Summer music festivals can be a crapshoot: long lines for $8 bottles of water, multiple acts performing at the same time on separate stages, and that guy selling nitrous balloons in the parking lot is usually sold out in a few hours. Saturday's inaugural Governors Ball had all of the surreal trappings of a good festival (funnel cakes!) and few of the snags, as most everyone seemed to leave sunburned and happy.
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Governors Ball 2011: Just Fine If You Made The Ferry
We Were There: Chillwave Night at Governors Island
On Saturday evening, hordes of eloquent young pilgrims boarded a 4-minute ferry to Governors Island for a Gone to Governors show featuring Miniature Tigers, Nite Jewel, DOM, Prefuse 73 and Neon Indian—a packed lineup but (thankfully) there was little evidence of the long lines that have plagued previous free shows in the series. The overarching theme of the night, judging from the bill, was "chillwave," the dubiously existent genre of music first promoted by bloggers last year that features sunny, fuzzy electronica.
CMJ: The Cute, the Meh & the Rest of It
Click through to read about Kidrockers, Cruel Black Dove, Bridges & Powerlines, this year's Gothamist House, and a CMJ Fail at Brooklyn Bowl.
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