Baltimore
Silopanna Music Festival
Saturday, August 11, 2012 (10:30 AM - 11:00 PM) | 
Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds 1450 Generals Highway Baltimore MD
Silopanna Music Festival
Featuring
- Cake
- Citizen Cope
- G. Love & Special Sauce
- Robert Randolph & the Family Band
- J. Roddy Walston & The Business
- Jimmies Chicken Shack
- Audra Mae
- Yuna
- Joe Pug
- Pasadena
- The Grilled Lincolns
- Jarflys
- Sweet Leda
- Swampcandy
- Tobias Russell
- Pressing Strings
- Stiletto
- Sun Club Band
- School of Rock
The 2012 Silopanna Music Festival will also feature gourmet food trucks from Washington D.C. Confirmed trucks thus far include DC slices, DC Empanadas, Cajunators, Feelin Crabby and Sinplicity Ice Cream.
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CAKE has never believed in gratuitous musical change based on non-musical criteria like culture, tribal assertion, or marketing. Writers looking for a simple story or singular trajectory often criticized CAKE for not reinventing their entire sound with every new album product. For CAKE this quest for narrative always seemed wasteful, and not about the individual song as the entity of primary importance. But for many, this lack of singular narrative didn't matter because CAKE usually found more variance from song to song within the context of just one album than many bands find in an entire career. And although CAKE may seem resistant to overt change and difficult to write about, their dedication to the individual song hasn’t gone completely unnoticed. "A small number of bands can claim an actual catalog of worthwhile tunes. Count CAKE in that category," observed the Oakland Tribune. Billboard magazine described CAKE as "A band that's hard to describe, but easy to listen to."
A few years back CAKE created their own sporadic, but exciting Unlimited Sunshine Tour, which held true to their more or less anti-genre, music-first approach. In its first year audiences were surprisingly accepting of this philosophy, and the tour included such culturally incongruous performers as the Flaming Lips, De La Soul, Modest Mouse, the Hackensaw Boys, and Mexican favorite, Kinky. Later, such disparately defined acts would include Charlie Louvin, The Detroit Cobras, Cheap Trick, Tegan and Sarah, and the far out comedy of Eugene Mirman. CAKE looks forward to building another entertainingly disparate lineup for Unlimited Sunshine Tour 2011.
Much can be said or not said about CAKE's new label, Upbeat Records and their solar powered recording studio, but for CAKE it is more about independence and practicality than about being somehow "green." CAKE has always been like a "do-it-yourself" craft project -- from studio engineering, production, mixing, album art, posters, and videos, to now having their own label, recording studio, and electricity. It's all a bit more work, but in the end so much more rewarding than having to work well with others in the old music business system, where unfair advantage is always held by those with the most offices and lawyers. The fact that the new album has been produced using 100% solar generated electricity from their rooftop is merely one byproduct of CAKE's long-term quest for independence from old, sick infrastructure.
A few years back CAKE created their own sporadic, but exciting Unlimited Sunshine Tour, which held true to their more or less anti-genre, music-first approach. In its first year audiences were surprisingly accepting of this philosophy, and the tour included such culturally incongruous performers as the Flaming Lips, De La Soul, Modest Mouse, the Hackensaw Boys, and Mexican favorite, Kinky. Later, such disparately defined acts would include Charlie Louvin, The Detroit Cobras, Cheap Trick, Tegan and Sarah, and the far out comedy of Eugene Mirman. CAKE looks forward to building another entertainingly disparate lineup for Unlimited Sunshine Tour 2011.
Much can be said or not said about CAKE's new label, Upbeat Records and their solar powered recording studio, but for CAKE it is more about independence and practicality than about being somehow "green." CAKE has always been like a "do-it-yourself" craft project -- from studio engineering, production, mixing, album art, posters, and videos, to now having their own label, recording studio, and electricity. It's all a bit more work, but in the end so much more rewarding than having to work well with others in the old music business system, where unfair advantage is always held by those with the most offices and lawyers. The fact that the new album has been produced using 100% solar generated electricity from their rooftop is merely one byproduct of CAKE's long-term quest for independence from old, sick infrastructure.
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Saturday, August 11, 2012 (10:30 AM - 11:00 PM)
Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds 1450 Generals Highway, BaltimoreMD