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Music Bamboozle 2011 Festival Hosts Battle of the Bands & War of the B-Boys

by Shop Keeper
April 20, 2011 - 3:48 pm

Bamboozle 2011

The Bamboozle Festival, the annual three-day music extravaganza taking place on April 29, 30 and May 1 at the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey has announced finalists for The Break Contest and contestants for The B-Boy Battle.

Since 2005, The Break Contest has served as the official unsigned band competition of the festival and for the past several months 600 hundred bands from the Tri-State area have been battling it out for a coveted performance at The Bamboozle Festival. The winner will get to perform on the main stage, as well as on local stages during the festival, and receive other prizes.

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Gallery Music Happy Meal Melodies :: Relient K

by Mike Bucher and Joe Gall
May 12, 2010 - 11:33 am

Relient K is the McDonalds of Emo music.  They serve up tasty little melodies that stick in your head like cholesterol to your veins.  & like Mickee-Dees, they crank em out.  To date the quartet has sold over 2 million records, with three albums being given gold certification, and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Gospel Album.  In addition, Singer Matthew Thiessen continues to hold the billboard 200 hostage with Owl City’s Ocean Eyes and platinum single Fireflies which, like it or not, is in your head right now…

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Gallery Music Motion City Soundtrack Deserves a Gold Star

by Mike Bucher and Joe Gall
May 12, 2010 - 11:10 am

Motion City Soundtrack stole the show Sunday with an over-the-top introduction to their boisterous set.  The event kicked off with M.C.S. marching through the crowd hitting bongos and hand drums while the Freedom High School drum line pounded from the stage in full regalia.  When the gypsy procession reached the stage, the chaps joined the 30 or so percussionists already on stage, & slammed into crowd favorite “Everything is Alright.”  At the first power chord, the pits started churning like your strawberry mango smoothie and they didn’t quit till the last note.

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Featured Gallery Music Matt and Kim Do It the Old Fashioned Way

by Mike Bucher and Joe Gall
May 12, 2010 - 11:02 am

In a day and age when most bands you see live rely on a backing track, Brooklyn based dance-punk duo Matt and Kim do it the old fashioned way, with a drum set and a keyboard.  & The Lightning-bolt chemistry the two share on stage helps fill any gaps their instruments may leave.

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Gallery Music A WALE of a Good Time

by Mike Bucher and Joe Gall
May 12, 2010 - 11:00 am

Hip-hop was center stage at East Rutherford, New Jersey’s  Bamboozle festival this year.  So much so, that the Genre had it’s own dedicated ‘B-Boy’ tent featuring artists like Drake, Wiz Khalifa, Mike Posner & More.  Included in the group was D.C born rapper Wale, or Olubowale Victor Akintimehin as his mother would call him.

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Gallery Music Mash-Up Madness with GIRL TALK : Bamboozle 2010

by Mike Bucher and Joe Gall
May 11, 2010 - 11:46 am

Girl Talk aka Mike Gillis united the festival last Sunday with his “something for everyone” brand of mash-up madness.  Gillis’ set was a sonic cornucopia that broke rules and blended genres.   Be it Metallica, Weezy, or Avril, you can bet the farm that it was in the soup.  & Throughout the entire show, one thing held true… This was about having a good time and getting people moving.

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Gallery Music Ska Music’s Super Heros : THE AQUABATS

by Mike Bucher and Joe Gall
May 11, 2010 - 11:39 am

I LOVE THE AQUABATS and I’m proud of it!  & while it feels a bit like coming out of the closet, I suppose, (I’m straight and stoked) It also feels good to stand up for what’s true and beautiful in this world… Pure unadulterated Ska music!  Today, Ska music may not float atop the main-stream, but it’s undercurrents will forever run strong in the hearts of it’s two-toned followers.

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Gallery Music Welcome to the OK Go Show

by Mike Bucher and Joe Gall
May 10, 2010 - 11:18 am

Grammy award winning Chicago quartet OK Go got the crowd pumping last Sunday at East Rutherford, New Jersey’s Bamboozle Festival.  In a typically colorful set, lead singer Damian Kulash and the boys mixed fresh gems from their new album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky with classics like Here It Goes Again, aka “the treadmill dance song,” as most people know it.

It was hard to take your eyes of guitar player Andy Ross’s candy apple red 2 piece and bass player Tim Nordwind’s pink button up but concertgoers were kept on their toes by a constant stream of crowd surfers that peppered the crowd like croutons on your salad.

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Featured Gallery Music Weezer-Nation Rises Up

by Mike Bucher and Joe Gall
May 7, 2010 - 9:35 am

Weezer was in full effect Sunday night as the long-standing rock institution headlined New Jersey’s Bamboozle festival.  The event [Bamboozle] marked the beginning of the east coast summer festival season and attracted over 60,000 concertgoers with over 100 bands.

You wouldn’t know it by the high energy, edge of your seat, romp the band put it on, but front-man, songwriter-savant Rivers Cuomo recently recovered from fractured ribs and an injured back sustained in a tour bus accident last December.  Enjoying his new-found health, Cuomo was 100% and so was the band’s Mega-Set which featured a surprise medley of MGMT’s “Kids” and Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face.”  In an ironic / surreal moment, Andrew and Ben (MGMT), watched from the crowd as the rock legends played their song to the captive audience.

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