New American Music Union festival features College Bands and Rock Legends
May 15, 2008 – 10:44 pm by Nick
The most anticipated festival might well be in Pittsburgh. The Steel City will play host to fifteen new college bands that will be judged in an American Idolesque way with the winner receiving a full day of recording in a top LA studio. Bob Dylan, The Raconteurs, and Gnarls Barkley will headline during the 48-hour fest. American Eagle is sponsoring the festival, curated by Red Hot Chili Pepper front-man, Anthony Kiedis. The New American Music Union festival will held at Pittsburgh’s historic SouthSide Works. The apparel company will also promote the bands in their stores.
Tickets go on sale today at 10 a.m. Eastern time. General admission tickets are $49.50. Student tickets are $25.
The lineup of established artists:
- Bob Dylan and His Band
- The Raconteurs
- Gnarls Barkley
- The Roots
- Spoon
- The Black Keys
- Black Mountain
- The Duke Spirit
- NASA
- Tiny Masters of Today
The lineup of invited college bands:
- Bears (Kent State University)
- Flying Machines (The New School)
- Gospel Gossip (Carleton College)
- Magic Bullets (College of San Mateo)
- Math the Band (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
- My Dear Disco (University of Michigan)
- Nothing Unexpected (Robert Morris University)
- The Black Fortys (University of Southern Illinois)
- The Company Kang (Whitman College)
- The Delicious (Indiana University)
- The Depreciation Guild (New York University)
- The Elizabethan Report (Brigham Young University)
- The French Horn Rebellion (Northwestern University)
- The Royal Bangs (University of Tennessee)
- The Steps (University of Texas Austin)
