This year's Eagle Rock Music Festival will incur much less wrath than Sunset Junction

Well, huh! Suddenly, the Eagle Rock Music Festival, one of the latest entries into the busy late-summer/early-fall street fair scene in L.A., seems to have found a niche this year: move the Smell scene north and east, and let the venerable beardy guys who run the Ship studio curate a stage. The neighborhood is already ground zero for older rocker types who need cheap space but don't want to compete with 21-year-old CalArts grads vomiting on their Echo Park doorsteps. This year's ERMF (a fun acronym to say aloud if there ever was one) seems to further cement that trend -- Abe Vigoda, Mika Miko and Crystal Antlers headline along with jangly expat Silver Lakers Earlimart and Radar Bros.

Dublab Soundsystem is likewise helming a world stage with the always-fun Very Be Careful, and if our last music-centric venture to the Evil Rock still holds true, the Fest vibe is pointedly more relaxed and less combative with the neighbors. If the Detour Fest that same day is too expensive for you (at $40, that's completely understandable), it's worth noting that the ERMF is completely free, which is looking all the more appealing these days, no?

-- August Brown

Mika Miko photo by Lawrence K. Ho/Los Angeles Times

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