Free stoner rock and robots

When I was a kid growing up in Anaheim Hills, my dad would joke sometimes about it "smelling like Chino" when the wind blew just right. Back then, there were a ton of slaughterhouses in the area and it literally smelled like manure. Allegedly, it was the site of a Bandini Mountain. But these days there are a bunch of suburban homes there, and on Saturday it's going to smell like something else when the Meeting of the Minds festival takes place.

Most of the bands I'm not familiar with, but Tee Pee bands Ancestors and Earthless are gods of stoner rock space jamming that I can't wait to see live. (If the former is Mötörhead, the latter is Hawkwind.) And great name notwithstanding, the Obey-approved Free The Robots busts out of the DJ box to play a live set. I'm a big fan of their jazzy beats and unpredictable mixes (Specials, Blonde Redhead, and Dead Kennedys anyone?) and can't wait to hear what they do with a live percussion section and more.



Free and all-ages, so you have no excuses-except that it's out in the boonies.