If there’s one thing I love more than listening to music from the comfort of my own bedroom, it’s listening to music live. Particularly at music festivals, where a hefty chunk of change can enable me to see like, 20 of my favorite bands all at once.

Although I always hit my local festies (including Hookahville and any festival @ Nelson’s Ledges – check them out if you’re in the area!), after my amazing, mind-bending experience at Bonnaroo two years ago, I feel that it’s time to expand my horizons and venture out of state (and of my mind) another time.

But, while scouring the internet for my next super-hippie-indie-rock-y adventure, I realized that what I really needed was one list. A list that compared not only locations and dates, but also prices of the various festivals spreading good vibes and sweet music throughout the summer. So, I’m going to create it. Here is the first installment of my semi-comprehensive list of the major (and minor) music festivals still to come this summer: the Midwest.

So bust out the flowy skirts, a nice pair of Birkenstocks and some moonshine and hit the road. And act fast, cause most ticket prices increase the longer you wait to buy them.

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There are a lot of things about France that, despite trying hard to understand, I just can’t wrap my head around. First—tight pants. The men there wear the tightest pants you have ever seen, and it is not cute. Not at all. In fact, it’s really disturbing.

Second—Serge Gainsbourg. Monsieur Gainsbourg is a French icon—a singer, songwriter, film writer, philanderer, sex god. Actually you might as well think of him as the second coming of the Messiah. People there worship him, and I can’t quite figure out why.

I haven’t heard a ton of his music—French music is another thing that I don’t get. It’s almost good… but not so much. And Serge is just about the farthest thing from sexy that I can imagine. Ok—in his younger years he wasn’t so bad, but I imagine he wore really tight pants too.

His daughter Charlotte, on the other hand, personifies French beauty. She is just stunning. And talented. Serge rocketed young Charlotte to fame at the tender age of 13 by recording a duet with her called Lemon Incest. Yup, you read that right.

He also wrote a film for his young daughter in which she was stripped down, and crawls seductively into bed with her loving, doting father, The whole thing is just weird. Which makes it kind of amazing that she seems so normal now.

Charlotte has been acting in French films for decades now winning awards all over the place. Check out The Science of Sleep if you’d like to see her acting chops—the movie is great and she stars opposite the adorable Gael Garcia Bernal.

In the 80’s she recorded her first solo album, and since then has made numerous appearances on others artist’s records. She sang backup on Badly Drawn Boy’s Have You Fed the Fish, and appears in Madonna’s What It Feels Like for A Girl (she does the spoken intro).

But she finally released another solo album—5:55—and in my opinion, it’s beautiful. Charlotte is shy on the mic—apparently in order to record, she had to sing with a sheet over her head That shyness comes through, but it makes the album somewhat mysterious, and haunting. It’s almost as if Charlotte is letting you in on a little secret. Read More »