Singer Patti Smith performs onstage during the Beach Goth Festival at The Observatory on October 22, 2016 in Santa Ana, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images) Singer Patti Smith performs ...

Imagine standing between an alien and a Cheech Marin lookalike while watching Bay Area bubble gum rockers Shannon and the Clams cover Metallica songs. Then mix in a few thousand people, carnival rides ...

Beach Goth. Two words that normally clash, unless you are describing the sounds of The Growlers who started this festival in 2011 for their local fans. Their fourth annual two-day event at the ...

Over the past four years, Beach Goth has morphed from a handmade, hipster Halloween party to a megafest-on-the-rise. The last couple years have seen a serious overgrowth of frenzied fans pile into the ...

This is a golden era for the kind of festival that Beach Goth set out to be. A growing crop of events — Desert Daze, Burgerama, Diversion and Further Future among them — are going intimate, with ...

Over the past four years, Beach Goth has morphed from a handmade, hipster Halloween party to a megafest-on-the-rise. The last couple years have seen a serious overgrowth of frenzied fans pile into the ...

Beach Goth was always supposed to be a laid-back, carefree and fun musical festival, but for the last two years it was anything but that, says Brooks Nielsen, singer for the Growlers, the indie rock ...

SANTA ANA – A rough year for the Beach Goth Festival got messier on Monday when the Observatory, the Santa Ana music venue which has hosted the fest since its debut in 2012, filed a lawsuit Monday ...

Never underestimate the ability of the Growlers to pull off a fantastic party is the lesson of Beach Goth 2018, the seventh edition of the festival that before its triumphant return on Sunday in Los ...

In the weeks since Beach Goth left thousands of pissed off festival goers with a bad taste in their mouths, people have looked for something or someone to blame for their experience. The fifth year of ...

Orange Country music fest Beach Goth had its share of problems over the weekend, and that was even before it rained. The problems started when the fest’s venue was moved weeks before the event. As ...

1 Video: First Look at Helen J Shen in THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 Trailer The first week of operation (July 19-22) was a smashing success, with capacity crowds and outrageous performances from bands like ...