Mosswood meltdown12/11/2022 Nastia Voynovskaya Shannon Shaw performs at Mosswood Meltdown at Mosswood Park in Oakland on Saturday, July 2, 2022. While at times it felt like the Burger Records scandal loomed over the celebration (“Congrats on the hard pivot,” singer Shannon Shaw said from the stage on Saturday), the new approach brought out a crowd with many women, queer and trans people, who moshed in the front of the stages, shared cigarettes with friends, bought vinyl and generally had a blast. (Estefany Gonzalez)Īlong with rebranding, Mosswood Meltdown curated a lineup prominently featuring women and LGBTQ+ bands, including riot grrrl originators Bikini Kill, rock icon Kim Gordon, ’90s punks Pansy Division and teen prodigies The Linda Lindas. John Waters introduces Shannon Shaw at Mosswood Meltdown in Oakland on Saturday, July 2, 2022. Host John Waters stuck by festival organizers Marc Ribak and Amy Carver of Total Trash Productions, as did many bands. Burger Boogaloo changed its name to Mosswood Meltdown, and festival organizers cut ties with the Southern California label, which they said never profited from the event. In 2020, two prominent musicians and an anonymous Instagram account accused various Burger Records musicians of multiple forms of sexual abuse, including grooming teenage fans. The foggy holiday weekend marked the rock festival’s reemergence after the pandemic-and after scandal shook the community surrounding the event, formerly known as Burger Boogaloo. Baby punks with colorful mullets, gray-haired scene veterans and hundreds of others in between descended on Oakland’s Mosswood Park on July 2 and 3 for Mosswood Meltdown.
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