RARE THING: The routine is almost always the same when one returns from a multi-day music festival. The suitcase sits semi-unpacked -- okay, mostly unpacked -- through the following weekend (admit it). Your various wristbands and tickets and fliers and memorabilia go into the drawer or jar or on the fridge or in a memory box (but never straight into the trash). And you think to yourself that while you'd definitely do the fest again, next year, you probably don't need to stress over any on-sales for the time being, since those generally launch a few months ahead of the happening. Wellll... That depends on the festival. True, there are many large-scale sound spectaculars that wait for the six-month mark, or even four-month mark, to put the tickets out. But then there are also events like BottleRock Napa Valley, a Memorial Day Weekend gathering that has been growing x 10 on the whole into-summer mondo music scene, thanks to its hot and everything-for-every-listener line-ups and the food/wine element that its location naturally brings. BottleRock Napa Valley wants to start the anticipation building way ahead of time, as in a year minus a week. So, yes, while BottleRock Napa Valley 2015 just wrapped, there is a pre-sale on for...
BOTTLEROCK NAPA VALLEY 2016: What will you be up to in 51 weeks? Might as well check this one off, if you like lively line-ups (No Doubt, Snoop Dogg, Gipsy Kings, Robert Plant, and Imagine Dragons were all on the 2015 stages) and good eats (Redd, La Toque, and Goose & Gander served posh vittles at the recently ended affair). So while you may not yet have your Fourth of July plans lined up, or your Labor Day 2015 doings, you can spread the word that your May 27-29, 2016 is fully booked. Want to get a taste of what just went down, whether you're reminiscing still or bummed you missed out? Reminisce/live vicariously here.
