I went to Core festival!
Core is always a really wonderful and really jam-packed weekend, though my partner and I only ever plan, based on our endurance levels, to do one day. #old. We went on Saturday this year and saw Gout, Lights Out, No Known Weakness, Moni Jitchell, Roman Candle, Ditz, Pest Control and False Reality.
Every day of the festival is a great grab bag of bands if you love an assortment of punk, hardcore, noise and metal music; the festival itself is also just really fun (Hug & Pint doing pizza by the slice all day is great, also hope there's another custom radler brewed up for next year). However I want to give a special shout out to Gout, whose show felt like going to a gig that would be background to a scene in a Gregg Araki movie, and Ditz, whose set was entrancing, life-affirming noise chaos that broke into an impromptu cover of Dracula Mountain for the finale underneath swinging 70s light fixtures; the absolute high point of the festival for me.