CRSSD Festival sets March festival dates, lineup

Dec. 20, 2016 6:44 PM PT

Flume, Blood Orange, Duke Dumont, Bob Moses, AlunaGeorge and Lane 8 head the list of performers confirmed to perform March 4 and 5 at CRSSD Festival at San Diego’s Waterfront Park.

The lineup for the electronic music marathon also includes the U.K. duo Snakehips and the West Coast debut of another U.K. duo, London-based Dusky. A list of all 45 acts confirmed so far appears below.

Tickets go on sale Dec. 27 at noon at crssdfest.com. As of this writing, prices have not yet been announced for the 21-and-up event.

This will mark the fifth time the edgy electronic music fete has been held since it debuted at Waterfront Park in early 2015. All but one of the four previous editions of CRSSD Festival have drawn a capacity audience of 15,000 per day.

The event is produced by FNGRS CRSSD. The homegrown San Diego production company has earned a lofty reputation, here and beyond, for eschewing aggressive, amped-up EDM acts n favor of showcasing electronic music performers who cater to devotees, not casual fans.

Or, as San Diego’s DJ Porterhaus (real name: Mitch Porter) told the Union-Tribune in September: “Promoters used to be scared to dive into the underground electronic music scene and all its sub-genres; CRSSD is one of the first to start bringing those sub-genres to San Diego. A lot of EDM festivals just play what’s on the radio, but CRSSD features the full spectrum.”

The March edition of CRSSD Festival will mark a return for Lane 8, who has previously performed at the event and brought his This Never Happened tour to San Diego earlier this month for a Dec. 9 show at Bang Bang.

That tour was unique for an electronic music artist because Lane 9 (real name: Daniel Goldstein) banned the use of cell phones, the better to encourage fans to engage in a live music experience. “Obviously, I can’t prevent people from using their phones at festivals,” Lane 8 told the Union-Tribune in an interview published Dec. 8. “But I love CRSSD Festival. It’s amazing.”

CRSSD Festival March 2017 lineup (in alphabetical order)

2manyDJs

AlunaGeorge

Ame (DJ)

Amtrac

Billie Eilish

Blood Orange

Bob Moses

Boys Don’t Disco

Cut Snake

Damian Lazarus

Darius

Duke Dumont

Dusky (live)

Elderbrook

Flume

Fritz Carlton

Giraffage

Horse Meat Disco

H.V.O.B.

Jackmaster

Jason Bentley

Jerry Folk

Josh Wink

Justin Martin

Kasbo

Lane 8

Lauren Lane

Lee K

Lost Frequencies

Louis Futon

Martin Jensen

Midland

Paul Najera

Peggy Gou

Rad Cat

Recondite (live)

Rodhad

Seth Troxler b2b Eats Everything

Skream

Sonny Fodera

Snakehips

Tensnake

Wax Motif

Wingtip

Yotto

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George Varga

San Diego Union-Tribune music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing at the U-T and is a voting member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to providing live coverage of the Grammy Awards and festivals from Coachella and KAABOO to the 1994 edition of Woodstock, he has interviewed everyone from Miles Davis, Britney Spears and (over a game of chess) Ray Charles to Willie Nelson, Kanye West and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. A triple first prize-winner for criticism and arts writing at the 2022 San Diego Press Club awards and a double first prize-winner at the 2022 San Diego Society of Professional Journalists awards, Varga is also a contributing writer for Jazz Times magazine and has written for Billboard, Spin and other publications. After attending San Diego City College and San Diego State University, he created and taught the 2002 UC San Diego Extension course, “Jazz in a Post-Ken-Burns World.” Varga has written liner notes for more than a dozen albums, including by jazz sax greats James Moody and Michael Brecker, and contributed two chapters to the book, “Dylan: Disc By Disc.”