Kevin Bronson on July 8th, 2010

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Remember when the future of the Sunset Junction Street Fair appeared in jeopardy? Doesn’t seem that way now. The 30th anniversary event, its name now shortened to the Sunset Junction Fair, has announced a lineup that’s fittingly all over the map, and with a bigger map – an expansion to five stages of music –to accommodate it.

While lacking in the marquee names that characterized past Sunset Junctions (nobody quite in the Sonic Youth/X/Broken Social Scene/Conor Oberst/Buzzcocks/Black Keys/Los Lobos league), the lineup is heavy on locals and heavy-hitting locals, and the fare at various stages is less segregated by genre this year.

The festival is Aug. 21-22. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Bullet points:

• The previously rock-dominated Bates Stage is all over the place, with a mix of rock and soul acts leading up to Saturday finishers Ghostland Observatory (with a laser show) and “Bitches Brew 40th Remix” (a reunion of Miles Davis alums). On Sunday, Latin alternative acts reign most of the day until Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros cap the evening.
• A new “Locals Only” stage (at Edgecliffe) presented by the Fold sends up a worthy roster of L.A.’s up-and-comers (among them Eastern Conference Champions and Chief on Saturday and Leslie & the Badgers, Red Cortez, the Deadly Syndrome and Sam Sparro on Sunday).
• The Sanborn Stage is anchored by Fishbone and Bad Brains on Saturday and Meshell Ndegeocello and Lee “Scratch” Perry on Sunday.
• The Hoover Stage gets the Ohio Players as Saturday headliners and the Whispers on Sunday, after late-afternoon sets by Fitz & the Tantrums and Mayer Hawthorne.
• The “Electro/Dance Stage” has a closing set by Shiny Toy Guns on Saturday.

After the jump, the set times as they stand now:

SATURDAY
Bates Stage
1 p.m. White Apple Tree
2 Ferocious Few
3 Hanni El Khatib Collective
4 Saint Motel
5 Chris Pierce
6:30 Dam-Funk
7:30 Miles Davis / Bitches Brew Remix
9 Ghostland Observatory
Hoover Stage
1 p.m. Balandugu Khan
2 Jimmy & Moral Groove
3 Rhythm Roots All-Stars
4 Orgone
5 Medusa
7 Evelyn Champagne King
8:30 The Ohio Players
Sanborn Stage
Noon DJ Pelau
1:30 DJ Jeremy Sole
3:30 Maleco
5 B-Side Players
6:30 Big Daddy Kane
8 Fishbone
9:30 Bad Brains
Electro Dance Stage
1 p.m. Christopher Yates Circus
3 Hyphy Crunk
4:15 DJ Brent Bolthouse
5:30 DJ Eric Cubeechee
6:45 Speaker Junkies
7:50 Party Crashers feat. DJ Ruckus & Cory Enemy
9 Shiny Toy Guns — Hybridigital feat. Wild Child
Locals Only Stage
1 p.m. The Silverlake Chorus
2 Moses Campbell
3 Sweaters
4:05 Andy Clockwise
5:05 Pollyn
6:15 Eastern Conference Champions
7:25 Chief
8:35 special guest TBA
9:50 special guest TBA

SUNDAY
Bates Stage
1 p.m. Raheem Cohen
2 Aurum
3:30 Rolling Radio
5 Girl in a Coma
6 Insite
7 Division Minuscala
8 Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
Hoover Stage
1 p.m. Spellbound
2 Ray Ricky Rivera
3 Permanent Ability
4 Fitz & the Tantrums
5:30 Mayer Hawthorne
6:45 Freddie Poole with Ellis Hall
8 The Whispers
Sanborn Stage
Noon DJ Wing Ko
1:30 DJ Carlos Nino
3:30 Palenke Soul Tribe
5 Bobo Meets Rhettamatu
6:30 Meshell Ndegeocello
8 Lee “Scratch” Perry
Electro Dance Stage
1 p.m. Christopher Yates Circus
3 DJ Eric Neutron
4 DJ Gusto
5 DJ Dexterous
6 DJ Splyce
7:10 CC Sheffield
7:25 Carolina D’Amore
8:45 DJ Doc Martin
Locals Only Stage
Noon Gwendolyn & the Good Time Band
1 The Janks
2 Wheelhouse
3 Leslie & the Badgers
4:05 Red Cortez
5:15 The Deadly Syndrome
6:25 Crystal Antlers
7:35 Sam Sparro
8:45 Infinity (Journey tribute band)

Photo by Laurie Scavo