ODESZA proves headliner-worthy at San Diego’s CRSSD Spring Fest

ODESZA proves headliner-worthy at San Diego’s CRSSD Spring Fest
Mark E. Ortega
Grimygoods.com
March 8, 2016

Now in its second year, San Diego’s CRSSD Fest at Waterfront Park made the jump this weekend from being one of the best-kept secrets to being a legitimate powerhouse of a second-tier music festival.

The twice-a-year fest — which takes place in both March and October — was a sell-out and tickets on the secondary market were going for a pretty high price. With just two full-length records to their name, Seattle electronic duo ODESZA went from being a second-line act at last year’s March edition to the Saturday headliner this year.

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Foo Fighters close final day of Life is Beautiful on an ultimate high

Foo Fighters close final day of Life is Beautiful on an ultimate high
Mark E. Ortega
GrimyGoods.com
October 30, 2014


“We haven’t played here in a long f*cking time,” Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl said early on in the final performance of Life is Beautiful’s three-day festival in downtown Las Vegas. “So you know what that means? We are about to play a bunch of songs we normally don’t get to play. And we’re going to play as many songs as we can until they shut us down.”

Grohl made good on those words, as the band played beyond when the posted set times said they’d finish up. He was also right – it had been six years since the Foo Fighters played Las Vegas – at the Hard Rock’s awesome in-door venue The Joint.

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