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.

Morrison Performing at Mexico City’s Vive Latino Festival

It’ll be Vive Latino time with Carla Morrison in Mexico City this spring…

The 26-year-old Mexican pop-rock singer, one of the winners at this year’s Latin Grammys, has been added to the lineup for the massive Vive Latino festival, to be held at Mexico City’s Foro Sol stadium on March 14-17, 2013.

Carla Morrison

Mexican indie band Enjambre and Morrissey will open the festival on the night of March 14, according to Mexican publications. The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs and Underworld are set to headline on March 15. Blur will headline the 16th while Argentine ska legends Los Fabulosos Cadillacs will close the festival on the 17th.

In all more than 100 bands have been confirmed for the festival, including Nortec Collective DJs Bostich and Fussible, Afro-Colombian cumbia hip hop group Bomba Estereo, Argentina’s Banda de Turistas, Uruguayan rockers Cuarteto de Nos, Gepe from Chile, the reunited Mexican band Porter and Spanish rapper Mala Rodriguez.

Billed as the Festival Iberoamericano de Cultura Musical, Vive Latino was held for the first time in 1998, and has continued yearly except for the years 1999 and 2002. The 2013 festival will be the first to take place over four days.

Tickets for Vive Latino 2013 will be available during a Ticketmaster pre-sale December 6 and 7, with general ticket sales starting December 8.

Click here for the entire Vive Latino line-up.