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The Best Moments of FYF Fest 2017: NIN’s Bowie Tribute, Björk's Björkestra, and More
Los Angeles’s very first F*** Yeah Festival took place as a free underground event back in 2004, founded by a then-18-year-old indie fan with a dream named Sean Carlson. Now a major music marathon held at downtown Los Angeles’s sprawling Exposition Park, FYF Fest is one of the hippest and most anticipated events of the festival season. This year it expanded to three days — recruiting major artists ranging from old-school rap superstars Missy Elliott and A Tribe Called Quest to new-school R&B per
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Watch Frank Ocean Serenade Brad Pitt at Los Angeles’s FYF Fest
Earlier this year in an interview with GQ, actor Brad Pitt spoke about how Frank Ocean’s sensitive, singer-songwriter-centric R&B was helping him through his public and painful divorce from Angelina Jolie. Last month, Ocean sported a Brad Pitt T-shirt while playing the Parklife Festival in Manchester, England, and this past Saturday, when he headlined the FYF Fest at Los Angeles’s Exposition Park, he actually brought Pitt out for a surprise serenade. Ocean sweetly crooned a medley of the Jacks
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F Yeah! Missy Elliott Gets Her Freak On at First U.S. Show in Nearly a Decade
The last time we saw reclusive rapper Missy Elliott onstage, she was totally outshining Katy Perry (and Left Shark) with a dynamite surprise performance at Perry’s 2015 Super Bowl halftime show. Last Friday, Elliott triumphantly returned to the stage, headlining night one of Los Angeles’s FYF Fest (formerly the F*** Yeah Festival) with her first full U.S. concert in nearly a decade. Also spotted in the stage wings were Knowles soul sisters Beyoncé and Solange (the latter would play FYF on Sund
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Gallery: On the Scene at FYF 2016
L.A.’s very first F— Yeah Festival took place as a free underground event way back in 2004, founded by a then-18-year-old indie fan with a dream named Sean Carlson. Now in its 13th year, the festival is a legit, Goldenvoice-promoted, two-day music marathon at Downtown Los Angeles’s 20,000-capacity Exposition Park. The fest also now goes by the more family-friendly acronym “FYF Festival,” but don’t ask what the extra “F” stands for. (Seriously, wouldn’t “FYF Festival” literally mean “F— Yeah Fest
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Kendrick Lamar Brought Out Isaiah Rashad at FYF Fest To Perform "Free Lunch"
The fellow TDE artist has a new album out soon.
