Greetings From New Jersey: It's A Bamboozle Sunday
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Hey all! Welcome to a special Bamboozle edition of Festivus. As you hopefully know by now, we are in fact coming to you live from the Garden State. Some awesome artists played yesterday, among them Paramore, Drake, Something Corporate, Angels and Airwaves, Saves the Day, Hanson, and The Maine, as well as a few cool OurStage artists. But we don’t want to give too much away, we’ll be giving up all the goods soon in video form, so be patient friends! However if you’ve been paying attention (and we hope you have) you know that we’ve been live tweeting since arriving yesterday morning. Kudos to you! You’ve had the inside scoop so far! If you haven’t been paying attention, shame on you. But it’s not too late. Follow us on Twitter NOW @OurStage– we’ve still got a whole day of acts to report on in 140 characters or less!
Today we’re super excited to see a whole new batch of musical magic. Obviously Internet Warrior, the penman behind 
OurStage’s iRock blog is here as well, and we’ve picked the 5 acts that we’re most psyched to see this afternoon. Check them out, tell us we’re awesome, or idiots, or just tweet us the bands that YOU want to hear about.
OK Go: Fresh off the release of their third album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, OK Go has billed the album as “mostly a dance record”, a theme that will go well with today’s lineup. Damian Kulash has often described the band’s methodology as having good ideas and making cool shit. Can’t wait to see what kind of “cool shit” they’re going to throw our way.
Weezer: Call us old school hipsters, but we just can’t get enough of these guys’ sweet and simple lyrics and feel-good vibes.
Piebald: All Internet Warrior can say is, “they’re bleeping AWESOME”. Despite that vague description, Piebald is reuniting for today’s show and got to The Bamboozle using a van powered by vegetable grease. Score one, planet.
Minus the Bear: Going on at 4:30, Minus the Bear’s dance-worthy grooves combined with Pele-esque guitar-taps and electronics should jump-start the party and set the tone for the rest of the evening.
Matt & Kim: This adorable dance/punk duo puts forth seriously energetic performances that should bring even the mopiest of Bamboozle goers to their feet.
Also making an appearance this afternoon is OurStage’s own Death On Two Wheels. We’re eagerly awaiting their gritty guitar rifts to break up the unavoidable pop/punk progression of the weekend.
So to recap, FOLLOW US! You’ll be glad you did. We’re funny and we’ve got the backstage scoop. The internet fun doesn’t stop there though-continue to follow us at Bamboozle and beyond for artist, fan and news updates from OurStage. And come June we’ll be trading in our skate shoes for flip flips and moseying down to Tennessee to tweet from Bonnaroo. Did you start following yet?