The weather cooled off, but Julian Casablancas, Girl Talk, Butthole Surfers, the Growlers, Fear, Bad Brains and Beach Fossils all brought the heat on Day 2 of the Growlers Six.
Set times are here for The Growlers 6, the O.C. band’s sixth annual festival and first to be hold on the waterfront in San Pedro.
By Monica Alvarez Six years away have apparently done nothing to mellow the Butthole Surfers, or to make the cult-inspiring Texans more cohesive. Their Sunset Junction makeup show on Saturday night at the Echoplex (the venue that rescued a couple other notables from the doomed festival’s lineup) was more of an acid flashback than an […]
[No Junction today, but plenty of functions:] ‣ Everest and Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit are the main-stage attractions at the third annual Buskerfest, going off in the East Village Arts District of downtown Long Beach. Two Guns, Pawnshop Kings and Jay Buchanan are among the artists performing throughout the evening on three others stages. […]
Bands who were all dressed up for Sunset Junction and now have nowhere to go scrambled to find other gigs this week in the wake of the festival’s cancellation. Talent buyers with holes in their weekend schedules suddenly have myriad options. Here’s what’s on our radar (Thursday morning updates in red, Thursday afternoon updates in […]
Sunset Junction is off. The L.A. Board of Public Works on Wednesday unanimously rejected the Sunset Junction Street Fair’s permit for this weekend’s festival, ending a week’s worth of drama that included impassioned arguments for and against the two-day event, initial rejection of the festival’s application and a frantic 36-hour fund-raising effort by organizers to […]
UPDATED, 5:30 p.m.: Sunset Junction organizers have raised the $141,000 in city fees to resubmit their case to the L.A. Board of Public Works on Wednesday morning. The morning post: Organizers of the beleaguered Sunset Junction Street Fair are scrambling to collect donations in an effort to reach the $141,000 they need to induce the […]
The Los Angeles Board of Public Works voted this morning 3-1 to deny a permit for this weekend’s Sunset Junction Street Fair – but the matter may be reconsidered at the commissioners’ next meeting on Wednesday morning. With only Commissioner Valerie Lynn Shaw – who admitted she’d never heard of Sunset Junction until this year’s […]
The fate of next weekend’s Sunset Junction Street Fair will be decided on Monday morning at a meeting of the Los Angeles City Board of Public Works. The meeting, which is open to the public (live audio is available here), is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. in Room 350 at City Hall. At issue are fees […]
This just in from our friendly neighborhood local newspaper: Sunset Junction’s permits may be withheld until festival organizers pay $267,000 the city is owed. Stay tuned.
