All Points West Friday

Yesterday - Friday, August 8th - finally brought a true-blue music festival to the New York area. After years of trying by many different groups to host a festival near NYC (we all remember the ill-fated Bonnaroo NE), the folks at Goldenvoice (Coachella) and AEG Live (Rothbury, Mile High) finally found the right spot, and, by the looks of it, haven't created a complete disaster. Radiohead was friday's big ticket at the All Points West festival, bringing out a host of NY's finest hipsters to gather at the massive Liberty State Park in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty. While waiting for Radiohead, they were treated to a bunch of other great bands and musicians including Andrew Bird, Grizzly Bear, Girl Tak, Underworld and CSS. We're not in NYC for this event, but plenty of people are, so we'll let you read their coverage. Also, people have been posting some brilliant videos from the event, including pretty much every Radiohead song performed.

Radiohead - "Street Spirit (Fade Out)"



Check out the coverage and a couple more videos after the jump

All Points West Friday Coverage:

Billboard
Radiohead Dazzles At All Points West Opener

Brooklyn Vegan
live from APW - Little Brother on the Bullet Stage
Radiohead @ All Points West (night 1) - pics, setlist & video
2 minutes of All Points West video during Underworld's 'Born Slippy' & some pictures

Live Music Blog
All Points West 2008 | Day One in Brief

Stereogum
All Points West: What You'll See, What You'll Get

Grizzly Bear - "Two Weeks"

Andrew Bird - Fiery Crash



Stay tuned for more coverage round-ups from today and Sunday of the All Points West Festival!

-Eggs