll Tech Tonic 1:00 pm (12:30 - 1:30) (12:30 - 1:30) Garrett Nordstrom 1:00 pm (12:45 - 1:30) (12:30 - 1:30) Ryan Bingham Giant Panda Situation Ivan Neville’s Yard Dog’s Jah Roots (1:15 - 2:00) Guerilla Dub (1:00 - 2:00) Dumpstaphunk Road Show (1:00 - 2:00) (1:20 - 2:10) (1:15 - 2:15) (1:15 - 2:30) 2:00 pm State Radio HRAT Fashion Show 2:00 pm Ryan Bingham SLM (2:00 - 3:00) (2:00 - 3:00) (2:00 - 3:00) (2:00 - 3:00) The Gourds Great American Taxi Sam & the Stylees (2:30 - 3:30) Panjea (2:30 - 3:30) (2:30 - 3:30) 3:00 pm (2:40 - 3:50) 3:00 pm (2:45 - 4:00) Leftover Salmon Wooleye Fourth of July Creating a Newsense Brett Dennen (3:00 - 4:15) 4:00 pm (3:30 - 4:30) 4:00 pm (3:30 - 4:30) (3:30 - 4:30) (3:30 - 4:45) American Babies Public Property Delta Nove (4:00 - 5:00) (4:00 - 5:00) (4:00 - 5:30) (4:20 - 5:30) 5:00 pm Remedy 5:00 pm and the Transmitters Quintet Hoots & Hellmouth (5:00 - 6:00) (4:30 - 6:00) (4:45 - 6:00) That 1 Guy (5:00 - 6:00) Redux (5:00 - 6:15) 77 Jefferson 6:00 pm (5:15 - 6:45) (5:30 - 6:30) 6:00 pm (5:30 - 6:30) Papa Mali Porter Batiste (6:00 - 7:30) Stoltz Guse Randy Crouch (6:00 - 7:15) Emmylou Harris Tilly and the Wall 7:00 pm (6:30 - 7:30) 7:00 pm (6:30 - 7:30) Alan Vasquez Band (6:30 - 8:00) (6:45 - 7:45) Nama Rupa (7:00 - 8:00) (6:30 - 8:30) (7:00 - 8:00) Dr. Dog 8:00 pm Leftover Salmon 8:00 pm (7:15 - 9:15) (7:45 - 8:50) Savoy Somasphere Old 97’s (8:00 - 9:00) Bang Camaro (8:00 - 9:00) (8:00 - 9:30) Avett Brothers (8:15 - 9:30) 9:00 pm 9:00 pm (8:30 - 9:30) Zappa Chinese Fingertrap Mr. Blotto Hot Buttered Rum Plays Zappa 10:00 pm (9:30 - 10:30) 10:00 pm (9:30 - 10:30) (9:20 - 10:30) (9:00 - 11:00) Split Lip Rayfield State Radio Ben Folds (10:00 - 11:00) (10:00 - 11:00) STS9 (10:00 - 11:30) 11:00 pm (10:00 - 12:00) Cornmeal East St. Ash Band 11:00 pm (11:00 - 12:00) (11:00 - 12:00)

Midnight Keller Williams (midnight - 1:30) Yard Dog’s Blue Turtle Seduction 1:00 am Road Show (12:30 - 1:30) (12:30 - 1:45) Party Pics from the 2008 Wakarusa Festival will be 2:00 am C-Mon & Kypski posted at lawrence.com/pics Ozric Tentacles Tea Leaf Green (2:00 - 3:00) 3:00 am (2:00 - 4:00) (2:15 - 4:00) by Richard Gintowt For a full schedule of events, bust out your cell phone, fire up Wakarusa [email protected] the internets, and summon mobile.lawrence.com. Behold our power to send free text message show reminders to Best Bets wake up your passed-out ass before you miss That 1 Guy.

Paw Cake Alejandro Escovedo Tea Leaf Green Thursday 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Revival Tent 7:45 p.m. to 9:15 p.m., Sun Down Stage 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Revival Tent 2:45 p.m. to 4 p.m., Sun Down Stage One of the better overlooked groups of the The signature elements of Cake are John Austin legend Alejandro Escovedo is a master Tea Leaf Green plays psychedelic southern Big Smith grunge era, Lawrence's Paw made a name McCrea's sing/speak baritone, infectious of many styles: country, rock, , rock a la The Allman Brothers, canvassing the 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Revival Tent for themselves with aggressive yet melodic single-note riffs, cinematic trumpet and and beyond. His venerable career began in festival scene and snapping up "Jammy" awards Get over the Deliverance bib overalls and like 1993's "Dragline" and 1995's "Death in-the-pocket bass. The group's six albums the '70s with San Fran punk band before the noodleheads can get to 'em. The the Ozark ax-killer faces. The five guys in to Traitors." Lackluster sales prompted A&M and hits like "The Distance" and "Never There" and his solo career has spanned 15 years and group has released four albums of guitar-driven Springfield, Mo., outfit Big Smith have long Records to drop , and for awhile they wed infectious melodies to playful narratives, 10 albums for insurgent country labels like tunes and supported tours by cultivated the Ozark hillbilly look, and further dropped off the face of the earth. Singer Mark providing delicious treats for the dance crowd . His bouts with Hepatitis C and Gov't Mule. with a tear-ass musical style that puts them Hennessy and guitarist Grant Fitch resurfaced as well as the head-bob contingent. Covers of have inspired massive support from fans and in the company of groups like the Gourds and in 2000 with new recruits Jesse Larson and Barry White's "Never Gonna Give You Up" and peers, and the veteran continues to Jason Magierowski and a new titled Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" surfaced on Cake's stare down the disease and celebrate life via Avett Brothers. They usually look like they've 4:45 p.m. to 6 p.m., Revival Tent just arrived from a turkey shoot or pig roast, but "Home Is a Strange Place." Eight years later, recent "B-Sides and Rarities" LP. The band has music. Escovedo’s forthcoming ninth solo album, Known to his fans simply as "The Dawg," David Big Smith can play high-energy, bluegrass-influ- they're reuniting once again to play songs from been known to perform the latter with Steven "Real Animal," is a collective journey through Grisman has taken the to whole new enced roots music with anybody on the farm. all three albums. This is a bona-fide, blue-rib- Drozd of , who is conveniently his various musical incarnations: to bon chance to see a local band of historic sig- scheduled to take the stage immediately follow- string quintets. jazz-inflected heights over the course of a 40- nificance pull out all the stops and go for broke ing Cake's set. year career that has seen collaborations with Truckstop Honeymoon (sans stagediving). Old 97’s legends like , , Bela 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., Sun Up Stage The Flaming Lips Fleck and jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli. Since relocating to Lawrence in the wake of Mates of State 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Revival Tent Adapt at bluegrass, newgrass, fusegrass and Hurricane Katrina, Truckstop Honeymoon (a.k.a. 10 p.m. to midnight, Sundown After a two-album solo detour, alt- just about any other "grass"-blazing style, Mike West and Katie Euliss) have continued 2:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m., Sun Down Stage Stage crooner is back with his old gang, Grisman is still going strong at the age of 63. doing what they've always done best: writing, Mates of State rocks with two-part pop that How , and Michael the Old 97's, and a no-worse-for-the-wear recording and performing music like their landed a record deal back before Jack and Meg Ivins made the transition from psychedelic album titled "Blame It On Gravity." The train- Mickey Hart Band White were all that. The Mates are best experi- alt-rock pioneers to hippie festival favorites is dodging foursome has always been a favorite lives depended on it (which, as full-time musi- 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Sun Down cians, is exactly the case). The duo's latest LP, enced live, where the ex-Lawrence duo of Kori one of our generation’s more perplexing hap- of the twang camp, but their turn-of-the- "Diamonds in the Asphalt," invites some new Gardner and Jason Hammel sing like doves and penstances. Perhaps it has something to do with century efforts dug in some mighty power-pop Stage neighbors into the fold to create a full-band bust rhymes like rap stars. Musically, Gardner's the furry animal costumes, the bubble-bursting claws (most notably 2001's ""). It took five years, but the Wakarusa Festival racket that amplifies the raw mojo of previous two-handed keyboard wizardry is downright confetti, the gratuitous jumbotron boob flashes This sunset show at the Revival Tent offers an finally snared an actual member of The Grateful folk and bluegrass-informed efforts. Whether Dumbledore-like, and Hammel can hammer and a megaphone-wielding ringleader straight excellent opportunity to catch the band in their Dead. and percussionist Mickey Hart traversing blues, rock, or campy the drums with the best of them while singing outta Barnum-and-Bailey summer camp. We element with explosive new tunes and some has been the busiest of the post-Dead crew, show-tune territory, "Asphalt" is a joyous comfortably. The lovey-dovey duo's latest LP prefer to think it was the music: a marvelously time-tested singalongs. winning a Grammy for his "" expression of old traditions and new begin- "Re-Arrange Us" features lots of pretty piano wrecked blend of stadium-friendly psychedelia, album and collaborating with bassist nings. TR also has another record nearly in the ballads; Sonny & Cher would be totally jealous. warped electronic pop and excess-infused Ben Folds in The . His current classic rock. Touring drummer and Lawrence band features on guitar, George can, targeted for a fall release. 10 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., Revival Tent Built to Spill homeboy will be on hand to Porter Jr. on bass, Jen Durkin on vocals, and kick out the jams as the Lips make their second Ben Folds is the of our generation, master Sikiru Adepoju. Tonight's Apollo Sunshine 4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Sun Down Stage Wakarusa appearance. Here's betting they'll but straighter, and balder, and more prone to performance is expected to feature Rhythm 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Sun Up Stage Known for their psychedelic exaggerations of outdo themselves... covering Dr. Dre songs and singing about his Devils songs as well as staples Boston trio Apollo Sunshine mixes classic rock guitar-loaded pop songs, Built to Spill is more nutsack. after Folds and his such as "New Speedway Boogie" and "Fire on chops with modern indie-pop sensibilities. The than capable of appeasing the jam contingent Five—er, three—valiantly rescued popular The Mountain." trio met while attending the Berklee College without alienating fickle hipsters. BTS’s most music from the dark specter of grunge, the of Music, an undertaking that paid dividends recent release “” sported 10 smartass pianist is cruising right along with when they put those booksmarts to use on their solid tracks that proved the Boise, , band a new backing band and an album due in The Avett Brothers wildly eclectic debut "Katonah" and ensuing had plenty left in the proverbial tank. Doug September. New tracks like "Hiroshima" and 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Revival Tent Martsch and his now five-piece band have been Saturday "The Bitch Went Nuts" have been surfacing in self-titled LP. Culling the troughs of psychedelic The Avett Brothers sing harmony-laden folk rock, acoustic blues and scrappy fuzz pop, the showcasing new songs lately as well as two recent performances along with cuts from the songs backed by rootsy arrangements of band will release its third album this summer. reggae-influenced cuts that appeared on a 12” Chicago Afrobeat BF5 trilogy; evidence that Folds is more than acoustic guitar, , piano, harmonica and single last year. Project happy to give his fans exactly what they want. upright bass. With a songwriting sensibility Noon to 12:50 p.m., Sun Up Stage more comparable to Lennon/McCartney than Limbeck Blackalicious Doc Watson, the North Carolina trio whoops up 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m., Revival Tent Chicago Afrobeat Project performs its take on a lot of whoopie with minimal instrumentation While Southern may be better known 4:45 p.m. to 6 p.m., Revival Tent the genre created by the late Fela Kuti. For the and boisterous voices. A misty-eyed romanti- for churning out pop punk and the Red Hot Chili Like fellow West Coast rap acts uninitiated: Afro-beat music originated in the cism informs The Avett Brothers' 2007 release Peppers, Limbeck is the rare band that consis- and Jurassic 5, Blackalicous is more likely to early '60s after the leader of Koola Lobitos, a Sunday "Emotionalism," which earned high marks in tently turns out great that doesn't flow on "the positive tip" than degrade women popular Nigerian band, traveled to the United publications like Paste, Harp and Magnet. really need a genre or locale for reference. or celebrate thug life. The decade-old group States and was introduced to the funky sounds Telecaster and from-the-heart lyrics per- hooked up with ANTI Records to release its of James Brown and the radical leadership of Dr. Dog meate the band's graceful approach, which has latest album, "The Craft," which displays heavy Malcolm X. The style uniquely mixes the tradi- Noon to 12:45 p.m., Sun Down Zappa Plays Zappa developed over the course of making records at slices of Bay Area in the tradition of Sly tions of both and the . 9 p.m. to 11 p.m., Sun Down Stage Stone and Shuggie Otis. The two-man DJ/MC CAbP adds a little Chicago flavor to the mix Stage Eudora's Black Lodge Studios. Philadelphia band Dr. Dog reincarnates golden In shouldering the responsibility for carrying crew—rapper and producer Chief as each band member brings in their own doo-wop vibes and Top 40 radio when Dick forth his father's legacy, Dweezil Zappa initi- Xcel—introspects and party rocks in equal influences. Clark was still a fresh young face on the scene. ated himself into the most difficult cover band measure, making them one of hip-hop's most Like city-mates Marah, the group pens scrappy, on earth. The result —Zappa Plays Zappa—is universally well-liked acts. The Gourds trend-oblivious tunes with guiltless Beatles, the closest our generation will get to the epic 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Revival Tent Beach Boys and Zombies shout outs. The performances and marvelously twisted vision of Friday Arrested Development The Gourds are a slaphappy alt-country band group's catalog has largely favored lo-fi home the late . The visionary composer 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Revival Tent with a boatload of goofy covers and some even recordings on vintage tape machines, an aes- rewrote the book on what bands are capable Stardeath and White Arrested Development's spiritually advised better originals. The group’s fluke-hit cover thetic that sounded perfectly executed on 2007's of, imbuing his 50-plus records with virtuoso hip-hop crested in popularity in 1992 with the of Snoop Dogg’s "Gin and Juice" was both a "We All Belong." A national tour supporting skill and bizarre humor. Zappa Plays Zappa Dwarfs album "3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life blessing and curse for a veteran band with introduced Dr. Dog to new audiences; a covers a wide spectrum of Frank's rock-oriented Noon to 12:45 p.m., Sun Down Of..." and the hit singles "Mr. Wendal" and talents that reach far deeper than ironic covers new LP titled "Fate" is expected in July. compositions from the '60s through the '80s. Along for the current tour is guitarist and singer Stage "Tennessee." The group delivered its message of mainstream rap songs. What it did prove, however, is that The Gourds will go to extremes Frank White, a member of the elder Zappa's Stardeath and White Dwarfs is a glammy of unity and equality via laid-back grooves Yard Dog’s Road Show to entertain their audiences—an attribute that touring band. rock band from Norman, Okla. Lead singer informed by rural blues, African percussion 1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Revival Tent presumably scored them a second Wakarusa Dennis Coyne is the nephew of The Flaming and funky live-band jams. Hip-hoppers like In an era when any reality-show reject can stuff appearance. Lips' Wayne Coyne, and while he shares his and Talib Kweli followed suit while his or her gut in a girdle and call it burlesque, lead emcee Speech pursued a solo career. He Split Lip Rayfield uncle's affection for jams, he it’s refreshing to see REAL freaks like the YDRS 10 p.m. to 11 p.m., Revival Tent also favors prog groups like and reunited Arrested Development in 2000, target- holding down the fort. The traveling neo-vaude- Brett Dennen In a year that started with the loss of their Emerson, Lake & Palmer. The group has built up ing overseas markets with ensuing comeback ville sideshow features sword swallowers, fire 3:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m., Sun Down friend and bandmate Kirk Rundstrom to cancer, anticipation for its debut full-length by touring records and performing on the NBC television eaters, pasties-safe burlesque and rambling Stage Split Lip Rayfield was hardly thinking about with , Band of Horses, Starlight Mints series "Hit Me Baby One More Time." Never hobo poetry — all animated by the live sounds With a folk-rock vibe reminiscent of Mason music during much of 2007. But when they and The Flaming Lips. content to rest on the laurels of past successes, of the Cartoon Jug Band. If you're in the mood Jennings and Ray LaMontagne, Brett Dennen inevitably came back around to it, they came to Arrested Development aims to keep bringing for some low-brow entertainment, the YDRS is is one of the more likable performers on the a resounding conclusion: Kirk would've wanted the enlightened heat in support of its latest your first-class joint. record, "Since the Last Time." acoustic singer/songwriter circuit. A nimble Split Lip to live on. An emotional return to the fingerpicker with jazzy chord structures and Winfield stage marked the beginning of Split an unflappable boyish voice, Dennen has sup- Lip's next chapter—one marked by sadness but ported and tours en route to also by the celebration of Kirk's legacy and the building his own fan base. His 2006 album "So ever-growing tribe that coalesces 'round every Much More" earned him a spot as one of Rolling SLR hootenanny. New songs and a new album Stone Magazine's "10 Artists To Watch." are in the works...