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 […]
For all the juice the supposedly revitalized, social media-fueled Sunset Strip is enjoying these days, it remains on many nights a living museum for rock clichés. Tired metal, un-ironic Spinal Tapestry, decadence-celebrating party rock and rap – often, the welcome mat is out, and the audiences here, straining to hear echoes of the days the […]
The Sunset Strip Music Festival busted loose Thursday with a tribute to Slash and rocks in earnest tonight with show in five of the neighborhood clubs. Earlier I tabbed six bands I’ll be trying to see in the clubs on Saturday, but in the interests of introducing another young band, I give you Delta Rose, […]
[Sunday would have marked Michael Jackson’s 52nd birthday. Observe accordingly.] Top 5 stops on my personal tour this weekend, if there were a personal tour: ‣ I’m not sure there will be any Mexican wrestlers involved, but the Smashing Pumpkins headline Saturday’s street portion of the Sunset Strip Music Festival, which features the likes of […]
Kid Cudi and Travie McCoy have been added to the lineup for the Sunset Strip Music Festival, which during its Aug. 26-28 run will be bookended by a Thursday evening Tribute to Slash at the House of Blues and a Saturday night headlining performance by the Smashing Pumpkins. The indoor-outdoor event, which features stages on […]
[Random observations on a Tuesday afternoon …] Ozzy Osbourne, who will be honored Sept. 10 at the House of Blues as the kickoff to the Sunset Strip Music Festival, has been added to the bill to perform the final set on the festival’s outdoor stage on Sunset Boulevard on Saturday, Sept. 12. Korn, Pepper, Kottonmouth […]