![]() But two big themes emerged from my own listening at this year’s edition. Because of the festival’s sprawling size, neatly summarizing it is futile. The festival, which is now in its 15th year, featured nearly 150 acts across 12 venues over more than a week this year, and while the stars may not be household names, they are among the brightest in the genre, including artists such as the pianist Vijay Iyer, the bassist Christian McBride, the saxophonist Gary Bartz, and the jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood. Or it could happen when confronted with the scene a few blocks away at the Bowery Ballroom, where there were two unusual sights in the jazz world: long lines to get in, and patrons unable to resist the impulse to dance inside.Īs I have written in the past, Winter Jazzfest is a good opportunity to take the temperature of jazz and improvised music each year. It could happen via the surfeit of groups at the festival, such as Science Fair, that are led by women in a genre that has long been male-dominated. That could happen when a taut groove suddenly dissolves into a free-jazz breakdown, a trick the band Science Fair pulled in a set Saturday night at Winter Jazzfest in New York City. Check here for more info.The best improvised music destabilizes expectations. Crazy lineup! The show goes down 5/27-28 on the Atlantic City beach. It’s like the Adjacent Festival is trying to stage its own little Sound And Fury on a sidestage somewhere. ![]() There’s a little area of the poster that features all-star old-school hardcore punk crew OFF! and reunited Jersey ska-core band Folly, as well as some of the biggest and best bands from the current hardcore zeitgeist: Drug Church, Incendiary, Soul Glo, Candy, Zulu, and Gel. ![]() The lineup also features festival acts like Bleachers, Japanese Breakfast, the Front Bottoms, IDLES, Beach Bunny, PUP, Knocked Loose, Jeff Rosenstock, Mannequin Pussy, the Linda Lindas, L.S. Turnstile, Blink-182’s 2023 tourmates, are the third band on the bill, which is saying something. Blink-182 and Paramore will headline, and the bill also features Coheed And Cambria, Jimmy Eat World, Midtown, Thursday, Motion City Soundtrack, the Starting Line, Wheatus, Phantom Planet, and the Movielife.īut the Adjacent Festival also has a whole lot of rock bands who are currently relevant and who are working the intersection of emo, pop-punk, hardcore, and indie rock. The festival is all loaded down with bands that would’ve played the Warped Tour in the ’00s or, in a few cases, the late ’90s. That one will have Blink-182, too.Ītlantic City’s Adjacent Festival doesn’t have the gallingly ugly poster design of When We Were Young, and it’s not quite as nostalgia-focused, but it’s definitely chasing the same demographic. ![]() And today, we’re learning that the East Coast’s gambling capital is getting its own version of When We Were Young next summer. ![]() (It was supposed to be three days, but the wind had other plans.) Next year, When We Were Young is coming back with co-headliners Green Day and Blink-182, now with Tom DeLonge back in the fold. This past weekend, tens of thousands of people descended upon Las Vegas for the first iteration of the When We Were Young Festival, a two-day marathon of ’00s emo and pop-punk nostalgia. ![]()
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