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Moogfest, a festival of 3 extraordinary days of music, plus exhibitions, installations, films, workshops, and discussions, has just added some serious acts to the musical lineup. To help in celebrating the spirit and expansive vision of Bob Moog, the fest has announced the addition of Big Boi (of Outkast), MGMT, Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Jonsi, and Caribou to the great list of performers. In 2007 after the sixth album under the OutKast name, "Idlewild", Big Boi announced plans to release a full fledged solo album. While he had released a previous solo album in "Speakerboxxx," it still was technically under the OutKast name. The album was to be titled "Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty." The album's first promotional single, "Royal Flush", was released in 2007, and featured Raekwon and Andre 3000. Over the next few years the album saw many delays, but multiple promotional and video singles were released such as "Shine Blockas" featuring Gucci Mane, "For Yo Sorrows" featuring George Clinton and Too $hort and "General Patton" featuring Big Rube. The first official single was "Shutterbugg" featuring Cutty and the second "Follow Us" featuring Vonnegutt. The album was released internationally on July 5. Guest artists include alternative urban songstress Janelle Monae; Big Boi's own new group Vonnegutt; plus established rappers T.I. and B.o.B.[1] According to metacritic, the album has garnered "universal acclaim," ranging from 100/100 from Now Magazine to a 70/100 from Rolling Stone. In a July 2010 interview for "The Village Voice," Big Boi revealed that he is working on the follow-up album to Sir Lucious Left Foot, entitled "Daddy Fat Sax: Soul Funk Crusader," stating that he is "maybe about six songs into it". It is expected for a late-2011 release.
MGMT is an American band based in Brooklyn, New York, consisting of Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden. Formed at Wesleyan University and originally with Cantora Records, they signed with Columbia Records and Red Ink in 2006. Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden formed the band while attending Wesleyan University during their freshman year. "We weren't trying to start a band", remarked Goldwasser. "We were just hanging out, showing each other music that we liked." They experimented with noise rock and electronica before settling on what Alexa Finlay of Spin calls "their current brand of shape-shifting psychedelic pop." They graduated in 2005 and toured extensively in support of the Time to Pretend EP, opening for indie rock band Of Montreal. Thievery Corporation is a Washington, D.C.-based recording artist and DJ duo consisting of Rob Garza, Eric Hilton, and their supporting artists. Their music style mixes elements of dub, acid jazz, reggae, Indian classical, Middle Eastern, and Brazilian (such as bossa nova) with a lounge aesthetic. Thievery Corporation was formed in the summer of 1995 at Washington D.C.'s Eighteenth Street Lounge. Rob Garza and Lounge co-owner Eric Hilton were drawn together over their mutual love of club life, as well as dub, bossa nova and jazz records. They decided to see what would come of mixing all these in a recording studio, and from this, the duo started their Eighteenth Street Lounge Music record label. Moogfest 2010 will take place October 29, 30, and 31. For more information, please visit www.moogfest.net. (Image provided by Moogfest 2010.)
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