LIVE, IN PHOTOS: Beach Goth 2018

The Growlers-curated festival returns with a brand new energy—not to mention a resurrected Ramones.
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LIVE, IN PHOTOS: Beach Goth 2018

The Growlers-curated festival returns with a brand new energy—not to mention a resurrected Ramones.

Words: FLOOD Staff

photos by Molly Adams

August 08, 2018

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The Los Angeles Issue

With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more. 

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We have Southern California’s garage-psych modernists The Growlers to thank for coaxing the goths out of their coffin-lined bedrooms once a year for a day on the beach, and after the odd turn their festival took in 2017, Beach Goth 2018 was a return to corpse-painted form.

With lively sets from accomplished festival performers The Voidz and The Drums, as well as up-and-coming acts like Starcrawler and Hatchie alike, GWAR was hardly the only head-turner at this year’s turnout.

Check out the highlights below, as captured by our own Molly Adams.

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