Most fifth birthdays follow a formula: piñata, ice cream, and, if you’re wealthy/out of touch, a creepy clown or dude who makes balloon animals. But Sacred Bones ain’t the balloon-animal makin’ kind — hell no. The Brooklyn-based label, home to Zola Jesus, Psychic Ills, Blank Dogs, and many more, are doin’ it up big, their own way. On December 21, the label is taking the whole operation to the desert — specifically, Pappy & Harriet’s in historic Pioneertown, CA — to celebrate its five-year anniversary with a hootenanny on the very same day the Mayans decided the world would end or new consciousness would be born or whatever. Although the always mysterious “special guests” are promised, Zola Jesus, Wymond Miles, Cult of Youth, Psychic Ills, Pop 1280, and Lust for Youth will all be rockin’ the desert.
Tickets, available here, are a mere $30 for the most black-clad shindig to ever hit this former Old West movie set-turned town. Mosey on over to SPIN or clicky-clicky the player below to hear a six-track sampler of the artists who’ll be melting your face off as the new consciousness ascends.
• Sacred Bones: http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com
More about: Psychic Ills, Zola Jesus
