The Airborne Toxic Event

  Another great band that never disappoints is The Airborne Toxic Event. They brought their powerful sound to the Verizon Stage.  Check out photos of their set by our Rockin Ryan:   More about The Airborne Toxic Event: “When the grandstand of Inglewood’s Hollywood Park racetrack was demolished in May 2015, Mikel Jollett’s sense of family and of self came crashing down with it. Jollett, the frontman of Airborne Toxic Event, watched on local TV as the run-down track where he’d spent so many formative times with his father crumbled in seconds, in what was called a “controlled implosion.” Jollett’s father had died just days before the track where he’d spent every weekend was torn down, and Jollett was left reeling, bereft and baffled by his pain and loss. He spent the next five years memorializing his father’s life and death and his own troubled upbringing in the metaphorical dust of the racetrack. The results are Hollywood Park, Airborne Toxic Event’s sixth studio album—the band’s first in five years and first on Rounder Records—and Jollett’s [Read More]