Surf City Blitz takes over Huntington State Beach this weekend, bringing together one of the greatest punk rock lineups in the history of Southern California with Roland Sands Presents The Moto Beach Classic's world-class motorcycle racing. This brand new, all ages event takes place on Saturday, October 27 and Sunday, October 28 at Huntington State Beach as part of the SeaLegs Live Event Series, and will feature an all-star lineup of punk rock legends including The Offspring, Social Distortion, Pennywise, Rancid, Suicidal Tendencies, Bad Religion, and many more, performing on the shore of the Pacific Ocean in picturesque Orange County, California.
Read MoreKnown for its bold and diverse curation of artists every year, III Points did not hold back on their 2019 lineup announcement with modern, genre-blurring Hip-Hop/R&B artists topping the bill like SZA, Tyler, the Creator, A$AP Rocky, & Blood Orange. The festival proves its creative reach for bringing in acts typically not seen touring in Florida too often with early, soulful inspirations like Erykah Badu and Herbie Hancock.
Read MoreFormally known as The Voodoo Experience, Voodoo Music + Arts Experience has been around since 1999. It has featured over 2,000 artists since its inception like The Roots, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Metallica, Neil Young, The Weeknd and more. This year will be the 20th anniversary taking place October 26th-28th in City Park New Orleans. Headlining this year is Mumford & Sons, Childish Gambino, Arctic Monkeys and Marilyn Manson. Yes, Marilyn Manson for Halloween!
Read MoreSunday’s are usually for rest and relaxation but that wasn’t the case at Asbury Park Brewery. This past Sunday the Brewery and Aftermath Collective housed No More Dysphoria’s third annual benefit show. No More Dysphoria (NMD) is a Montclair, NJ based non-profit organization that helps transgender and gender non-conforming people pay for major aspects of their transitions.
Read MoreAdult Swims approach to entertainment is aptly described on Wikipedia as “experimental, risqué, unorthodox, crude, dry, and improvisational humor”; this brash and new approach to entertainment was the brain child of Mike Lazzo. And what a child it is; realizing the potential for increasing viewing in the off hours on Cartoon Network, Lazzo, went to work creating content for the ever-restless adult population. The first original series Space Ghost Coast to Coast debuted in 1994, well before the official launch of Adult Swim, September 2nd, 2001. They burst onto the late-night scene with a plethora of raunchy and unique shows like Sealab 2021, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and The Brak Show. Fast forward 17 years and we are about to witness another first for the once obscure television block, Adult Swim Festival.
Read MoreSaturday night on the corner of 4th Place and Hewitt Street in Downtown LA’s Arts District, there was a line of people stretching out from the Art Share LA’s studio door entrance. Awaiting inside the doors was an artistic amalgamation of the naked form—produced in painting, performance, photography and more. Nude Art LA is a pop-up art exhibition/live show that celebrates the human form at its barest and on showcases like these, creators, performers and lovers of art gather together to observe, wonder, and appreciate the human body in all of its glorious shapes and sizes.
Read MoreThe Psycho Festival 2018 lives up to its name in Las Vegas! The music festival encompasses three days of Heavy Metal, Death Metal, and Black Metal music. The dynamic festival is hosted at three different venues throughout the Hard Rock Casino and Resort. Guests enjoyed diverse performances from bands such as Ghastly Sound and Black Mare at Vinyl, Coven and Danzig at the Joint and Spirit Adrift and Voivod and the Paradise Pool. Lots of leather studded, boot wearing, tattooed fans lined up in anticipation of hardcore music and incredible performances. Let us not forget the "splosh pit" at the pool! For it's third year, the Psycho Festival displayed it's trademark for "Vegas' Best Festival."
Read MoreOn September 29th and 30th, the 3rd annual Music Tastes Good Festival will take place at it’s home of Marina Greek Park in Long Beach, California! This will be the third year of Long Beach’s most beloved festival and the second year since the death of it’s creator, Josh Fischel. Before creating one of the best festivals in SoCal in 2016, Fischel directed Sublime documentary, “Stories, Tales, Lies & Exaggerations.”
Read MoreThe drama is over and Beach Goth officially belongs to The Growlers again! They introduced the world to Beach Goth festival back in 2012 and it has grown more massive every year since. Previous Beach Goths held some big names including King Krule, Alice Glass, Die Antwoord, and who could forget that beautiful moment it started raining during Future Islands in 2016?! Last year’s monumental performances by Girl Talk, The B-52’s, Modest Mouse, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, were more iconic performances in Beach Goth history. This year, you may have experienced a little Beach Goth deja-vu, since many artists this year have performed this festival before. For La Luz, The Drums, The Voidz, and the classic duo Jonathan Richman & Tommy Larkin, this 7th Beach Goth was not their first.
Read MoreCal Jam was once a great California festival that began in arguable the best decade for music, the 1970’s. The old lineups included mega-legends such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Heart, Santana, Aerosmith and more! It would have been incredible to experience those performances but thanks to the Foo Fighters, Cal Jam is back and more alive than ever! We get a chance to experience a festival that kids in 40 years from now will be jealous of!
Read MoreThis year the United States Intercollegiate Boxing Nationals (USIBA) were hosted at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. It was an intense 3-day event with lots of fights, awards for the best boxers, trophies and, of course, plenty of championship belts.
Read MoreBuku Music + Art Project returned to Mardi Gras World, New Orleans this past weekend and brought with it a powerful lineup of musical artists, delectable local vendors, plenty of adult beverages, and an insane number of lasers.
Read MoreArt Basel saturated and soared through the beautiful streets of Miami, Florida with its passionate roars filled with artistic expression, individualism, and culture this past month.
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