Dustin Lynch Hit by Beer Can at Country Music Festival - Guardian Liberty Voice

Country music singer, Dustin Lynch was hit by a beer can at a country music festival where he was performing on Friday evening. While on stage, in the middle of a song, Lynch was struck on the right side of his face when one of the concertgoers hurled a can of beer at him. It hit him just beneath his right eye, cutting a gash in his face.

The instance happened at the country music event Mullet Fest, which was taking place in Niceville, Florida. Lynch was just about to finish up his rendition of Garth Brooks' well known hit Friends in Low Places. Dustin explained that he was moving along the catwalk when totally out of nowhere, a can of beer came flying through the air. It slammed into his face extremely hard. Lynch, 29 spoke to a news media source and stated that the can was full of beer. He said it struck him with so much force that it felt like a baseball had hit him.

Even though Dustin was not able to catch sight of the person who tossed the can, fans instantly started pointing to the specific individual and a brawl soon resulted. However, the culprit failed to be caught even though he had been pointed out. There was blood flowing out of the wound but Lynch decided to continue on with his show. Dustin said regardless of the incident, they completed their show like they always did; it just happened to be somewhat bloodier this time around.

After the performance was over, the country singer was rushed to a nearby hospital emergency room. Physicians were able to stop the bleeding and Lynch received stitches to close the wound. He later explained this was not something that would cause him to slow down at all.

He went on to say he would use the incident to help promote his brand new single Hell of a Night, in a brand new way. Dustin said the song basically has taken on a new meaning after this event. However, he stated that it was not cool to throw beer cans. He explained that the person who tossed the can at him did something that nearly destroyed a good evening. Lynch stated that the audience was crazy loud and extremely loyal. That was the main reason he wanted to stay and finish up the performance even though he was bleeding. He did not want to leave the stage until he absolutely had to.

Lynch had been the headliner of the country music festival and he showed exactly why he was. He continued to go through with his show even after he was hit with the beer can. He could have been severely injured, but luckily he avoided something that could have been a real tragedy. Dustin's bodyguards went out into to the crowd when the brawl started up but they failed to locate the individual. However, being the trooper he is, he did not seek medical treatment until the show was over. Lynch refused to let a beer can slow him down.

By Kimberly Ruble

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Observations on the Meta: Saturday at Treasure Island Music Festival 2014 - The San Francisco Appeal

I planned on attending TIMF because I wanted to see what a small festival with no stage conflict would feel like in a FOMO-centric world. Would it be part of the perpetual hype machine or establish itself as a legitimately curated affair that strives to bring people the artists they need to hear, where full sets beg for an audience at all junctures?

After one day of this shit, I'm not sure how to feel, other than slightly more relaxed than at Outside Lands. Festivals are a thing: they are a season, they perpetuate a culture, there is fashion to the festival. The festival is what got me innumerable free sunglasses and a festival bra and festive panties at Coachella after they'd expanded to two weekends, post-establishing dominance where the mere mention of days was enough to sell the entire event out.

This is a played out rant that essential boils down to the sheer fact that they don't need 'us'. Sure, they need fans but they don't need publicity. Y'all do it for them in the form of carefully designated hashtags, apps, and social media check-ins. What better way to affirm the greatness of an event than through the lens of a four inch screen?

So, what do you stand to gain out of my review? Why, a supposedly expert opinion of how the bands that don't matter (though regarding TIMF, they do. A wishy-washy line-up has given the festival a close call of finally selling out two day tickets just one day before the event, though it's winding down to the final day and they still have room for more single day'ers) appear to sound and entertain. So, let's get down to the marrow of things:

- Food and booze is astronomically expensive for a boutique festival such as TIMF. Sure, there are abundant options in the vein of food trucks and trendy juices but booze is rather limited (especially hard alcohol) and simply not worth the cost. Given security's lax standards, your best bet is to grab a flask and fill it with the good stuff before hitting the shuttle bus to the island. A particularly laissez faire security agent blinked twice and affirmed my status as a photographer before letting me in and that's what ultimately amounted to my bag search. Unless she happened to have x-ray vision, I'd say I'm safe and so are you.

- Whatever you're doing and wherever you are, look up and listen to and eventually buy tickets for Mø. I've never been so excited to see an artists with an eye infection simply because Mø's eye patch added a whole new appropriately pirate-y aesthetic to her stage show. The uber-catchy coos of 'Pilgrim' stayed stuck in my head up until Outkast's stellar set. Mø was the reason so many people showed up to Treasure Island around 2pm and for damn good reason.

- This may very well be the last time Outkast ever plays in the Bay Area. And this certainly feels like a finale tour, its celebration of two decades of the duo essentially adding up to the same show every night. It's become expectation that Andre 3000 wears a black matte jumpsuit with a different phrase every night, (though the price tag forever says 'sold out') this time choosing 'have you stopped growing' either out of sardonic need to divorce himself of the same tracks or as a nod to the recursive nature of the festival, which brings us back to the social media grabs and the fact that this review may very well be nothing more than an extension of that. Look at the festival I was at and see that you want in. As for Outkast, their festival season and possibly their career as collaborators, ends on a high note at the end of the month in New Orleans.

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Your Quick And Dirty Guide To Treasure Island Music Festival - SFist

Photo: Andrew Dalton/SFist

Hey, everybody! It's time once again for everybody's favorite, non-shitshow-y music event in the middle of San Francisco Bay, the Treasure Island Music Festival. Despite there being not a lot of room for getting lost, and easy transportation to and from, it is still possible to screw this up — or to get so wasted on smuggled booze that you sleep through the Outkast set. So, allow me to offer some handy words of wisdom, since I've been to one or two of these things.

First, there Are Still Tickets Single day and two-day passes are still available if you're still on the fence.

Getting There The free shuttle buses will be departing all day from Bill Graham Auditorium in Civic Center. This means easy access from BART and Muni, via the Civic Center BART station a few blocks away. ( Here's a map to Bill Graham Auditorium at 99 Grove Street.) The Bike Valet will also be located at Bill Graham, so you can leave your ride safely downtown.

Note that there's no parking on the island unless you spring for the extra parking passes, which are $30 per day.

Regarding Cabs And Ridesharing Apps No one's stopping you from getting an Uber SUV to bring you and six friends to the island in style. But seriously, the shuttles are really easy, and frequent.

Optimal Arrival Times Shuttle lines are worst in the mid-afternoon around 2 to 3 p.m. We recommend beating the lines by heading out to the island early and setting up shop on a blanket. You'll thank yourself when you catch early sets by Painted Palms and Cathedrals. One of the best parts about the TIMF is that you really can't miss any of the acts if you set yourself up halfway between the Tunnel stage on the West side facing the city and the main Bridge stage at the end of the grounds. Just remember, when things start getting crowded, your space is no longer sacred.

The Weather May Have Some Nasty Mood Swings The forecast calls for low 70s today and clear skies, with similar conditions on Sunday, however temperatures will drop after sundown, particularly on Sunday. So, absolutely bring an extra layer, and shorts or skirts might not be the best idea if you're in it for the long haul. The No Flip-Flops Rule is still in effect. [Ed. note: It is always in effect.]

Bring Water, Snacks, and Your Favorite Beach Blanket While there are food options available out on the island, outside food isn't explicitly banned so you're welcome to bring your own nibbles. Note that large coolers and picnic baskets are prohibited, however, so keep that stuff in your backpack or purse. Blankets and towels are crucial (see above). Also, in our experience there's always more than enough room to spread out on the festival grounds.

Everybody's allowed to bring in two factory-sealed water bottles. Be sure to stock up.

Beers Are Still Too Expensive This is a fact of music-festival life. That said, no one actually buys those frozen lemonades for any reason other than mixing with their smuggled vodka.

A Public Service Announcement About Controlled Substances We probably shouldn't have to point this out each time a music festival comes around, but there will be some revelers who (surprise!) have consumed controlled substances. We'd like to take this moment to remind anyone considering such chemically-enhanced enjoyment to do so responsibly. Tagging along with a less narcotically-inclined friend is ideal, especially for you drug rookies.

Alternative Activities Check out the Silent Disco on the East side of the festival grounds — always a good place to trip out for a little bit. Or find a nice spot on the grass to take a nap while XXYYXX is on. Or step away from the music entirely whip up some hand sewn beer koozies and flower crowns at Camp DIY, put on by our friends at Workshop SF, and then catch the sunset over the San Francisco skyline from the top of the ferris wheel. ALSO, take not: San Francisco's famed Trumpet Kid will be playing the Bandwagon Stage on Sunday.

Getting Home Is Annoying The cattle herding to get on the shuttles is always a good 20-30 minute wait, even if you dip out before the end of the last set. Embrace the line, make friends with your fellow line-waddlers; it's all part of the experience.

Cabs do show up on the island to pick up impatient folks. However, you'll have to walk out of the festival grounds and past the shuttle line to find them. On a related note: this is another opportunity to try out those ridesharing apps, but keep in mind drivers might not be psyched to go out to Treasure Island on a busy Saturday night in town.

Come Back On Sunday Don't be that guy who pounds enough $8 beers to end up with a debilitating hangover come Sunday morning. It's a two-day affair, folks. Keep your stamina up. And, as always, drink plenty of water.

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ACL Music Festival Wrap up - TWC News

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The Austin City Limits Music Festival wrapped up its second weekend and now it's time to reflect.

One of the themes of the fest was nostalgia. Both Outkast and the Replacements played the park both weekends as part of long-awaited reunion tours.

OutKast, the more popular and user-friendly option, drew huge crowds, full of people who'd probably not gotten a chance before to say they'd seen an Outkast show. Andre 3000 and Big Boi brought the southern funk dutifully. Crowds came early and stayed to the end.

The Replacements played to a smaller, older crowd, but a crowd that may well have been attending just to see them. The first weekend they were better, tighter than anybody imagined they'd b, but come the second weekend, they were louder, more reckless, and more like the Replacements' heyday than anybody could've expected.

Click the video above to hear more about the festival.

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The Panama City Beach Seafood and Music Festival - WJHG-TV

This weekend is the Panama City Seafood and Music Festival and Paris was live this morning at Aaron Bessant Park to find out all the details.

The festival will be this Friday and Saturday, October 17th and 18th. It opens at 4:00 PM on Friday and 12:00 PM on Saturday.

There will be about a dozen musical acts appearing at this festival, including Foghat and The Band Perry. The food will be provided by an array of ten local vendors like FireFly, Marina Cantina, and Smoke N Butts BBQ.

Tickets are no longer available online, but will be sold at the door. The pricing is $30 for a one day pass or $50 for two.

In addition to the live music and abundance of food there will be a kids area, 'vendor village', and multiple big screen televisions for football game watching. So come out to Aaron Bessant park ready to have a great time!

For more information on the festival visit pcbseafoodfestival.com.

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DCist Preview: Magnificent Intentions Music Festival - DCist.com

BINGO enthusiasts, lovers of free music and Skrillex fans surely felt the void left by the Virgin Mobile FreeFest. But 2014 may go down as the year that the D.C. music community really took ownership of music festival organization. The DIY spaces of D.C. mobilized in August to produce In It Together Fest, and although Fort Reno is not so much a festival as a local institution, it would not have happened without the high degree of public outcry and involvement. Sure, we'd be remiss if we failed to mention previous music festivals within the metro area such as the ambitious (in terms of scale) Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie Festival or the equally ambitious (in terms of headliners) DAM! Festival before it, but the events that have transpired this year have instead started smaller and planted the possibility of growth. Add to that list of nascent celebrations, the Magnificent Intentions Music Festival.

There may be a handful of unfamiliar names at the three-day festival, which begins tonight at IOTA, but everyone on the bill hails from the D.C. area. What's more, the recognizable names are nothing to sniff at. Haunting Neil Young-indebted Paint Branch plays tonight along with fun-loving indie rockers Olivia Mancini & The Mates and D.C.'s rock and roll workhorse, Justin Jones. On Sunday, listeners will be treated to the eye opening introspective folk of Vandaveer and the silky smooth soul of lowercaseletters. What's more, festival organizer Ryan Walker will be onstage twice this Saturday as his bands The Beanstalk Library and Cowards Choir will both be featured. We took a few moments to speak to Walker about the reasons he put together this event and why he chose this particular festival name.

I know that 'The City of Magnificent Intentions' is a Charles Dickens quote about D.C. but is there something additional that this quote inspires in you in regards to putting together this festival? I'm especially curious because the word 'intentions' often comes with negative connotations, such as what the road to hell is paved with.

My experience is that big aspirations have traditionally been sort of frowned upon in certain pockets of the D.C. music culture. We encountered that Dickens quote in the description of an exhibit on the National Building Museum's website, which made me realize that there's a strange kind of modesty that runs through this city, even down to the height of its buildings and physical landmarks, considering the degree to which decisions made here affect the entire globe. That's a great point about 'the road to hell.' I believe that the music that will be on display at IOTA this weekend is as great as anything you'll hear anywhere and is being created by people who are quite sincere, but there's certainly a winky doomed undercurrent (which I always appreciate) to the name of the fest!

What specifically made you decide that you wanted to put on a festival of local bands here in D.C.?

The purpose of the fest is to counter the notion of D.C. as a place that used to produce music worthy of being heard outside the area. We've curated a lineup that reflects a diversity of genre, but a unity of quality. We refer to this music and these acts as 'D.C.-area', rather than using the L-word ( editor's note: For those who are, for whatever reason, thinking of the old Showtime show, Walker means 'local'). Without meaning to denigrate the worth of good cover bands and bar bands, these are not those kinds of acts. These are artists making interesting original music that people would find just as compelling as that of the national acts they go to see at the 9:30 Club or Merriweather Post Pavilion. My hope is to introduce a cross-section of these artists to music fans who might be unaware or skeptical of what's happening in their backyard or, perhaps, just don't know where to start. I also wanted to do my part to begin to break down the philosophical barrier of the Potomac River by programming bands that are generally more associated with either side. I'd love to see more people going to shows at both IOTA and the Black Cat.

Have you ever put together a festival or a giant show like this before? How long did putting it together take? Did you learn any quick and important lessons about the organizational end? Anything you think you'd do differently next year?

The Beanstalk Library has put on our own multi-band shows at non-traditional venues before, but this is the first time we've done something of this magnitude. We've been working on this for about six months. In terms of the organizational aspects of the festival, I just tried to make sure to get people on board who are good at things I'm not good at. For example, in addition to the many many wonderful things I love about my bandmate and festival co-founder Brian Pagels, I've learned that he is a whiz with spreadsheets. We haven't really had any major snafus, thankfully, but we have had to figure out a lot of things as we went along. What I'm excited about for next year is that we'll have a formula to follow, so things will run even smoother and leave us time to try some things that we just didn't have time for this year, such as official merchandise.

Will people coming to the festival be able to see every band on the lineup or are there conflicts/multiple stages/bands playing at the same time?

There is only one stage with a single lineup, so if your schedule and attention span allow, you can see all 21 acts over the course of the weekend. If that's the route you want to go, all-weekend passes are available here or at the door tonight.

Some of these bands have gotten a lot of good press and reception both within and outside of D.C. With the understanding that you stand behind all of the bands on the festival, are there any that the general public may not have heard of that you'd like to tell us about?

Wow, that would be really tough. Every one of these bands are playing this festival because I think they are extremely worthy of being heard and I can't wait to see them all. In order not to completely dodge your question, I'll say that Carolyn Crysdale (opening tonight's show at 7 p.m.) and Jasmine Gillison (opening Sunday night's show at 6:30 p.m.) are relative newcomers who write and sing absolutely beautiful songs and that people shouldn't even think about getting to IOTA late. The same thing goes for those who have Saturday tickets. Get there at 4 p.m.; all these bands playing in the afternoon are really, really great!

Also: parents, curiosity-seekers, and completists should know that there is an all-ages kids' show on Sunday at 4 p.m. with Rainbow Rock, featuring many familiar faces from the scene performing children's music in costume.

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Who to see at Treasure Island Music Festival - SFGate (blog)

The best thing about the way the Treasure Island Music Festival is set up is that you never have to miss an act. With two stages within close proximity of each other and alternating set times throughout the two-day concert in the middle of the bay, you never have to do anything more than turn your head from one direction to another to see all the great music.

This year's lineup offers plenty with headliners Outkast and Massive Attack, plus a load of buzz acts like Zedd, the New Pornographers, Janelle Monae, Washed Out, St. Lucia, Jungle, Classixx, White Denim, Ryan Hemsworth and others.

Of course, there are a lot of distractions, too, such as the Ferris wheel, Silent Frisco and booths offering everything from free haircuts to D.I.Y. jewelry making.

So how to negotiate it all? The Bold Italic offers a handy guide on what to pack for the festival while the KQED Arts blog gives valuable advice on getting there and staying warm.

We, meanwhile, provide you with a list of the acts not to miss while you take it all in.

St. Lucia, 'Elevate' Fronted by the former South African-born choirboy Jean-Philip Grobler, this Brooklyn based band now makes electro-pop music that sounds like it was transported here straight from 1983.

Janelle Monae, 'Cold War' Her concerts always leave fans breathless, especially when she jumps from her own dizzying songs to electrifying covers of tunes by the likes of Prince and Michael Jackson.

Banks, 'Drowning' Los Angeles-based singer Jillian Banks makes moody dance music of the best variety, with a little assist from producers like Jamie Woon, Lil Silva and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.

Chet Faker, 'Love and Feeling' Nick Murphy, who records as Chet Faker, is up for the Producer Of The Year prize at the ARIA Awards in his native Australia for his breakthrough debut album, 'Built on Glass.' It's only a matter of time before America catches up.

Massive Attack, 'Risingson' This British act is best known for birthing several new genres in the 90s by fusing hip-hop and dance music but the innovation never stops. Seeing them live is often described as a religious experience (without all the weird guilt).

Treasure Island Music Festival: 12 p.m. Oct. 18-19, Treasure Island. Single-day tickets: $89.50-$175; two-day passes: $160-$295. For more information, visit: http://ift.tt/1rfMAzB.

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