What: The closest thing we’ll get to an East coast Coachella is All Points West and this year’s festival is looking a little more varied than the 2008 edition. Instead of two nights with the same headliner, this year each night has multiple headliners. We’ve got the Jay-Z, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, Heartless Bastards, Tool, Gogol Bordello, Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, MGMT, Silversun Pickups, Gaslight Anthem, Echo and the Bunnymen and a little band from across the pond called MY BLOODY VALENTINE.
Why wouldn’t you want to catch some of the best bands in the world with Lady Liberty in the background? Jersey City’s Liberty State Park is one of the most beautiful parks on the coast and is the perfect place to have the festival. Seriously, if you don’t go to this you’re 100% blowing it. Really.
Friday: Jay-Z, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, The National, Fleet Foxes, Seasick Steve, Telepathe, Shearwater, Heartless Bastards, Xavier Rudd, Flying Lotus, Rye Rye, CollegeHumor Live, Arj Barker, Eugene Mirman, Bo Burnham
Saturday: TOOL, My Bloody Valentine Gogol Bordello, Arctic Monkeys, Neko Case, The Ting Tings, Crystal Castles, St. Vincent, Tokyo Police Club, CollegeHumor Live, …And You Will Know Us By the Trail Of Dead, The Cool Kids, Kool Keith, Cage the Elephant, Chairlift, White Rabbits, Electric Touch, The Postelles, Black Gold, The Honey Brothers, Tim & Eric, Judah Friedlander, Jim Jefferies
Sunday: Coldplay, Echo & The Bunnymen, MGMT, The Black Keys, Elbow, Silversun Pickups, Mogwai, We Are Scientists, Ghostland Observatory, The Gaslight Anthem, Etienne De Crecy, Lykke Li, Collegehumor Live, Akron/Family, Steel Train, Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, La Roux, Janeane Garofolo, Michael Showalter, Todd Barry
When: July 31st - August 2nd, 2009
Where: Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ
Official Site: www.apwfestival.com
