The Echo Project Towncries Inaugural Lineup
Attention Georgia recycling plants: Come mid-October, fields worth of empty tallboys are headed your way. Prepare the big bins.
The inaugural Echo Project announced its initial artist lineup today, and the promoters of the new environmentally friendly event appear poised to jump on the crowd Vegoose left behind when it veered into the Coachella skid.
The Echo Project breaks its cherry about 20 miles southwest of downtown Atlanta in Fairburn on October 12-14 — many more artists are expected to be announced, but the initial roster includes Phil & Friends, The Killers, The Roots, Umphrey’s McGee, moe., Rodrigo y Gabriela, the Disco Biscuits, Cypress Hill, Cat Power & the Dirty Blues Band, ALO, the Avett Brothers, Stephen Marley, Perpetual Groove, The Polyphonic Spree, Brazilian Girls and, whoa, this is unexpected…Michael Franti & Spearhead!
This festival’s only got one big problem: Lineup disparities aside, it’ll still compete mainly with the Vegoose clientele, and The Echo Project doesn’t have, um, Las fucking Vegas as a backdrop. Regardless, early-bird tickets go on sale at 10 am tomorrow — see the official website for more details.
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Check out the new additions to the lineup:
New Additions Include The Flaming Lips, Thievery Corporation with Full Live Band, Les Claypool, The Bravery,
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Secret Machines, MSTRKRFT, JJ Grey & Mofro, Son Volt, The Egg, The Album Leaf,
Man Man, Tea Leaf Green, The Benevento – Russo Duo, Lazaro Casanova, and Telepath
Much More Artists are still on the way
So The Lips made it onto the bill after all…that’s good to see. they were in the leaked list but not the initial announcement. This festival looks better and better every day.
[...] Intermezzo: Echo Adds The lineup for October’s Echo Project just keeps on getting better. Les Claypool, the Flaming Lips and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are [...]
Add STS9 and that will be the icing on the cake!!! please! i will b there instead of vegoose if thats the case!
Fuck Vegoose it sold out, any real head will be at the echo project.
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to all my festie peeps, this festival will be huge, trust me make the trip or you will never forget yourself! I mean think about it, this is the first year so it is freash, and hasent been tanted or turned away from jambands (witch is the reason 95% of people will go). This festival will be way more than anyone can expect, “This is not like BONNAROO, VEGOOSE, 10K lakes, its way better cause it hasent been fuc*ed around with, they just found amazing artist and a great site. If you dont know fairburn, well it is somewhat like Manchester in that its a large farm with alot of acerage and plenty of room to camp that all i can say for now. Also I have a feeling everyone will be suprized what other artist will be their that are not even on the line-up. For example Medeski martin and wood will have a twist, John Scofield iam sure of it. Also The Benevento – Russo Duo, am I the only person that saw this, TREY ANASTASIO now feel out on this. Bonnaroo 2006 if you were their who played with The Benevento – Russo Duo, well if you dont know it was TREY. Now iam not for sure but it only adds up, and I would be suprised if he plays with MOE, who knows it can happed. Toubab Krewe is also someone who I see having a special peformance! Oh yea and STS9 will not be thier so stop being so picky you selfish peeps, how can you even ask for another artist to be added with this line-up, you people make me sick. If you want to see STS9 come to atlanta around NYE and you can see 4 nights of long set list. I will see you all their and like i said dont compare this to any other fest because its better than all of them, thats right i said it “IT WILL BE 100 TIMES BETTER THAN VEGOOSE” hahahahaha what you gonna do VEGOOSE now that you let thousands of hippies down, dont worry their is always next year I see them learing from their mistake.