Five breakout bands to see at Glastonbury. By Gary Moskowitz 0 Opinions 0 Share To play the Glastonbury Festival is to participate in a piece of musical history that has been going on since 1970, just a year after Woodstock set the worldwide stage for popular music. The annual event is still largely considered hallowed ground, not just for British music but for musicians and fans worldwide: a 2003 performance helped the Flaming Lips, who had been plugging away for 20 years, achieve global recognition; after rumors of sluggish ticket sales and trash talk from Noel Gallagher of Oasis, Jay-Z opened his 2008 set, guitar in hand, playing a version of Oasis’s “Wonderwall”—and subsequently...
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