{"id":323233,"date":"2026-05-19T18:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/323233\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:44:10","slug":"arroyo-secodelic-lands-in-highland-park-this-weekend-what-to-know-about-the-new-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/323233\/","title":{"rendered":"Arroyo Secodelic lands in Highland Park this weekend. What to know about the new music festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

New music festival \u2018Arroyo Secodelic\u2019 lands in Highland Park this weekend<\/p>\n

A new four-day music festival takes over Figueroa Boulevard in Highland Park this weekend. The Arroyo Secodelic Festival will feature 65 bands, with acts hailing from Los Angeles, Mexico and as far as France and Holland. LAist’s Robert Garrova reports.<\/p>\n

A new four-day music festival takes over Figueroa Boulevard in Highland Park this weekend.<\/p>\n

The Arroyo Secodelic Festival<\/a> will feature 65 bands, with acts hailing from Los Angeles, Mexico and as far as France and Holland.<\/p>\n

The festival was co-founded by Guy Keltner and Tom Segal. Keltner said he\u2019s organized shows for nearly 14 years now, most notably with Freakout, an annual underground music festival he started in Seattle that draws thousands. <\/p>\n

Keltner told LAist he wants Arroyo Secodelic to be a place for music discovery, pairing rockers Flamin\u2019 Groovies \u2014 who are celebrating six decades as a band \u2014 with local bands like El Sereno\u2019s Windows and Levitation Room.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m just trying to kind of present to L.A. like \u2018Hey there\u2019s a ton of great music happening that you don\u2019t know about,\u2019\u201d Keltner said.<\/p>\n

Headliners include OC legends Adolescents, iconic punk band FEAR<\/a> and L.A. psych-rockers The Warlocks.<\/p>\n

The neighborhood collaboration will span seven stages, with shows at traditional venues like the Lodge Room, as well as De La Playa Records and North Figueroa Bookshop.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be nice to do something unconventional. This whole thing is run by independent businesses. So even beyond just the bands, there\u2019s a DIY spirit to the venues,\u201d Keltner said.<\/p>\n

The weekend-long festival will also include acoustic sets, artist signings, and book readings by performers like Kid Congo Powers of The Cramps and The Gun Club fame.<\/p>\n

Keltner said he hopes Arroyo Secodelic will serve as a bit of an antidote to what he sees as some \u201ccosplay\u201d rock and roll taking up space in L.A. right now: bands he feels are not investing as much in the artistry.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnderneath all of it, there are great bands,\u201d Keltner said. \u201cThere\u2019s so much talent in the city, it\u2019s just not in the places you\u2019re usually looking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arroyo Secodelic runs from May 22 to 24. More info at the Arroyo Secodelic website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New music festival \u2018Arroyo Secodelic\u2019 lands in Highland Park this weekend A new four-day music festival takes over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[134652,9168,48,52,51,47,50,49,27542,134651],"class_list":["post-323233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-arroyo-secodelic","tag-highland-park","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-music-festival","tag-psych-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}