{"id":20896,"date":"2015-08-11T01:53:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T08:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20896"},"modified":"2015-08-11T01:53:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T08:53:36","slug":"crazy-names-great-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/crazy-names-great-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Names, Great Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/labdamu.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LOS ANGELES, CALIF. &#8212;\u00a0Echo Park Rising: \u00a0They go by names like Flying Hair, Rat Fist,\u00a0Tropical Popsicle and The Blank Tapes. Some band names are suggestive, some shouldn&#8217;t be said outloud in\u00a0certain social circles, some are disgusting and others are nuts like &#8212;\u00a0Batwings Catwings,\u00a0Gooch Palms and Happyness Heater. Keep a straight face when you pronounce the acts, and hold onto your hat at this week&#8217;s <strong>Echo Park Rising<\/strong> music festival in Los Angeles because there are more than 200 bands performing\u00a0and best of all, it&#8217;s free! If band\u00a0names\u00a0offer any indication as to what you&#8217;re in for, at this event you&#8217;ll get to hear\u00a0Chew Toys, Cigarette Bums, Survive, Talk in Tongues and Send Medicine. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/august-music.html\">weekend music festivals in California<\/a> range from wild &amp; crazy to smooth and in the groove. Here are a few:<\/li>\n<li>IDYLLWILD: Jazz in the Pines<\/li>\n<li>LAYTONVILLE: Enchanted Forest Gathering<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Summer Breeze Festival<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Crawfish Cajun \/ Zydeco Festival<\/li>\n<li>FREMONT:\u00a0Cajun\/Zydeco Music Festival<\/li>\n<li>SUTTER CREEK: Ragtime Music Festival<\/li>\n<li>BELDEN: For the Funk of It Music Festival<\/li>\n<li>VISTA: Summergrass Bluegrass Music<\/li>\n<li>TUOLUMNE: River Ranch Music Festival<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, CALIF. &#8212;\u00a0Echo Park Rising: \u00a0They go by names like Flying Hair, Rat Fist,\u00a0Tropical Popsicle and The Blank Tapes. Some band names are suggestive, some shouldn&#8217;t be said outloud in\u00a0certain social circles, some are disgusting and others are nuts like &#8212;\u00a0Batwings Catwings,\u00a0Gooch Palms and Happyness Heater. Keep a straight face when you pronounce the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20896"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}