AURA Music & Arts Festival is officially under way! If you aren’t lucky to be there, you don’t have to miss out on all the action, as the festival has just announced that they will stream The Disco Biscuits set on Saturday night. That’s right, you can enjoy the madness of AURA right in the comfort of your own home. The press released notes, “Currently underway at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park (SOSMP) in Live Oak, Florida, AURA Music & Arts Festival has announced a free li

AURA Music & Arts Festival begins next weekend, promising a big weekend of music, community, and fun. The lineup is impressive, with Thievery Corporation, Disco Biscuits, Snarky Puppy, ALO, The Werks, and more playing big sets at the promise land known as the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park. In addition to the music, AURA also makes it a point to bring some of the best yoga out of any festival out there. To preview some of the programming, we linked up with Joaquin Antonio, the

AURA is set for their biggest year yet! Not only are moe. and The Disco Biscuits joining Papadosio for the 6th annual festival, but the debut of Break Science’s Live Band alongside Kung Fu, Dopapod, The Heavy Pets and more makes for an incredible weekend of music. Take peak at their full schedule here. Highlights include 2 sets of moe. followed by late-night ‘Dosio on Friday, some late-night Bisco on Saturday, and the debut of Break Science Live Band on Sunday. Rest assured,

Miami is always a fun time, but with Phish in town for four big nights at the American Airlines Arena, the after parties are plentiful for a jam fan this year. Our pals from AURA Music & Arts Festival have a huge lineup planned for the weekend. On the 31st you have your choice of The Main Squeeze or The Heavy Pets, who are playing til Sunrise at a bar located right by AAA! You can’t go wrong either way, but a sunrise Pet’s set sounds like the winner to us here. Then on Januar

Ghost Owl has a lot going on. The group, who just added multi-instrumentalist Adam B to the gang, just announced a massive batch of tour dates (above) including an anticipated set at Suwannee Hulaween! The group will also participate in the Live From AURA Studios streams on October 5th, so be sure to mark that in the calendar for some quality couch tour. Finally, the groups latest effort, Say Goodbye to Finland will receive the vinyl treatment on September 2nd. That’s a lot t

Definitely a favorite over here at DubEra HQ is Asheville-based Papadosio. Out of all the bands lumped in to the jamtronica, live-electronic, jam/edm category, these guys definitely do one of the tightest shows. Having seen them numerous times, I can honestly attest that Papadosio gets better and better each time. The band has evolved incredibly over the years and I feel truly blessed to have been a part of so many incredible experiences at their shows over the last few years

With Camp Bisco taking a hiatus, the Disco Biscuits have to get their fans some hyper-active dance-rock  somehow, and it looks like AURA Music & Arts Festival will fill some of that void early next year with their 6th annual festival. Bringin’ it back to the Suwannee, but in March this year as opposed to February, AURA Music Festival will also host mainstays Papadosio, grammy-winners Snarky Puppy, Kung Fu, Dopapod, RAQ and more. It has been an absolute privilage to watch this

AURA Music & Arts Festival has opted for new dates for the 2015 festival. The new weekend will be March 6-8, which is close to when the festival was held in 2012 in St. Cloud, Florida. The Spirit of Suwannee Music Park will be the venue for the festival once again, which is just fine with us. The Suwannee is the illest place on planet earth, and we all know this. The new date will hopefully offer some warmer weather, which is nice because it’s DAMN cold. #conspirator #phish #

Out of the 12+ festivals and many concerts I went to last year, nothing was quite like Wanee. The caliber of talent is next-level at this one folks, from the Allman Brothers themselves to the new-school torch-runners like moe. and Umphrey’s. With so much damned talent appearing next weekend, I can’t help but to think of all the tunes I want to hear from these guys. So, as any good writer does, I decided to jot my ideas down and publish them like somebody actually cares. Allma

As the sunset upon the final day of the AURA Music and Arts festival attendees were delighted to see the familiar face of Paul Levine take the stage prior to Lotus’s final set. Festival goers were then even more delighted to hear Paul’s announcement, “Mark your calendars for August 21st-23rd, because Blackwater Music and Arts festival is making its return!” For those of you who aren’t aware Blackwater Music Festival first happened in 2010 featuring bands such as Slightly Stoo

Interview and foreword by Thandiwe Ogbonna Debuting in Florida for the first time at AURA Music and Arts Festival 2014, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong are taking off on an exciting tour spanning the East Coast and Midwest. Currently nesting in Baltimore, Md., band members Greg Ormont (vocals, guitar), Jeremy Schon (guitar, vocals), Ben Carrey (bass, vocals), and Dan Schwartz (drums, vocals), are hitting the road to reacquaint some and introduce others to their signature brand of f

Words by Thandiwe Ogbonna The Lotus Lounge, visible at AURA Music & Arts Festival 2014, is a highly capable relaxation epicenter. Housing a DJ booth at the center and a 5000 watt sound system, it is equipped with ambient lighting with the option to add a professional lighting system. An ongoing design, The Lotus Lounge is the brainchild of Eagles Nest Outfitters (ENO) CEO Peter Pinholster, who I spoke with about the design over the phone. He started “bending aluminum pipe” be

Words by Thandiwe Ogbonna Joaquin De Teresa, AURA Music & Arts Festival 2014’s Yoga and Meditation Director Joaquin De Teresa, AURA Music & Arts Festival 2014’s Yoga and Meditation Director, has a passion for yoga and hopes to inspire this year’s AURA family with an impressive lineup of classes and workshops to fit any interest. Fresh out of teacher training, De Teresa was first invited to teach yoga at AURA three years ago, and has since added Boom Festival in Portugal and G

We want to spread the LOVE given the spirit of Valentine’s Day and the festival season on the horizon. So, we are giving away a free 3-day pass to AURA Music & Arts Festival. Here’s how it works: 1. Post a photo of a heart on Instagram, and get CREATIVE with it! Paint it, make it with your body or draw it in the sand. Do WHATEVER! 2. Tag @dub3ra and @auramusicfest along with the hashtag #AURALOVE 3. We will stop taking entries on February 5th and post them to our Facebook

Guys I have good news…AURA is approaching! That’s right gang! Our time away from the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park is coming to an end, thankfully. Today we are going to focus on the one, the only, LOTUS, as we increase your (and our) anticipation for the upcoming AURA Music & Arts Festival. First off, I’d like to say that the band is currently killing it. The setlists have been looking real crunchy as they warm up the  currently freezing United States. Good thing they’re bri

Words by Taylor Cleary [ Image via AURA Music & Arts Festival’s Instagram @auramusicfest ] AURA Music Festival is upon us, and it almost overshadows the other major event of that weekend: Valentine’s Day. But that’s not to say you can’t celebrate both! Here are some V-Day ideas you can take heart in (sorry, had to) with your Suwannee sweetie: Take a nature walk If there’s one thing the Suwannee isn’t short on, it’s nature. Duh. So go enjoy it! Take a break from the whiskey (o

We asked our Facebook following which songs they want to hear Papadosio play at the AURA Music & Arts Festival come Valentine’s weekend. Here’s what we got… “Find Your Cloud” “…because it makes me feel like i’m freaking floating.” – Patrick Griffin “I really hope they play Find your Cloud! It’s one of my all time favorites and last time I saw them they didn’t play it so I would really enjoy hearing it live.” – Liane Robinson “The Sum” “That song hits the soul” – Dre Hernandez

Wanee Festival fans can get real excited, because their fest just brought the straight, hot, fire. The brothers are obviously headlining, but Lynyrd Skynyrd, Trey Anastasio Band, Tedeschi Trucks, Gov’t Mule and Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band will join. Further down the ranks is Umphrey’s McGee, Ziggy Marley, Blues Traveler, Chris Rabinson Brotherhood, Dumpstaphunk performing the music of Led Zeppelin, Soulive, Rusted Root, Rob Garza (of Thievery Corporation), Break Science and even mor

The good folks over at AURA Music & Arts Festival have announced the schedule for their fifth annual festival. Highlights include a Friday night The Revivalists > Heavy Pets > Papadosio > ZOOGMA > Kung Fu > Conspirator > Talking Heads Tribute over about 10 hours. You’ll undoubtably need to strap on a backpack with your evening wear, because there’s very little opportunity to head back to camp without missing dope music. Saturday has late night sets by Lotus (12am – 1:45am) an

Conspirator will return to the Suwannee for this year’s AURA Music & Arts Festival. Fans of the band may be reluctant to remember Hulaween’s torrential downpour that kept the band, along with Big Gigantic, from performing at the festival. Considering these circumstances, Conspirator better be ready to bring it come AURA. Last year, Conspirator was amidst their full-blown EDM experiment. The songs were beginning to sound more like Porter Robinson or Skrillex b-sides than anyth