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Electronic

T-E-E-D, Kidnap Kid, Tiga, and more give standout performances at Minimal Effort Halloween 2016 | Los Angeles, California [Live Music Review]

Minimal Effort Halloween was maximum fun (I wonder how many mediocre bloggers have used that one already)! But actually, Minimal Effort last Saturday was a great event. It is clear that they did not sell as many tickets as they wanted because LA Center Studios was practically empty, but this allowed the people who did […]

Nov 4, 2016 Read →

Electronic

Beach Goth 2016 met with festival obstacles, still won us over with sets by Justice, Nicolas Jaar, Patti Smith, The Growlers, and more [Live Music Review]

  The highly anticipated Beach Goth 2016 was fun, but that’s not saying much since its a music festival after all. The Beach Goth production team failed in many ways which took away from the music and everyone’s overall enjoyment of the festival. Beach Goth, the yearly festival put on by The Growlers in Southern […]

Nov 4, 2016 Read →

Electronic

Dirtybird Campout 2016 – “This is NOT a Transformative Festival” [Festival Review]

  The term “transformative festival” has been used and abused for far too long. “Transformative festival” has basically become a calling card for hippies, crystals, psytrance, etc. Now, I’m a big fan of all of these things – except psytrance – but at the end of the day, for a majority of festival goers a […]

Oct 14, 2016 Read →

Festival Coverage

Beach Goth 2016: For the Eargasm of Your Life – Do Not Miss These Acts

October 22nd marks the beginning of the fifth installment of The Growlers festival, “Beach Goth”. This year The Growlers (or whoever does the actual planning for the two day SoCal event) put together an unprecedented lineup geared toward bonafide music snobs, like me. That being said, there really is nothing goth or extra beachy about […]

Sep 16, 2016 Read →