The Crazy World of Arthur Brown Announces the first US Tour in 47 Years! After a highlight performance at Psycho Las Vegas 2016, hugely influential UK heavy psychedelic progressive oddities The Crazy World of Arthur Brown announce their 2017 “ZIM ZAM ZIM” tour – their first run of US shows Read more…
Psycho Las Vegas returns to the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in 2017. With only 9 bands announced so far, Psycho Las Vegas is still shaping up to be the go-to destination for everything heavy, psychedelic, classic, electronic… you get the point. SWANS – NEUROSIS – MAGMA – ABBATH – Read more…
This year Labor Day is NOT the end of summer. The Kaaboo music festival taking over Southern California from September 16-18, like the pre-autumnal groundhog, appears to have given us at least three more glorious weeks of music festival sunshine. However, you can argue its always be summer in the Read more…
(Review by Mike Attinello) The great reggae escape from LA took place last weekend in Topanga Canyon and, to the delight of everyone, it couldn’t have been less of an LA experience. For those Angelinos used to freeway gridlock, $14 beers, VIP lines to access even more exclusive extra VIP Read more…
The future does not, apparently, involve checking the weather forecast. At last weekend’s Further Future festival neither the organizers nor any ticketholders (your correspondent included) seemingly bothered to check the weather channel. As a result, Friday’s long-predicted Mojave desert rainstorm came as a complete surprise to all involved: sparse festival fixtures Read more…
Further Future’s second year promises to sand off some of the rough edges from last year — a last-minute location change led to a half-built set with cranes still installing elements on Sunday morning — while keeping the festival’s strengths in diversity, aesthetics and, above all, music. In fact, this Read more…
BottleRock, one of California’s largest music festivals, returns to Napa Valley May 27th to 29th for the fourth iteration of this growing festival brand. Starting a music festival from the ground up is no easy task, and BottleRock has definitely had it’s fair share of growing pains over the past Read more…
Last year’s inaugural Further Future festival was the most interesting Burning Man-related event to emerge in years. Rather than simply attempting to recreate the playa on a smaller scale — as many regional BM-related events do — the organizers, who are also behind the Robot Heart art car, took a Read more…