Wow, so that rumor that the little conference that could wouldn’t dare approach a live show like the Flaming Lips last year has just been squashed as they have announced Sir Lucious Left Foot himself, Big Boi. All we can say is wow…WOW…W…..O….W….
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DENTON, Texas (December 29, 2010) — Toasting 2010 goodbye with one last confirm of the year, 35 Conferetteannounces rapper Big Boi will join Mavis Staples, Dr. Dog, and others in downtown Denton, Texas, March 10-13, for what NPR’s Texas Music Matters christened last year as “the little conference that could”.
Four-day wristbands via Prekindle.comare available at a discounted price of $85 for a limited time.
Most recognized as half of the six-time Grammy Award winning duo OutKast, Big Boi (born in Savannah, GA as Antwan André Patton) is the rich-voiced, social-commentating emcee to his partner Andre 3000’s loud-outfitted, brightly spitting performer. Big Boi is heard by millions on tracks by Jay-Z, Missy Elliot, and Beyoncé, among other hip-hop contemporaries who’ve solicited the rapper’s rhymes, sometimes politically charged and sometimes, especially recently, decadently celebratory.
The “benevolent hustler, knuckle-dusting elder statesman, trickster smartass and street-level philosopher” [Pitchfork] stewed his own record for three years to much anticipation. Sir Luscious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty, Big Boi’s double Grammy nominated proper solo debut, made year-end best of lists fashioned by a spate of notable outlets: Vibe, Billboard, and Pitchfork ranked it among the top ten of 2010; NPR and SPIN were among other tastemakers to honor the record on longer lists.
“It’s one of the loosest, most varied, and entertaining albums of its time,” All Music Guide published of the record, which earned 4.5 out of 5 stars for an inventive onslaught of “electro zaps, scorching guitar flameout, and some piano fit for a power ballad’s coda … triumphant horns, a blasting opera choir.”
2010’s event in Denton saw the North American debut of Australia’s The Middle East [Brooklyn Vegan], a keynote address by seminal punk icon Steve Albini, and a free outdoor show featuring The Flaming Lips with Denton’s Midlake supporting that earned the number one spot on the Dallas Observer’s DC9 At Night-penned Best Shows of 2010 list.
Eleven venues were used for regular programming and about 225 bands from Denton [Best Music Scene, Paste, 2008] to Dublin were on the lineup, deemed a “scorcher” by the Austin American-Statesman. An estimated 20,000 people attended over the weekend.
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Best buy those wristbands kids.
