Bose iPod Dock Giveaway!

The fine people at Mellow Mushroom have graciously hooked us up with some Bose iPod Docks to give away to YOU.

To be Automatically entered to win, you must arrive at 529 BEFORE 6pm for the Hijacking Music Festival.

It’s that easy.

BONUS: Before 4pm you can get in for just $10

BONUS: The first bands on the list are POWERHOUSES that you don’t want to miss!

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Mellow Mushroom Menu for Hijacking Music Festival 2012

Mellow Mushroom is showing up Food Truck style and supplying the food for this years Festival!

Here’s the menu.

$3.00 flat rate for each:

2 Pretzels
- Salt or Parmesan w/choice of 2 dipping sauces:
- Balsamic glaze, Red sauce, Pesto

1 slice Pizza

- Oil/garlic base, pineapple, mozz cheese, balsamic glaze
- Red base, mozz cheese, pesto swirl
- Red base, cheese, pepperoni
- Red base, cheese

Hijacking Music Festival teams up with Uber to get you home safely!

Promotion code “ATLHijacking”

We’ve teamed up with Uber to make sure everyone gets to/from the Hijacking Music Festival safely and snuggly. No parking, no taxis, and best of all (!) no drinking and driving!

Uber is a mobile app that allows you to request a private black car at the touch of a button. Simply download the app from iTunes or GooglePlay (you can also Uber from your BlackBerry), set up an account, and you are ready to rock and roll Your private driver will arrive in 10 minutes, and your credit card gets charged automatically for your all-inclusive ride (read: NO CASH NECESSARY!)

The Details! – New Uber Riders Take $20 off each of 2 rides, to and from 529 Bar

  • To redeem, New Uber riders must enter the promotion code “ATLHijacking” **before** requesting your first Uber to the party
  • This offer is only available on rides taken to or from 529 Bar
  • Offer valid on rides requested Dec 8th, 10am – Dec 9th, 4am

What else should you know?

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Psychedubasaurus Rex – Live Review @ Doobious.org

Doobious.org caught the Hijacking Music Festival last year and gave a “glowing” review to Psychedubasaurus Rex. Check out the whole review HERE.

I got to watch Psychedubasaurus Rex for the first time. I had seen their What Up interview, but this was my first time catching them live. This is a mash up of superb talent from around the city, combining together to form great chemistry. The sound moves and evolves, creating atmospheres and places for your mind to go. I shall call them ShoeJam (shoegaze meets jam band.) They have an extensive music vocabulary though, as all kinds of different types of sounds came from their exchanges. With a trippy video playing behind them, you could easily listen and get carried away to the moon. At one point the guitar even sounded like it was channeling screams from some other universe. I really appreciated their session, and especially enjoyed when they got on a loud wave. They never play the same song twice, they just see the sounds and let it all melt together.

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Fine Peduncle – Interview on Metro Pulse

Knoxville’s Metro Pulse has a great article featuring Knoxville’s own Fine Peduncle. This intriguing stage performer is not to be missed! Read the whole article HERE.

Watching Cole Murphy patiently connect all his electronic gear and then lift it onto Preservation Pub’s stage late on a cold Saturday night, it would be fair for the uninitiated to brace themselves against the possibilities. Screen-gazing IDM, or a Girl Talk-lite mashup bandit? Beginner dubstep, maybe? As soon as Murphy picks up the mic to build his first vocal loop, an odd blend of college kids, hipsters, and outright weirdos crowds the stage. Three minutes into a nearly two-hour block of off-kilter solo sex jams, the man known onstage as Fine Peduncle has stripped down to his charcoal skivvies; by halfway through the set much of the audience has joined him in various states of undress, and Peduncle is splitting his time between triggering drum loops, confiscating new items of clothing, and improvising a song about shots of liquor.

Later in the week, Murphy admits that he maybe got carried away.

“That may be the wildest show I’ve done,” he says. “I’m lucky I have such good friends, because I woke up the next day and I didn’t remember anything—like, ‘Did I put my equipment up?’ ‘Don’t worry, we took care of it, it’s cool.’ ‘Why am I so wet?’ ‘Oh, you puked all over everything.’ ‘Why is there money in my underwear?’”