Rock The Bells Festival
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The Rock the Bells Festival is a hip hop festival tour featuring Rage Against the Machine, Wu-Tang Clan, and Public Enemy that will take place during the summer of 2007. Other announced artists on the tour are: Nas*, Cypress Hill, The Roots, Mos Def, EPMD, MF Doom*, Pharoahe Monch, Sage Francis, Hieroglyphics*, Immortal Technique, Living Legends, Blackalicious*, The Coup*, MURS, Jedi Mind Tricks, Brother Ali, Cage, Mr. Lif, Grouch & Eligh, Hangar 18, Blueprint and Lucky I AM*.
(*selected cities only).
The tour will begin July 28 in New York City and wrap-up on the west coast in late August. The Paid Dues Independent Hip Hop Festival--which sold-out the Orange Pavilion in San Bernardino, CA recently--will also hit the road in the summer on a 10-city run across the continent joining up with two Rock the Bells dates in New York City and San Bernardino, CA. The cities and venues, final line-up for each date and ticket information will be announced some time in early April.
DJs on all dates are Mike Realm, C-Minus, Icy Ice and Rocky Rock. The ROCK THE BELLS festivals will be hosted by Supernatural, Rahzel and Hi-Tek.
Confirmed Dates/Locations: July 28 at Randall’s Island, New York; August 11 at the NOS Events Center San Bernardino, CA; and August 18 at McCovey Cove Parking Lot (near AT&T Park), San Francisco. In addition to the New York and Californian dates, Rock The Bells will expand with 15 additional dates where the Wu-Tang Clan will be joined by Nas as the co-headliner. (Rage Against The Machine will appear at the three aforementioned dates only.)
