Enter to win one of four pairs of tickets to Devo’s June 26 show at McCarren Pool in Brooklyn, courtesy of Live Nation. Just e-mail tips@idolator.com with the subject line “Devo tickets!” before 11 a.m. Thursday, June 19; we’ll select four e-mailers randomly for a spot–and a plus one–on the show’s guest list. More details on the bill after the jump.
Our 2008 Bonnaroo correspondent EJ Friedman sends along a note on Kanye West’s set, which was hastily rescheduled to 2:45 a.m. Saturday/Sunday and didn’t get going until the break of dawn: Nothing wrong with Kanye West’s ego being the size of Jupiter, but his “glow-in-the-dark spectacular” was short on spectacle, long on wait, and not at all what was promised. Was it because Pearl Jam ran late? Was it because of a disagreement over the safety of some portion of his set? Was it because Kanye’s over-inflated sense of self has crashed headlong into his limitations as a human being?
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• Lots of bands decided to give it another go, including New Kids On The Block. The other reunions announced this week weren’t as star-studded, but hey, not everyone can be as famous as Danny Wood. More »
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