New additions include Let's Eat Grandma, Har Mar Superstar, Matthew Logan Vasquez, Hurray for the Riff Raff, onetime Voxtrot frontman Ramesh, Cakes Da Killa, Johnny Flynn, Las Rosas, and lots more.
Saturday is the day The Roots headline with a collaborative set with D'Angelo and John Mayer. On Sunday they headline with a collaborative set with David Byrne, Nile Rodgers, and Wu-Tang Clan.
If you're not at the Isle of Wight fest this weekend, you can watch many of the live performances here.
After nine years in Philly, The Roots are finally picnicking it in NYC.
We pick a dozen artists who will play this multi-venue fest in Brighton, UK in addition to our own showcase.
The multi-venue Great Escape Festival takes place in the seaside resort town of Brighton, England from May 19 - 21. Like SXSW or Pop Montreal, the focus is really about discovering new bands, but some names already familiar to us include charismatic queer rapper Cakes Da Killa, Dilly Dally, the great Third Man Record-signed country artist Margo Price, Moshi Moshi-signed classical composer turned electronic producer Anna Meredith, Bleached, Chastity Belt, Diet Cig, Eagulls, Kero Kero Bonito, Kruangbin, Lady Leshurr, Mass Gothic, Matthew Logan Vasquez, Methyl Ethel, Michael Kiwanuka, Milk Teeth, Monika, Mothers, Mystery Jets, Nap Eyes, Night Beats, Pional, Soren Juul, Stormzy, Tiny Ruins & Hamish Kilgour (of the Clean), Teleman (ex Pete & the Pirates), The Parrots (from Spain, friends with Hinds), and Wesley Gonzalez (Let's Wrestle guy, now solo), and onetime Long Blondes singer Kate Jackson.
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LCD Soundsystem, Foals, Beck, New Order, Disclosure, Earth Wind & Fire, ZZ Top, The Last Shadow Puppets, Skepta, The 1975, Grimes, Sigur Ros and many more.
If you have ever wanted to party during seventy-two consecutive hours of daylight or dance inside a glacier, then the Secret Solstice festival in Iceland is the event for ...
Erykah Badu isn't the only person to remix Kanye West's "Real Friends" with her own vocals. Rising British MC Lady Leshurr just did too. She gets real personal on this one, revealing things like "I couldn't be there when my auntie was in hospital, I couldn't be there when they laid her down to rest" and "I caught my father cheating on my mom in her bed with her best ...
SXSW already announced two rounds of 2016 artists, and today a third round was announced, including L7, Bloc Party, The Cult, Loretta Lynn, Waxahatchee, Frankie Cosmos, D∆WN, Polica, Dilly Dally, Eleanor Friedberger, Protomartyr, Holy Fuck, Ra Ra Riot, Fat White Family, Domo Genesis, Hodgy Beats, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, All Dogs, Judy Collins & Ari Hest, The Dandy Warhols, Des Ark, Mick Jenkins, Lady Leshurr, Mitski, Supersuckers, Teen Suicide, together PANGEA, Turnover, Younghusband an...