Kevin Bronson on September 26th, 2011

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Echo Park goes global for four days beginning Thursday, Oct. 6, when the Culture Collide festival returns for a second year, bringing artists from 24 countries to eight venues – and, on Sunday, to a three-stage street fair. The festival, the brainchild of the magazine/marketing firm Filter, will be highlighted by two performances by Brazil’s CSS (pictured), one to culminate the Toytoa Antics Block Party on Sunday, Oct. 9 – an outdoor affair that will also feature sets by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Datarock, Gang Gang Dance, Men and Cameras.

There’s plenty more. Several intimate venues in the three-block stretch of Sunset Boulevard will feature sets by the likes of Ximena Sarinana, Lindstrom, the Black Box Revelation, the Morning After Girls, Isobel Campbell, the Postelles and Little Hurricane. Highlights at the Echo and Echoplex include headlining sets from Liam Finn and Yacht. And L.A. artists are well-represented as well, from established folks like Jason Falkner, the Elected, Avi Buffalo and the Henry Clay People to some great emerging acts such as Hands, Incan Abraham and Tennis System.

Wristbands are $20 and available here.

After the jump, the set times (with addresses of all the venues, for you Echo Park newbies):

THURSDAY, OCT. 6

ReForm Academy (Presented by PS3) (1815 Sunset Blvd.)
11:30 p.m. – Lindstrøm (Norway)
10:30 –Cosmic Kids (USA)
9:30 – Midnight Surfer (USA)
8:00 – Bixel Boys (dubFrequency), Tropicool (USA), Surf Ambassador Hendo (USA)

The Echo (Club Underground, DJ Supercrass) (1822 Sunset Blvd.)
11:30 p.m. – Liam Finn (NZ)
10: 30 – Rainbow Arabia (USA)
9:30 – Guineafowl (Australia)
8:30 – Handshakes (USA)

The Twonky Chateau at Taix (1911 Sunset Blvd.)
Midnight – The Morning After Girls (Australia)
11:00 p.m. – Buck 65 (Canada)
10:00 – Disco Doom (Switzerland)
9:00 – The Awkwards (Switzerland)
8:00 – Kassette (Switzerland)

Swinghouse at Echo Park Independent Co-Op (1712 Sunset Blvd.)
9:00 p.m. – Ximena Sariñana (Mexico)
8:00 – The Black Box Revelation (Belgium)
7:00 – The Tender Box (USA)
6:00 – Los Hollywood (USA)

Origami Vinyl (1816 Sunset Blvd.)
7 p.m. – Roll the Tanks (USA)
6:00 – Electra (Isreal)
5:00 – The Yellow Dogs (Iran)

FRIDAY, OCT. 7

The Echoplex (Popscene, DJ Aaron Axelson) (1154 Glendale Blvd.)
Midnight – YACHT (USA)
11:00 p.m. – The Asteroids Galaxy Tour (Denmark
10:00 – The Morning After Girls (Australia)
9:00 – The Gift (Portugal)
8:00 – Hands (USA)

ReForm (PS3, It’s a School Night DJ Chris Douridas)
11:30 p.m. – Avi Buffalo (USA)
10:30 – The Postelles (USA)
9:30 – He’s My Brother/ She’s My Sister (USA)
8:30 – WIM (Australia)

826 LA (1714 Sunset Blvd.)
11:00 p.m. – Jason Falkner
10:00 – Suave as Hell (Mexico)
9:00 – Spain (USA)
8:00 – Electra (Israel)

The Twonky Chateau at Taix
Midnight –  You Say France & I Whistle (Sweden)
11:00 – Inu (USA)
10:00 – Tennis System (USA)
9:00 – Hypernova (Iran)
8:00 – The Black Box Revelation (Belgium)

Echo Park United Methodist Church (1226 N. Alvarado St.)
10:30 p.m. – Ximena Sariñana (Mexico)
9:30 – Laura Jansen (The Netherlands)
8:30 – My Bubba & Mi (Denmark)
7:30 – GINGA (Austria)

Echo Park Independent Co-Op
9:00 p.m. – American Royalty (USA)
8:00 – Writer (USA)
7:00 – Stephen Brower & The Silent Majority (USA)
6:00 – Dogcatcher (USA)
5:00 – For a Minor Reflection (Iceland)

Origami Vinyl
7 p.m. – Hooray for Earth (USA)
6:00 – Guineafowl (Australia)
5:00 – Paula i Karol (Poland)

SATURDAY, OCT. 8

Echoplex (Presented by Dickies, DJ Jason Bentley)
Midnight – CSS (Brazil)
11:00 – Young Liars (Canada)
10:00 – The Yellow Dogs (Iran)
9:00 – Descartes a Kant (Mexico)
8:00 – De Staat (The Netherlands)

ReForm Academy (PS3, Dance Right)
11:00 p.m. – Harvey (UK)
9:30 – Classixx (USA)
8:00 – Them Jeans (USA)

826 LA
11:00 p.m. – Isobel Campbell (UK)
10:00 – You Say France & I Whistle (Sweden)
9:00 – The Analog Girl (Singapore)
8:00 – Paula i Karol (Poland)

The Twonky Chateau at Taix
Midnight – Sparkadia (Australia)
11:00 p.m. – Cameras (Australia)
10:00 – Death Letters (The Netherlands)
9:00 – Please the Trees (Czech Republic)
8:00 – The Lanksies (France)

Echo Park United Methodist Church
10:30 p.m. – The Elected (USA)
9:30 – Matthew and the Arrogant Sea (USA)
8:30 – Carina Round (UK)
7:30 – For a Minor Reflection (Iceland)

Echo Park Independent Co-Op (Swinghouse, presented by ASCAP)
9:00 p.m. – The Henry Clay People (USA)
8:00 – TS & the Past Haunts (USA)
7:00 – Little Hurricane (USA)
6:00 – Incan Abraham (USA)
5:00 – My Bubba & Mi (Denmark)
4:00 PM Please the Trees (Czech Republic)

Origami Vinyl
7 p.m. – The Go Around (USA)
6:00 – The Lanksies (France)
5:00 – GINGA (Austria)

SUNDAY, OCT. 9

Toyota Antics Block Party on Reservoir St., north of Sunset

Stage 1
8:00 p.m. – CSS (Brazil)
6:30 – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (USA)
5:30 – Avi Buffalo (USA)
4:30 – MEN (USA)
3:30 – V Is for Volume (Colombia)

Stage 2
8:45 p.m. – Gang Gang Dance (USA)
7:15 – Datarock (Norway)
6:00 – The Asteroids Galaxy Tour (Denmark)
5:00 – Rainbow Arabia (USA)
4:00 – Chad Van Gaalen

Stage 3
11 p.m. – Cameras (Australia)
10:00 – Sparkadia (Australia)
9:00 – Chico Mann (USA)
8:00 – Dapuntobeat (Mexico)
7:00 – Hypernova (Iran)
6:00 – Indigo Tree (Poland)
5:00 – Gary War (USA)
4:00 – Holger (Brazil)
3:00 – The Analog Girl (Singapore)
2:00 – The Tender Box (USA)