Category: Festival News

  • Brooklyn Comes Alive Announces March Festival and Lineup

    Brooklyn Comes Alive announced it will be back for the fifth time on Saturday, March 21, 2020.

    The festival will take place at Avant Gardner, a multistage complex located at 140 Stewart Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237. The location is an 80,000 square foot facility that takes up an entire city block in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. The location includes two indoor stages, Great Hall and Kings Hall.

    The festival will include many acts including Oteil & Friends, Turkuaz, Birds of a Feather (feat. Members of Pigeons Playing Ping Pong & Goose), The Motet, Dr. Klaw, Robert Randolph & Friends, Anomalie / Deitch / MonoNeon, Here Come The Mummies, SPAGA Plays The Dead and Karina Rykman. Brooklyn Comes Alive will also include late-night sets by electronic music producer Jade Cicada, and a rare Beats Antique DJ set featuring founding members and longtime collaborators David Satori and “Sidecar” Tommy Cappel at the Great Hall Starting at midnight and running until 4am. 

    Tickets are on sale now including a festival pass to the entire event. There is also late-night only passes available which grants attendees access to The Great Hall only from 12:00 am – 4:00 am. Tickets can be purchased HERE.

    For more information and full line up visit Brooklyn Comes Alive.

  • Bonnaroo 2020 Lineup Announced – Tool, Lizzo, Tame Impala Named as Headliners

    The 2020 Bonnaroo lineup was revealed Tuesday morning. The June 11-14 festival returns to Manchester, TN for its 19th year with headliners Tool, Lizzo and Tame Impala.

    Other acts slated to appear this year include the newly reformed Oysterhead (featuring Trey Anastasio of Phish, Stewart Copeland of the Police and Les Claypool of Primus — which will also be performing), Lana Del Ray, Vampire Weekend, Miley Cyrus, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and Tenacious D.

    Brooklyn’s Turkuaz, which released its latest EP Kuadochrome in November of last year, is performing with former Talking Heads members Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew as part of a 40th-anniversary tribute to the Heads’ Remain in Light album. Also Nelly will be performing a 20th-anniversary tribute to his Country Grammar album.

    Tickets for Bonnaroo 2020 go on sale Thursday, Jan. 9 at Noon ET at several different price levels. Details can be found here.

    Check out Lizzo’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert below.

  • Sonic Temple Festival 2020 Lineup Announced

    Metallica, Deftones and Slipknot are set to headline the Sonic Temple Festival 2020. The iconic metal festival returns for its second year to MAPFRE Stadium in Columbus, Ohio on May 15 – 17, 2020.

    Metallica is set to headline both Friday and Sunday with two unique sets. Bring Me The Horizon returns for 2020 after being forced to cancel last years set due to a weather evacuation. Some of the heavy hitting bands include Evanescence, Staind, Ice Nine Kills, Dropkick Murphys, Royal Blood, Cypress Hill,  Anthrax, The Pretty Reckless, and Jinjer.

    Tickets are on sale now here.

    The full lineup can be seen below:

    Sonic Temple Festival 2020