The Power of the Riff Festival
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 A few days ago we teased you about an August festival and predicted the lineup would get announced this week. We hate to say we told you so, but we did. Of course, the people who put it all together decided to break the news through a different blog. And those fuckers wrote it up like they don't even believe it's going to happen:
The Power Of The Riff Festival will reportedly take place at the Echo and Echoplex in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, August 8th...The festival will apparently be an all day, all ages, free music event, including a record swap meet of local stores such as Vacation Vinyl and Origami Vinyl, in addition to pop-up stores from Tee Pee Records, Southern Lord Recordings and others.
But maybe we should cut them some slack, because the all ages and free part is pretty unbelievable. As for the name of the event, we were told the organizers thought about it long and hard. Let's just say we tried to help out by offering up City of Devils, and that offer was obviously and politely rejected. What's really important, however, is the lineup. And it is a good one, headlined by the version of C.O.C. responsible for Animosity and Technocracy, as well as the recently reunited GOATSNAKE:
Corrosion Of Conformity
Goatsnake
From Ashes Rise
Trap Them
Repulsion
Nails
Coliseum
Night Horse
Black Breath
Eagle Twin
Early Graves
Righteous Fool
Semen Sundae
The Fucking Wrath
Rats Eyes
Spider Fever
We'll share more details, including whether there's an RSVP list, as we get them.
Reader Comments (4)
WTF? Why wouldn't they let the voice of LA metal support this festival? That's bullshit.
But the lineup is incredible.
who's putting this on?
It's being curated by Sam Velde and Greg Anderson. And Sam wrote me to say that Lambgoat announced the festival on its own. Apparently they just picked up on it based on individual band announcements and beat the festival to the punch. Which is all good, and explains the tentative nature of their post. We just want a full house. Spread the word.
Considering many of the bands seemed to know little to nothing about it, it's not surprising the lambgoat post was skeptical.