Pardon my geographic ignorance, but I’ve never even fucking heard of LaFayette, Ga. — a northwest Peach State town on the outskirts of Chattanooga, situated square in the Tennessee-Alabama armpit. But I’ve definitely heard of and heard (a lot): Atlanta’s Bad News Bears of debauched garage-rock revival, Black Lips; recently resurrected former Runaways frontwoman turned chainsaw artist Cherie Currie (like seriously, she carves sculptures with a fucking chainsaw!); and proto-thrash-hippie space-rock pioneer Nik Turner, who’s currently touring with a modern incarnation of Hawkwind.

Those counter-culture, rock ’n’ roll-to-the-bone notables top the lineup for full-time NYC party punker Andy Animal’s inaugural Meltasia Festival — a three-day camping and garage-rock, punk, psych, metal, bounce, etc. festival going down Sept. 5-7 on a 270-acre farm in Lafayette, Ga., which, as you now know, is kinda near Chattanooga or something.

Lots of really fucking good bands are on this bill. Bands like Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Bloodshot Bill, Biters, Shannon and the Clams, The Coathangers, Gringo Star, Liquor Store, Turf War, doom titans Witch Mountain and bounce-rap badass Vockah Redu.

Meltasia Festival Poster

On the Nashville tip, local faves the likes of Cheap Time, JP5, Cy Barkley and the Way Outsiders and Birdcloud are on the bill as well. Also, Black Oak Arkansas is playing, which is super boner-raising if your name is, say, Tex, or Buck, or Bo … or Sean Maloney.

I thought I was spent on music festivals for 2014, but this Garage-Rock Gathering of the Juggalos is relatively close and sounds super fun, amirite? Here, check out the GoTJ-style Meltasia trailer hosted by regular ol’ Dean and Jerrys Dinos Boys singer-guitarist Chase Tail and Black Linen drummer Pietro DiGennaro:
Meltasia 2014 Lineup

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Friday
Nik Turner’s Hawkwind
Cherie Currie (The Runaways)
Biters
The Coathangers
Ice Balloons
Cheap Time
Witch Mountain
Dinos Boys
Dirty Fences
Liquor Store
Shine Brothers
Paint Fumes
Hedersleben
Zoners
Flecher C Johnson
Bummers Eve
Deadly Lo-Fi
The Neighbors
Turf War
Rattlesnake Milk
Mumzees
Small Reactions

Saturday
Black Lips
Bloodshot Bill
Quintron & Miss Pussycat
Vockah Redu
Gringo Star
Daddy Long Legs
Apache
Ravi Shavi
Barreracudas
Atlantic Thrills
Predator
GG King
Birdcloud
Classhole
Expo 70
Apache
Rapturous Grief
T3rd
The Wildtones
Tight Genes
The Birdwings
GHB
Corners
Dancer
Gymshorts
Cy Barkley & The Way Outsiders

Sunday
Black Oak Arkansas
Shannon and The Clams
Danava
Lecherous Gaze
Hank Wood & The Hammerheads
Shazzula
Weather Warlock
Golden Pelicans
Crazy Spirit
White Mystery
Dawn of Humans
JP5
Birdcloud
Citizen Blast Kane
Ecstatic Vision
The Mold
Froth
Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel
Black Linen
Gorgeous
Scully
Nest Egg
Abdominal Snowman
Golden Grass
Las Rosas

Source: nashvillescene.com

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