Orange You Glad Festival In Videos

So Orange You Glad Festival went down this week around the Mills/Virginia Ave. area venues, conveniently within walking distance from my house. Anyway, if you don't know what the festival is all about, you can read about it here. Granted, as a sponsor, I think Reax Magazine is a little biased and that's basically a press release, so here are the videos I shot during the weekend so you can judge the awesomeness for yourself.

Day 1 (May 14)

(sorry, I have no videos and I didn't see any shows because I had to get up early for work on May 15th. However, I heard from a guy that works at Park Ave CDs that it was a pretty awesome show at Will's Pub.)


Day 2 (May 15)

Dish @ Will's Pub



Lauris Vidal @ Will's Pub



Magic and The Johnsons @ Uncle Lou's



Rachel Goodrich @ Will's Pub (in HD)




Day 3 (May 16)

Tele V. Cheeseburger @ Stardust



Dangerous Animals @ Peacock Room



Thomas and Olivia Wynn @ Will's Pub



The Great Deceivers @ Will's Pub (in HD)



Day 4 (May 17)


The Defilers @ Stardust



As much as I wanted to see Cracker Jackson at Will's Pub on the last night, it was raining and I had to grade papers so I could not. However, if you have videos send them over and I will post them here.

Conclusion

It was a pretty awesome assortment of musicians and an amazing sign of the growth of Orlando's musical community. If they do it again next year, it will be a tough little festival to surpass.

Essential Listening - An Annotated List

So those of you who are Facebook-friends with me and check out my profile once in a while may've noticed that I make lists of music I like occasionally. I've decided to start posting my list here as a blog entry with YouTube/Wikipedia annotations so you can enjoy this music yourself.

Some of it is new and some of it is old stuff you may never've heard but should.

Anyway, here goes:

Five Favorite Artists at the moment (With The Letter J):

Jens Lekman
Jeff Lewis
John Lennon
Jonathan Richman
J. S. Bach

Five Favorite Songs at the Moment:

Jeff Lewis - "Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror"
Jens Lekman - "Pretty Shoes"
Passion Pit - "Sleepyhead"*
Erik Satie - "Gymnopedia No. 1"
Camera Obscura - "French Navy"*

(* a must-listen track)


Five Favorite Albums at The Moment:

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Jeff Lewis - The Last Time I Took Acid I Went Insane
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Beatles - Love
the Wave Pictures - Sophie