A respected rapper, a rocker primitivist, an Afro-pop group from New York, and some moping shoe gazer.
What all these measures in general?
Not possible, except for the fact that all the book for the second annual All Points West Festival, a long and loud that proliferation took Liberty State Park, begins Friday and lasts until Sunday.
With artists from Jay-Z to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend is My Bloody Valentine (for each of the four above mentioned species), All Points West embodies the tolerant – some say confusing – the nature of today’s mega-musical — celebrations.
At a time when a very large stars as Paul McCartney turnover what can be done to California is edgiest music festivals (Coachella) and Bruce Springsteen to appear at the beginning as a mere hour greeting the band (Bonnaroo), reasoned that the Remote as rapper Jay – Z, with effect from Friday, the other is the art-rock types.
Then again, Jay came this party late. Initially, the Beastie Boys are the most important, on the first day. (Hearing closed on Saturdays during the events Coldplay Akan Sunday night). But a new diagnosis of cancer of the throat of the Beasties’ Adam Yauch needed last violin.
Jay is complicated by the fact that the kick-off with a rowdy cover of the Beasties’ No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn, “for morphing loophole in his own Brooklyn (Go Hard). “He recognizes the surrounding Jay’s set leaned in hard-rock and soul than usual. Live guitar wailed, horns all pumped, while the two drummers thwacked back. Jay-Z is not in the United States for the music (although he played the British Glastonbury Festival years). But you never know, his lack of experience on stage, the fruits of some of the poems is promised for the upcoming album “Blueprint 3″, for the old hits such as “IZZO (Hova)” The example of the Jackson 5 “I Want You Back”. He is devoted to the second “the greatest player who ever lived.” (Guess Who?).
Friday’s show, everyone needs a little variation on the typical fans forget the three hours of hard rain made the ground muddy enough for the new Woodstock – bare, apart from all political and social.
Ironically, the hip-hop star Jay in one of the hardest rocking set of the weekend.
Others come from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman Karen O, once even on the stage with the anger of the dervish.
Other important groups to something more nuanced, or diagonally.
Fleet Foxes pastoral functions, three harmonies, folk-rock fusion, with the old madrigals, while Columbia U grade Vampire Weekend, an intellectual approach to the Afro-pop, this painting as the next generation of the Talking Heads.
St. Vincent song played Saturday veered between Lullaby and horror film scores, vocal juxtaposition complex instruments with dissonant.
Some of the set, but more style: Q-Tip’s lively items resulted Friday in the eyes of the jazz-inflected forms of hip-hop, while Gogol bordello Saturday, was the unlikely relationship between Eastern Europe and the East Village punk. On the afternoon of that day, the Artic Monkeys Brit-pop in interesting caricatures.
How blissful rapid stress irrationality of the whole event. Finally, the All Points West seems hell-bent on all things to all people. The end is not a bad thing if it all.