Lightning in a Bottle 2013 Lineup Announced

Categories: Festivals

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Josh "CuriousJosh" Reiss
The lineup for Lightning in a Bottle 2013 is out!

This year's electronic-heavy festival will feature headliners Nicholas Jaar, Rusko, Tycho, Emancipator, Griz and Paper Diamond.

As exclusively reported by West Coast Sound in January, the three day fest is going down in a new location in Temecula this year.

It will take place later in the summer than it has in years past.

The full lineup, and location details, are below:

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The Do Lab's Trip to Egypt Was Some Sort of Revolution + Exclusive Video

Credit: Galen Oakes, courtesy of The Confluence
Between political strife, rioting, demonstrations and the general cultural upheaval caused by the aftershocks of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, the country seemed like a less than ideal location for a music festival and sightseeing tour put on by a group of Americans. Yet, nearly 300 people, mostly of them from Southern California, flew to Cairo late last year to take part in the Do Lab's winter solstice event The Great Convergence.

In the planning stages for nearly a year, the itinerary for the trip included visits to ancient sites throughout the country and lectures and panel discussions by Egypt experts Dr. Carmen Boulter and geologist Robert Schoch. The music event (held in front of Great Pyramids, no less), featured sets from Beats Antique, Random Rab, Apparat, Eskmo and Bluetech. The eight day trip ended with a cruise down the Nile.

It was to be a once in a lifetime experience. Everyone told them not to go.

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Lightning in a Bottle 2013: New Location, New Dates Announced

Categories: EDM, Festivals

Aaron Gautschi
Lake Skinner
Annual music and arts festival Lightning in a Bottle is relocating to Riverside County this summer, West Coast Sound can exclusively report. In a vote yesterday, the Riverside County board of supervisors approved the application to hold Lightning in a Bottle 2013 at Lake Skinner County Park. The four day festival, which has taken place at Orange County's Oak Canyon Park since 2009, was forced to find a new home due to zoning changes at that location.

See also: The Do Lab Built a Massive SoCal EDM Community

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Ten Things Your Lollapalooza Outfit Says About You

Categories: Fashion, Festivals

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Photo by Erik Hess

BY REED FISCHER

Now more than ever, Lollapalooza is a mélange of different fashion decisions to accompany the varied musical offerings crammed together throughout Chicago's Grant Park. When EDM butts up against metal, alt-country, and whatever the hell you'd call Die Antwoord, there's really no wrong way to dress. Still, too many attendees tend to stick to boring, functional attire to them through the weekend. None of those folks are rewarded here.

Here are ten examples of really letting your clothing do the talking, and we did our best to interpret.

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Claude Vonstroke Got in the EDM Game Late and Now He's Taking It Over

Categories: EDM, Festivals

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Courtesy Claude VonStroke
See also: Interview: Claude VonStroke Says U.S. Doesn't Get Enough Respect In Dance Music

You can't blame Barclay Crenshaw for feeling like an old man playing a young man's game. When he created his DJ-producer alter ego, Claude VonStroke, and launched his Dirtybird label, Crenshaw was already 32. "In the world of dance music, that's already, like, you're on the way out," he says. Instead, Crenshaw finds himself on the way in, a rising star and top attraction at several EDM festivals -- including HARD Summer, where he'll take the stage this Saturday -- at an age when most guys are ready to find a more respectable way to earn a living.

Asked how old he is now, Crenshaw cops to being slightly north of 40, then playfully adds over the phone from London, "You don't have to print that, by the way. It's gonna lose me some fans."

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FYF Fest 2012 Lineup Announced

Categories: FYF, Festivals

Make Music Pasadena - Old Town Pasadena - 6/16/12

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Aaron Frank
Grouplove
Make Music Pasadena Festival
Old Town Pasadena
6-16-12

With the Sunset Junction Festival filing for bankruptcy and the Silver Lake Jubilee upping admission to $20 a head, one's options for quality summer music festivals in L.A. have dwindled a bit. Meanwhile, at this point the only two free festivals left standing are the Eagle Rock Festival and yesterday's Make Music Pasadena, the latter quickly becoming the lead contender for L.A.'s best.

Spread throughout downtown Pasadena across nearly 30 stages, Make Music Pasadena is organized by the Old Pasadena Management and Playhouse District, who did a wonderful job of appealing to nearly every demographic with their well-curated lineup this year. Indie pop groups Cults and Grouplove drew the biggest crowds of the day, but smaller bands like So Many Wizards took advantage of the intimate settings of the smaller venues, treating the Majestical Roof Courtyard Stage like their own raucous backyard party.

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Exclusive: Levitt Pavilions Announce Summer Lineups

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Kevin Scanlon
Maria del Pilar performs Aug. 4 at MacArthur Park
In an exclusive to West Coast Sound, the Levitt Pavilions in Pasadena and MacArthur Park have revealed the lineups to their massive, free summer concert series -- almost 100 shows between the two venues.

This year features everything from Latin alternative to folk, indie and world music. Highlights include former Los Abandoned frontwoman Maria del Pilar (aka Pilar Diaz), noisy garage rocker Hanni El Khatib, cacophonic big band Killsonic, Sara Watkins of contemporary folk trio Nickel Creek and Mexico City-based electronic outfit Mexican Institute of Sound. The full list is below.


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Rock the Bells 2012 Lineup Announced, Includes Bone Thugs, Deltron 3030, Missy Elliot

Categories: Festivals

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Andrea Domanick
Common at Rock the Bells 2011
See also: Our review of Rock the Bells 2011

Last night Guerilla Union announced this year's Rock the Bells 2012 dates, headliners and lineup.

Beginning in 2010, the hip-hop festival's headliners -- famous acts whose first few albums often outshine their later work -- have performed their classic albums from beginning to end. But to keep the attendees' average age down (let's face it, golden-age hip hop devotees are getting old), a couple supporting acts like Mac Miller have been included.

But this year, there's a surprising twist.

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Viva Los Dodgers 2012 Lineup Announced: Ximena Sariñana, Ana Tijoux, More

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Emily Shur
Ximena Sariñana
See also:
*Ximena Sariñana: An Indie-Pop Star In Mexico, Anonymous In L.A.
*Our review of Ana Tijoux at Levitt Pavilion at MacArthur Park
*La Santa Cecilia Represents L.A. At The Latin Grammys Tonight

Viva Los Dodgers, a festival celebrating Los Angeles' Latino culture, just announced this season's lineup exclusively through West Coast Sound.

Held in Lot 6 two hours before each of the Dodgers' Sunday home games, the festival is free with a ticket to the day's Dodger game. The schedule this year is a mix of hip hop and traditional folkloric music, and standouts including Weekly darling Ximena Sariñana, badass rapper Ana Tijoux and La Santa Cecilia are all scheduled. See the full list below.


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