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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Cream Calendar Rites of Spring 2010 Lineup: Phoenix, Drake, Ben Harper and More

Posted by Steve Haruch on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:22 PM

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Hey, we thought it took 12 hours to release a festival lineup, so when InsideVandy.com released the deets on this year's Gathering of the Flip-Floppalos, we just figured they were gonna use "social media" to make us wait all day for ... aw hell, we were in a meeting and none of us saw when it went up this morning. We had important stuff to discuss! Also, we anti-climaxed enough yesterday to last us a lifetime. Anyway, looks like this year's Rites of Spring headliners are Ben Harper and Relentless7 and Drake. Not that you'd know from looking at the RoS website -- what is with this "We'll use anything but our own website to announce shit" trend? Why do you have a website, festivals?!

So yeah, Drake as in the guy who raps, "I can make your pussy whistle" (like the The Andy Griffith Show, no less) on that song "Best I Ever Had." Other artists you might be interested in laying down $55 in advance or $65 day of show to see while surrounded by Vanderbilt's chapter of the Future Embarrassing Facebook Photos of America club include Phoenix, Passion Pit and -- holy shit, Doug E. Fresh! The fest is Apr. 23 and 24, and tickets go on sale Feb. 22. Full lineup after the juh-juh.

Ben Harper and Relentless7

Drake

Phoenix

Passion Pit

Cold War Kids

Two Door Cinema Club

Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars

JJ Grey & Mofro

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

The New Mastersounds

Doug E. Fresh

Chris Hennessee

Melanie Fiona

Salvador Santana

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Posted by Anonymous on February 10, 2010 at 5:29 PM

Roo and RoS are both huuuuge disappointments this year.

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Posted by Anonymous on February 10, 2010 at 9:06 PM

we have better bands living here.

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Posted by tib on February 10, 2010 at 10:10 PM

Phoenix and Passion Pit are the only bright shining stars out of this otherwise typical bland RoS lineup.

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Posted by Steve on February 10, 2010 at 10:29 PM

Since they aren't Pitchfork darlings and haven't collaborated with Courtney Tidwell, Spin has never heard em, but The New Mastersounds will deliver..

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Posted by Open minded on February 11, 2010 at 8:10 AM

Unpopular with the creamers or not, I really dig Ben Harper--and the Relentless7 album is a good spin. Commence with the comment abuse.

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Posted by jas patrick on February 11, 2010 at 8:21 AM

Any clue what artists are playing on which days? Hate that it's just announced as one big blob of artists.

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Posted by Michael on February 11, 2010 at 3:25 PM

RoS lineup is definitely not weak... Phoenix and Passion Pit are obviously gonna be sick... not to mention the funkfest that New Mastersounds and Trombone Shorty are gonna drop on a bunch of virgins

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Posted by Anonymous on March 15, 2010 at 11:19 PM

phoenix and passion pit are good. drake is good whether you like rap or not. cold war kids are good. two door cinema club are a little cookie cutter but good. not bad line up. not really sure what yall are bittchin about

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Posted by asdfdsa on April 11, 2010 at 8:58 PM
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