As announced on our main site, FYF Fest tickets are on sale today and this year’s line-up features the expected stellar roster of indie-rock heroes (i.e. Broken Social Scene, Explosions in the Sky, Smith Westerns) but also some names that may make you double-take (in a good way). Example: music scene veterans the Descendents, the Hermosa Beach-based punk rock band who FYF-founder Seth raves is “My favorite band since I was thirteen. The reason that this festival exists is their album, ‘Milo Goes to College’ and the affect it had on my life”, as well as Toronto-based dance-punk duo Death from Above 1979, who just recently re-banded in time to play at Coachella after a 5 year break up.

And for those of you worried about waiting 3+ hours in line surrounded by swirling dust, enveloped by waves of heat with only the faint strains of music from the bands playing inside the fence to keep you from simply keeling over into fetal position on the sidewalk and giving up all hope of ever entering the proverbial gates (ahem…why yes, I speak from personal experience why do you ask?): NOT TO WORRY! Learning from their mistakes last year, FYF is teaming up with Goldenvoice (the concert promotion masterminds behind Coachella and Stagecoach) and moving locations downtown to the streets surrounding City Hall, which hopefully will prove to be a bigger, better change.  Promising, yes?

Where: 1st and Main, Downtown LA

When: September 3, 2011

Tickets:

$35 pre-sale

$99 VIP (21+)

Purchase here

or at any of these record stores

Full line-up:

Descendents

Death from Above 1979

Explosions In The Sky

Broken Social Scene

Cold War Kids

Guided By Voice

Simian Mobile Disco (Live)

The Dead Milkmen

Girls

No Age

Kid Dynamite

Glass Candy

Dan Deacon

Four Tet

The Heat & The Heart

Off!

Yacht

The Weakerthans

Chromatics

Cults

The Olivia Tremor Control

Smith Westerns

Strange Boys

Japandroids

Nosaj Thing

Ty Segall

Mister Heavenly

Pink Mountaintops

Avi Buffalo

Cass McCombs

Title Fight

Fools Gold

Tijuana Panthers

Touche Amore

Purity Ring

Twin Sister

Future Island

+Stand Up Comedy, DJs & More TBA