September 9, 2008
Eagle Rock Music Fest Announces Line-Up
The Eagle Rock Music Festival announced their line-up this week over 50 artists including locals such as Abe Vigoda, Crystal Antlers, The Flying Tourbillion Orchestra, Le Switch, Light FM, Pizza!, Radar Brothers and Upsilon Acrux (full list here). The free seven-hour festival is on Saturday, October 4th which is the same day as LA Weekly's Detour Festival who announced their line-up at the end of July.
From a MySpace bulletin posted by the festival (unlinkable)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4th 2008
5PM - MIDNIGHT
A FREE FESTIVAL FOR FRIENDS OF ALL AGES
COLORADO BOULEVARD
EAGLE ROCK, CA
BETWEEN EAGLE ROCK BLVD + ARGUS STREET
2008 STAGE SCHEDULE & FESTIVAL MAP : COMING SOON!
EMERGING STAGE plus
DUBLAB CURATED GLOBAL STAGE plus
DIVINE FORCES RADIO STAGE >>> plus
THE SHIP/KINGSIZE SOUNDLABS CURATED L.A. INDIE STAGE plus 12 ADDITIONAL SHOWCASES
ABE VIGODA
AKASHA
AMNION
ANN LIKES RED
THE ANTARTICANS
AROHI ENSEMBLE (classical indian & raga jazz)
AZTLAN UNDERGROUND
BAMBU
THE BEETERS
BUILD AN ARK
CAVA
THE COBRA LILIES
CRYSTAL ANTLERS
THE CURS
DIVISADERO
DJ GRAINSHIFTER
DJ J1
DJ ORATOR
DOMINGO SIETE
DOWNTOWN/UNION
EARLIMART
EDWARD SHARPE + THE MAGNETIC ZEROES
EMILY LACY
EMILY WELLS
FONTENOT + PAPPION LOUISANA BAND
FOOL'S GOLD
FOREVER DEDICATED GOSPEL GROUP
THE FLYING TOURBILLION ORCHESTRA
GANGI
HDR
HUMAN VALUE
JACK LANTZ BIG BAND
JESSKE HUME/JOE BERARDI DUO (experimental improv)
JOE JOHNSTON BAND
KOTOLAN (japanese latin jazz)
LE FACE
LE SWITCH
LIGHT F.M.
MIKA MIKO
NEW LONDON
NU-TRA
ONE TRICK PONY
OPEN GATE THEATRE
PACHAMAMA (ESTELA)
THE PARSON RED HEADS
PERMANENT BLUE (2008 // battle of the bands @ eagle rock high) PIERRE
PIZZA!
PRINCETON
RADAR BROTHERS
ROSS 'EAGLE ROCK' WILSON
SASSAS (society for activation of social space through art + sound) STAB CITY
UPSILON ACRUX
VERY BE CAREFUL
+ MORE!!



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I haven't heard of any one of those bands, save for Earlimart. Not one.
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Grendel; go out more.
ABE VIGODA
AKASHA
AMNION
THE COBRA LILIES
CRYSTAL ANTLERS
EDWARD SHARPE + THE MAGNETIC ZEROES
EMILY WELLS
THE FLYING TOURBILLION ORCHESTRA
LE SWITCH
LIGHT F.M.
MIKA MIKO
One Trick Pony
Parson Redheads
and Very Be Careful are ALL AMAZING BANDS.
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wow, your threshold for considering a band "amazing" must be quite low.
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not everyone is into Coldplay, torrmoz.
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The point of the Eagle Rock fest is to showcase local, up-and-coming bands, no? I've heard of at least half those bands and I don't even follow very closely.