LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Surprise Headliner!,Garrobos (Mexico D.F.), Emaue, Flattbush, Epidemia, Agony (Colombia), Slowrider, Bye Sami, Audio Karate, Dj Marchronico (Monterrey-Mexico) & More!
San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose, Phoenix, Dallas,
Houston & Mexico City
Mexican Wrestling 'LUCHA Libre' New This Year (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, April 11, 2002- Repeating its feat of placing 30+ artists in two stages plus a DJ Lounge (this time around) in Los Angeles, Aztlan Fest 2002 heads into its third year. Starting June 1 at in Tucson, June 2 in Phoenix, June 6 in San Diego, making its way onto June 8 at the Grand Olympic Auditorium Parking Lot Grounds and June 9 in San Jose.
Once again presenting a diverse mosaic of uncompromising talent an effort never before witnessed on the same stage as well as cultural lifestyle booths. This year Aztlan Fest 2002 will feature extreme sports attraction Lucha Libre (Mexican wrestling), featuring 'El Super Pocho Loco Half Time Show,' who will dazzle the crowds. Aztlan Fest 2002 will unite a wickedly unique amalgam of musical genres such as neo-traditional punk, hopped-up fusion rock, hard-core, nu-metal, ska, hip-hop and electronica in an all day festival ambiance.
The Los Angeles show staging will consist of two stages interestingly named Pyramid of the Sun and Mictlan 'The Underworld' two opposing cultural marvels that together will unite a crowd of frenzied music fans. In addition to a cozy DJ Lounge.
PROTAGONISTS BRINGING TO THE TABLE: (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
� SURPRISE HEADLINER (To be revealed soon!)
� Agony- Colombian export "The music can best be described as heavy as hell with a definite tribal groove to it" Rock City News www.agonyreborn.com
� Ankla- A musical hybrid of hard-core-metal and tropical fusion featuring 'Ramon' ex- Puya.
� Audio Karate-Melodic punk from Montebello, this band is ready to show their chops with a newly released album titled Space Camp out on Kung Fu Records (owned by Joe Escalante -The Vandals). www.kungfurecords.com
� Bye Sami-Festival alum Bye Sami (formerly Los Alex) from Tijuana are ready to spread their energetic-melodic-punk in Espa�ol sounds as they end their first leg of their California Tour. Bye Sami is hot out of the Baja scene with a newly released album entitled Otro Dia Mas, on newcomer Los Angeles based indie label SourPOP Records. www.sourpop.net
� DJ MarchroniCO- Direct from Monterrey Nuevo Leon Mexico, spinning wild loops and beats.
� Emaue- San
Diego punk-ska-Latin fusion band come with their newly released album under Cielo
Music Group, www.emaue.com
� Epidemia-Direct from Modesto one of the truly hottest Nu-Metal in Espa�ol bands around. Fast, furious and with an overdose of incisive socio-political commentary this band will assault your senses.
� Flattbush- Festival alum favorites return to deliver a spitfire set of noise metal. Flattbush truly represents the cultural diversity the band is composed of 2 Filipinos, 1 Anglo and a Chicano out of Wilmington, Califas. www.flattbush.com
� Garrobos-Direct from the entrails of Mexico City, comes a hard-hitting thrash metal band. www.garrobos.net
� Nocturne-Some people refer to them as the Mexican
Marilyn Manson you be the witness of this
Black Metal band from East Los. www.nokturne.8k.com
� Pesdeyet-Electronic/Industrial Los Angeles natives, only local band to participate in the critically acclaimed Tributo A Los Tigres del Norte compilation out on Latin label Fonovisa.
� Slowrider-In support of their newly released album Nacimiento, this East Los
Collective will make the house dance to their musical cocktail of rhythms: jazz-soul, galactic funk, space-rock, and hip-hop with Bilingual lyrical content filled with spirituality and politics. www.slowrider.com
� Union 13 -East Los power HC punksters will join in the fun in Tucson &
Phoenix before they head out for their second European tour. (June 1 in Tucson & June 2 in Phoenix)
THE REST OF THE GANG:
SilverPill (Bilingual HC from Dallas www.silverpillband.com), Left Alone (punk-ska),
Double Agent (ska-core), Cafeina (ska-punk), Schizm (punk), Parasite (Native American metal from Arizona reservation), Tuerca (East Los Metal), The Vomits (punk), DJ Kapt N'Kirk and more�
Aztlan Fest 2002 producer,
Mario Cobian comments on this years festival, 'we are very excited about rolling out once again. Last year we brought out an immense stable of talented acts gave our audience a great show and this year we owe it to them in a bigger and better way. Our mentality, we live in a culturally diverse city that day by day co-inhabits, why not expose everyone's favorite musical styles at once in an all-day festival ambiance. This year we decided to include Mexican Wrestling as a representative of
Latino culture, we believe the two blend perfectly. Life is a living spectacle so Se�ores y Se�oras el show acaba de comenzar."
