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Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, CYHSY Play Osheaga Fest

White people may have stolen their land, but Native Americans continue to exert their influence on the continent's summer music festivals. The Osheaga Music and Arts Festival takes its name from a Mohawk phrase, and there are sure to be plenty of Mohawk haircuts in the crowd on September 2 and 3 in Montreal.

As seems to be the trend this summer, the top-lining heavyweights for the Canadian fest are the Flaming Lips and Sonic Youth, along with frequent festival bridesmaids Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Lady Sovereign, Dinosaur Jr., Wolf Parade, Metric, the Stills, Bell Orchestre, the Dears, Magic Numbers, the Hidden Cameras, Think About Life, Islands, Starsailor, and We Are Wolves, among many others. There's a heavy concentration of NYC no wave legends, with both James Chance and the Bush Tetras on the bill, as well as a heavy concentration of suck, with G. Love and Ben Harper.

Osheaga is blessed with a killer location, St-Helene Island in the Parc Jean Drapeau. The park was created for the 1967 World's Fair and houses some très bien large scale art work like Alexander Calder's Man and a Buckminster Fuller Geodesic Dome. A nice change of pace from getting stoned and dehydrated in an open field smack in the middle of nowhere.

Posted by Quanah Humphreys and Amy Phillips in festival on Wed: 08-02-06: 06:59 AM CDT | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink
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