Category: Local Music

FUSE Fest 2012: It’s The Moments That Count

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It's probably a good sign when you are tired after a music festival. Nobody is ever tired after having a boring time. Such is the case the day after FUSE Fest 2012. We're very tired.

There were a lot of cool moments this year: Being moved by the rock of Sparklejet. Discovering Alana Hill has an amazing voice. Seeing Kat Jones reconnect with her Fresno fans. People tripping out on the robot that is Collecto. Light Thieves wowing F55:

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Werebear tearing it up the Lampost:

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People on Iron Bird Loft balconies enjoying Blake Jones:

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Post Takeover – FUSE Fest 2012: It Begins

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FUSE Fest 2012. It all starts tonight with a festival pre-party happening at The Hashtag on Wishon Row. See various FUSE Fest artists doing hella short sets, plus get your festival passes for Friday and Saturday along with FUSE Fest merch.

You can also get a sweet program you can use to start planning your festival routing. It's music nerd stuff and it's fun as hell. If you don't get a program you can start planning with this.

Get hyped by listening to all the pre-festival podcasting:

It's like Christmas Eve for Fresno music nerds. Can't wait for it to start.

 

Post Takeover – FUSE Fest 2012: Flowing With FUSE

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Back again with another special edition of Flowing With Famous: Flowing With FUSE 2012.

Josh and Mikey talk about some highlights from the past five years of the Fresno Urban Sound Experience.  Plus, breakdown what they’re looking forward to this year, all with FUSE Fest music flowing in and out.

It’s a good time. Click to listen: FlowingWithFUSE2012.mp3

*Heads up: Some of the music is Not Safe For Work – which makes it more kickass.

FUSE Fest 2012 ‘Post Takeover’ – Coattrack Records Boxset Featuring FUSE Fest Artists

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As we continue our 'post takeover' with FUSE, we find that the new Coattrack Records box set features plenty of FUSE Fest 2012 bands. Such as Niilo Smeds, Actress and Restaurnaut. It's good stuff no matter how many FUSE bands there are:

Check out the video Coattrack put together to promote the box set:

FUSE Fest ‘Post Takeover’: Dorktown Podcast #122 with Werebear

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Musician and festival organizer, Cristobal, from animal-punk band Werebear and Spanspek Music & Arts Festival, visits Dorktown and helps the gang talk about stuff like:

  • Dove season in Fresno.
  • Is it okay for Dorktown to drink something other than Tioga Sequoia beer?
  • The whats and whys of Spanspek.
  • Growing up Orosi.
  • What is wrong with Clovis?
  • Mikey gets Dorktown involved with some podcast beef with Podawful and Ear Candy and it's awesome!
  • MUSIC BREAK: Collecto.
  • Werebear is also playing FUSE Fest 2012 dontcha know.
  • Mikey almost dies for Becky.
  • What the hell is a Werebear?
  • MUSIC BREAK: Werebear.
  • Fonzy Eyyys!

Please go out and have a nice craft beer from our friends at Tioga Sequoia!

Check out Dorktown's home, leave a kickass review on iTunes, like their Face and Tweet'um… you know… if you have the time or whatever.

FUSE Fest 2012 – Fresnan ‘Post Takeover’ + FUSE Schedule

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If you're a beer snob then you may have heard of a thing called a 'tap takeover'. It's when one brewing company takes over all the taps at a bar or restaurant for the whole night.

So we're taking that idea and bringing it to the blog world. This week on The Fresnan, all the posts will be Fresno Urban Sound Expierience related. In other nerdy words: FUSE Fest is doing a 'post takeover' here at The Fresnan.

First up, it's maybe the most important of all: the schedule is out for this weekend's FUSE Fest. You can check the site, or check it right now here:

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