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It's gonna be like a Burning Man sideshow," says Tim Hines. "There's gonna be a lot of stuff going on, not just music."
Hines, of La Mesa, is referring to an event being billed as the first annual Desert Daze Festival. It launches this April in Palm Springs. More than 100 bands are scheduled to play the free 11-day fest at Dillon's Roadhouse in Palm Springs. Producers of Desert Daze, who also run Pomona's psychedelic Moon Block shows hope to draw spillover from Coachella (Indio is 30 minutes away by car, give or take,) and which is slated for two weekends this year: April 13-15 and April 20-22.
Desert Daze headliners will include Dengue Fever, the Henry Clay People, Akron Family, Here We Go Magic, the Soft Pack, and more.
"On the day we're scheduled to play," Hines says of his band Tropical Popsicle "a couple of other bands from San Diego are also scheduled. The Barbarians, Joy, and Nature's Son." Daze publicist Anton Hochheim confirms that San Diego bands the Pilots, Blackfeet Braves, and Operation Mindblow will also perform at some time during the 11 days.
Tropical Popsicle, Hines says, is a "mix of post punk, psychedelic, and Goth rolled into one." Hines, who sings and plays keys and guitar, is also the band's principal song writer. He started the Popsicle a year and a half ago as a recording project. Within six months it was a full-on band that now includes Kyle Whatley, Chase Elliott, and Ryan Hand.
"The music is kind of scatterbrained like me. It's all over the map, whatever my state of mind is that week, that month, that moment." He laughs.
So how did Tropical Popsicle land up playing the desert festival? Hines says D-Daze talent curators approached them. "We got accepted early on. It seemed like a cool thing but not a really big deal. But," Hines says, "they kept adding bands."
If old enough, one is reminded of the Trips Festival in 1966 in San Francisco, possibly the prototype for all such music-and-arts fests for generations to come. Then, some 6,000 people showed up for an insane stoned weekend of light shows, theatrics, and bands like the Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company. Likewise, Desert Daze advertises nearly two weeks of bands, deejays, performance artists, visual installations, projections, food trucks, and so on.
What does Tropical Popsicle hope will come of the desert experience? "Just playing there in a quite unique desert energy vortex [he laughs] is enough."
Wait - an energy vortex?
"Yeah. You know. Maybe it'll be one of those Spinal Tap moments."
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It's gonna be like a Burning Man sideshow," says Tim Hines. "There's gonna be a lot of stuff going on, not just music."
Hines, of La Mesa, is referring to an event being billed as the first annual Desert Daze Festival. It launches this April in Palm Springs. More than 100 bands are scheduled to play the free 11-day fest at Dillon's Roadhouse in Palm Springs. Producers of Desert Daze, who also run Pomona's psychedelic Moon Block shows hope to draw spillover from Coachella (Indio is 30 minutes away by car, give or take,) and which is slated for two weekends this year: April 13-15 and April 20-22.
Desert Daze headliners will include Dengue Fever, the Henry Clay People, Akron Family, Here We Go Magic, the Soft Pack, and more.
"On the day we're scheduled to play," Hines says of his band Tropical Popsicle "a couple of other bands from San Diego are also scheduled. The Barbarians, Joy, and Nature's Son." Daze publicist Anton Hochheim confirms that San Diego bands the Pilots, Blackfeet Braves, and Operation Mindblow will also perform at some time during the 11 days.
Tropical Popsicle, Hines says, is a "mix of post punk, psychedelic, and Goth rolled into one." Hines, who sings and plays keys and guitar, is also the band's principal song writer. He started the Popsicle a year and a half ago as a recording project. Within six months it was a full-on band that now includes Kyle Whatley, Chase Elliott, and Ryan Hand.
"The music is kind of scatterbrained like me. It's all over the map, whatever my state of mind is that week, that month, that moment." He laughs.
So how did Tropical Popsicle land up playing the desert festival? Hines says D-Daze talent curators approached them. "We got accepted early on. It seemed like a cool thing but not a really big deal. But," Hines says, "they kept adding bands."
If old enough, one is reminded of the Trips Festival in 1966 in San Francisco, possibly the prototype for all such music-and-arts fests for generations to come. Then, some 6,000 people showed up for an insane stoned weekend of light shows, theatrics, and bands like the Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company. Likewise, Desert Daze advertises nearly two weeks of bands, deejays, performance artists, visual installations, projections, food trucks, and so on.
What does Tropical Popsicle hope will come of the desert experience? "Just playing there in a quite unique desert energy vortex [he laughs] is enough."
Wait - an energy vortex?
"Yeah. You know. Maybe it'll be one of those Spinal Tap moments."
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http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/03/22159/