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14 May 2012 Soul King Bobby Womack confirmed for Way Out West 2012! In addition to classic songs such as "Across 110th Street," "Woman's Gotta Have It," and "Lookin' For A Love" we can look forward to brand new songs from Womack's upcoming album The Bravest Man in the Universe which will be released in June. The album is produced by Damon Albarn from Blur and features collaborations with artists such as Lana Del Rey.
California's finest Best Coast are also confirmed to the main festival site - Slottsskogen.
We can also confirm one more name to Stay Out West: Brooklyn's Here We Go Magic.
Jimi Hendrix was one of those inspired by Womack's unique guitar style, The Rolling Stones' first number-one hit, "It's All Over Now," is an early Womack song, and Janis Joplin's version of "Trust Me" is hard to forget. He has played with Ray Charles, King Curtis, and Aretha Franklin; played guitar with Sly & The Family Stone; collaborated with Gorillaz; and was one of Wilson Pickett favorite songwriters. And the list goes on.
Read more about Bobby Womack
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7 May 2012 Ben Howard, the brightest star in folk rock right now, is coming to Gothenburg. Also coming are the dream pop duo Memoryhouse, the post-disco gang Friends, Justin Vernon's old bandmates Megafaun, Iggy Pop's new favorite band Jacuzzi Boys, Sweden's new diamond Sibille Attar, and the highly acclaimed Nicolas Jaar and Alt-J.
We hope you'll be there too 'cause it's gonna be a party.
For information about confirmed acts, please click
Line-up.
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28 Apr 2012 The sun is out, the air is warm and
Death Grips,
7 Seconds,
Zero Boys,
Adolescents and
Ceremony are now confirmed for Stay Out West
Läs mer om nytillskotten här:
Death Grips
7 Seconds
Ceremony
Zero Boys
Adolescents
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26 Apr 2012 Friends! Today the sun rose at 05:32 in Gothenburg, that's 18 minutes earlier than last week. In order to speed up the arrival of summer we have five amazing artists to present for you. Check them out!
Ane Brun
Mark Lanegan Band
Frida Hyvönen
John Maus*
Purity Ring*
* confirmed for
Stay Out West, our club concept.
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13 Apr 2012
More information on the bands can be found here:
Miike Snow
Oberhofer
Kindness
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12 Apr 2012
Due to the recording of her new album, Azealia has decided to cancel all her European shows this summer, including the one at Way Out West. We are as sad as you are but hope to see her in Sweden again soon.
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22 Feb 2012 Blur as we know it was born in 1989 when the band signed to Food/EMI. The debut album Leisure (1991) announced the arrival of a band with pop suss warped by an art-punk eccentricity. Yet Blur had more in them: namely, a revolution in the sound of English popular music. The second album Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993) reintroduced the idea that English rock music could be cool, and by the time their third album Parklife emerged in 1994, the rest of the UK had caught up.
The Great Escape (1995) refined the sound palette of Britpop, but Blur was already moving on. 1997's Blur was an about-face – scuffed, noisy and un-English. In 1999 they followed up with 13 which was an even more radical adventure in sound as William Orbit mediated a truce between organic punkpop and new-fangled technology.
The seventh album Think Tank (2003) was Blur’s first as a three piece after the temporary departure of founding guitarist Graham Coxon, and featured an eclectic variety of rhythms and textures, glorious melodies and their most direct set of songs since Parklife.
In 2009 Blur reconvened as a four-piece to play a series of UK shows including two sold out dates at Hyde Park and a historic Sunday night appearance at Glastonbury. A film about Blur, No Distance Left To Run, was released in 2010.
This summer they will join The Black Keys, Refused, Bon Iver, Florence + The Machine, Feist, First Aid Kit and many more on this year's bill for Way Out West festival!
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14 Feb 2012 Two people are rarely able to sound as brutal as The Black Keys do. But then again, two people are rarely like Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney: loud, a little imbalanced and overdosed on blues, glam and soul. The Black Keys have, with great negligence, muscled their beast into all the dark corners of this world, and it is therefore only fitting that they are on their way to becoming a staple of personal music libraries everywhere.
Their biographer will have a hell of a time tying together all the loose ends when it finally comes down to capturing all the innovations, projects and ideas that Auerbach and Carney have given life to. They joined forces with Damon Dash to make Blackroc, Auerbach has flown solo, Carney has had a side project whose members consisted exclusively of drummers, and together they were in the process of writing material for a collaboration with Ike Turner. It is what’s often referred to as a work ethic. And that The Black Keys have managed to sell a few million albums is a clear signal that their hard work has not only paid off, but that people have also understood just how good music can be.
After humming “Lonely Boy” to pieces for almost a year, it is all too obvious that the little secret we wanted to keep for ourselves is out. And even if this makes us just a little bitter, we can’t help but rejoice in announcing that the almighty duo from Akron, Ohio will be coming to Way Out West this summer. Because, at the end of the day, we know that only the best are good enough for the best.
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23 Jan 2012 Few bear their heart on their sleeve as Florence and the Machine does and even fewer do it with such brilliance that the dead are brought back to life. When the debut album Lungs erupted on the world three years ago Florence and the Machine quickly cemented a place on every list worth mentioning and garnered a chorus of praise expressed in the most extravagant of terms. Indeed the very hypnotic nature and vulnerable pathos of the album made the Thames overrun its banks in a flood of tears.
That was three years ago, and when Florence Welch pushed the buttons and pulled the levers to kick-start the machine again, there were many who put an ear to the ground in anticipation. Ceremonials is the vestment she wore; its train is miles-long and sweeps as velvet against a broken heart. Bombast and a subtle intuition for the grandiose gild each second and the whole world nods in unison. You have heard “Shake It Out” and know how superior everything can be.
It was also three years ago that Florence and the Machine’s performance at Way Out West became the talk of the town. Expect no less this summer when they return to play this year’s installment of Way Out West. Great gestures and even greater ovations are awaiting and nothing makes us happier. The countdown has begun.
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14 Jan 2012 Nobody – that's nobody, mister – puts Azealia Banks in a corner. This multi-talented rapper/singer/actress will not be contained by lazy expectations or simplistic musical genres. With the clubby anthem “212” she made her presence known to a larger world outside the New York scene. Gloriously unafraid to mix and match, Azealia Banks is currently putting together her highly anticipated debut album. Her many fans can expect a number of new tracks (you really have to hear “Licorice”) leading up to the release and European tours to follow. Way Out West is delighted to be a part of that launching plan, neatly summarized by Banks herself as: “Boom, boom, boom, bam, bam!”
And boom, boom, bam, darling, is just what the audience can expect from this flamboyant performer (previously gigging under pseudonyms like Miss Banks and Krystal Pepsy) when she takes to the stage. Whatever your choice of soul may be, she´s got it. There's pure pop, house beats, life-enhancing swearing, lean rap and sugar-coated R & B pouring out of her onstage. Above all, it's fun, it's true and it's proudly built to make you feel even better than you deserve. Oh, and there might be an unexpected cover or two as well.
So rejoice, people! Azealia Banks is coming and you will damn well know what hit you so sweetly. Nobody puts miss Banks in a corner and nobody throws a party like she does.
Tickets out January 26th, 9AM CET.
