The Blurst of Times Festival 2016

Overview

You might need a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters to come up with the phrase "the blurst of times" — but you don't need them to tell you about how ace the festival of the same name will be. When an event is inspired by a quote from The Simpsons, it already has a fair head start in the awesomeness stakes.

A lineup of 24 of the country's best current punk, rock, hardcore and jangly pop acts keeps making that case, as does the event's spread over three Valley venues. Basically, to hear the former, you'll have to head to the latter.

So, find Dune Rats, BAD//DREEMS, Methyl Ethel, Kirin J Callinan and The John Steel Singers — plus Polish Club, The Murlocs, Moses Gunn Collective and The Lulu Raes, too — at The Zoo, The Brightside and The Foundry. Seeing them all on one bill is the kind of thing that doesn't happen very often, so you'd best get your ticket quick. It'll be the best of times. Don't say we didn't warn you.