Spring Awakening starts tomorrow! Get ready by breaking out your neon best and take a look at our Stic essentials for the festival!
Showing posts with label Spring Awakening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring Awakening. Show all posts
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Spring Awakening Announcement!
In addition to posting the daily line-ups, Spring Awakening has also announced their official after parties for this year's festival! Spring Awakening is just around the corner starting on Friday June 14 and ending Sunday the 16th. Be sure to grab your tickets from clubtix here if you have not already.
The daily line-ups for Spring Awakening are as follows:
Friday:
MOBY DJ | BINGO PLAYERS | DJ BL3ND | CARNAGE | DEAN COHEN | DIRTY SOUTH | JOHN DAHLBACK | NERO (dj set) | PANTY RAID | R3HAB | ROBBIE RIVERA | ZOMBOY
Danger Wayne | Digital Departure | Ekho & JWorra | Justin Reed | Konrad Gainnes | Louis the Child | DJ Magix | Milk N Cookies | Paul Universe | Peter Kontor | Popsh!t | RAdiohiro w/MC Zulu | DJ Rozz | Striz
Saturday:
BASSNECTAR | 12TH PLANET | AN21 & MAX VANGELI | AUTO BODY | DOTEXE | FELIX DA HOUSECAT | FLOSSTRADAMUS | GRAMATIK | GREEN VELVET | LUCKY DATE | NERVO | NICKY ROMERO | OLIVER | PAUL OAKENFOLD | SAVOY (live) | WALDEN | WOLFGANG GARTNER | ZEDD | ZEDS DEAD
Adam Abstrakt | Bisharat | Dakota | Don Dada | Jack Trash | Kings of Class | Knuckle Children | Mighty Thor | NaPalm w// Sephano & Torio | PHNM | Robots on the Run | Ryan B | DJ SOLO | Stratus | Team Bayside High | The Dub Knight | Xposur
Sunday:
CALVIN HARRIS | ATB | BOYS NOIZE | BREAK SCIENCE | CHUCKIE | CLOCKWORK | EXCISION | FIGURE | GREEN LANTERN | JOACHIM GARRAUD | KREWELLA | MINNESOTA | MORD FUSTANG | NATHAN SCOTT | ORCHARD LOUNGE | PORTER ROBINSON | SHOWTEK | STAFFORD BROTHERS | TOMMY TRASH | TOPHER JONES
Alex Kislov | Boji | Compact Disco | Enoptix | Erik K | Gun Love | Gus Karas | DJ Intel | LoBounce | Mario Florek | NORdjs | Porn and Chicken | Ramsen | Regulators | Trentino | Xonic | Yos
The official after-party announcements are as follow:
Friday:
Moby & Revolvr at the MID
PANTyRAiD & Zomboy at House of Blues
Dirty South at SpyBar
DJ Blen at Volkan
Saturday:
Nicky Romero at the MID
Zeds Dead with Salva at House of Blues
Cajmere at SpyBar
Nervo at Palladium
Sunday:
Calvin Harris at the MID
Excision and Minnesota at House of Blues
Boys Noize at SpyBar
Excision and Minnesota at House of Blues
Boys Noize at SpyBar
**after-party line-up information courtesy of youredm.com
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
21 Hours of Dance: Highlights from Spring Awakening
A sea of neon
swarmed onto Soldier Field this past weekend for Spring Awakening, a festival solely dedicated to electronic dance
music. The venue witnessed more color than the usual blue and orange clad Bears
fans, to say the least. Attendees displayed their excitement with vibrant fishnets,
perky tutus, glitter, and every neon hue of the rainbow imaginable. Their
ensembles were intricately assembled to fit the vibe of this electronic world
that has become the newest trend in music.
These excited, high-powered
fans ranged from tweens to baby boomers. Each day consisted of 10.5 hours of music
emanating from four different stages. The energy stayed high through the wee
hours and fans did not cease to head bob aggressively. Grooving was optional.
From Saturday
morning to Sunday night, every DJ that performed had a distinct sound and stage
presence. LoBOUNCE’s enthusiasm had him singing along to his own mixes while Gun
Love sampled one of my favorites, M83’s Midnight
City. Porn and Chicken had a vivacious entourage on stage dancing wildly.
And by the end of Saturday, Skrillex’s light beams emerged during a patch of
rain as he DJ-ed from a futuristic spacecraft structure.
On Sunday, the NERVO
duo performed to a packed tent with fans trying to squish in for a glimpse of
the lovely and spunky twin sisters. Datsik went old school Snoop Dogg when he cleverly
mixed Gin and Juice (pun intended)
and Diplo’s set immediately followed changing the mood with tribal accents by
throwing in some Major Lazer tracks. The night ended with Dutch DJ Afrojack
playing his catchy hit songs while the crowd simultaneously fist pumped and
sang along.
The production of
the fest ran smoothly with the fastest set changes I have ever seen and a
sufficient amount of security scattered throughout festival grounds. The weekend lived up to its potential and fully satisfied its passionate crowd.
Photo Credit: Thank you so much to the wonderful Sam Callahan for taking amazing photos this weekend. You are extremely talented and we are so grateful for your contribution!
Special thanks to Mike Musto for all your help as well!
Thursday, June 14, 2012
The Electric Edge
The Electric Edge
Only two more days until the anticipated Spring Awakening Music Festival! This weekend fest will mesmerize Soldier Field with a variety of electronic artists while also gathering many fashion tastes. A festival attendee can’t go wrong wearing fun, electric pops of color with an edgy twist. Summer festivals are the best opportunities to get creative. Always keep weather and comfort in mind for the ultimate experience!
Only two more days until the anticipated Spring Awakening Music Festival! This weekend fest will mesmerize Soldier Field with a variety of electronic artists while also gathering many fashion tastes. A festival attendee can’t go wrong wearing fun, electric pops of color with an edgy twist. Summer festivals are the best opportunities to get creative. Always keep weather and comfort in mind for the ultimate experience!
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Music Festival Fashion
With Spring Awakening Festival this weekend, and all the other Chicago fests coming up, I figured on this Tuesday afternoon, we all need something to look forward to, and who doesn't love so good ol fashion festival fashion. It really strings back to the roots of how SOTW got started as well, with the whole concept of music festival fashion and music joining forces. One of my main inspirations was attending Coachella Music Festival (2009) for the first time, I couldn't believe how fashionable everyone was, the polo fields were more of a runway then anything and sense then the whole concept of festival fashion has grown more and more.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Unveiling the Conspiracy
Stic catches up with Mikul and Louis from Midnight Conspiracy on the upcoming Spring Awakening festival, exciting summer plans, and the meaning behind their stage presence.
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| Photo Credit: Christopher Free |
SOTW: This summer Soldier Field will house the first Spring
Awakening music festival. What are your thoughts on the festival’s
potential and playing a large venue like the stadium?
MC: I remember watching the Depeche Mode 101 documentary as a kid
and seeing their massive shows on the Music for the Masses tour in other
stadiums like the Rose Bowl, and thinking "now that's majorly epic."
Hopefully in Spring Awakening we'll have the return of arena rock but instead
of bands like The Cure and Depeche Mode, you'll have DJs and electronic acts.
Boy, things have changed.
SOTW: In your opinion, what is the best thing a fan can do during a
live Midnight Conspiracy performance? What do you like to see when looking at
the crowd?
SOTW: What are your opinions on the overall artist selection at Spring Awakening?
MC: It’s a pretty solid, awesome lineup. As opposed to other
festivals it will be all EDM (electronic dance music), which is exciting.
Lollapalooza has a lot more mainstream bands. This will be the first fest in
Chicago that is pretty much all electronic.
MC: Go HAM, as the kids like to say these days. We like seeing crowd
surfing; mosh pits are also great. At Lolla there was a pretty big mosh pit
when we performed so hopefully we can repeat that at Spring Awakening.
SOTW: Can you explain your stage presence and props used such as
the illuminated pyramid that contains the outline of an eye?
MC: We have a 16-foot eye in the shape of our triangle logo that we
perform out of, for our "Eye Live" shows. It has LEDs and a full on
laser light show. The Midnight Conspiracy logo (a pyramid with an eye) is far
from the Illuminati stereotype that people associate with it. If you listen to our intro from our
shows, it suggests there's an elite few, a new world order, that overly
influences our lives, and our eye represents the truth and inner vision to
expose these oppressors. The "all seeing eye" has been used long
before its association with the Illuminati.
SOTW: What is your favorite festival attire when performing and/or
attending?
MC: We get a lot of clothes from All Saints like leather jackets,
jeans and shirts. So, we’re usually rocking that, but black leather isn't
always the best in the heat of the summer. At North Coast Music Festival we
were coordinating black outfits, but it was so hot, I had to rip off my shirt
and leave a bare chest and stomach under my leather. It was my trashiest
moment. Hopefully there won't be a repeat of that.
SOTW: Summer is right around the corner; what are your goals and excitements for summer 2012?
MC: Spring Awakening will kick off the summer. We’ll also be
releasing a new single called "Eyes in the Sky", a new EP as well as
all the remixes for our last single, "The Eye."
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Awakening to Chicago's New Electronic Reality
Soldier Field will become a laser light spectacle on
Saturday June 16th and Sunday June 17th for the Spring
Awakening music festival, an electronic affair hosted by React Presents and the
Congress Theater. Chicago’s newest fest will feature over 70 artists, including
Afrojack, Skrillex, Benny Benassi, and A-Trak.
The event was first hosted in 2008, but it has since
outgrown its original 4,800 person capacity venue in the Congress Theater. The move is Soldier Field’s
first foray into the dance-music fest sphere.
Keep
checking Stic-of-the-Week for an upcoming exclusive interview with Midnight
Conspiracy who will be performing that weekend!
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