While you’re young and don’t have to worry about sensible shoes and back pain and tax returns and other stupid adult shit, you better be spending your time at nine-hour rock concerts. This weekend, featuring acts like This or the Apocalypse, Razor & Tie’s Sworn In, longtime hardcore band Shai Halud and a whole bunch of other acts, Lilac City Metal Fest serves you nine hours of eardrum-exploding, heavy, distorted mania. All before 11 pm. So when you hear someone say that there’s nothing to do in Spokane, you can respond, “Seriously? I just saw nine hours of awesome music. Where the hell were you?”
— Leah Sottile