Modest Mouse, Public Enemy to play at X-Fest

March 25, 2015 10:08 AM PT

San Diego radio station 91X will celebrate the 32nd anniversary of its first X-Fest music marathon with a lineup that mixes several eras.

The lineup for the June 7 concert at Sleep Train Amphitheatre includes such veteran bands as The Cult, Pennywise and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Public Enemy, along with such new acts as Moon Hooch and San Diego’s Shady Francos. Also confirmed to appear are Modest Mouse, Cold War Kids, Atlas Genius, Death From Above 1979, The Orwells, Mey Myers and Robert Orwell. At least one other act will be announced.

“These bands mean a lot to the history of 91X and to San Diego,” said Michael Halloran, the station’s program director. “You’ve got the old and the new, and the old and the older.”

Tickets for X-Fest will go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. t the genera; public at all Ticketmaster outlets, online at livenation.com and by phone at (800) 745-3000. An online pre-sale will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday. The password will be available at the station’s website. Tickets are prices at $26.91 to $66.91, plus service charges.

The first X-Fest took place in 1983 at what was then known as San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium (now Qualcomm Stadium). The lineup included Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Ramones, The Stray Cats, Modern English and Bow Wow Wow. The event went on hiatus for several years, then returned in 1989, when X-Fest II was held at SDSU’s now-defunct Aztec Bowl. In recent years, X-Fst has been held at Sleep Train Amphitheatre.

Other X-Fest acts over the years have included Jane’s Addiction, New Order, Garbage, De La Soul, The B-52’s, Ziggy Marley, Tears For Fears, Ben Folds Five, Gin Blossoms, Staind and San Diego’s blink-182 and Slightly Stoopid.

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Source: DiscoverSD

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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.”