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4th Annual Fuck Yeah! Fest Aug. 25-26
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Deerhunter will be there too!
This year Keith and Sean outdo themselves big time with the 4th Annual Fuck Yeah! Fest, and the banging roster they've built. It's a two day show ($13/day or $24 for both days) that spreads itself over five age friendly venues in Echo Park. There's gonna be art, comedians, and over 50 bands. and i mean they'll have a little of everything from grat bands such as Whispertown 2000 to great rappers like Busdriver.
The two madmen behind the scenes making it all happen are young Sean Carlson, who founded this thing when he was 18, and legendary Keith Morris who you might better remember as the singer for the Circle Jerks. And it's really like they're curators more than show promoters, because this is more than a big rock show. This is an art, comedy, music, extravaganza with $3 Dewars drinks. Highlights will include the only Fuse! reunion you will see anytime soon, Brother Reade, and finding out about a buncha stuff i never heard before.
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Full line up for both days after the jump.
Here's the schedule, cuz we know you're too lazy to click links:
Saturday, August 25th
The Explosion (very last west coast show)
The Fuse!(reunion show and only show!)
Lavender Diamond
Busdriver
Boom Bip
Entrance
American Steel
The Mae Shi
Fleshies
Bobby Birdman
Residual Echoes
Imaad Wasif
Times New Viking
Hit Me Back
Thee More Shallows
Greg Ashely of Gris Gris
Upsilon Acrux
Toys that Kill
Brother Reade
Wooden Shjips
Love or Perish
Devon Williams
Japanese Motors
Sabertooth Tiger
Sunday, August 26th
Deerhunter
Indian Jewelry
No Age
Midnight Movies
The Blood Arm
Jay Reatard
Foreign Born
Pissed Jeans
xBxRx
Darker My Love
The Nice Boys
Langhorne Slim
Great Northern
Triclops!
Red Fang
Best Fwends
Vultures (San Diego)
Luke Top
Moonrats
Whispertown 2000
Rumspringa
The Strange Boys
60 Watt Kid
Abe Vigoda
The Muslims
The Prayers
Bad Dudes
Jail Wedding
Comedy by:
Bob Odenkirk
Fred Belford
Josh Fadem
Jonah Ray
Matt Braunger
Matt Dwyer
Wyatt Cenac
Cracked Out (Brett Gelman and Jon Daly)
Anthony Jeselnik
Spoken word by Salvador Plascencia
Artwork by Milano Chow, Raymond Pettibon, Tim Presely, Danny Gibson, Travis Millard, Mechgod, Skull Phone + many more.
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