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Echo Park Rising
Venue: Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA – August 16, 2025
Vibe Check: 🌈
Mic Check: 💃🏽
Drunk Girls in Bathrooms
Last week I went to two of my favorite places on earth: the public library & a concert — IN THE SAME DAYYYYY!
Echo Park Rising is a music and arts street festival put on by the chamber of commerce in collaboration with local restaurants, bookshops, storefronts, and music venues to provide a dedicated walkable place for up-and-coming artists to perform and display their art for free. We’re talking makeshift stages in parking lots, patios, and sidewalks; places that barely have foot traffic are now overflowing with raucous energy.
I started my day off at the LA Public Library to scramble to make my first mini-zine promoting Music as Literature. I passed them out all day as fellow Substacker (Live and in Colored) and I hopped from venue to venue. I’m not a shy person and this still took me out of my comfort zone to share my work face-to-face with people. Drunk girls in bathrooms really know how to hype you up!!
What I love about EPR is that it’s a one-day snapshot of everything I love about the Los Angeles music community: it’s self-driven, it’s genre-fluid, and filled to the brim with radical love for all the art forms. You can hop from one back patio playing country music, to a large stage playing alt-pop, to a parking lot playing experimental rock, to a bar porch featuring female-fronted bands.
The best new bands are probably playing in someone’s backyard as we speak!
Ch-check One-Two
YouTube Playlist, Apple Music Playlist, Spotify Playlist
🫙 Concert Ticket Fund
Nielly Listens 
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