Epicenter Festival Looks to Make 2011 Epic

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Written by Zachary Fenell

Monday, 19 September 2011 20:50

The Epicenter Festival, Southern California’s own rock music festival, returns to Irvine’s Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre this Saturday, September 24th with an impressively loaded lineup. Limp Bizkit headlines the event also featuring Staind, Papa Roach, Five Finger Death Punch, Puddle of Mudd, P.O.D., Buckcherry, Everlast, and others. This highly talented lineup will have you rocking out hard for nearly 12 hours as the musicians play across two different stages.

note: All pictures below are from Epicenter 2010!

Great anticipation fills Limp Bizkit fans and for good reason. The 2011 Epicenter Festival marks Limp Bizkit’s first live show in the United States this year and their first Southern California performance in over a decade. Limp Bizkit’s front man Fred Durst commented in a press release “I promise this (Epicenter Festival) will be a party you do NOT want to miss.” Limp Bizkit will cap off the rock music filled day, beginning their set on the main stage at 9:50pm.

Additionally the artist Everlast, best known for his hit song “What It’s Like,” will play his first concert this year at the Epicenter Festival. The festival also marks Everlast’s only show scheduled for Southern California. So if you live in Orange County and can’t get enough Everlast, you will want to make sure you find your way to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre this Saturday, September 24th. Everlast takes the main stage at 4:30pm.

Perhaps nothing indicates exactly how loaded the 2011 Epicenter Festival is than the fact P.O.D. will play the Monster Energy Stage, the event’s secondary stage. Yes, the P.O.D. who over the past decade landed two songs (“Alive” and “Goodbye for Now”) on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and five records on the Billboard 200 charts. Four of these records (Satellite, Payable on Death, Testify, and When Angels & Serpents Dance) found spots within the Billboard 200’s top ten. P.O.D. could rightfully headline tours themselves but yet at the Epicenter Festival will only headline the Monster Energy Stage. The group will take to the secondary stage at 3:15pm.

Featuring under acts which could rightfully headline tours themselves continues to emerge as a trend for the Epicenter Festival. Last year in his Epicenter Festival concert review OC Reloaded’s own Chris Johnson wrote “(Epicenter) will easily be labeled the best rock/punk festival days of 2010 with bands that could have filled (and have) amphitheatres on their own.” Epicenter Festival co-executive producer Gary Spivack revealed in a press release the goal behind the festival “Give Southern California rock fans what they want…a ROCK festival to call their own.” Looking back at last year’s event and forward to this Saturday you can surely say Spivack and his fellow executives not only created a rock festival Southern California fans can call their own but also a festival fans can take great pride in.

Fittingly KROQ will again help present the Epicenter Festival. The partnership proves fitting when you consider the 2011 lineup created many songs which makeup alternative rock stations’ main play lists. From Puddle of Mudd’s “Blurry” and Papa Roach’s “Lifeline” to Staind’s “Outside” and Limp Bizkit’s “Behind Blue Eyes” the atmosphere will likely be explosive as swarms of fans react excitedly to the songs they love so much. To ensure you get to witness what should be an epic day this Saturday at Irvine’s Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre visit www.epicenterfestival.com and purchase your tickets. Doors open at 11:00am and live music kicks off on the Monster Energy Stage at 11:30am.