The Sights and Sounds has been invited to cover the 2013 Hangout Music and Arts Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama and as part of our coverage of the event, and in an effort to continually bring you the best in new and great music, we will be running a series highlighting the artists set to perform at this year’s event. Read about the bands, find some new artists to listen to, and enjoy the sounds below.

The week of the big show has arrived! Anticipation is growing knowing that I’ll be hitting the road to jam out to some great music on the beach in a couple days. As you plan which acts to see, a lot of names might come up that you don’t recognize, so we will be putting our standout acts for each day into a nice little SoundCloud set over the next three days that you can listen to on your way to the venue.

Day two starts off with a unique blend of music with Earl Scioneaux’s Brassft Punk band – a New Orleans Daft Punk cover band that features soulful renditions of classics like “Around the World” and “Da Funk.” I’m intrigued to see them live and imagine it will set the pace to a great day. The next hour features a couple bands that I haven’t heard much of before, but I imagine I’ll check out a bit of the jam-band sounds of The Werks before seeing how the indie-pop sounds of Wild Cub play out in the mid day festival air. The rest of the afternoon sees me hopping between genres trying to catch some old school hip-hop with Public Enemy, toning it down for Dirty Projectors, then picking it back up with the electro-house sounds of Wolfgang Gartner.

Saturday evening leans heavy on the hip-hop, but as I just saw Holy Ghost! a couple months ago, the first evening slot may have to go to The Roots followed by some west coast beats from Kendrick Lamar. One of my longtime favorites, Slightly Stoopid, should set a great vibe for the evening with their long list of reggae/ska inspired tracks. While Bassnectar, about as opposite from the Slightly Stoopid vibe as you can get, always puts on a massive show that leaves the audience dripping. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, another one of the headlining acts who needs no introduction, caps off Saturday night of Hangout with a 2-hour set that I’m really looking forward to and that is sure to include classics such as “Free Falling” and “American Girl.”

Day 1 Playlist – Day 2 Playlist – Day 3 Playlist

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