Closing out the 2010 version of the Sunset Strip Music Festival was none other than the Chicago group known as The Smashing Pumpkins. With all the hair and dirty rock that came out of the 80s and 90s strip, the Pumpkins was the perfect way to end this 3 day fest. Just like the faces of the strip changing, all the faces of the band (sans the bald headed front man) have been changed with younger, fresher players looking for their time in the lime light. Would the new members be able to replicate the sound many had fallen in love with some twenty years ago? Simply put, yes.

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Today is the big day when West Hollywood will shut down parts of Sunset Boulevard for their beloved Sunset Strip Music Festival and you shouldn’t even have had to ask if we are going to be there to cover it. Even though we just wrapped up Sunset Junction last weekend, we’re ready to take on some more local acts as well as bigger names.

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