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Happy Thursday!
When the long-running Vans Warped Tour quit making its summer trek across the U.S. in 2018, emo and pop punk fans were pretty bummed.
To help soothe the loss of such an iconic rite of passage, a few bands that had spent the early days of their career sweating it out on the road during Warped Tour came together to create the Sad Summer Festival.
The traveling festival tour doesn’t feature as many acts or stages as Warped Tour, but with familiar bands like Taking Back Sunday, The Maine, Hot Mulligan, PVRIS and Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, it definitely helps fill that void.
Reporter Charlie Vargas talked to Sad Summer Festival’s co-founder Mike Marquis about the event, which is currently in its fourth year. The tour plays its final date at FivePoint Amphitheatre in Irvine on Saturday, July 29. Read the full interview and find out how to get tickets to the show here.
💤 A new location for Dreamstate
Insomniac Events’ Dreamstate trance music festival is relocating from San Bernardino to Long Beach in 2023. The two-day fest, scheduled for Nov. 17-18, will now takeover the Queen Mary Waterfront. Get the full lineup and ticket information here.
🧁 Echo Park Rising returns
Following a lengthy hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the free Echo Park Rising Festival will return to Los Angeles in 2023. The single-day event will take place on Saturday, Sept. 9. The fest will feature live music, art and food from local artists and vendors. Here’s what we know about the festival so far.
🌵 Desert Daze cancels 2023 fest
While fans had already purchased tickets and were awaiting the lineup for the 2023 Desert Daze Festival at Lake Perris, promoters of the event announced last week that they’d be putting off the festival this year to refocus and build a bigger, better festival in 2024. Fans…
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