As we reported Tuesday, Mötley Crüe and Bush will anchor the street festival portion of the three-day Sunset Strip Music Festival on Aug. 18-20 in West Hollywood. Public Enemy and Matt & Kim are the other big names slated to play the outdoor stages on Saturday, Aug. 20, when Sunset Boulevard is closed off. The […]
So here’s a Sunset Strip Music Festival flyer that was being circulated Tuesday night. The Mötley Crüe/Bush rumors were true. Public Enemy, nice. Anybody excited by the rest of this? For $55?
When worlds collide? The FYF Fest and the Sunset Strip Music Festival each will announce their lineups on Wednesday, and the rumor mill is churning with names. Let’s put our ears to the ground: ‣ Even without having announced a lineup, FYF had a $30 presale on Tuesday and sold out of that allotment. Regular […]
The Epicenter Festival in Fontana on Sept. 25-26 was a conflagration in more ways than one. The temperature hit 109 degrees at the Auto Club Speedway on both days, baking crowds that totaled in excess of 50,000 for the two days and, probably, discouraging walk-up ticket sales. (Word on the street is that the festival […]
How was your weekend? Thanks to everybody who tweeted about how cool the Abbot Kinney Festival was – suffice to say it was substantially cooler than the 109-degree temperatures Saturday and Sunday at the Epicenter Festival in Fontana. Or, “Funtana,” as Bad Religion’s Jay Bentley called it. I covered Epicenter for SPIN.com, witnessing a strong […]
Tape magazine photos of three decades’ worth of rock radio hitmakers to a wall. Throw darts. Book bands. That’s the only plausible explanation for the lineup at this weekend’s Epicenter Festival at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, which features (among a boatload of artists that critics consider a pox on the land) a Saturday […]