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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Planet Caravan Festival

What: AC Entertainment presents Planet Caravan featuring Clutch, Pentagram, Orange Goblin, Kylesa, Burst, YOB, Wino, Astra, Revolution Mother, Taddy Porter, Orchid, and Pick up the Snake
When: September 18 and 19, 2009
Where: The Orange Peel, Asheville, North Carolina
How: Tickets are $79.50, plus applicable service fees, available beginning Saturday, July 18, at 12 p.m. Eastern time, via The Orange Peel box office, by phone at 866-468-7630 and online at www.planetcaravanfestival.com

KNOXVILLE AC Entertainment is proud to announce Planet Caravan, a two-day music festival celebrating the origins of heavy music at The Orange Peel Social Aid and Pleasure Club in Asheville, North Carolina. Featuring a line-up of some of the best emerging and established rock and metal bands, the debut festival showcases heavy music in many of its various sub-genres and incarnations, from doom and psychedelic to progressive and experimental.

"Planet Caravan is an homage to the pioneers of heavy music," says event creator Charlie Jennings. "The event spotlights bands that carry on the traditional sounds of heavy rock and blues but also push it into new and exciting territories."

This year's festival features Maryland hard rockers Clutch, who released their ninth studio album, Strange Cousins from the West, on July 7. Highly influential, recently reunited doom metal legends Pentagram will appear for a rare performance. Swedish progressive metal band Burst will make its first-ever U.S. appearance at Planet Caravan. Orange Goblin, named "the best underground band in Britain," by Metal Hammer magazine, will make their first appearance in three years and their only U.S. performance in 2009. And, hot off their newest release Static Tensions and a major tour with Mastodon, Georgia band Kylesa will bring their sludgy brand of rock to the Planet Caravan stage.

Other performers include newly reformed doom band YOB, who return to the East Coast for the first time. Doom metal icon Scott Weinrich (of St. Vitus and The Obsessed fame) appears with his new project Wino. Hot new San Diego band Astra will perform tracks from their recent Rise Above/Metal blade release The Weirding. In other firsts, San Francisco's Orchid will make their debut performance outside the Bay Area. Rounding out the bill will be Mike Vallely's Revolution Mother, modern blues rockers Taddy Porter, and Knoxville's own Pick up the Snake.

That the first Planet Caravan is being held at The Orange Peel is a testament to the club's premier status in the rock community. Named one of the top five rock clubs by Rolling Stone in the magazine's "Best of Rock 2008" issue, The Orange Peel is situated in vibrant downtown Asheville, N.C. Since it opened in 2002, The Orange Peel has hosted revered performers including Queens of the Stone Age, King Crimson, Wolfmother, The Flaming Lips, Wilco, Sonic Youth, and 311, as well as special performances by The Beastie Boys, Bob Dylan, Ben Harper, and a nine-night residency with the Smashing Pumpkins.

Asheville, situated in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina with an estimated population of over 70,000, is recognized for its unique Bohemian culture, natural beauty, and lively downtown, often referred to as the "Paris of the South."

Here's the complete line-up:

Clutch
Pentagram
Orange Goblin
Kylesa
Burst
YOB
Wino
Astra
Taddy Porter
Tombs
Bison b.c.
Zoroaster
The Gates of Slumber
Orchid
Sourvein
Hull
Salome
Batillus
Pick Up The Snake

Revolution Mother is no longer on the bill.

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