Katie Summer Joseph I attended my first Pickathon this year, and it more than lived up to the hype. It was a beautiful, inspiring, exciting experience, and I can’t wait to go back. But, as happens with most first times, I made a number of embarrassing fumbles. Here are the 10 things I wish somebody […]
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Pickathon Diaries: The Most Modern Music Festival Around
Katie Summer Sinkane Despite its name, origins, and rustic locale, Pickathon has become the most modern and innovative music festival around. Both operationally and stylistically, it’s pushing ahead. This was drilled into me not only by my time on Pendarvis Farm over the weekend, but by the three other festivals I’ve attended in the last […]
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Pickathon Diaries: Ty Segall, Kamasi Washington, Wolf People, and More
Katie Summer Katie Summer Wolf People It always takes a little while to recover from Pickathon, but you’ll be seeing our thoughts and photos trickling out on the blog over the next couple days, interrupting your regularly scheduled stream of posts about hamburgers. Pickathon returned to Happy Valley this past weekend, with more than 50 […]
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A (Rather Long) Pickathon Reading List
Wolf People This week’s issue features a bunch of Pickathon stuff, including our articles on Wolf People, Kamasi Washington, and Alice Gerrard. But! Did you know that the Mercury has lots of pertinent articles in our archive that you can also read? In fact, out of the 56 bands performing at the Pickathon festival this […]
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Pickathon Adds to 2015 Lineup and Announces Daily Schedule
This year’s Pickathon will include Kamasi Washington and Wolf People. Pickathon made three big announcements this morning: The first is a handful of exciting additions to the lineup of the 2015 festival. (Check out our reports of their initial lineup announcements from earlier this year—part uno and part deux.) Modern/free-jazz lynchpin (and Kendrick Lamar collaborator) […]
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Pickathon 2015 Lineup Announcement, PART DEUX
Christopher Sohler Horsey!!! It’s baaack: Remember last week when we announced the first part of the Pickathon lineup? Well, the suspense has ended, as we’ve got for you the names of the remaining acts that’ll be out on Pendarvis Farm the weekend of July 31-August 2. Without further ado, let’s take a peep. In alphabetical […]
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Pickathon Announces the First Part of the 2015 Lineup
It’s here: The first round of the Pickathon lineup announcement! This year’s installment of the music festival takes place on July 31-August 2 at Pendarvis Farm, and tickets have just gone on sale right this very second. To accompany that, the Pickathon folks have dropped 30 names of performers who’ll be out on the farm […]
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Pickathon Season Will Start in April, Along with the Festival’s Vinyl Debut
April marks the official start of Pickathon season. On April 7, the venerable annual music festival will announce a big portion of the lineup for 2015’s festival. Last year, Pickathon spread their lineup announcement over 16 days, announcing two or three bands a day and letting the info trickle out in drips and drabs. This […]