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The 2009 Festival Season Sees Its First Casualty [Cancellations]
Published 7/30/2008 by Maura Johnston at Idolator
... bands from playing six months before and three months after the festival, and have turned the Chicago area's music bookings into "the long cold summer... it's like hibernation," according to one local booker—were just too restrictive for any major acts to sign on, given the proximity of the New York City and Philadelphia markets? Or maybe it's just code for "the economy sucks, and we want to cut our losses before we start experiencing real deficits." Lolla organizers' Jersey festival dies [Turn It Up via Consequence Of Sound] ...

Vineland Music Festival, RIP
Published 7/30/2008 by brooklynvegan at brooklynvegan
... "That particular part of the country got too popular too fast; there are too many festivals in close proximity," he says, citing the emergence of the All Points West festival in northern New Jersey, which will be headlined Aug. 8-10 by Radiohead and Jack Johnson. All Points West is being staged by Goldenvoice, which also promotes the Coachella festival in California. [Chicago Tribune] ( ...

Vineland Music Festival, R.I.P.
Published 7/31/2008 by Justin at LIVE MUSIC BLOG.com
... Late last year, C3 announced they were going to stage a three-day music festival on a 550-acre farm in Vineland, N.J., on Aug. 8-10. A few months later, the festival was postponed till 2009. Now, C3 co-owner Charlie Jones says, Vineland is “dead." [Turn It Up] ...

Week in Rock: Bridge and Tunnel Edition
Published 8/1/2008 by Jeff Baum at Gothamist
... , which was announced before, then overshadowed by All Points West, will never get off the ground. The festival was originally very promising, with organizers from Chicago's Lollapalooza and England's Carling festivals coming together to attempt to book it. Turns out it was in a tough spot, having to compete with the much more organized (and Radioheaded) All Points West, plus the regular concert scenes of Philly and NYC. The East Coast is proving to be a pretty difficult place to get a big festival off the ground, with the failures of this, Across the Narrows and Field Day in ...