12 Songs: Cosmic Creek Edition
After a 2 year hiatus, Vissla’s annual Cosmic Creek is set to return this weekend, June 3rd and 4th at Salt Creek in Dana Point. The two-day surf contest and music festival has always felt like a spiritual opener to the So Cal surf community’s summer season, uniting average joes, seasoned pros, hippies, and rockers for two days of surf, sun, and psych tunes.
The concerts on the bluff have become the stuff of legend amongst Salt Creek natives, with notable past highlights including Froth, DIIV, Allah Las, Cosmonauts and Tijuana Panthers. This year’s triple bill is no exception; witness the return of garage punk kings Vaguess, as well as Oakland’s Toner and NYC psych folk soothsayers Widowspeak after festivities on the beach (including a set from The Electric Shrine on the sand) come to a close on Saturday.
In anticipation of the return of Dana Point’s biggest weekend in sound and surf, we’ve compiled a few tracks from this year’s lineup, including some reverb-soaked classics from a few Cosmic alumni. See you there.—Jackson Todd
