Wanna spend an extra-special folksy night with Mumford & Sons and some Gentlemen of the Road?

Well, you'll have to trek approximately 308.5 miles to St. Augustine. But it will be definitely worth the road trip. Especially since this second annual M&S tour to "those places not often visited by tour busses and splitter vans" is only making five worldwide stops, period.

Check the cut for a message from Mumford & Sons, plus the Gentleman of the Road tour's full schedule.

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Fear, loathing, and boiled peanuts in Sarasota, Florida.

​Alligator Alley, the artery connecting lower Southwest Florida with the Gulf Coast b/w The Everglades, is so flat, straight and strikingly unremarkable that it takes on the vertiginous qualities of the most hypnogogic labyrinths. That is to say, I-75 is so boring that it's damn near psychedelic.

Nevertheless, Crossfade was compelled to make the straight-ahead journey so that you -- the faithful reader -- may glimpse upon local musical exports making your hometown look good. Damn good.

This past weekend, Lake Worth post-punkers Weird Wives and Miami synth-and-rock trio Luma Junger made the haul up The Alley. This is part of that story. The part we can tell you.

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Photo by Chris Beug

These are Wolves in the Throne Room.

​Slashpine Travelogue
Wolves in the Throne Room
The Chop Shop, St. Petersburg, Florida
Friday, September 23, 2011

It's hard to reckon the episode we experienced in Florida's backwater over the weekend. It was was meant to be a quick detour on our way to the Death to the Sun festival. But it ended up being a thorough exercise in small-town mayhem.

We started our trip on the traffic-heavy Florida's Turnpike, taking it to I-75. The drowsy stretch was punctuated with five-minute storms, an FHP scourge, Walmarts, and rainbows. Eventually careening to sleepy St. Petersburg, we made it on time for the early show by black metal behemoths Wolves in the Throne Room.
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​Dude's already a boss at freestylin' rhymes. But does Rick Ross have what it take to be America's next best freestyle skier?

Probably not. Nevertheless, you might catch him on a Pennsylvanian ski slope come February when the Teflon Don headlines the MMG and Friends Weekend.

Together with Maybach Music's Meek Mill and the Queen Bee herself, Lil Kim, Ross is slated to perform at a "private venue" for an Eastern Light Getaways travel group in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. And for $345 per person (based on double occupancy), you can freeze your nuts off with these hip-hop heavyweights.

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Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #5
Pentress, WV/Springfield, VA/Miami, FL
8/28/2011

After we said our farewell to the strange and epic Indian Meadows, we headed to Springfield, Virginia, (Thank you, Patrick and Karen!) to shower, blog, and sleep.

Every time we closed our eyes, we dreamt of the Valley in phantasmagoric bursts of double-mirrored, flickering .gifs. More »

all images by Bleedingpalm.com

​Read the remaining entries from Roofless Records, Bleeding Palm and Crossfade's road trip diary.

Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #4
Pentress, WV
8/28/2011

On the morning of the third day of V.O.V. 2011, our bodies were catching up with us. The driving, the confederate graveyards, the camping, and two full days of music (way more than we can cover completely here, so check out the complete lineup and VICE's recap) had us feeling raw and slimy, like we'd just been born.

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all images by Bleeding Palm

​Read the remaining entries from Roofless Records, Bleeding Palm and Crossfade's road trip diary. 

Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #3
Pentress, WV
8/28/2011

Our journey was long, arduous, strange and had already brought us to the doorstep of Dixieland, and the middle of Mountainland Nowhere, West Virginia.

Before we left Miami, Rat Bastard had explained that the first night of Voice of the Valley Noise Rally is almost always the best. Because as the weekend unfolds, party-slash-camping fatigue slips itself around the neck of fun like a bummed-out noose.

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Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #2
Pentress, WV
8/27/2011

Miami's DWNTWN/Wynwood/etc. music scene has been talking (yelling?) a lot about venues lately. The firestorm started with Death to the Sun coordinator Ricardo Guerrero's bold declaration that Dade County's clubs and bars "suck dick" for reasons including drink prices, staff-slash-band interactions, and general ambiance.
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All images by Bleedingpalm.com

​Read the remaining entries from Roofless Records, Bleeding Palm, and Crossfade's road trip diary.

Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #1
Richmond, VA
8/26/2011

This is Crossfade and Bleeding Palm reporting from Richmond, Virginia on the road to Voice of the Valley Noise Rally 2011.

Despite the still-looming threats of earthquakes, hurricanes, confederate zombies, still-living confederates, road madness, and gas-station coffee we have managed to stay alive in the most basic senses.

We're just about to hit the road to Mothman Country. Here are some highlights from the journey thus far.

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​Party photography is about as old as stumbling in the dark with your piss-soaked pants around your knees and a puke-stained lampshade on your head. That is to say, documenting the party is about as old as partying.

You can bet your vomitorium that there were desperate Roman sculptors who spent their weekends carving out recreations of other people's orgies. And what was the Renaissance if not one big pouty-lipped, cleavage-laden party pose?

For most of human history, the medium has been fairly predictable. That is, until Bleeding Palm made its mark on the form with a wholly unique, no-holds-barred kind of psychedelic impressionism. And when Crossfade was putting together a checklist of essentials for our shamanic pilgramage to Voice of The Valley Noise Rally, photographer and animator, Ronnie Rivera, was at the top of our list.

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