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Echo Park Rising Announce Their 2023 Lineup

The annual Echo Park Rising festival has finally announced this year's lineup, which features several Scenestar favorites playing across a variety of local venues in Echo Park, including headliners Starcrawler and Slater! Other scheduled acts this year include Black Polish, Bonavega, Cigarette Bums, Colt Classic, Deathchant, Healing Gems, Israel's Arcade, Launder, Emily Rose, and many more at The Echo and Echoplex.

Lifted Botanical House will be hosting Laura Mrgic, Rainee Blake, Broadway B, and many more.

The Shortstop will be having many more acts playing as well such as Fartbarf, Forest Lawn, Send Medicine, Windows, and many more.

Bar Henry will also be participating with scheduled performances by Datamaps, The Pretty Flowers, Spare Parts For Broken Hearts, and more this weekend.

Spacedust has a lineup that includes Bee Appleseed, Desert Sparrow, Elf Freedom, Westerner, and more.

Sticky Rice has booked Tolliver, MackAndGold, La Tumba, Boy Deluxe, and more live on their 21+ outdoor stage.

You can see what other venues around Echo Park are hosting Echo Park Rising 2023 events here.

The annual Echo Park Rising festival has finally announced this year's lineup, which features several Scenestar favorites playing across a variety of local venues in Echo Park, including headliners Starcrawler and Slater! Other scheduled acts this year include Black Polish, Bonavega, Cigarette Bums, Colt Classic, Deathchant, Healing Gems, Israel's Arcade, Launder, Emily Rose, and many more at The Echo and Echoplex.

Lifted Botanical House will be hosting Laura Mrgic, Rainee Blake, Broadway B, and many more.

The Shortstop will be having many more acts playing as well such as Fartbarf, Forest Lawn, Send Medicine, Windows, and many more.

Bar Henry will also be participating with scheduled performances by Datamaps, The Pretty Flowers, Spare Parts For Broken Hearts, and more this weekend.

Spacedust has a lineup that includes Bee Appleseed, Desert Sparrow, Elf Freedom, Westerner, and more.

Sticky Rice has booked Tolliver, MackAndGold, La Tumba, Boy Deluxe, and more live on their 21+ outdoor stage.

You can see what other venues around Echo Park are hosting Echo Park Rising 2023 events here.

Contest: Harry Styles vs One Direction at Roxy

We have a cool club night coming up for you Harry Styles and One Direction fans, Scenestar readers! Fangirl Fantasy will be hosting an all-ages Harry Styles vs One Direction Dance Party on Thursday, July 27, at the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood. It's your chance for you and your friends to dance the night away to all of your favorite hits from Harry Styles and One Direction.

We're giving our readers the chance to win your way in courtesy of our contest for a pair of tickets to the event!

Preview: Pitchfork Music Festival 2023

Photos by CHRISTOPHER ALVAREZ for The Scenestar

The 17th edition of the Pitchfork Music Festival returns to Chicago’s Union Park this summer from July 21st – 23rd 2023. A pair of heavy hitters in the form of Bon Iver and The Smile headline another stacked lineup with festival favorite Big Thief as the 3rd name at the top of the bill. Recently reunited Youth Lagoon, indie darling Weyes Blood, and the reclusive King Krule make long-awaited returns to Union Park this year. R&B act Ric Wilson, DJ/producer Ariel Zetina, and singer/songwriter Sen Morimoto represent their hometown of Chicago.

Here are 5 acts not to miss over the weekend:

This Ain't No Picnic 2022 Set Times Released

It's almost time to get ready to head to Pasadena to experience This Ain't No Picnic this month! Taking place at Brookside at the Rose Bowl on Saturday, August 27, and Sunday, August 28, you can now plan out who you want to see now that Goldenvoice has finally released set times. Logic 1000 and Tems will no longer be performing at the festival this year.

The Strokes and LCD Soundsystem will be headlining. Also on the festival bill are Courtney Barnett, Phoebe Bridgers, Beach House, Circle Jerks, Deafheaven, Descendents, Four Tet + Floating Points, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Honey Dijon, IDLES, Jungle, Kaytranada, King Woman, LeTigre, Nicki Nicole, Kelly Lee Owens, Genesis Owusu, Caroline Polachek, Slowthai, Jorja Smith, Sparks, Earl Sweatshirt, Tinashe, Turnstile, Mike Watt, Wet Leg, Ying Yang Twins, Yves Tumor, and many more.

The Despacio tent (courtesy of LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy and 2ManyDJs) will also be returning to Southern California and set to party all weekend long.

The Ford Announce Their 2022 Concert Schedule

One of our favorite "hidden gems" is returning for another season of shows! The Ford has revealed their concert offerings for this season, upon the Hollywood Hills, as programed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, with a lot of exciting options in their second year of booking the venue.

The Ford 2022 concert calendar includes performances by Babasónicos, Best Coast, Calexico, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Chulita Vinyl Club, Les Claypool (of Primus), Ani DiFranco, El Dusty, Melissa Etheridge, Nubya Garcia, José González, The Halluci Nation (fka A Tribe Called Red), Tigran Hamasyan, Ibeyi, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Monsieur Periné, Noche Cosmica (Thee Sinseers, Luna Luna, Katzù Oso, and Irene Diaz), Punch Brothers, She & Him, Rufus Wainwright, Warpaint, Kamasi Washington, and many more. More acts will be added to The Ford concert calendar throughout the year, as well as a FREE "101 Festival Concert" on Sunday, June 12, featuring some of your favorite artists to help kick off the season.

Viva! LA Booked This Summer at Dodger Stadium

Get ready to welcome back one of the city's best all-ages DIY music festivals, Viva! Instead of taking place at the Glass House in Pomona, the festival will now be taking place on a grander scale at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, June 25. This year's lineup will still feature local favorites as well as up-and-coming indie bands, but will now have arena acts headlining to match the size of their new venue.

Artists scheduled to perform includeA.B. Quintanilla and the Kumbia All Starz, J. Balvin, Devendra Banhart, Beach Fossils, Natanael Cano, Chicano Batman, Willie Colon, Cuco, Daddy Yankee, Becky G, Ivy Queen, Jenny69, Kali Uchis, Carin Leon, Lido Pimienta, Los Bitchos, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Los Tucanes de Tijuana, Ed Maverick, Carla Morrison, Omar Apollo, Paquita La Del Barrio, TAINY, The Garden, The Marias, The Red Pears, Tijuana Panthers, Shannon and the Clams, and many more.

Artists scheduled to perform includeA.B. Quintanilla and the Kumbia All Starz, J. Balvin, Devendra Banhart, Beach Fossils, Natanael Cano, Chicano Batman, Willie Colon, Cuco, Daddy Yankee, Becky G, Ivy Queen, Jenny69, Kali Uchis, Carin Leon, Lido Pimienta, Los Bitchos, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Los Tucanes de Tijuana, Ed Maverick, Carla Morrison, Omar Apollo, Paquita La Del Barrio, TAINY, The Garden, The Marias, The Red Pears, Tijuana Panthers, Shannon and the Clams, and many more.

Palomino Reveal Their Country Festival Lineup

We have another amazing festival is coming to Brookside at the Rose Bowl this summer! This time it's Palomino Festival, bringing some of our favorite country music acts into the city on Saturday, July 9, Kacey Musgraves as the scheduled headliner. Also on the festival bill are Willie Nelson, Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Turnpike Troubadours, Orville Peck, Old Crow Medicine Show, Valerie June, Charley Crockett, Paul Cauthen, Nikki Lane, Morgan Wade, Sierra Ferrell, Langhorne Slim, Amythyst Kiah, Sierra Hull, Low Cut Connie, Jaime Wyatt, Ian Noe, Logan Ledger, The Compton Cowboys, and many more.

The 4th Annual .Paak House Comes to Oxnard

Anderson .Paak will be bringing his annual fundraiser to his hometown! The 4th Annual .Paak House benefit show will be coming to Oxnard when it comes to Oxnard College Park on Wednesday, December 22. The event will be raising funds to give back to the community with live performances, children’s activities, community outreach and resources, gifting, food, and more. At press time, only .Paak & The Free Nationals are listed on the event bill, but further surprise guests will be announced soon.