The bill that nobody outside the city has heard of is usually the one worth going to. Touring headliners are a known quantity; a local lineup on a Saturday afternoon is a bet on a scene, and the people in the crowd are mostly the ones building it.
San Diego's bass and downtempo scene has spent years being overshadowed by Los Angeles two hours north, which has had the useful side effect of keeping it unpretentious. Know Good and Blookah work the slower, weirder end — trap tempos slowed down, a lot of space in the arrangements, the sort of thing that works far better outdoors in late afternoon light than it ever does at 2 AM in a dark room.
The shipping-container yard downtown is the right venue for exactly this: open-air, concrete, a bar in a converted container, and no pretense whatsoever.
Gates at four on Saturday the seventeenth; the light goes gold around six and that is the part to be there for.
The bill that nobody outside the city has heard of is usually the one worth going to. Touring headliners are a known quantity; a local lineup on a Saturday afternoon is a bet on a scene, and the people in the crowd are mostly the ones building it.
San Diego's bass and downtempo scene has spent years being overshadowed by Los Angeles two hours north, which has had the useful side effect of keeping it unpretentious. Know Good and Blookah work the slower, weirder end — trap tempos slowed down, a lot of space in the arrangements, the sort of thing that works far better outdoors in late afternoon light than it ever does at 2 AM in a dark room.
The shipping-container yard downtown is the right venue for exactly this: open-air, concrete, a bar in a converted container, and no pretense whatsoever.
Gates at four on Saturday the seventeenth; the light goes gold around six and that is the part to be there for.
The bill that nobody outside the city has heard of is usually the one worth going to. Touring headliners are a known quantity; a local lineup on a Saturday afternoon is a bet on a scene, and the people in the crowd are mostly the ones building it.
San Diego's bass and downtempo scene has spent years being overshadowed by Los Angeles two hours north, which has had the useful side effect of keeping it unpretentious. Know Good and Blookah work the slower, weirder end — trap tempos slowed down, a lot of space in the arrangements, the sort of thing that works far better outdoors in late afternoon light than it ever does at 2 AM in a dark room.
The shipping-container yard downtown is the right venue for exactly this: open-air, concrete, a bar in a converted container, and no pretense whatsoever.
Gates at four on Saturday the seventeenth; the light goes gold around six and that is the part to be there for.