The War On Drugs, Alt-J, Father John Misty on New York’s Mountain Jam festival bill


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The War On Drugs, Alt-J and Father John Misty are on the bill for this year’s Mountain Jam festival, which will be held at Hunter Mountain, New York between June 15th-17th.

Alt-J will headline along with Sturgill Simpson and Jack Johnson, while Portugal. the Man, The Decemberists, Jenny Lewis and Kurt Vile & The Violators are some of the other confirmed acts.

The War On Drugs are continuing the touring of their A Deeper Understanding album – one of Live4ever’s top picks of 2017.

“In a sense, A Deeper Understanding is all about relationships – ours with each other, Americans with their own identity, the fractious present with a misrepresented past – so when on Knocked Down the listener hears, ‘far away there is a star/Raining through the night sky like a drop/Give ’em all a piece of the moon for me’, maybe it’s a call for the human race to seek enlightenment elsewhere,” our review reads.

“If such a journey is required, The War On Drugs’ fourth album could be its soundtrack. This is an American band making America great again in the truest sense of the phrase, a vital slogan before its hijacking by fascism, a quest heralded by voices from the country’s grand, ridiculous, nostalgic soul and its sometimes epic, beautiful heart of lightness.”


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