Echo Park Rising (EPR) makes its return on Saturday, September 9th across various venues and businesses throughout Echo Park, and don’t worry, this is the real thing, it’s not no Echo Farce Rising. The last EPR took place in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic. Unlike past years, the 2023 event will not be a three-day festival. However, staying true to the East Los Angeles music community, the event will remain free for all ages (some venues are 21+), delivering live music, art, eats, and drinks.

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Starcrawler is set to headline Echo Park Rising at the Echoplex. The festival will also feature a comedy performance by Patton Oswalt at Sick City Records, a Cryptids Drag Show at Spacedust, the Semi-Tropic will host two stages, both indoor and outdoor, Sticky Rice will have the indoor venue, Spirit House and a beer garden/outdoor stage in their parking lot, and the Echo + plex + patio will be poppin’ all day and night, closing with a 50th anniversary celebration of David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane release at the Echoplex. This is just a snack. See the full course for all the fun at Echo Park Rising 2023.

sad robot — Sad Robot (now Holy Wars) at Echo Park Rising’s Grimy Goods Stage at Echoplex

Artist and Bands Not To Miss at Echo Park Rising 2023

Twolips at Sticky Rice

Black Polish at Echoplex

Asi Fui at Sticky Rice

Banana Leaf Boy at El Classico Tattoo

Smooth Jas at P.F. Candle Co. Flagship

Jenny O at Sticky Rice (The Spirit House)

Kent Osborne at the Echo

Dmtina & The Bumps at the Short Stop

Jennie Lawless at Sticky Rice (The Spirit House)

Tolliver at Stick Rice

Spare Parts for Broken Hearts at Bar Henry

Iress at Echoplex

The Holycuts at The Semi-Tropic

Bonavega at Echoplex

Miss Jupiter at Spacedust

A lot more to be seen and heard. You can check out the Echo Park Rising lineup/schedule, give all of our recommended artists a listen, and find some new ones to add to your list.

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