Fruit Bats, J Mascis to Play GunBun Music Festival

On the verge of its second birthday, Gundlauch Bundschu's "Huichica Music Festival" is celebrating toddler-hood with a bigger, hipper-than-you lineup. 

The outdoor indie-rock festival premiered in 2010, featuring a lineup of choice national acts, including the folk-infused North Carolina-bred Vitiver and popular twangy synth-pop band Fruit Bats.

This year Fruit Bats are back as festival headliners, and Gundlauch Bundschu is building a second stage to accommodate the eight "indie" acts (many on major labels, most with some sort of folk-skew) gracing the winery's outdoor festival on June 4.

On the line-up:

• San Francisco new-folk band Sonny and the Sunsets are just finishing up a west coast tour following the release of their sophomore LP "Hit After Hit." Front-runner Sonny Smith been around the block, proverbially, in the San Francisco music scene - and his latest lyrical offerings of whimsy have been gaining the band some national press.
• J Mascus, best known as one of the godfathers of grunge in hippy-rock band  Dinosaur Jr., returns as a solo act. Since the 2005 reunion of Dinosaur Jr., Mascus's solo work has paired down to a more soulful version of modern classic rock ballads.
• Best known as a jack-of-all-trades one man producer and filmmaker, Richard Swift's tunes hop on the lo-fi bandwagon with narrative-driven vocals set to a simplistic folk-influenced backdrop.

Other acts include These United States, Breathe Owl Breathe, Tu Fawning and David Williams.

Keeping with the food-truck vendor trend, the festival will feature flat-bread pizzas from Sonoma bread-maker Mike ‘the bejkr’ Zakowski and "global" cuisine from the Santa Rosa-based ‘Street Eatz’ cart.

Tickets for the Huichica Music Festival go on sale April 5, at 10 a.m. General Admission, $55/person (includes a wine tasting), VIP Admission, $195/couple (includes reserved seating, dinner for two, and a bottle of Gundlauch Bundschu wine).