August 23 & 24: FYF: On Sale Now!

Sorry. I was laid up the last two days and didn't get to post this earlier, but you shouldn't have a problem still getting tickets.

FYF FEST TICKETS ON SALE NOW 

Weekend Passes, VIP and Single Day tickets for FYF FEST went on sale yesterday at 12:00pm at the link below. All questions can be answered at our website - fyffest.com.

GET TICKETS HERE

FYF Fest '12 - Photos: Refused, Quicksand, Sleigh Bells

FYF fest in Los Angeles was quite an impressive event. Although I've never been to Coachella, this is what I imagined it to be like, with multiple stages, vendors, beer garden, VIP tents and over 40 bands & DJs. Even with all of that talent, my primary focus was only on two bands... I'll explain:

Growing up in Chula Vista in the 90's exposed many of us to the hardcore scene with local bands like Amenity, Unbroken, I Wish I, Impel, No Sympathy, and record labels like Vinyl Communications, Revelation and Three One G. The refinement of this sound for me, distilled two seminal bands: Quicksand (NYC) and Refused (Sweden). Both have been dormant for close to 15 years after messy splits.

Suffice it to say, neither of these bands were expected to ever reunite. Refused resurfaced earlier this year at Coachella and Quicksand at the Revelation Records 25th Anniversary show series in Pomona. When I heard that they would both be on this bill, I HAD to be there. You may not recognize me after a facemelt of that magnitude... Enjoy!

Refused

Quicksand

Video: Quicksand - "Fazer" @ FYF Fest 2012

Sleigh Bells

FYF Fest 2012 Slideshow

Tim Fears Photography

One Week Until FYF Fest!!

You know that as an advocate for all things San Diego, it isn't often that I encourage anyone to head to LA for much of anything, but next weekend is FYF Fest at the Los Angeles State Historic Park and the lineup is a doozy. For just $89 for two days, you'll be hard pressed to find a festival with such depth of lineup that is easier on the wallet. Personally I am so excited to see Quiksand. Grab tickets here.

To see the full lineup and festival information, check out the official site here.

FYF Announces 2012 Lineup

And this, my friends, is how a festival is done. I was talking to a friend over the weekend who lamented that San Diego doesn't have it's own festival. He's not a native so I kinda gave him the full back story and ultimate downfall of Street Scene and how our city makes throwing a festival, even a small one, nearly impossible, which is why we're heavily dependent on our radio stations putting together solid lineups and there are upwards of two dozen street fairs, but not a true festival to be found. FYF (originally Fuck Yeah Fest) had it's share of growing pains but it has grown in community support and my, my, my, look at this amazing lineup they're offering this year.

FYF FEST

Sept 1 & 2, 2012 - Labor Day Weekend

TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, JUNE 22

via TICKETFLY.COM at 5:00pm PST. Tickets will also available at over a dozen record stores and select Chilli Beans Sunglasses locations.

Sponsors: Chilli Beans, Adult Swim, The Hundreds, Incase, LA Weekly and our partners, Goldenvoice.

For more information visit www.fyffest.com

FYF Announced: Unbroken Reunites!

FYF Fest is an LA festival that brings together hardcore and indie rock. It's this very DIY kinda thing, at least in the beginning, but it's growing and therefore has more recognizable names and some excellent sponsors that make it happen. Formerly the Fuck Yeah Fest (which I guess now makes it the Fuck Yeah Fest fest?), this year's event takes place on September 4th (Labor Day weekend). Tickets are only $25 in advance. I probably have never mentioned this event on my site in the past, but when I saw San Diego's Unbroken on the lineup, I thought it was definitely worth a mention.

This years lineup includes the following:
The Rapture * Panda Bear * Sleep * Dead Man's Bones * !!! * Man Man * 7 Seconds * Thee Oh Sees * The Mountain Goats * Ted Leo & The Pharmacists * Delorean * Cold Cave * Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti * Washed Out * Wavves * School of Seven Bells * AA Bondy * The Blow * Best Coast * Davila 666 * Titus Andronicus * The Soft Pack * Abe Vigoda * Warpaint * Off! * Vetiver Ceremony * Big Fredia * Screaming Females * Magic Kids * The Growlers * Lower Dens * Let's Wrestle * Cults * and more tba.

The show takes place in the LA State Historic Park. Tickets are available here.
While looking into the festival, I also discovered that Unbroken will be playing a show the day before at the Che Cafe. Here's a message from the a band's blog:

As stated before, we are doing some benefit shows for a few friends in Sep
First off is in San Diego Sept 3rd. This will be at the Che Cafe, Why there? Because we want the Che to make money as it was always our home, but also it will be fun to play a tiny as fuck venue. Ticket info will be available soon.
The main reason we are playing the show, is Todd's wife Tanya is involved in a project to help an art community in Chiapas Mexico. We will be posting links about the project in the next week or so.

Next will be LA on Sep 4th ... It is bigger than what we wanted, but it allows us to do something special for a close friend of the band. Our friend Jen has been hit with Cancer and is without medical insurance. We talked about doing a few benefit shows to help her out, but when this LA offer came in, it made it easy to do one big show and raise $8k+ to go towards her expenses.

Unbroken was always about family and friends. This is our chance to continue to have fun and raise money for good causes that have impacts in our community as well as other places we play.