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Cruel World Festival

An aerial view of the audience watching DEVO perform at the Cruel World Festival at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., on May 15, 2022.
An aerial view of the audience watching DEVO perform at the Cruel World Festival at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., on May 15, 2022.White Owl Aerial/courtesy Cruel World via Facebook
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by Jake Rudh

May 20, 2022

Jake Rudh is freshly back from Los Angeles, where he attended the Cruel World Festival. Who was part of that fest, you ask? Well, Blondie, DEVO, Bauhaus, Psychedelic Furs, The Church, The Damned, Violent Femmes, The English Beat, PiL, Gene Loves Jezebel, Missing Persons, Berlin — the list goes on and on. Let's just say there's never been another festival quite like it. We're going to revisit how things went and hear all of those artists and more this week on Transmission.

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