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Rufrano, one of the artists to be featured Saturday at HUSTLE 2015. Photos courtesy of Casey Terrazas.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s no secret that Long Beach\u2019s music community is bursting at the seams with rising talent, across the spectrum. That\u2019s why some of the biggest players on the scene have teamed up to throw an unprecedented DIY (and free) music festival, which will pack as much diversity as it will talent over the three-day period next weekend, November 13-15.<\/p>\n HUSTLE 2015 will feature a motley crew of nearly 30 homebred acts from Porch Party Records, Long Beach Music Collective, Falling Mirrors Collective and Ghoulhouse Records \u2014 and a few guests from Los Angeles, including poetic legend 2Mex, a member of The Visionaries and Of Mexican Descent.<\/p>\n \u201cWe wanted the sounds of the festival to represent the different flavors of our city,\u201d explained Casey Terrazas, the Porch Party Records founder who spearheaded the efforts for HUSTLE. \u201cTo book the bands, we met with the diverse groups in town who have a reputation for killing it in their own unique way, from hip hop to punk rock.\u201d<\/p>\n The festival will kick off next Friday with a beat-infused opening party at Signal 1883, a new warehouse venue in north Long Beach, featuring the rising stars of the local hip-hop and DJ scene. Curated by local DJs Desirable D, Eusebio Akasa and Que Sera Fight Club\u2019s resident host Yonatan Zeray, the night\u2019s lineup will feature 2Mex, veteran hip-hop producer Omid Walizadeh, producer\/emcee RahSpect, emcee Uhlife with producer NiceGuyxVinny of LA collective Soulection, rap duo Crimewave 5150 and The Natives, who released their debut full-length album on Porch Party Records last year.<\/p>\n Day Two kicks off at 3:00PM on the outdoor stage of Bixby Park, featuring Porch Party\u2019s indie-singer\/songwriter Rufrano and experimental future dance project Litronix, joined by SubPop’s Avi Buffalo. Falling Mirrors Collective, founded last year by Tokotah Ashcraft and Mike Reyes, will present sets from Fight Club\u2019s house band Via Leaves, female electronic duo Bootleg Orchestra, progressive soul\/funk outfit Bobby Blunders and horn-infused experimental group Furcast. In addition, nine local artists and photographers, including Yourintimatenoise and Lotus Culture, will showcase their work at Bixby Park.<\/p>\n Bobby Blunders will perform on Saturday.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe have so many talented people in this city who are really on top of their game,\u201d said Ashcraft, the Long Beach Music Council\u2019s vice president, who last month celebrated her third year at the helm of the monthly live music showcase First Fridays for the Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association. “It is already blowing up and changing constantly. I said it before, people are going to start looking more often to Long Beach for what\u2019s next. Hopefully this is the start of something really beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n Saturday\u2019s party will continue until midnight at 4th Street Vine, where Long Beach psychedelic shoegaze band Highlands will play its residency. They will be followed by Los Angeles band Drug Cabin and Porch Party\u2019s Dustin Lovelis, who has been touring off his recent debut solo full-length album, Dimensions<\/em>.<\/p>\n Day Three returns to 4th Street Vine for a full day of live music from Long Beach Music Collective and Ghoulhouse Records. LBMC, founded last December by Alex Hattick, will kick off the last day at 3:00PM with music from Hattick\u2019s Hellgal, Crooked Squares and Boa Constrictors, all of whom are featured in LBMC\u2019s fall compilation release, Fangs for Everything<\/em>.<\/p>\n Closing out the festival is a heavy and hard-hitting roster from Ghoulhouse Records, including Assquatch (a new band from Paul Gonzalez, lead singer of Death Hymn #9), Sean Gospel and the Nightstalkers and a rare set from The Underground Railroad to Candyland.<\/p>\n Sean Gospel will perform on Sunday.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n With that, HUSTLE 2015 will wrap up until next year, which Terrazas imagines will be \u201cbigger and better.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c[Hustle] \u2014 it\u2019s what we do in Long Beach,\u201d Terrazas said. \u201cOur community is packed full of people working hard while developing their creative visions. We don\u2019t have the unlimited resources as Los Angeles \u2014 we have to create our own scene. We want this weekend to be a nod to all the homies chasing dreams in the streets of hustle beach.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"SAT](\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SAT_-_BOBBY_BLUNDERS.jpg\")
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