FREAKS ONLY
FREAKS ONLY playlist: July 24, 2024
Desert Daze festival founder Phil Pirrone joins to break down this year’s lineup, share heavy tunes, and shout out highlights throughout the years.
Desert Daze festival founder Phil Pirrone joins to break down this year’s lineup, share heavy tunes, and shout out highlights throughout the years.
Counting down the seconds ‘til you can snag yr tix for Desert Daze 2024? Tune in for our chat with DD founder Phil Pirrone to help pass the time. Pirrone’s here to break down all the logistics that bring SoCal’s freakiest fest to life and we’ll check out some deep (and heavy) cuts from the lineup including Pirrone’s own band jjuujjuu in collaboration with Brazilian garage rock greats Boogarins and Thai wedding-band-turned-space-rock-explorers Khun Narin. Plus, he shares his favorite DD performances of all time — one for every year that the fest happened going all the way back to its origins as an 11 day (!) extravaganza in 2012. Scrub to 01:03:00 to get right to the goods.
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