MAHA Music Festival - Update

I feel like a huge weight has just been lifted off my shoulders.

A few minutes ago I finished entering in all our 200+ volunteer shift information.  Volunteering opens up this weekend for our sponsors, and than the following week it is opened to the public.  Tickets are selling a lot quicker than any of our previous years.  It might have something to do with our fantastic line-up!

Our main stage includes: Desaparecidos, GARBAGE, Delta Spirit, Dum Dum Girls, Josh Rouse, and Conduits

Our local stage includes: The Mynabirds, Icky Blossoms, UUVVWWZ, Universe Contest, Eli Mardock, and The Seen

More good news, our curfew has been pushed back to midnight this year (prior years we had an 11 PM curfew)!  This means more music for the fans!

For more information, visit the MAHA Music Festival website: http://mahamusicfestival.com/

Do You Wanna Dance?

The Beach Boys "Do You Wanna Dance"

I could spend days watching all these old performances.  This is one of my favorites by the Beach Boys.  I'll continue posting some of my other favorite performances throughout the year.  There's so many things I love about this era of music!

I'm really enjoying Mike Love's little dance, which sometimes has a small sample of a moonwalk.  But it's hard to get over those striped shirts.  Although I am not a big fan of Foster the People, it was great seeing them in blue and white striped shirts when they performed with the Beach Boys at this year's Grammys.  If you haven't seen this performance, check it out here!

Daytrotter

If you haven't heard of Daytrotter, it is a website that hosts recording sessions with many musicians. You can download these sessions to your computer or continue streaming them on the website. This weekend they were celebrating their 2000th session with a special on their annual subscription price ($20). Since my friend had been talking about this site for sometime, I decided to check it out and was pretty amazed by their list of artists. I bought that subscription and continued to download about 30 of those sessions. Some of my favorite sessions are The Avett Brothers, Two Door Cinema Club, Johnny Flynn, The Vaccines, Noah and the Whale, and Kevin Devine. There's still so many more that I am excited to listen to!

The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys' new album, "That's Why God Made the Radio", is coming out this Tuesday. I've listened to a couple samples of the album and am getting pretty excited about it! I saw them a couple years ago here in Omaha performing with the Omaha Symphony. It was really cool to see them perform all of their songs with the symphony behind them. The symphony all dressed in their Hawaiian shirts to add to the festivities. Some may say that it’s silly that these men are writing songs at their age, but I think they’re writing music for a whole new generation of fans.