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Bye Bye Beaches Brew, Day 3 Recap

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With heavy hearts, we bid a fond farewell to last week’s second annual Beaches Brew festival at Hana-Bi in beeeyoootiful Marina di Ravenna, IT. 

The third and final day of free festivities included performances from Brothers In Law, The Chris Cohen Group, Beach Fossils, and King Tuff, all wrapped up in a disco dance party from the one, the only, DJ Fitz.

We rocked, we rolled, we drank bunches of Beaches Brew-skies and not enough mojitos, and we miss the sand in our toes already.

Addio amici, until next year!

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SUNDAY VIDEO:WHEN ALBUMS RULED THE WORLD

Hey there!

Between the mid 1960s and the late 1970s, the long-playing record and the albums that graced its grooves changed popular music for ever. For the first time, musicians could escape the confines of the three-minute pop single and express themselves as never before across the expanded artistic canvas of the album. The LP allowed popular music become an art form - from the glorious artwork adorning gatefold sleeves, to the ideas and concepts that bound the songs together, to the unforgettable music itself.

-Enjoy

Aldo

Beaches Brew, Day 2: Back to da Beach!

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We’re crushing SO hard on Italy right now.

After a positively magical first day of Beaches Brew festivities, we spent Wednesday just as enthralled.

Our boy DJ Fitz opened up on the 1’s and 2’s, delivering obscure worldfunkdisco jams to coast us into an Italian surf rock haze from the outstanding Sacri Cuori. Daniel Norgren followed up, spinning his special threads of jam-rocking blues with an intensity that is truly unparalleled. Dead Skeletons swept us into a darkly glazed psychedelia, complimented perfectly by Hana-Bi’s DIVINE mojitos. 

Ciao!

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Beaches Brew at Hana-Bi, Day One!

It’s finally here!

The Belmonsters have invaded Hana-Bi for the second annual Beaches Brew festival, nestled in the lovely city of Marina di Ravenna, Italy.

Yesterday kicked off with an electric set from California psychers White Fence, followed by the slow-burning blast that is Dirty Beaches. We finished the night with the legendary Dream Syndicate, who seriously took us to a whole other level with their unparalleled shredfest of a set.

We’ve got our very own, very special, Beaches Brew Beer flowing, courtesy of Birrificio Cajun, and the mojitos here at Hana-Bi are tippity-top notch.

And of course, we gotta give big ups to our amazing hosts and co-presenters, Bronson Produzioni.

Below you’ll find some of our favorite moments from yesterday’s festivities. Follow us on Instagram at @Belmont_Bookings to keep up with all the Beaches Brew shenanigans.

Enjoy!

[MIDWEEK MIXTAPE] SUGAR & SPICE - DIVEFORTHEEFIVE

This week we’re rolling in the sand at Beaches Brew so we’ll leave you with this surf mixtape. Catch some rays if you can.

- Sugar & Spice

Sugar & Spice - DIVEFORTHEEFIVE by Sugar & Spice on Mixcloud

SUNDAY VIDEO:THE MANY LIVES OF Q

Hey!

Another long gem!!

The Many Lives Of Q is a documentary, which celebrates the life and career of top American jazz musician, composer, arranger, record producer and entrepreneur, Quincy Jones, to mark his 75th birthday. In a career spanning six decades he’s won more Grammy awards than any other artist and helped make Michael Jackson the ‘King of Pop’.

Enjoy!

Aldo

Le Guess Who? May Day, Photos & More!

We had a BLAST at last weekend’s monumental Le Guess Who? May Day, an amazing and diverse little sister festival to Utrecht’s annual Le Guess Who? event. (Pssst…early bird tickets for November’s main event are already up for grabs here.)

Our friend, cool dude and gorgeous photomakerman Remco Brinkhuis was there, too! Below, read his take on this wonderful night, and check out his stunning pictures his favorite sets from the mini-festival: Deerhunter, Dirty Beaches, and Eraas.

“The line-up was as expected impressive – the festival has a very good reputation when it comes to quality music. Visitors came from all over The Netherlands and even some music enthusiasts from Belgium and France were spotted. Amongst the various high quality performances, these were my absolute favorites: 

Deerhunter, exciting indierockers from Georgia, USA…

 

Dirty Beaches, easily the best performance of the festival, the Death Grips of dance: dark, rock & roll dance music with distorted vocals and guitars…

 

 

ERAAS! Despite some technical difficulties, the Brooklyn-based band stayed focused, and managed to impress with their dark, hypnotizing, danceable music.”

 

-Remco Brinkhuis

Thanks, Remco! We can’t wait to see what November’s LGW? will bring!