Sunset Junction announces lineup for 30th anniversary celebration

The lineup for the 30th annual Sunset Junction Fair, produced by Silver Lake business owner Michael McKinley, was announced Wednesday. The five stages will present plenty of local talent but so far, the festival is curiously bereft of the marquee names of the past -- Beck, X, Lucinda Williams, Sonic Youth -- that made the festival a citywide destination.

On the new, "locals only" stage presented by The Fold, which books acts at Silverlake Lounge, the Bootleg Theater and other neighborhood clubs, the bands will include: Leslie and the Badgers, the Deadly Syndrome, the Crystal Antlers, Sam Sparro and Pollyn. On other stages, we've got Fitz and the Tantrums, Mayer Hawthorne, Lee Scratch Perry, Dam-Funk, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. And some special highlights: Bad Brains, Ghostland Observatory (who will snazz up the proceedings with a laser light show) and a Miles Davis tribute based around remixing his seminal double album, "Bitches Brew."

In terms of tapping into the zeitgeist of young, hip Silver Lake bands, the Silver Lake Jubilee, held earlier in the year, seems to have stolen some of the fair's thunder, though it also didn't really feature any band you couldn't see in an average month at Spaceland or the Echo.

The festival's full lineup is available after the jump.

--Margaret Wappler

Photo of crowd cheering for Nico Vega at last year's festival. Credit: Ann Johansson / For The Times

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21

  

BATES STAGE                          HOOVER STAGE                       SANBORN STAGE

1:00                                                        1:00                                                        12:00

WHITE APPLE TREE                            BALANDUGU KAN                                DJ PELAU

 

2:00                                                        2:00                                                        1:30

FEROCIOUS FEW                                 JIMMIE & MORAL GROOVE                DJ JEREMY SOLE

  

3:00                                                        3:00                                                         3:30

HANNI EL KHATIB                               RHYTHM ROOTS ALLSTARS                MALECO COLLECTIVE                                                                                                    

 

 4:00                                                         4:00                                                        5:00

SAINT MOTEL                                       ORGONE                                               B-SIDE PLAYERS

 

5:00                                                         5:00                                                         6:30

CHRIS PIERCE                                        MEDUSA                                                BIG DADDY KANE

 

6:30                                                        7:00                                                        8:00

DAM FUNK                                            EVELYN CHAMPAGNE KING               FISHBONE

 

7:30                                                         8:30                                                        9:30

MILES DAVIS/                                        THE OHIO PLAYERS                             BAD BRAINS

BITCHES BREW RE-MIX

 

9:00

GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY

   

ELECTRO DANCE STAGE                   THE FOLD STAGE/LOCALS ONLY (EDGECLIFFE)

 

1:00                                                                       1:00

CHRISTOPHER YATES CIRCUS                            THE SILVERLAKE CHORUS

 

3:00                                                                        2:00

HYPHY CRUNK                                                     MOSES CAMPBELL

 

4:15                                                                       3:00

DJ BRENT BOLTHOUSE                                      SWEATERS

 

5:30                                                                        4:05

DJ ERIC CUBEECHEE                                           ANDY CLOCKWISE              

               

6:45                                                                        5:05

SPEAKER JUNKIES                                               POLLYN

 

7:50                                                                        6:15

PARTY CRASHERS F/DJ                                        EASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS

RUCKUS & CORY ENEMY                    

                                                                                7:25       

9:00                                                                       CHIEF

SHINY TOY GUNS -- HYBRIDIGITAL

f/WILD CHILD                                                      8:35

                                                                                SPECIAL GUEST TBA

 

                                                                                9:50

                                                                                SPECIAL GUEST TBA

                                   

SUNDAY, AUGUST 22

 

BATES STAGE                          HOOVER STAGE                                  SANBORN STAGE                               

 

1:00                                                    1:00                                                                        12:00

RAHEEM COHEN                                 SPELLBOUND                                                        DJ WING KO

 

2:00                                                        2:00                                                                        1:30

AURUM                                                  RAY RICKY RIVERA                                               DJ CARLOS NINO

 

3:30                                                        3:00                                                                        3:30

ROLLING RADIO                                   PERMANENT ABILITY                                          PALENKE SOUL TRIBE

 

5:00                                                        4:00                                                                        5:00

GIRL IN A COMA                                   FITZ & THE TANTRUMS                                        BOBO MEETS RHETTAMATU

 

6:00                                                       5:30                                                                        6:30

INSITE                                                    MAYER HAWTHORNE                                          MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO 

 

7:00                                                       6:45                                                                         8:00

DIVISION MINUSCALA                        FREDDIE POOLE w/ ELLIS HALL                          LEE SCRATCH PERRY

 

8:00                                                       8:00

EDWARD SHARPE &                          THE WHISPERS    

THE MAGNETIC ZEROS

   

ELECTRO DANCE STAGE         THE FOLD STAGE/LOCALS ONLY (EDGECLIFFE)

 

1:00                                                        12:00

CHRISTOPHER YATES CIRCUS             GWENDOLYN & THE GOOD TIME BAND

 

3:00                                                         1:00

DJ ERIC NEUTRON                               THE JANKS

 

4:00                                                         2:00

DJ GUSTO                                              WHEELHOUSE

 

5:00                                                         3:00

DJ DEXTEROUS                                     LESLIE & THE BADGERS

 

6:00                                                         4:05

DJ SPLYCE                                              RED CORTEZ

 

7:10                                                         5:15

CC SHEFFIELD                                       THE DEADLY SYNDROME

 

7:25                                                         6:25

CAROLINE D’AMORE                          THE CRYSTAL ANTLERS

 

8:45                                                         7:35

DJ DOC MARTIN                                   SAM SPARRO

 

                                                8:45

                                                INFINITY (female fronted tribute to Journey)

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Comments

[patrick]

Fishbone! Bad Brains! Saturday night will be killer.

[Hairy Carrion]

Lee Scratch Perry too.

[City Dave]

This street fair lost all credibility when they started to charge $18.00 dollars just to get in! $18.00 for what? To walk around and get to use a port-a-potty? To spend another $20.00 on food or drink, just to hear a few bands.
RIP OFF! My friends and I will never go again. The fair has been ruined, like everything, by greed.

[carrie]

really?? thats it.. no thanks.. what hap?? i used to look forward to the junction each year....

[woder]

Okay, relax. First, this ain't Fishbone. It's Angelo, Norwood, maybe Walt, and some session guys. The way it's been for the past few years. While those guys are the truth and soul of the band, it still ain't the 'Bone. I grew up on and love the real 'Bone but, sad to say, the brothers haven't put out any decent music since 'Reality'. Second, you'll be lucky if H.R. even shows up for the Brains show. Dude has not exactly been the picture of reliability recently. Sunset Junction has been LAME for YEARS. This year, especially with the addition of bogus cover bands Fist & the Babies, or whatever, and John Mayer Hawthorne (seriously, read this guy's back story: former wannabe 'rapper' molded into 'soul crooner' by local scenester kingmaker, hooray!), promises to be one of the worst yet. End the Junction. It's relevance is over.

[woder]

Okay, relax. First, this ain't Fishbone. It's Angelo, Norwood, maybe Walt, and some session guys. The way it's been for the past few years. While those guys are the truth and soul of the band, it still ain't the 'Bone. I grew up on and love the real 'Bone but, sad to say, the brothers haven't put out any decent music since 'Reality'. Second, you'll be lucky if H.R. even shows up for the Brains show. Dude has not exactly been the picture of reliability recently. Sunset Junction has been LAME for YEARS. This year, especially with the addition of bogus cover bands Fist & the Babies, or whatever, and John Mayer Hawthorne (seriously, read this guy's back story: former wannabe 'rapper' molded into 'soul crooner' by local scenester kingmaker, hooray!), promises to be one of the worst yet. End the Junction. It's relevance is over.

[Zowie]

Only bands I need to see are GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY & FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS, it's gonna go off! Thank you, Sunset Junction talent buyer!

[CMartinez]

Remember when this was a real Street Fair? A FREE street fair! I live just 4 blocks away and it sucks, because I'd like to walk down but not if I have to pay $20.00 to get in and fight the crowed of wannabe hipsters that ruin everything else in this damn city! I miss the Sunset Junction, now it's more like a Coachella lite, not even that, a watered down Coachella with cheap sweetner.