Free Press Summer Festival

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Free Press Summer Fest 2016 lineup

Modest Mouse, The National, Refused, Built to Spill, Against Me!, A$AP Ferg & more are playing the Houston festival

Free Press Summer Fest 2014 day 2 pics (Jack White, Wu Tang Clan, Lauryn Hill, The Kills, Die Antwoord & more)

The gooey ground created a nice open space to get close to the Mars stage for anyone who didn’t care about clean ankles and also gave the few dedicated (or more likely, inebriated) Free Presstonians a chance to cover each other in mud kisses to the tune of Jack White‘s playful ditty “We’re Going to Be Friends…

Free Press Summer Fest 2014 day 1 pics (Vampire Weekend, Deftones, King Khan, Orwells, CHVRCHES and more)

Houston’s annual Free Press Summer Fest went down over the weekend, kicking off on Saturday (5/31) with sets from Vampire Weekend, Deftones, King Khan, Anamanaguchi, The Orwells, Flosstradamus, Classixx, CHVRCHES, Mariachi El Bronx, Jana Hunter and more…

Free Press Summer Fest 2014 lineup & tix (Wu-Tang, Deftones, The Kills, tUnE-yArDs, Jack White, Vampire Weekend & more)

FPSF 2013 (more by Tim Griffin) Houston’s Free Press Summer Festival returns for its sixth year on May 31 and June 1 in Eleanor Tinsley Park…

Free Press Summer Festival Day 2 in pics: Cat Power, Baroness, Mavis Staples, TVOTR, UME, & more

While Chaos reigned in Austin, another festival was happening over in Houston, with the Free Press Summer Festival which was celebrating its fifth year…

Free Press Summer Fest day 1 in pics (Postal Service, Arctic Monkeys, Iggy & the Stooges, Passion Pit & more)

The official closing band on Saturday at FPSF was the Postal Service, but for those of us who know how much even mellow indie-rock like the fare played by Ben Gibbard et al…

new Baroness lineup touring, playing Chaos, FPSF, Trees in Dallas, Lollapalooza & other dates

John Baizley @ North Door SXSW 2013 (more by Greg Cristman)”The last night at SXSW, while everyone else was seeing Prince and Justin Timberlake, I went to the Invisible Oranges showcase, which was loaded with very loud acts — KEN Mode, Full Of Hell, Pallbearer — and one pretty quiet one: John Baizley of Baroness, playing (mostly) solo, doing some Townes Van Zandt covers, some Baroness songs stripped down, and talking about his recovery from the injuries he sustained when his band’s tour bus crashed, injuring nine members of its crew…