Bon Iver, Justice headline O.C.’s Beach Goth festival
A tender-voiced singer-songwriter and a brutal arena-techno duo will headline the fifth Beach Goth festival in October.
Bon Iver and Justice are the two top acts at Beach Goth, a once-modest punk and garage rock festival (founded by local rockers the Growlers) that’s now catching up to FYF Fest’s size and scope.
Beyond the noisy French duo and the Wisconsin-based Grammy winner (who has his own Hollywood Bowl date in October), the lineup is almost willfully, intriguingly eclectic. It ranges from experimental singer James Blake to enigmatic rapper Gucci Mane, R&B veterans TLC, King Krule, synth-rockers Future Islands, Colombia-born soul singer Kali Uchis and bawdy Miami-bass veterans 2 Live Crew.
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It’s the kind of fest that could exist only in 2016, where genre is all but meaningless to fans’ allegiances and ’90s party-rap nostalgia overlaps with forward-thinking electronic producers.
To accommodate this notable expansion, the fest will move from the Observatory in Santa Ana to the much larger Oak Canyon Park in Silverado for its Oct. 22-23 dates.
With this bold new edition, the Growlers seem to be as much in the festival-booking business as they are at being a band – and so far, they’re pretty excellent at both.
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