Suddenly, New Jersey is awash in summer music festivals.
Billboard reports this morning that AEG/Goldenvoice, the west coast promoters who do the Coachella fest every spring in the California desert, will put on a multiday event in Jersey City's Liberty State Park, across the Hudson River from lower Manhattan this summer. Dates have not yet been announced.
Last year, the Coachella lineup included Philadelphia (and Baltimore's) own Spank Rock (pictured above), as well as Rage Against The Machine, LCD Soundsystem, Bjork, Rufus Wainwright, Lupe Fiasco, and scores of others.
As you might have heard, the Vineland Music Festival, promoted by Austin, Texas' C3 Presents along with British based Festival Republic, is scheduled to take place in South Jersey on August 8-10. No word yet on the 2008 lineups for Coachella, Vineland or the as-yet-unnamed Jersey City fest, though a lineup for Coachella, in Indio, Calif. on April 25-57, is expected soon.
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