This weekend the fest season gets underway with Summer Camp in downstate Chillicothe. From this point on through the next three months, you can if you like easily spend every weekend at an outdoor music fest. Eight Forty-Eight's Shawn Campbell recently sat down with Sound Opinions host and Chicago Sun-Times rock critic Jim DeRogatis and music critic Althea Legaspi to talk about the upcoming festival season. They began with this year's Blues Fest, which in two weeks will celebrate its 25th anniversary.
Also, happening this summer: Pitchfork Music Festival, Lollapalooza and
Rock The Bells.