February 2012
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FORWARD announces Initial Line up and 2nd Tier of...
FORWARD Festival 2012 is pleased to present a brief look into this year’s festival programming in conjunction with the start of the second tier of festival pass pricing. Pass Holder Perks: We appreciate our pass holders and each year offer a set of perks to those that support the depth and breadth of the festival. Ensuing press releases will reveal additional perks. For now were pleased to...
PINCH TONIGHT!
FORWARD Presents: PINCH (Tectonic), Robert Manos, D&LW + Bass Architects
BRAND NEW VENUE - RAW SPACE - 1351 H ST NE DC
As we approach the 5th year of FORWARD (Coming Spring 2012), we’ll bring you a series of special events to give you a taste of what to expect from this years’s festival. It is with great pleasure that we announce the DC Debut of Tectonic Recordings...
January 2012
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Forward 2012 Launches!
88 announces dates and launch of pre-sale tickets for FORWARD Festival 2012 Release Date: January 27th 2012 Washington, DC FORWARD Festival, a 5 day celebration of electronic creative culture (music and art), will occur from April 25th through April 29th. There will be three pricing tiers for tickets, the initial limited offering is $60 and can be purchased at: www.forwarddc.com. The festival is...
November 2011
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October 2011
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Different World Lands in DC for 1 of 2 North...
It’s rare opportunities like this that gets Forward giddy. Don’t sleep on a rare, rare opportunity to listen to one of the most unique voices in electronic dance music as they touch down in DC!
September 2011
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Sangha - Decompression Throw Down
We like Burning Man. We like to decompress. We like you. Let’s get down.
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88 and FORWARD Present the Surreal Estate Tour
We’re quite excited to bring back FORWARD Festival Veteran and overall beat goddess Ana Sia to DC as she tours to promote her new Frite Nite compilation CD.
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June 2011
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A Guy Called Gerald - LIVE - Tonight!
88 and FORWARD Proudly Presents The Electric Cabaret at U Street Music Hall w/ A GUY CALLED GERALD LIVE - TONIGHT! GET YOUR PRESALE TICKETS NOW AND SAVE $5 AT THE DOOR!
88, FORWARD, TEC & UhallPresent: A GUY CALLED GERALD LIVE
12:00 - 2:00 Perlon, Laboratory Instinct, !K7, Sugoi - Manchester/Berlin cLinC & Joel Chandler 10:00 - 12:00 clincsounds.com, Joel-Chandler.com - DC ...
May 2011
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Noah Pred LIVE at FORWARD 2011
If you missed Noah Pred’s killer Live set on the Octave One, Dan Bell, KiNK night at U Hall during FORWARD 2011, fear not! We’ve got it here for you to feast on.
LISTEN!
If you like what you hear, you’ll undoubtedly like ERA ONE, the culmination of more than three years of thoughtlessness, including gems from the likes of Alland Byallo, Jay Tripwire, Billy Dalessandro, Kate...
April 2011
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FORWARD unveils its theme for 2012
Urbanity inspired the curation and design of FORWARD 2011. People following the festival experienced the theme’s influence via the festival trailer ; the website ; the iteration of the FORWARD logo ; the various flyer designs and the overall presentation of the festival. Based on our tendencies towards the natural, the environment and the fact that being “green” is...
March 2011
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To all FORWARD Pass Holders:
If you purchased a FORWARD festival pass, please make sure you bring your ticket with you. This is either the print at home ticket (which you hopefully printed at home) or an attachment that was sent to you on your mobile phone. You MUST have it with you to pick up your wristband.
It’s MUCH easier for us if everyone picks up passes on Wednesday or Thursday - please try to make this...
Interview - Joe Nice
The series continues with Joe Nice, the official US dubstep ambassador. It was nearly 5 years ago when we hosted Joe for what we believe to be the first dubstep party in DC. Now years later he’s headlining a night with Dub War mate Dave Q with our partners in crime, Dive and Lie Wrecked. 88: If I am not mistaken, you are the first US Dubstep DJ to play in England, most notably at the...
Interview - Braille
The series continues with Praveen Sharma aka Braille. To say the least, Praveen is a talented piece of ____. We’ve been huge fans of Percussion Lab for years, Sepalcure is a marriage made in heaven and now we get to experience the world premier of Braille at this year’s FORWARD Festival. Yeah, life is good.
88: How did Braille the project come about? Braille: During some downtime...
FORWARD Festival Announces Workshops and Digital...
FORWARD Festival is pleased to announce it’s Workshop schedule and Digital Art Installations. If you are interested in attending a workshop, please e-mail: David@eightyeightdc.com as space is limited.
Maschine Camp With Mike Huckaby Time: 11 - 2pm Cost; $25 , free with festival pass
Maschine Camp is the brainstorm of Mike Huckaby. It is an intensive workshop for users that are using...
WatchFORWARD Takes The Capitol! Plus, we annouce the winner of our 2011 remix contest! VICTORY IS OURS!
Interview - Falty DL
In our continued series of interviews with artists participating in this year’s FORWARD Festival - we’re happy to have had a chat with Falty DL, who will be playing Saturday night in the monster bass night with 5 areas of sound. To learn more about Drew visit his artist page here.
88: First tell us about the new album. It just dropped and we are excited to be some of your guinea...
Interview - Yann Novak
In another installment of our artist interview series as we lead up to the 4th edition of FORWARD Festival, collaborator Richard Chartier has a chat with Yann Novak. Yann will be making his DC Debut and playing at the opening night of the festival alongside Frank Bretschneider and Sutekh. Details can be found here. To learn more about Yann visit his page here.
RC: have you ever been to...
FORWARD Festival is pleased to announce several...
FORWARD Festival is pleased to announce several new sponsors, specials for pass holders, out of town additions and the local line up! $75 festival passes have sold out and $100 passes are now available at: http://www.forwarddc.com/passes.html
New out-of-town artistic additions include Com Truise - LIVE (Princeton) ; Sutekh - LIVE (San Francisco) ; Pure Hype - LIVE (Pittsburgh) ;...
Interview - KiNK
In our next interview featuring talent at this year’s FORWARD Festival, we get a chance to chat with Bulgarian phenomenon KiNK.
88: From your label (Porno bpm) and its website we gather that by day you make Bulgarian pop music. Tell us about this experience and how it may expand your versatility as an artist.
K: I started to do radio jingles / sound design in 2002 for friends, based...
FORWARD Announces Additions to the line-up and...
FORWARD Festival is pleased to announce additional out of town artists to this year’s festival line up and the Festival event schedule. Additional artists include: Braille 1/2 of Sepalcure - NYC (Global Premier) ; Cut Copy (DJ Set) - Melbourne ; DOV - San Francisco (DC Debut) ; ForQuarters Collective - Baltimore ; Futexture LIVE - Asheville (DC Debut) and Whalefish -...
Interview - Frank Bretschneider
As we lead up to the launch of this year’s Forward Festival we will be releasing a series of interviews of participating artists. We kick this series off with the opening night’s main attraction - Frank Bretschneider of Raster - Noton.
The interview was conducted by Richard Chartier of Line. Line is the festival’s presenting partner for Wednesday night’s A/V showcase.
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February 2011
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2nd Round of Out Of Town Artists for FORWARD...
88 and FORWARD are pleased to announce the 2nd Round of out of town Artists to be performing at this year’s FORWARD Festival in Washington DC from March 30th - April 3rd. After selling out the initial tier of tickets, FORWARD has another limited amount of festival passes at $75. Tickets can be purchased here: http://www.forwarddc.com/passes.html In Alphabetical order: Aaron Clark ;...
88 and FORWARD Announce "Drop The Bomb" Remix...
Many of our favorite genre’s of music are the product of cities. Techno came out of Detroit’s house and electro soup ; Hip-Hop out of the South Bronx’s projects ; Dub out of Kingston’s sound system culture ; Dubstep out of the clubs and gutters of South East London…the list goes on. In mid 70’s DC, a vibrant mix of Funk, Hip-Hop call and response...
January 2011
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88 Releases Line-Up Preview and Advanced Ticket...
FORWARD Festival, a 5 day celebration of electronic creative culture (music and art), will run March 30th to April 3rd. FORWARD’s out of town musical acts will include, but are not limited to: Art Department, ASC, Falty DL, Frank Bretschneider, Gene Hunt, High Contrast, Life and Death Label Showcase w/Thugfucker, Tale of Us & Clockwork, Mike Huckaby, Noah Pred - LIVE, Octave One - LIVE, Total...