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POST TAKEOVER - FUSE FEST 2012: Bandgeek is FUSEGEEK

Our last Fresno Urban Sound Experience 'post takeover' is the biggest. A special Bandgeek with all the info you need to enjoy the festival this weekend with links to the venues and band websites.

Come out early and stay late. It's a total geek-out for fans of live and local music. It's FUSE FEST!!:

FRIDAY

IRON BIRD LOFTS (All Ages)

7:30 So Long Williamsburg
8:30 Blake Jones & the Trike Shop
9:30 Boxcar Figaro

FULTON 55 (Main Stage) 21+

7:00 Alana Shap Hill
8:00 Actress
9:00 Light Thieves
10:00 Sparklejet
11:00 Collecto

FULTON 55 (Coffeehouse Stage – upstairs) 21+

7:30 Karen Marguth
8:30 Siren Singing
9:30 Kat Jones
10:30 Fatty Cakes

THE LAMPOST  (21+)

10:30 Your Hero Is A Villain
11:30 Werebear
12:30 Dislodic

SATURDAY

CMAC (Inside Old Fresno Met building) “Studio Stage” (All Ages)

4:30 Gayle and The Bowties
5:30 Danielle Rondero
6:30 College Kids
7:30 Art By Numbers
8:30 Lezayr
9:30 American Sanchez

CMAC “Outdoor Stage” (All Ages)

5:00 I Do Not Exist
6:00 Before Perils
7:00 Distrito Torre
8:00 B-Rawcity
9:00 [surprise band]

FISHBOWL – Warnors Theatre Marque (ALL AGES)

6:30 Aesop Fables
7:30 Strawberry Jam
8:30 Cinco
9:30 It’ll Grow Back

FRANK’S PLACE (21+)

7:00 The Dirty Stomp
8:00 Back In The Valley
9:00 Basura
10:00 Patrick Contreras

FRESNO BREWING COMPANY (All Ages)

6:30 Restaurnaut
7:30 The Overdubs
8:30 Brother Luke & the Comrades
9:30 Achievement House

TOKYO GARDEN (21+)

10:00 Niilo Smeds
11:00 Sunburns
12:00 General Populus
1:00 Ornery Ones

TICKETS
Festival Pass is $20 (gets you into every venue and stage for both days).
Day Pass is $15 (gets you into every venue and stage for one day).
Venue Pass is $5 to $10 (Fulton 55), depending on venue. Good for one venue.

Tickets will be available at the Fulton 55 box office starting now. BRING CASH! They will also be available at most venues throughout the festival…did we mention to BRING CASH! You want to have some cash for band merch too!

PARKING
There is free street parking throughout the Cultural Arts District (or Mural Town!! if you prefer) and at city lots around the Fulton Mall. (Parking meter spots are free on weekends and evenings)

RANDOM
The official Twitter hashtag being used is #fusefest

Check the Facebook event page and invite some folks! There's a lot of samples from FUSE Fest artists poping up there too.

FOOD
Eating at FUSE Fest is recommended at Iron Bird Cafe, Tokyo Garden and Fresno Brewing Company. Dusty Buns will be on the Fulton Mall (in front of Fresno Brewing Company) on Saturday night.

DRINKING
On Friday: Fulton 55 and The Lamp Post. On Saturday: Frank's Place, Fresno Brewing Company and Tokyo Garden. Iron Bird Cafe both nights for excellent coffee and tea.

 

GET THERE EARLY! The set times aren't like normal set times that are "suggested". It STARTS at 7pm on Friday and 4:30 on Saturday (Music Gods willing).

The Central California's biggest LOCAL music festival. Come out and kick ass with everyone.

Post Takeover - FUSE Fest 2012: It Begins

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:

• Flowing With FUSE Fest 2012.
• Ozmosis FUSE Fest Special.
• Josh Tehee talking FUSE on The Drive.
• Omar Nare and Before Perils on Radio Bilingue.
• Werebear on Dorktown.

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

 

Post Takeover - FUSE Fest 2012: Flowing With FUSE

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 - Fresnan 'Post Takeover' + FUSE Schedule

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:

LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT: Fresno Urban Sound Experience Festival for 2012

Hope you'll be in town September 6th-8th. It's going to be a fun weekend in Fresno. Fun because that's the weekend for the Fresno Urban Sound Experience. It's the 5th year for FUSE Fest and while it may be a bit bigger, the ideals are the same as year one: Showcase Fresno's diverse and talented music scene while featuring relevant venues in Downtown Fresno.

So. The big stuff. The reason there is a festival at all. Let's take a look at the lineup for Fresno Urban Sound Experience #5! Because FUSE Fest has no headliners, this is in no particular order:

• Light Thieves
• B-Rawcity
• Patrick Contreras
• Lezayr
• Werebear
• Blake Jones & the Trike Shop
• Distrito Torre
• Boxcar Figaro
• It'll Grow Back
• Gayle and The Bowties
• Alana Shap Hill
• Fast Car
• Restaurnaut
• The Overdubs
• The Dirty Stomp
• Collecto
• Fields Of Prey
• Actress
• Strawberry Jam
• Kady! Danger
• Sparklejet
• Dislodic
• Cinco
• The Dirty Dirties
• Back In The Valley
• I Do Not Exist
• Karen Marguth
• Niilo Smeds
• Before Perils
• Kat Jones
• Your Hero Is A Villain
• Basura
• Brother Luke & the Comrades
• Danielle Rondero
• Achievement House
• General Populus
• Siren Singing
• College Kids
• Sunburns
• Ornery Ones

That's a large helping of Fresno music. Lineup is supject to change (such is life). But it's looking damn special so far and we cant wait to see it all in Downtown Fresno, Friday and Saturday September 7th and 8th.

Make sure to start inviting all your friend's faces. Follow FUSE Fest on Twitter and check the website for the latest news.

Go To This Tonight: Pecha Kucha #16 "Music"

At Fulton 55, one of our favorite things to go to in Fresno are Pecha Kuchas. Tonight is special because the theme is music. Should be kuchafuckingtastic. Here is the presentor lineup:

• Melissa Olson
• Yvonne Vallejo
• Johnny Quiroz
• Tony Martin
• Patrick Contreras
• Arthur Servin
• Josh Tehee
• Dalitso Ruwe
• Kim Burly Schoelen
• Cristobal Carrillo
• Michael Manjarrez
• Thomas O'Laughlin, MD

Serious, Fresnans. If you haven't gone to one yet, great night to start.

BANDGEEK!: Saturday Is A Fresno Music Nerd's Dream Day

Nothing against the fine shows happening Friday night, but DAMN! foos, Saturday is going to be crazzetz. Enjoy the holiday weekend, Fresnans. Get out there and BANDGEEK!:

FRIDAY

FULTON 55: Come out and support Creative Fresno's Mural Project, proceeds go to bring more murals to Fresno (aka MURALTOWN!) Love the mix of bands on this one (complete with set times):  8:00 Lisa’s Big Night Out, 8:45 Suicide Lounge, 9:30 Lezayr, 10:15 Blake Jones & the Trike Shop and 11:00 Motel Drive:

AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: Performing stuff off their newly released CD "Unashamed Portrial" is The Jay Smith Group (Jay Smith-keys/synth, Eva Scow-mandolin, Tyler Cravines-drums, Pat Olvera-bass). Plus The Experience with Eva Scow:

C.A.F.E. INFOSHOP: Reggae ska and punk represented with Iwanaga, Checkered Past and more:

THAI PALMS: Local talent, no cover, North Fresno... 2 out of 3 aint bad. Whatever The Matter, SixHandsMouth and Not Perfect Humans:

THE NEXT BAR: More Fresnan rock with Outside The Wire, Broken G String, Palm Kids and more:

Tonight Get In On A Three Way: Bartender Challenge

It's a Gotta Love Fresno inspired Creative Fresno Bartender Challenge tonight at Brick. Battling for your tip money will be See Saw Seen, Nothing To Do and Who Eats Brunch. It goes from 6:30 to 9, promises to be good time Fresno. All proceeds go to the Creative Fresno Mural Project.

Tonight!: PechaKucha Night Fresno Volume 15

Another PechaKucha that promises to be interesting and fun and this one will appropriately be kicking off Arch Week:

Tonight @ Fulton 55: Pecha Kucha Night Fresno #14

 

Thank you Creative Fresno for giving us something cool to do on a Monday night. It's time again for a Fersno Pecha Kucha and this one is globally linked as all Pecha cities are doing a "Cities" theme. Tonight's presenters are:

• Dani Bergstrom
• Melissa Olson
• Steven Parra
• Kyle Lee & Josh Cates
• Sabrina Famellos-Schmidt & Kim Burly Schoelen
• Renee Newlove & Jayne Day
• Taylor Abels
• audience participation
• Floyd Sanchez
• Ashley Taylor

This is one of Fresno's coolest and most unique events. Definitely worth a try if you've never been.

Tonight!: Go Watch 'Urbanized'

A team up between Creative Fresno and Fresno Filmworks produces a couple showings of the documentary "Urbanized". The film looks at the way cities are planned and how a city's design reflects what it's all about... or something like that. Read up on it. Get some info on tonight's showings (5:00 & 8:00 at the Tower Theatre). Watch the trailer:

 

Go To This Tonight: Pecha Kucha - Volume 13

What is Pecha Kucha Night #13 all about? From Fresno Pecha Kucha:

The theme is "Cutting Room Floor" and we want people to know that some of the best ideas are born out of several bad ones. Presenters will take us through the transition from good to bad or just show us a bunch of the crap clients made them produce. The key is to have fun, engage, and maybe enjoy a beverage.

Best $5 you'll spend in town. Those that haven't been, these are always a unique and fun time and it's at Fulton 55 which only helps the greatness.

 

Tonight @ BB's: Bartender Challenge - North Of Shaw vs. South Of Shaw!

Time for another Bartender Challenge from Creative Fresno. You take two (in this case four) Fresnans from whatever and have them bartend against each other for a shift, to see who can earn the most tips. Bartender with the most tips get to brag they were able to raise the most amount of money for Creative Fresno's Mural Project.

Always a cool event and this one has some extra interest as it pits two North Of Shaw Fresnans (Amy Huerta and Austin Ewell) against two South Of Shaw-ers (Eliot Balch and Richard Caglia). We think maybe we can figure out which side has more money, but which side has more givers? Find out at BB's tonight.

Attend This: PechaKucha Night Fresno Volume 12

One of the more unique events you can go to in Fresno is a PechaKucha night. Volume 12 is happening tonight at Fulton 55 with the theme being: movement. Check out a list of presenters and also some more info on PechaKucha itself.

PechaKucha for Fresno is brought to you by Creative Fresno and always makes for a good Monday night out.

FUSE Fest 2011: The Schedule Is Out!

Welcome to FUSE Fest week! The biggest local music festival in town begins Friday night and ends early Sunday morning. Time to start planning your festival route and this may be of some use to ya:

Friday, September 30

JOE’S STEAKHOUSE
6:30 Werebear
7:30 Dale Stewart Band
8:30 Marlson Bruegen
9:30 Brian Kenny Fresno
10:30 The Dirty Stomp

CLUB KARMA (STAGE 1)
6:30 Bully The Kid
7:30 Achievement House
8:30 Lezayr
9:30 It’ll Grow Back
10:30 – 2:00AM: Meatball Magic @ FUSE

CLUB KARMA (STAGE 2)
7:00 College Kids
8:00 Sounds & Sciences
9:00 B-Rawcity
10:00 Koncrete Rose

HERO’S SPORTS LOUNGE
7:00 Karen Marguth
8:00 Boxcar Figaro
9:00 Lance Canales & The Flood
10:00 The Neptunes
11:00 Motel Drive

CLUB ONE
7:00 Brother Luke & The Comrades
8:00 Westerns
9:00 Rademacher
10:00 Fay Wrays
11:00 Quiet Americans

Saturday, October 1

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM
5:00 The Milford Higgins
6:00 Kevin Hill Blowout
7:00 Your Hero Is A Villain
8:00 Azazel
9:00 Bruno dA uNo

IRON BIRD LOFTS
5:30 Distrito Torre
6:30 Fast Car
7:30 Nate Pearce Band
8:30 Niilo Smeds
9:30 Touchdown Jesus

FULTON 55
7:00 Irie Sun
8:00 Aire Especial
9:00 Let’s Go Bowling
10:00 Poplord
11:00 Buffalo Guns

FULTON 55 – COFFEEHOUSE STAGE
7:30 Heather & Joe
8:30 That Guy Kevin
9:30 Suicide Lounge
10:30 Restauraut

TOKYO GARDEN
10:00 Josh & Jaime
11:00 Blake Jones & The Trike Shop
12:00 Sunburns
1:00 The Backstabbers

The lineup can be a volatile thing so check the site for changes. Look at the map if you're not sure where these places are. Sign in on the event page and annoy invite your friends. Festival goers get a handout when they check in that shows everything above. Tickets $20 for a two-day pass. $15 for one-day ($15 2-day for Creative Fresno members when you buy them at Fulton 55).

Feel free to share your route in the comments!