About

WE Fest is a multi-day, totally DIY, volunteer-run extravaganza that always takes place during the week of Memorial Day Weekend. The first WE Fest was held in 1996 and since then, indie bands of all shapes, sizes, colors, and sounds have played this Fest, made friends, and gone home to network, share gigs, keep in touch, and make WE Fest part of their lives.  Past participants have included The Dismemberment Plan, Lamb of God, Discount (Alison Mosshart before The Kills), Mae, Ernie Brooks, The Mooney Suzuki, xbxrx, Colin Gimore, The Damn Personals (Anthony Rossomando before The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things), Frank Moore, Cory Branan, Mike Errico, Three Cornered Season (who became Asobi Seksu), Val Emmich, Dufus, Pattern Is Movement, ASG, The Negatones, Tris McCall, Tom House, Tracy Shedd, The Mountain Brothers, and many, many more.  

 

For the first year in our long tradition, we are accepting sponsorships from companies who don't suck, and we are no longer automatically disqualifying bands who have major label ties.

 

Below are a number of interviews and articles that chronicle in part our history and evolving purpose over the years.

 

• 2008 Jersey Beat review

• 2008 Blender interview with Kenyata

• 2008 Politics Of Confession blog

• 2008 Marionette blog about their show

• 2008 The Knowbodies account of The Pneurotics at WE Fest with live trax

• 2008 The Knowbodies blog about The Bloodsugars

• 2008 The Knowbodies blog about Midtown Dickens with WE Fest live trax

• 2008 CMJ account of EAR PWR at WE Fest

• 2008 CMJ account of Clang Quartet at WE Fest

• 2008 Spiraling blog about their show

• 2008 Encore Magazine article

• 2008 Wilmington Star-News interview with Kenyata

• 2008 Wilmington Star-News post-event review, and more here

• 2008 Review Stalker blog

• 2007 Bootleg Magazine article (published 2008, PDF files)

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• 2007 Encore interview with Kenyata

• 2007 CMJ Jason Glastetter blog

• 2007 Blow Up Radio (scroll down in "Other Reviews")

• 2007 Bootleg Magazine interview with Kenyata

• 2007 Incredible Edible Megs blog

• 2007 Eskimo Kiss blog

• 2007 Encore band by band breakdown

• 2006 Cultural Exchange Advocate article

• 2006 Jersey Beat article

• 2006 Stuyvesant blog about their show

• 2006 Funeral Crashers blog about their show

• 2006 Encore interview with Kenyata

• 2006 Encore band by band breakdown

• 2002 Sound The Sirens interview with Kenyata

• 2000 Prosolar Mechanics article

• 2000 Stephen Bailey article

• 1999 Mutant Renegade article

• 1999 Indie-Music.com article

• 1998 Eroplay.com article

• 1997 Absolutely Boxspring blog about their show

• 1996+1997 Shouting At The Postman articles

 

Other assorted WE-related media

• Flickr WE Fest photo pool

• 2008 MP3s of Poingly's WE Fest set

• 2008 Jersey Beat photos of Jim's top ten 2008 WE Fest favorites

• 2008 Barnraisers WE Fest video by Rocco

• 2008 Marionette WE Fest photos

• 2008 Jim Testa WE Fest photos

• 2008 rallycap WE Fest photos

• 2008 L.A. Tool & Die WE Fest photos

• 2008 The Knowbodies WE Fest podcast

• 2008 Jersey Beat WE Fest podcast

• 2007 Barnraisers WE Fest video

• 2007 WE Fest YouTube videos by Sanders

• 2007 910 Noise WE Fest videos -- Part 1 -- Part 2

• 2007 Poingly WE Fest videos

• 2006 Jersey Beat WE Fest podcast

• 2006 DJ Spork WE Fest podcast

• 2006 WE Fest photos from Daviso

• 2000 videos of The Cogs at WE Fest by Mite - Part 1 - Part 2

• 2000 videos of XBXRX at WE Fest by Mite - Part 1 - Part 2

• 2000 ChickenFish Speaks WE Fest photos

• 1999 XBXRX WE Fest photo blog

 

 

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    thanks to these fine folks for their schwag support this year!