The Bay Area takes Paris for City Sounds Festival: San Francisco Edition, 7/19-20/2013
With a mission to bring burgeoning music scenes from around the world to the streets of Paris, City Sounds Festival has hosted bands from cultural hubs like Los Angeles, Tokyo, Berlin and Toronto and is now borrowing the Bay Area's rock and roll torch bearers for City Sounds Festival: San Francisco Edition. In honor of the event that set the blueprint for music festivals as we know them today, 1967's Monterey Pop Festival, the two-day festival is a celebration of both San Francisco's 1960s psychedelic past and its abounding present. I know the party will be roughly 5,500 miles away, [...]