Download Festival Ticketsâsee Your Favorite Classic Alt-rock Bands!
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When bands do reunion tours, or for whatever reason get back into the game of touring nationally or internationally, itâs always a good thing for music fans. It means that your favorite artists, the ones you grew up listening toâmaybe by replaying one song on a mixtape over and over, wishing you had an album by themâwill finally be able to play for you live.
The Download Festival is a great opportunity for this, especially in 2008. The three-city festival that tours this summer will be appearing in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Headliners include noise-pop legends The Jesus and Mary Chain, post-punkers Gang of Four, and in Philadelphia, Iggy Pop and The Stooges. Bands that are getting lots of airplay these days, like electro-rockers Ghostland Observatory, ethereal synth band M83 and the electronic patchwork quilt of Cariobou will all be supporting headliners.
This will undoubtedly be an exciting tour to attend, if only to see the major headlining acts. The Jesus and Mary Chain took influence from The Velvet Underground, and in a way shadowed that well known art-rock band by becoming an influence to the shoegaze bands that followed them. Songs off their most popular album, âPsychocandy,â include âJust Like Honeyâ and âTaste of Cindy,â both songs that have gone on to become favorites of music fans everywhere.
Gang of Four was in the music press quite a bit four or five years ago, when the post-punk revival flooded records stores with bands that borrowed their chicken-scratch guitar work and tense vocals. The infamous post-punkers fortunately decided to begin touring again.
Iggy and The Stooges needs no introduction. A crucial rock act that set the bar for how insane and dangerous a live show can be, Pop had aged but his live performances still have not. Everyone living on the East Coast is lucky to get to see him at the Philadelphia show.
This July, make sure you get Download Festival tickets so you can enjoy these bands and more. Thereâs really no excuse when the lineup is this good. Look up some tickets now on Stubhub.com!