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Nobody should dice astatine a concert.

I can’t halt reasoning astir calamity that unfolded implicit the play successful Houston astatine Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival. It was avoidable. And it’s wide that determination were failures connected aggregate levels.

The squad astatine the Houston Chronicle has done a tremendous occupation covering the story. You tin read their sum here.

The Astroworld calamity is besides a stark reminder those of america who unrecorded for live euphony to ever beryllium alert of our surroundings. NPR wrote a communicative with tips from an adept connected however to support yourself successful a crushing crowd.

We bash person a festival happening successful Southern California this weekend. Desert Daze returns to Lake Perris and we talked to organizers astir however they scaled down for 2021. We besides caught up with Japanese Breakfast person and writer Michelle Zauner, who is performing astatine the festival. Read on.

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Desert Daze returns to Lake Perris State Recreation Area Nov. 12-14 and volition see creation installations.(Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

A play Daze

Desert Daze volition beryllium astatine the Lake Perris State Recreation Area this play with the War connected Drugs, Kamasi Washington and more. But this year, things are a spot scaled backmost owed to the pandemic. Reporter Charlie Vargas has much connected the unique consciousness of this year’s fest.

Michelle Zauner, who makes euphony arsenic Japanese Breakfast, has had rather a twelvemonth successful 2021. Sold-out circuit dates and prestigious festival appearances. Three albums including the 3rd Japanese Breakfast release, “Jubilee.” And the memoir, “Crying In H Mart,” which received captious and commercialized success, and which volition beryllium adapted into a diagnostic movie with Zauner penning the publication and supervising the soundtrack. (Photo by Peter Ash Lee)

Champion of breakfast

Among the artists astatine Desert Daze this play is Japanese Breakfast, the philharmonic moniker of Michelle Zauner. Reporter Peter Larsen caught up with Zauner conscionable earlier Head successful the Clouds past play to talk astir her memoir, “Crying successful H Mart,” euphony and more.

Dean Wetherington lifts Jax Wetherington for a amended presumption of the set Voodoo Glow Skulls connected time 1 of the two-day Punk successful the Park festival astatine Oak Canyon Park successful Silverado connected Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

Punk successful the sunshine

We went to the inaugural Punk successful the Park successful Silverado past weekend. Check retired what newsman Kelli Skye Fadroski had to accidental astir the amusement and don’t miss the photos from Drew A. Kelley.

Scottish stone instrumentalist Midge Ure is the erstwhile frontman of Ultravox and cowrote the Christmas foundation azygous “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” He comes to Southern California for shows astatine the Concert Lounge successful Riverside connected Nov. 12, 2021 and the Coach House successful San Juan Capistrano connected Nov. 14, 2021. (Photo by Heiko Roth)

We came to dance

Scottish stone instrumentalist Midge Ure thought his U.S. circuit six years agone would beryllium his last. Then the pandemic happened. The Ultravox frontman, who plays Riverside and San Juan Capistrano this weekend, caught up with newsman Peter Larsen to speech astir it.

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