The Hangout Festival returns to Gulf Shores, Alabama for its third year on May 18-20, 2012. Unable to make it? Watch a live stream at myspace.
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Announced on February 7th, the 2012 Hangout Festival line-up is headlined by the Jack White, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Dave Matthews Band. Hangout will be one of several fests Dr. Dog play supporting their fantastic album from earlier this year, Be The Void (they’ll also be at Lollapalooza, Outside Lands Music Festival and St Louis’ LouFest). Both The Flaming Lips and Dawes play Hangout and Atlanta’s Party in the Park this weekend (the latter also play Nelsonville Music Festival – yep, three in one weekend – and are essentially the busiest band on the festival scene: Mountain Jam, Bonnaroo, Clearwater, Lollapalooza, LouFest and more all to come). At Hangout the Lips are performing Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon with Phantogram.
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Wilco’s 2012 Southern US tour ends with a Hangout set on May 18th and a show at Memphis’ Mud Island Amphitheater the next night (their last gig in the region for at least a year – tickets still available to the latter here). Hangout will also feature an eclectic mix of other artists: The String Cheese Incident, Steve Winwood, Skrillex, STS9, Gogol Bordello, Dispatch, Chris Cornell, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Mavis Staples, Flogging Molly, Young the Giant, Coheed & Cambria, Paul Oakenfold, Delta Spirit, Randy Newman, Cage the Elephant, Alabama Shakes and more…
Click here for the full Hangout schedule (times recently updated to minimize conflicts). Click here for an overview of spring 2012 music festivals. The Hangout webcast schedule is below (All times in CDT):
Friday, May 18th:
02:00 – Switchfoot
03:00 – Alabama Shakes
04:00 – Coheed and Cambria
05:30 – Yelawolf
06:00 – Paul Oakenfold
07:30 – Wilco
09:00 – Umphrey’s McGee
09:30 – Jack White
Saturday, May 19th:
02:15 – Heartless Bastards
03:15 – Gary Clark Jr.
04:15 – Gogol Bordello
05:15 – Dispatch
06:30 – Dr. Dog
07:00 – Flogging Molly
08:30 – String Cheese Incident
Sunday, May 20th:
02:00 – The Lumineers
03:00 – Young the Giant
04:00 – Michael Franti & Spearhead
05:00 – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
06:30 – The Flaming Lips
08:00 – G. Love & Special Sauce
08:30 – TBD
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The Future Heart’s commentary on last year’s fest – which also featured The Flaming Lips, and was webcast by Spin – is here. 2011’s lineup gave the impression they were aiming to be the Austin City Limits of the springtime, on a beach. The 2012 lineup by contrast is more in line with Dave Matthews Caravans from last summer…but with white sand and palm trees…
Watch and download The Flaming Lips’ 2011 Hangout Fest set – as filmed by concert film extraordinaire Jim Charna with a professionally recorded/ mixed audio provided by The Future Heart here.
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