[Sounds Like] You Had to be There ’25
On January 4th, emerge into the New Year's weekend with [Sounds Like] You Had to be There '25, the first ever hybrid electronic, slowcore, and shoegaze festival to grace the Bay Area.
Local gabber and electroclash firehouse Technopagan plays support for doors
Arrive for the exhilaration of digitalized Toronto electro-industrial from Ada Rook
Hail in the black metal influence within Kraus's award-winning noise anthems.
As the evening rises, New York duo Somewhere Special takes on electroclash's endearing second life.
Emoting the style of peak M83 and early Porter Robinson, acloudyskye architects a postrock bildungsroman.
Chuquimamani-Condori & Joshua Chuquimia Crampton perform together as Los Thuthanaka,
bridging Native American sound collage, ambient, and folk. Condoris most recent project, the sprawling digital cumbia hallmark DJ E - was ranked as the 9th best album of the 2020's decade by GQ.
High Sunn fuzzes and cranks up a wash of mosh, lucidly breezing dreamo (dream pop x screamo) in their last-ever U.S. performance
The George Clanton cosigned futuristsDeaths Dynamic Shroud douses synth bass and reverb over a recontextualization of mall pop
Headlining the event is the NY/Atlanta-based outfit Lowertown. Launching stream-consciousness psychedelic folk in tandem with avant-slowcore - their lead singer, Olivia O, just released her newest album - No Bones Sickly Sweet, and closed out a tour with Sign Crushes Motorist and Drop Nineteens. This is the first show ahead of their incoming sophomore album.
Congratulations to acloudyskye, Somewhere Special, and Ada Rook on their debut Bay Area performances.
LINEUP:
Kraustx
Ada Rook
Somewhere Special + Simone Alysia + Bruno Zero8
Chuquimamani-Condori + Joshua Chuquimia Crampton
acloudyskye
High Sunn
ddsnuwrld
Lowertown + Worm Sheriff + Avsha The Awful
Technopagan
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Ticket Prices Timeline.
Announce: Wednesday 11/20 @ 12pm PT
Venue Presale: Thursday 11/21 @ 12pm PT - PSWD: GUILD25
General Onsale: Friday 11/22 @ 12pm PT
Early Bird: November 22nd - 29nd
Advance: November 29th - December 4th
Regular: December 4th - January 3rd
Day of Show: January 4th
General On Sale: November, 22nd @ 12PM
Doors 6PM // Show 7PM
Accessible seating is available throughout the venue. This event is all ages. All doors & showtimes subject to change. For more information, please contact ticketing@guildtheatre.com. Ticket sales are final and non-refundable. For a sold out performance, you are able to return tickets to the waitlist. To do so, please email support@tixr.com and request your tickets be put on the waiting list.