Governors Island To Host An (Indie) Ball This Summer

With the Pool Parties not happening this year (at least not as we knew them), what's a young creative from Brooklyn to do for some entertainment? Get thee to Governors Island! This summer marks the first, in what is hopefully an annual event dubbed the Governors Ball. The music festival will take place on June 18th and features Girl Talk, Pretty Lights, Empire of the Sun, Big Boi (of Outkast), Neon Indian, People Under The Stars, Mac Miller, Miami Horror, Passion Pit (DJ Set), Reptar, Outasight and more to be announced. The press release tells us it's going to be: "a massive mid-summer dance party of epic proportions." Surely, with an even more epic line for the ferry.

Tickets (which start at $75) go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m., and you can get more details here. And now, more hipster cliches than you can imagine, jam packed into one video:

Hopefully the Girl Walk//All Day project will be ready by then... they've surpassed their Kickstarter goal by nearly $10,000!

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on February 23, 2011 4:59 PM

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bigmikebrooklyn

rock the bells was pretty dope last year.

Trustafarian

yeah - although i heard people are still waiting for lauryn hill to take the stage.

bigmikebrooklyn

oh, she played, she was just on crack or something, and had rearranged all of her songs to play at 2.5 to 5 times the original tempo. i thought she might spontaneously combust at, like, 3 seperate points during the show.

bigmikebrooklyn

oh, wait. i get it now

Spnder

$75 for a bunch of button-pushers? I like a lot of these acts, but at least half of them play straight off of laptops. Neon Indian is the closest thing to a real band on there. Add the life-wasting experience of getting on and off the island, bathroom lines, food lines and this looks like one fat rip-off. Have fun kids!