Layla Benitez to Perform Set at San Diego’s Biannual CRSDD Festival This Fall

Layla Benitez is heading to Southern California…

The half-Puerto Rican deejay is set to take the stage at San Diego’s biannual CRSDD festival’s fall edition.

Layla Benitez,Benitez joins a lineup that includes Underworld, Flume, LP Giobbi, Fatboy Slim, Jayda G, Eliza Rose and many more.

Encompassing house, techno, indie electronic and all flavors of dance music encompassed therein, the CRSDD Fall 2023 lineup also features Anjuna mainstay Ben Böhmer, U.K. live electronic favorite SG Lewis, Norwegian legends Röyksopp, a DJ set from the legends Basement Jaxx, white hot duo Overmono, tech-house evangelist FISHER, Chris Lake playing b2b Cloonee, techno queens Charlotte de Witte and Amelie Lens, Norwegian hero Todd Terje, rising U.K stars Barry Can’t Swim, TSHA, HAAi, salute and many more.

The festival will take place on September 23 and 24 at San Diego’s Waterfront Park, where it’s been hosted since its 2014 debut. Tickets for the 21 and over show go on sale on Wednesday, June 21.

Artists at the event play across three stages, with the venue directly on the harbor of San Diego Bay. The venue also includes interactive programming via the CRSSD Lab music-tech lounge, along with a vinyl market.

Both the spring and fall editions of CRSSD typically host roughly 15,000 fans and serve as part of a Southern California electronic festival roster that includes HARD, myriad Insomniac Events shows, Coachella and more. The festival is produced by the SoCal based FNGRS CRSSD.

Rebecca Black to Co-Host Special Afterparty During This Year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

Rebecca Black will be pulling late-night duty at Coachella

A trio of festival afterparties will take place during the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, with the 24-year-old half-Mexican American singer set to serve as one of the hosts..

Rebecca BlackTaking place each night of the first weekend of Coachella, April 15-17, the events are being produced by L.A.-based promoter Framework and will be hosted by Los Angeles’ revered A Club Called Rhonda, the Wynn Hotel’s ongoing Art of the Wild fête and Palm Springs’ recently launched Desert Air festival.

Friday night’s Rhonda show will be hosted by Black, along with Brazilian star Pabllo Vittar, with sets from Jayda G, SG Lewis, Purple Disco Machine and Rhonda’s longstanding residents Goddollars and Paradise.

On Saturday, Desert Air — which hosted its first-ever festival this past December in Palm Springs, Calif. — will feature Black Coffee playing back to back with The Martinez Brothers along with Peggy Gou and SOHMI, a Billboard pick for dance artists to watch this year.

And on Sunday, you can see Damian Lazarus b2b with Michael Bibi, Bedouin, Dixon and Layla Benitez playing at Art of the Wild.

All three events will happen at the Ross Aviation Thermal Airport in Thermal, Calif., roughly 15 minutes from the festival site in Indio. (This site is the former home of the once-buzzy, celebrity-laden Coachella afterparty Neon Carnival.)

Many of the artists playing this party trifecta are also playing Coachella itself, with the festival once again hosting the who’s who of dance music across multiple stages.

Miguel Taking Part in Undercurrent’s Inaugural Climate Crisis-Themed Exhibition

Miguel is caught in the undercurrent…

The 35-year-old half-Mexican American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor, whose full name is Miguel Jontel Pimentel, is taking part in new cause-oriented experiential platform Undercurrent’s first-ever event on September 9, 2021.

Miguel

Undercurrent, which merges the worlds of music, technology and the visual arts, will house the event in a two-story, 60,000-square-foot space in Brooklyn.

In addition to Miguel, the inaugural climate crisis-themed exhibition will feature a series of immersive, interactive exhibits developed by musical artists including Bon IverJorja SmithActress, Khruangbin, Aluna, Jayda G, Mount Kimbie and Nosaj Thing, with more to be announced.

Established by music industry veterans Steve Milton and Brett Volker, Undercurrent was designed to offer a new way for audiences to experience music while also inspiring them to get involved with social causes.

“We see it as a new medium for which artists and musicians can create, and hopefully new ways that they can engage with their audiences and their fans,” says Volker. He adds that the event will raise awareness and funds for three main environmental non-profits — Kiss the Ground, Ocean Conservancy, and/or Global Forest Generation — all of which created their own installations to spread awareness of their specific causes while offering ways for attendees to donate.

Attendees shouldn’t expect actual live performances; though all of the artists involved will likely make an appearance at some point during the exhibition’s six-week run.

Aside from showcasing Undercurrent’s work, the goal of the fall event is to inspire attendees to think more deeply about the climate crisis while donating money to its non-profit partners (Undercurrent is making direct donations to the organizations, while guests will be given multiple opportunities to donate on-site). Long-term, Milton and Volker hope to use it as a launching pad for future exhibitions with a focus on other important causes. “There are so many different ways that we could evolve this,” Milton says.

Tickets for Undercurrent start at $45 and go on sale today.

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