Filter's Culture Collide Festival 2011

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Countries will converge
...again.


...appearing at venues TBA.

A limited number of $20 wristbands are available, which grant entry into all shows (pending capacity) throughout the Culture Collide Festival.

Artists scheduled to appear include:

CSS
Lindstrom
Rainbow Arabia
Liam Finn
...and many more!

For complete details, please visit culturecollide.com.

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Tickets on sale May 06 at 10 AM:

http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/Sal...atthescenestar

Hooray! Last year was so much fucking fun!

Lindstrom! Gasp. I hope this means he'll stop by SF on his way down.

I bet. Ahhh it feels good to finally be able to plan for 21+ shows.

It's a day longer this year too. Sweet.

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Originally Posted by ficklecycle

I bet. Ahhh it feels good to finally be able to plan for 21+ shows.

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Oh man, yeah. Last year was so well organized! The country-specific happy hours with free booze and acoustic performances in the afternoon at Taix were such a good kickstarter, tons of great food trucks, and bouncing between the Echo & Echoplex all night with no break between bands was just amazing. My girlfriend and i discovered so many great bands we had never heard of before. What a fucking deal for $20! We didn't even end up going to the block party on Sunday, too tired from the 3 days prior

I have to be honest with you Andrew, all I saw was "free booze" and I was happy.

Seriously though, they had a great line up last year. I was really bummed about missing it all. I'll definitely be getting my ticket next weekend.

I'm in!

im in. just bought my 20 dollar ticket. didnt think it would work but it did. suhweet

Just got mine too.

For anyone that didn't catch it yet, the tickets are already on sale. They've been up since late last night but still some available.

$20 for five days worth of music is just too good to pass up; tickets procured!

$20 for this festival is a steal. Might have to come down from the bay area for it.

1 more year and I will be able to join all of this 21+ craziness.

"Big announcement coming next week..."

From Filter's twitter.

It's out

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LOS ANGELES, CA - CSS (Brazil), Lindstrøm (Norway), Liam Finn (New Zealand), Isobel Campbell (Scotland), Buck 65 (Canada), Jason Falkner (US), Rainbow Arabia (US), and Young Liars (CA) are among the first acts to be confirmed for FILTER Magazine's second annual Culture Collide Festival in Los Angeles, CA October 6 - 9, 2011. Also confirmed are He's My Brother/She's My Sister (US), Spain (US), Snowblink (Canada), Handshakes (US), The Yellow Dogs (Iran), Martin Clancy & The Witness Protection Programme (Ireland), Indigo Tree (Poland), BrainStorm (Latvia), My bubba & Mi (Denmark), Ginga (Austria), Kassette (Switzerland), Please the Trees (Czech Republic), Paula i Karol (Poland), The Awkwards (Switzerland) and Disco Doom (Switzerland).

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Presuamably, there are many more artists to come, including a few more recognizable names. Last year there were around 55 bands, including Klaxons, Tokyo Police Club, Black Lips, White Lies, Casiokids, Besnard Lakes, Fran Healy (Travis), Monotonix...
There are only 21 listed so far for this year, and I bet Filter plans to outdo themselves the second time around (hopefully!!) Time will tell!

In any case, $20 is a STEAL for this event. They are still at that price now. I don't recall the price ever going up last time, though it may sell out eventually.

The block party on Sunday last year was free, though, and there was plenty of good music there alone.
http://www.songkick.com/festivals/13...ock-party-2010

I got the weirdest email from the ticketing service, it said, "Update regarding your Culture Collide Festival 2010 event".

The update was that 2011 tickets were available.

Very strange alert to send.

It's so tempting to go down to LA for this. But I'm on vacation until Tuesday of that week, and I don't think work would go for me just going right back on vacation. Lindstrom better come to SF. :(

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Originally Posted by Ardentbiscuit

I got the weirdest email from the ticketing service, it said, "Update regarding your Culture Collide Festival 2010 event".

The update was that 2011 tickets were available.

Very strange alert to send.

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TICKETWEB ALWAYS DOES THIS. THEY DO THE SAME FOR FYF FEST AS WELL.

woops, capslock. Too busy to fix

Lots more adds this morning, along with the already confirmed Gang Gang Dance!

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LOS ANGELES, CA (June 28, 2011) - Twenty new artists have been added to the lineup for FILTER Magazine's second annual Culture Collide Festival in Los Angeles, CA October 6 - 9, 2011. Newly confirmed acts include Gang Gang Dance (USA), Datarock (Norway), The Asteroids Galaxy Tour (Denmark), Do Make Say Think (Canada), MEN (USA), Ximena Sarinana (Mexica), De Staat (the Netherlands), Chico Mann (USA), The Tender Box (USA), Suave As Hell (Mexico), The Death Letters (the Netherlands), Electra (Israel), Descartes A Kant (Mexico), Da Punto Beat (Mexico), Guineafowl (Australia), Black Box Revelation (Belgium), Los Hollywood (USA), Bodi Bill (Germany), Hundreds (Germany), Hedgehog (China) and For A Minor Reflection (Iceland). These bands will be performing alongside the previously announced CSS, Lindstrøm, Liam Finn, Isobel Campbell, Buck 65, Jason Falkner, and many other bands from 23 participating countries.

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What does the day by day break down usually look like? (Meaning, how many of the acts will end up being on Weds/Thurs rather than on the weekend?)

This is the second year, but last year it was like this:

Regular fest from Thurs-Sat, split between 5 venues, about 5 bands per venue. So about 25 bands a night, but that also included some repeat performances at different venues, and doers not include the special acoustic performances done at the country-specific happy hours each day (which were all repeat performances by bands that later played electric). The regular festival was really laid out like a conference, there were tons of performances and things happening each day starting from 2pm and going on until 2am pretty much.

Then came Sunday, which was the all day outdoor block party. i didn't make it to this because I was destroyed from the previous three days, but it had 3 stages I think and around 30 bands, probably 10 of which had already played ea
rlier in the fest.

EDIT: I doubt much will be happening on Wednesday, that's on the top of the festival site but isn't mentioned anywhere else - it's probably the pre-party. last year they had pre-party on top of the Standard Hotel for early ticket buyers and press, and had performances from like 1 band and 1 DJ i think. i ended up not going.

Also, the site says that there were 54 bands last year, so there were a lot more repeat performances than i thought there were.

Good grief, that sounds complicated. Well, complicated for people who don't live in LA and don't want to take half a week off work. :) I'm thinking of doing this if Lindstrom doesn't announce a SF date really soon.

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Originally Posted by chiapet

What does the day by day break down usually look like? (Meaning, how many of the acts will end up being on Weds/Thurs rather than on the weekend?)

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Last year's schedule is still up on the site:
http://culturecollide.com/index.php/schedule/
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View a MUCH larger PDF version here:
http://culturecollide.com/images/upl...ScheduleSM.pdf

Oct 7th - USA Los Angeles, Echoplex (Filter Culture Collide Festival)

Oct 9th - USA Los Angeles, Block Party (Filter Culture Collide Festival)

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Artists joining our already scheduled talent will be Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Avi Buffalo, The Elected, The Morning After Girls, The Gift, Midnight Surfer, Laura Jansen, Hands, The Lanskies, Carina Round, Cosmic Kids, Sparkadia, Holger, Bixel Boys, You Say France & I Whistle, Trocpicool, Da Brasillians, Hypernova, and Surf Ambassador Hendo.

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This year, Culture Collide will be held in multiple venues accross LA's East Side including The Echo, Echoplex, Taix, 826LA, Swinghouse Studios, The Church, Reform Academy and Stories Books & Cafe. Of course the festival will conclude with the FREE Toyota Antics Block Party in Echo Park on Sunday, October 9. Sponsors include Dickies, Dickies, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Guitar Center, Converse, Fender, S.O. Terik, Twonky, Whole Foods Market and Slacker Radio.

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http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/...re_join_2011_/

Ahh i remember stumbling upon this last year and not being old enough to go. Will definitely go this time.

I'm really unfamiliar with the lineup this year. Any suggestions on stand out bands.

If my Disneyland weekend plans fall through i will be at this for sure! i'll continue to talk about how much fun last year was.

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Originally Posted by ambient sounds

Any suggestions on stand out bands.

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not bands, but lindstrom and gang gang dance are awesome