"This was wonderful; a great festival."
Bob Boilen, NPR’s All Songs Considered

"It’s yet another way Moogfest is quickly setting itself up as the cream of immersive festival experience, while meshing seamlessly with its mountain-town surroundings."
Kyle MacKinnel, Loren Poin, FILTER

"All performing artists in attendance were there to pay tribute to the visionary with some of the best music that can be seen and heard today, and did so in spades."
XLR8R

"Events like Moogfest are precisely the kind of thing that smaller cities, particularly those with adequate tourism infrastructure and underutilized performing arts spaces, can look to as a transformative way to bring in fresh tourist dollars and promote a new form of economic development."
Rob Cox, Reuters

"During the day, a series of panels and workshops crack open the adroit minds of Moog experts and field pioneers, along with special guests like Dan Deacon, to tackle a range of subjects exploring the past, present and future of electronic music. Here, we have encountered innovations so progressive and mesmerizing that even the cyborg space clowns were powerless to resist beaming down and soaking it all in."
Kyle MacKinnel, Loren Poin, FILTER

"Similar to SXSW, Moogfest is a community experience. You’re not trapped in one area; you’re wandering around at free will. However, unlike the Austin clusterfuck of entertainment, Moogfest hardly gets chaotic. The walks between the Asheville Civic Center and the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium slightly mirror scenes in Titanic, but you never feel like a flood’s coming. It’s so lax. For a festival awash in electronica, the crowd is sensibly tame."
Mountain XPress

"It was the sheer amount of joy festival goers got from celebrating to that soundtrack."
Jordan Lawrence, Shuffle

"We should be proud of Moogfest. Seldom do we have a luminary such as Brian Eno stopping in our backyard to participate in a tribute to one of North Carolina's more obscure and esoteric adopted sons."
New Raleigh

"Moogfest came to a close Sunday with fans and business owners radiating warmth for the electronic music festival and its embrace of the city."
Jason Sandford, Asheville Citizen-Times

"Now in its second year, Moogfest has settled into a role as a signifcant cultural and economic force. Thousands of electronic music lovers from around the world visited to see famous performers — Moby and Brian Eno, to name just two on this year’s bill — and bars, restaurants, hotels and other businesses benefited. With venues across town, the festival feels woven into the city’s fabric."
Jason Sandford, Asheville Citizen-Times

"One needn't be among the electronic music faithful to take away extremely positive feelings toward Moogfest, Asheville's new, yearly electronic mecca."
Ryan Snyder, YES! Weekly

"Few festivals defy their attendees to completely reassess how they listen to music in the way that a weekend at Moogfest does. The gray matter-frying, booty-shaking synth jams raged until early morning all across downtown Asheville, but oftentimes the lessons in musical futurology were just as fulfilling."
Ryan Snyder, YES! Weekly

"The kind of electronic-based festival that caused more gushing than handwringing from the gentle souls at NPR."
Marvin Lin, Tiny Mix Tapes

"Dedicated to the celebration of unique expressionism, Moogfest is an experience not to be missed."
Franklin Jones, Columbia City Paper

"Strategically scheduled on a weekend that has been a cause for bacchanalia and extravagance since pagan times, Moogfest is a celebration of retro-futurism with displays of color and sound. Bob Moog, the synthesizer pioneer who gives the festival its name, would be proud."
Shuffle

"Moogfest was a fantastic mix of party-fueled elation and joyous musical discovery."
Jordan Lawrence, Shuffle

"Although the rolling Appalachian roads that led us to Asheville were not built from yellow bricks, we feel comfortable in proclaiming that we found our Oz this weekend. The late wizard, Bob Moog, once built his own version of the Emerald City among these wooded peaks, harnessing technology and shaping his wonderful gadgets to stimulate our ears, elevate our minds and illuminate our imaginations in ways previously thought impossible, or even forbidden."
Kyle MacKinnel, Loren Poin, FILTER

"I think this is the beginning of an annual event."
Bob Boilen, NPR’s All Songs Considered

"Moogfest is a celebration of retro-futurism with displays of color and sound. Bob Moog, the synthesizer pioneer who gives the festival its name, would be proud."
Shuffle

"An annual celebration of the legacy of synthesizer inventor and engineer Robert Moog, Moogfest might seem like an odd place for a classic rock fan to search for the rawk."
Justin Farrar, Rhapsody

"Moogfest 2011 will forever hold a sacred place in our hearts and memories, and it’s more than a safe bet that we’ll be game for (at least) one more magical round of synth-laden splendor before this world finally calls it quits."
Kyle MacKinnel, Loren Poin, FILTER

"I danced the night away with thousands behind me, proudly waving my glowsticks in the air."
Bo Moore, Paste

"So, with the ever over-saturating number of festivals looking to hop into the big leagues, how does Moogfest stand out? It turns out the young event had quite a lot. Firstly, there’s the lineup. . . Yet, it’s what brought these artists together that’s of more interest. . . . All the artists playing weren’t just appearing at any festival, they had been invited to the namesake of their art. Each and every one of them seemed to genuinely take pride in this, and the music no doubt benefited. It's this same distinction that attracted Brian Eno. . . "
One Thirty BPM

"A perfect little weekend."
Jacob Ganz, NPR’s All Songs Considered

"Nearly every performance brought the thrill of the unexpected. The weekend as a whole was not just fun, but exhilarating and thought-provoking to boot."
Hilary Cadigan, Lumino

"What's a guy like Capps doing in a city like Asheville, North Carolina? Well, from the looks of the past weekend, he's making serious coin for the people of this town in the mountains of western North Carolina."
Rob Cox, Reuters

"Though only in its second year under its current management and in its new home, the event has quickly become recognized by artists, music industry elites, and fans as being one of the most unique and truly revolutionary festivals in the land. Through its incorporation of some of the most eclectic music from the past four decades and music workshops open to all who are curious about the impact of musical inventions and work, coupled with the fact that the event’s attendees are also privy to Asheville’s native food-savvy culture as well as a plethora of art instillations all over the city, it is the complete sensory experience that sets the festival apart in a world of an ever-expanding market."
Liz Sweitzer, An Honest Tune

"Each show was a universe: old hippies sat entranced before Tangerine Dream as they emitted swirling psychedelic melodies and ambient chord changes; artistic types meandered around as Terry & Gyan Riley improvised on keys and guitar; and superfans spasmed in over-stimulation at The Flaming Lips spectacle."
Cayla Mackey, Vanderbilt Hustler

"Moogfest launched last year with an incredible line up, and built upon its success even moreso this year."
New Raleigh

"Sunday was bittersweet. As I stepped out of my car and into the brisk air to brush my teeth and take a water jugshower, I thought about how much I’d fallen in love with Asheville over this short weekend."
Nashville Nights

"Ticketholders can move freely and speedily from one venue to the other and generally get to see pretty much every performer."
Fred Mills, Blurt

"The festival was an unstoppable party, a swirl of bright colors and dancing masses, and still a testament to both the intellectual and hips-level contributions Bob Moogʼs innovations have made to popular music."
Bryan Reed, Magnet Magazine

"A lot of festivals bill themselves as being an inimitable experience, but Asheville, North Carolina’s Moogfest is exactly that."
Headstash

"A boon for [Asheville] and regional electronic music fans, and added international status to our music scene."
WNC Magazine

"Bob Moog, the man responsible for perfecting the design of the modern synthesizer, has been legendary among musicians for years. So it's only fitting that the music festival named after him, MoogFest, is quickly becoming legendary among a huge cross-section of music fans."
Relish Weekly

"Only in its second year, Moogfest has quickly become one of the United States' more diverse and cutting-edge music festivals."
Justin Farrar, Rhapsody

"Quickly becoming recognized as one of the most important events in electronic music..."
The Laurel of Asheville

"While the streets outside flickered cold, damp and dreary, the Asheville Civic Center took form of safe haven. Warm, dry and most importantly loud."
Bo Moore, Paste

"[Moogfest] appreciates the people who have laid the ground work for the youngsters who are coming up."
Jacob Ganz, NPR’s All Songs Considered

"If it sounds like a sort of Star Trek convention for synthesizer geeks (they 'air knob' invisible electronic equipment instead of pretend-Stratocasters), in a way it is. But that’s precisely why Moogfest, after just two years, looks likely to become an annual fixture for Asheville — and a model for or towns and cities."
Rob Cox, Reuters