How Much Festival Is Too Much Festival?

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Jon Caramanica, Jon Pareles and Ben Ratliff discuss the vicissitudes and artistic value of music festivals.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your mandatory water cutbacks of music
0:06.2	news and criticism. I'm your host John Caramonica.
0:08.8	What if I pick you up from your house? We should get out. we haven't talked in a why we should
0:15.0	roll to see where it goes I saw potentially you from the gold you know that I
0:20.8	did I don't know if you know but I know who you are
0:24.5	You could be big as Madonna just get in the car and then let's touch a road
0:28.6	Don't make other plans say you get up early you work for the man. Eo okay, that was Drakes Madonna and if you all don't know, music festivals are popping right now.
0:41.0	It is April, the weather is breaking, and it is time to gather in a
0:45.4	field and hang out with your friends or maybe people who are not your friends and
0:50.3	enjoy being near people who like music.
0:53.8	Music?
0:54.8	Well you maybe don't need to like music,
0:56.8	but you should at least be near people who like music.
0:59.2	That seems like a good way to spend three days.
1:01.3	Madonna, Madonna is a song by Drake. Madonna is also a person.
1:06.1	Depending on the type of person you are at Coachello, which happened last weekend, a Madonna related thing happened.
1:15.0	If you were a type person enjoyed music, Drake performed the song Madonna.
1:20.0	You asked me to come to this conversation.
1:22.6	Was that a mistake?
1:24.3	Yes.
1:25.3	Okay, because I'm going to tell you.
1:27.2	Was Juliana Ransick busy or?
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