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Awesome Fest continues adding bands

Posted by Loren on June 15, 2016

Awesome Fest continues adding bands
Awesome Fest continues adding bands

Taking place this Sept. 2-4 in San Diego, Awesome Fest has unleashed more bands to play at the three day $50-65 festival of DIY punk bands.

2016's event will include Tiltwheel, Underground Railroad to Candyland, RVIVR, Shang-A-Lang, The Arrivals, Capitalist Kids, Low Culture, Western Settings, Turkish Techno, and more (listed in full after the jump).

The festival stresses its role as a community focused event, with no green rooms and bands paid based on mileage as compared to audience draw.

Full Lineup:
The Arrivals
Ash Williams
Baby Ghosts
Baby J & Friends
Backbiter
Bad Future
Bastards of Young
Broadway Calls
Caffiends
The Capitalist Kids
Caskitt
City Mouse
Crow Baby
Daydream
Dead Bars
Decent Criminal
Deep Sleep
Detached Objects
DFMK
Dude Jams
Dudes Night
Dyke Drama
Four Lights
Gentlemen Prefer Blood
Great Apes
Hellgod
Hermanas y Hermanas
Horror Squad
Lemuria
Low Culture
Lysolgang
Macho Boys
Madison Bloodbath
The Maxies
Melted
Nato Coles & The Blue Diamond Band
New Way On
The Plurals
Problem Daughter
The Raging Nathans
Red City Radio
Robot (Re)pair
RVIVR
Secondaries
Shang-A-Lang
Shellshag
The Slow Death
Spokenest
Squarecrow
The Stops
The Stupid Daikini
Stymie
Success
Tiltwheel
The Tim Version
toyGuitar
Toys That Kill
Turkish Techno
Underground Railroad to Candyland
Violence Creeps
Western Settings
Winter Break
Young Go-Hards

Awesome Fest continues adding bands
Awesome Fest continues adding bands

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