For guitarist/vocalist Gregory Cole of Crescendo, summer's been a windfall of great opportunities — his band went through a lineup change that has positively impacted their live sound, slayed the second night of Echo Park Rising, and threw down the third iteration of the DreamGaze Festival, playing out to Los Angeles and San Francisco crowds.

2015 is drawing to a close, and it's still uncertain if we'll see Crescendo's sophomore album release this year. But for those of you who missed out this summer, you're in luck: hear the five piece's brand of cerulean dreamgaze at two back-to-back shows for free! Crescendo are up tonight at the local pub Lot 1 with Littlest Sister (acoustic instrumental), The Bees and Bones (garage blues), Wild Year (synthpop), and touring Seattle band Pitschouse (dreampop). They'll also perform at Harvard & Stone's on Wednesday with new talent Glasz and Nashville-blooded headliner Reno Bo. Get tight and dance with them: listen to "Gatsby" from Crescendo's debut album Lost Thoughts. - Ryan Mo

We're excited to share the news that a new festival will be taking place at The Cave on August 29th in San Francisco, CA!

DreamGaze Collective, a group of musicians, music lovers and promoters with a shared interest in musical genres ranging from shoegaze and dream-pop to post-punk and nugaze features members who are vested in furthering these genres. From putting on shows all around Southern California to expanding their efforts into a larger festival.

The San Francisco edition will feature local San Francisco psychedelic rock n' roll band LSD and The Search For God as headliners, and many other bands such as Balms, Crescendo, Cruel Summer, Bellavista, Golden Drugs and many more. It will be $15 for advanced tickets and $20 for door. This festival is an all ages event.

"Greg (from Los Angeles band Crescendo and I became friends and started talking about doing festival-style shows in LA/SF highlighting our favorite local dreampop / shoegaze / post-punk-ish bands. There's been a lot of really cool new bands coming out of both cities, so over all it was really easy to get everyone together and excited about it. There is still an amazing group of creative people living here, being cool as hell and making rad art/music." -Jared Padovani of Balms

Click here to RSVP to the event:

LSD and the Search for God (SF)
Balms (SF)
Cruel Summer (SF)
Golden Drugs (OAK)
Crescendo (LA)
Bellavista (SF // members of Tamaryn)
WHITE CLOUD (SF // members of Deafheaven)
Night Shapes (OAK)
Surf Club (STOCKTON // members of Craft Spells)
Mother Room (OAK)

DJ Sets by:

BABY J (Popgang)
Dometrious James (White Cloud, Mwahaha)
Greg Wilson (DKFM)
Jamie Jams (Debaser)
Jonathan Reddick (Slime City)
Joshua Yule (Cruel Summer)

Visuals by White Light Prism
Poster by Jonathan Reddick

August 29th, 2015 || 3 PM - Midnight
The Cave, SF || All Ages
$15 Adv || $20 Door
dreamgaze.net