Cursive

Conor Oberst’s country covers band features a bunch of friends and collaborators, including his ex-wife, and members of Cursive, The Good Life, and more.

Thursday are streaming a performance from Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus Bar for the fest.

The second volume of Tom Mullen’s (Washed Up Emo) ‘Anthology of Emo’ book series also features the final interview with the late Jon Bunch (Sense Field, Further Seems Forever) and interviews with members of Foxing, Karate, Piebald, and more…

Frank Turner, Cursive, Sparta, Good Riddance, Torche, Strike Anywhere, Modern Life Is War, and more are also on the bill…

The 2021 lineup is almost exactly the same as it would’ve been this year, with 80 of the 83 bands originally booked returning.

The lineup includes full-album sets from Hot Water Music, Cursive, Samiam, and The Flatliners, plus Modern Life Is War, Strike Anywhere, Torche, A Wilhelm Scream, Good Riddance, and much more…

Not only are Criteria back this year, but The Good Life are taking 2004’s ‘Album of the Year’ on tour…

New additions also include HEALTH, Obituary, TSOL, Crowbar, Exhorder, Wolves In The Throne Room, Eyehategod, Pig Destroyer, Repulsion, Immolation, Intronaut, Khemmis, Creeping Death, Midnight, Wino, Zola Jesus, Lower Dens, and more…

Emperor, who just played the 70,000 Tons of Metal Cruise yesterday, are ”rumored” to play their first-announced US show (on land) in years.

Brutus and This Will Destroy You are also among the new additions to this increasingly stacked festival.