Recent big-deal US concerts like the Virgin Mobile Festival and All Points West have been trying to replicate the long-time success of massive British music festivals like Reading and Glastonbury, bringing superstar artists from disparate genres together for a weekend.
For those who can't take the 100,000-person crowds, a new, more intimate, less corporate British festival is coming stateside as well. The All Tomorrow's Parties festival (named for a Velvet Underground song) has been a more under-the-radar success since debuting in Britain in 1999, and this year comes to New York State.]]>