The electronic marquee at the Asheville Civic Center promotes the imminent arrival of Big Boi at Moogfest 2010 in Asheville, North Carolina on Friday, October 29, 2010.
The VIP check-in at Moogfest in Asheville, North Carolina, as it existed on the early evening of Thursday, October 28, 2010.
The Moogfest VIP wristband, as it existed on Sunday, October 31, 2010. This photograph was taken at The Hop Ice Cream Cafe in Asheville, North Carolina.
Jonsi. Tabernacle, Atlanta, Georgia.
Just a day after his appearance at Moogfest in Asheville, North Carolina, Jonsi played the Tabernacle in Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday, October 31, 2010.
“MGMT”
Day 80
A lucky balloon made its way onstage during MGMT’s Moogfest set.View Post
MGMT performed at Moogfest at the Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, North Carolina on Friday, October 29, 2010.
Moogfest
By chance I managed to overlap my stay in Asheville with Moogfest, a diverse three day electronic music festival named after synth pioneer Bob Moog. I saw some bigger acts like Big Boi and MGMT, but it was the smaller artists that I’d never heard of that blew me away the most. Pictured is Lorn, a dubstep producer from Milwaukee who plays along the lines of Daedelus and Flying Lotus. Even though he’s a laptop producer, his stage presence was fantastic and he’d freak out and make possessed faces just before some crazy sample was about to drop. I met a fun group of kids at the festival that have made my stay in Asheville a memorable one.
Lorn played late in the night on Friday, October 29, 2010, the first night of Moogfest, at the Moogaplex in th Haywood Park Hotel ballroom in Asheville, North Carolina.
In the video above, Thievery Corporation plays “Lebanese Blonde,” the fourth track from their 2000 album, The Mirror Conspiracy, at Moogfest at the Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, North Carolina on Saturday, October 30, 2010. (Video taken by the YouTube user rohbear2).
In the video above, Neon Indian plays “Deadbeat Summer,” the second track from its album Psychic Chasms, at Moogfest at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium on October 31, 2010. (Video taken by the YouTube user ginjew14).
*sigh*
And so Moogfest, the three day electronic music festival held in Asheville, North Carolina this past weekend, ends. Its organizers claim that it will become an annual event, and the apparent success of this outing suggests that is the case.
In the video above, Caribou performs “Sun,” the second from its 2010 album, Swim, at Moogfest at the Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, North Carolina on Saturday, October 30, 2010. (Video taken by the YouTube user rohbear2).
In the video above, Panda Bear performs at Moogfest at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville, North Carolina on Friday, October 29, 2010. (Video taken by the YouTube user BadPrices).
We were on stage for the entire set of Girl Talk. Dancing for an hour and a half straight killlllls.
Onyx is in the pink sweater to the very left. And I’m in the blue sweater beside her.
In the photograph above, you’ll see just a snapshot of the madness that ensued when Girl Talk performed at Moogfest in the Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, North Carolina on Friday, October 29, 2010. (Video of the act’s performance can be found here).
If the extraordinary line outside of Asheville, North Carolina’s Sunny Point Cafe on the morning of Saturday, October 30, 2010, was any indication, many denizens of the three day Moogfest music festival sought refuge there after the event’s first night the evening beforehand. The photograph above, published (and presumably taken) by the Tumblr user allisonkgill on October 30, may have been taken at a less crowded time that day.
